President Donald Trump shrugged off a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts over his attacks on the federal judiciary.

“Well, [Roberts] didn’t mention my name in the statement, and I just saw it quickly,” Trump told Fox News. “He didn’t mention my name – but many people have called for [District Judge James Boasberg’s] impeachment, the impeachment of this judge.”

A quick recap of what happened: Trump took to Truth Social earlier today to lambaste Boasberg for temporarily blocking the administration’s deportation efforts under the Alien Enemies Act. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” he wrote.

In a statement, Roberts appeared to criticize the president’s call to impeach judges who rule against him. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Still, Trump insisted he does not plan to defy court orders that his administration does not agree with.

“No, I never did defy a court order…you can’t do that,” the president said. “However, we have bad judges, we have very bad judges, and these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed — I think at a certain point you have to start looking at, what do you do when you have a rogue judge?”

The Trump administration has released thousands of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that it said had previously been classified.

More context: Many of the files related to the JFK assassination have already been disclosed, including a tranche of 13,000 documents released during the Biden administration. Many of those documents have contained redactions, however.

Trump said yesterday that “people have been waiting for decades” to see the 80,000 records related to Kennedy’s assassination. Soon after taking office, he signed an executive order directing the public release of thousands of files related to the assassinations of Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

What’s next: CNN reporters are currently reviewing the documents and will have updates on any new revelations.

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members, dealing a major defeat to a controversial policy the president resurrected from his first term.

In a scathing ruling, US District Judge Ana Reyes said the administration cannot enforce the ban — which was set to take effect later this month.

The judge said she was pausing her preliminary injunction until Friday morning to give the administration time to appeal it to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read more details hereon the ruling.

President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission today, with both commissioners saying they were ”illegally fired.”

President Donald Trump told the Washington Examiner in an interview today that his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a very good call,” touting the Kremlin’s agreement to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets as “a big thing.”

The president previously spoke with Putin on February 12, holding what he called a “lengthy and highly productive” call with the Russian president at the time.

Trump suggested after today’s call that a full ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine could follow.

In an interview with Fox News, Trump said there was no discussion about suspending aid to Ukraine, pushing back on a readout from the Kremlin that called for the cessation of military aid and intelligence information as a condition for a ceasefire deal. The White House readout of the call made no mention of suspending aid to Ukraine.

This post was updated with Trump’s comment on Fox about aid to Ukraine.

President Donald Trump continued to rail against the federal judge temporarily blocking his administration’s deportation efforts, calling US District Judge James Boasberg “radical left” in an interview today.

Rebuke from Roberts: In a Truth Social post this morning, Trump had called for Boasberg to be impeached, prompting an unusual rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a statement released by the Supreme Court. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” The statement did not mention Trump by name, but it came hours after the president called out Boasberg.

What to know about Boasberg: The federal judge was first appointed by President George W. Bush to DC Superior Court and later appointed by President Barack Obama to US District Court.

The Aliens Enemies Act : Trump is attempting to invoke a 1798 law that allows the federal government to expedite deportations of citizens of a “hostile nation” in times of war or when an enemy attempts an “invasion or predatory incursion” into the United States. Opponents have noted the US is not formally at war and has questioned whether the administration’s definition of “invasion” meets the law’s requirements.

What’s next: Boasberg has given the Justice Department until noon tomorrow to provide him, under seal, with more information about deportations carried out Saturday under the law.

The White House said President Donald Trump signed an executive order today “to empower states, localities, and citizens to more effectively prepare for incidents like cyber attacks and weather events.”

Per a fact sheet shared by the White House, the action launches what it’s calling a national resilience strategy to lay out what it says are “the priorities, means, and ways to advance the resilience of the nation.”

It comes as Trump has publicly mused about dismantling the federal agency tasked with responding to natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

During a January visit to North Carolina to survey damage from Hurricane Helene, Trump said he’d like to see the agency “go away,” and instead having states handle disaster relief efforts.

Last month, CNN reported the administration’s plan for deep staff cuts and drastic changes at FEMA raised alarms among some state officials and even Republican lawmakers, who worry that it will weaken responses to future disasters.

Trump also created a task force to review FEMA’s disaster response capabilities to recommend changes at the agency in his first weeks in office.

Per the White House fact sheet, the order “streamlines federal functions so states and communities can work with Washington more easily and effectively.”

Below is a list of other executive orders issued by the president.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia is not ready to end the war in Ukraine and is “not ready for a ceasefire.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets, the White House and Kremlin both said, as Moscow stopped short of signing off on a broader ceasefire to end the three-year-long conflict.

On temporary pause of attacks on energy infrastructure: While Ukraine “is going to support” the halt, he “would like to know the details and what is the real proposal, what both sides agreed on.” Asked whether Kyiv is willing to stop attacking Russian energy infrastructure, Zelensky said that Ukraine and Russia “can reach the agreement” with the support of US mediation.

On Ukrainian prisoners: The president also said Moscow should return all prisoners as “a demonstration of the will and desire to end the war.” Zelensky added that if Ukrainian prisoners were returned, they would not be sent back to the front line. “They need help, medical help, rehabilitation, there are people heavily wounded,” he said.

On military aid: Zelensky said he thinks military aid to Ukraine “will continue,” despite requests from Putin for it to be halted. “Our allies won’t go for this. And they will do the right thing because they understand that it weakens the Ukrainian side,” he said.

On ceasefire proposals: He said Ukraine would support any proposals that result in a “stable and just peace” – but it first needs to know the details of what is being discussed. Zelensky said he hopes to speak with Trump to learn more details about his phone call with Putin.

This headline and post have been updated with more comments from Zelensky.

The Trump administration denied today that it’s trying to resist federal judges’ orders to reinstate some fired federal workers by putting them on paid leave.

Any probationary employees who were reinstated but then immediately put on administrative leave will be fully re-integrated into the workforce in the coming days, administration officials said in court filings.

After reports from CNN and other outlets yesterday about reinstated workers being placed on leave, a judge ordered the Justice Department to explain the situation.

This explanation is consistent with CNN’s reporting that some employees at federal agencies like the FAA and USDA were told that their paid leave would be short-term. Other workers who were reinstated on Monday, like at the EPA, IRS and FDA, were told that they were on leave indefinitely.

In its readout of Tuesday’s call between the American and Russian presidents, the Kremlin thanked and praised Donald Trump for his “noble goal” of ending the conflict.

Putin and the tough, seasoned negotiators at his side know full well the power of flattery in Washington.

But there is still no agreement on Trump’s central proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, with the Kremlin indicating that verification of any truce remains an issue for Moscow, as does stopping “forced mobilization” in Ukraine, and ensuring the Ukrainian military does not use any halt in fighting to rearm.

There was Kremlin agreement on a US proposal to temporarily suspend attacks on energy infrastructure. Putin, we are told, “immediately gave the Russian military the corresponding order.”

Attacks on Russian energy infrastructure such as oil refineries have been one of the most successful Ukrainian tactics – an end to that would be in the Kremlin’s interest.

In reality, the Kremlin appears to have offered few, if any, compromises on its key war aims, emphasizing a “readiness” for a long-term peace settlement but also the “absolute need to eliminate the root causes of the crisis,” which the Kremlin has in the past variously identified as the threat of NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, as well as Ukraine’s emergence as an independent pro-Western state.

One Russian official, Kirill Dmitriev, welcomed the Trump-Putin call as “historic” and “epic”, posting on X that “the world has become a much safer place.”

But, as ever with Kremlin negotiations, the devil is in the detail. And beyond the broad acceptance of the idea of a negotiated settlement, there is still plenty of detail to be hammered out before any ceasefire, let alone a permanent peace deal, can be agreed.

Any effort by the Department of Homeland Security to reduce or eliminate its civil rights office would be “contrary to the law” and could “jeopardize” the department’s ability to protect Americans’ civil liberties, two senators said in a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Referencing “troubling reports” that the department plans to severely reduce or eliminate its civil rights office, Democratic Sen. Gary Peters from Michigan and Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois said in the letter dated March 13 that such actions “would be contrary to the law and Congressional intent.” Peters is ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, established by the same post-9/11 law that created the Department of Homeland Security, investigates public complaints of civil rights violations stemming from DHS activities. It has over 150 employees, according to the office’s most recent annual report.

A DHS spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

US District Judge James Boasberg is giving the Justice Department until tomorrow at noon to provide him, under seal, with more information about deportations the Trump administration carried out this weekend under the Alien Enemies Act.

Boasberg had first asked the administration to provide answers to those questions during a hearing yesterday, but he gave attorneys for the Justice Department the chance to say whether they preferred to provide them under seal.

In a court filing submitted earlier today, DOJ lawyers said that the administration “maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information,” but that if the judge ordered it to submit the information, it would prefer to keep the answers secret “in order to protect sensitive information bearing on foreign relations.”

The judge did not offer any comment on the substance of today’s DOJ filing.

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the dismantling of USAID and cut off staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from sharing sensitive personal data kept by the agency, in a major win for groups broadly challenging Musk’s role in the federal government.

Correction:An earlier version of this post incorrectly described the limit placed on DOGE on sharing sensitive information.

Top leaders at the Justice Department have taken the unusual step of personally signing two recent filings in a high-profile dispute over whether the Trump administration defied a judge’s order to halt deportations of some migrants allegedly affiliated with a Venezuelan gang.

Court filings are typically signed by the attorneys working on the matter, and it is rare to see top Justice Department leaders signing onto a routine court response. But on Monday, top leaders signed onto a court filing asking to cancel a hearing on whether the department had defied a court order by Judge James Boasberg.

Deputy Associate Attorney General Abhishek Kambli was scheduled to argue the case, but his name appeared alongside other Justice Department leaders, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Acting Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.

Then on Tuesday those same leaders, once again, signed onto a response answering questions from Boasberg.

The moves come after a slew of firings and resignations of dozens of longtime officials has harmed morale at the department.

According to an administration official, the show of force is meant to show support for and solidarity with line prosecutors who are working on this case. The judge has suggested the government may have violated his order, which could result in sanctions against government lawyers or even being held in contempt. The official says having all of the top leaders sign onto the Justice Department’s arguments shows that they are not trying to leave one prosecutor out to get sanctioned.

The Kremin said Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump shared a “mutual interest” in normalizing relations between their two countries following a call today.

The mutual interest “was expressed in light of the special responsibility of Russia and the United States for ensuring security and stability in the world,” the Kremlin said in a readout of the phone call between Putin and Trump.

“In this context, a wide range of areas in which our countries could establish interaction was considered,” the Kremin said.

“A number of ideas were discussed that are moving towards the development of mutually beneficial cooperation in the economy and energy sector,” it added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily halt attacks on energy and infrastructure targets in Ukraine after a lengthy telephone call with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the White House and Kremlin both said, even as Russia stopped short of signing off on a broader ceasefire to end the three-year-long conflict in Ukraine.

The two men’s conversation, their second since Trump entered office for his second term, appeared to stop short of convincing Putin to sign off on the 30-day truce that Trump has endorsed and Ukraine has agreed to. Instead, the White House said a narrower pause on hitting energy targets would go into place, while technical teams begin sorting out other areas in negotiations.

Trump said on Truth Social that his call with Putin was “good and productive.” He said they struck an understanding they would work “quickly” toward a “complete ceasefire.”

What Russia is saying: The Kremlin said Trump “put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from attacks on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days.”

Putin “responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the Russian military the corresponding order,” Moscow’s readout said.

Ukraine did not immediately respond to the new agreement. Kyiv has accused Russia of using delaying tactics to prolong the war.

As part of its demands for a broader ceasefire, Putin stressed the need for a halt of foreign military aid to Ukraine, the Kremlin said, though the White House made no mention of that in its statement. And neither the White House nor the Kremlin brought up land concessions in their official descriptions of Tuesday’s conversation. Ahead of the call, Trump said US negotiators had discussed “dividing up certain assets.”

Read moreabout the Trump-Putin call.

CNN’s Billy Stockwell and Mariya Knight contributed reporting to this post. This post has been updated with more details from the White House and Kremlin after Trump and Putin’s call.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump that a prisoner exchange would happen between Russia and Ukraine tomorrow, according to the Kremlin.

“Vladimir Putin informed (Trump) that on March 19, a prisoner exchange will be carried out between the Russian and Ukrainian sides,” the Kremlin said in a readout of today’s phone call between the two leaders.

It said that 175 people would be exchanged on both sides.

“In addition, as a gesture of goodwill, 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen who are being treated in Russian medical institutions will be transferred,” the readout said.

US President Donald Trump supported an idea proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to organize US-Russia hockey matches, the Kremlin said Tuesday, following a call between the two leaders.

“Donald Trump supported Vladimir Putin’s idea to organize hockey matches in the USA and Russia between Russian and American players playing in the NHL and KHL,” the Kremlin said in a readout.

It added that both presidents “agreed to remain in contact on all issues raised.”

HIV/AIDS treatments in eight countries will run out in the coming months due to cuts to US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, the World Health Organization has warned.

The United States was the largest donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. A US program called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 has historically financed 70% of the overall global AIDS response, according to the United Nations.

The WHO said that Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria and Ukraine could soon run out of the lifesaving treatments.

“Disruptions to HIV programs could undo 20 years of progress, leading to more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and 3 million HIV-related deaths, more than triple the number of deaths last year,” Tedros said.

Tedros noted that the US “has been extremely generous” over the years and while “it’s within its rights to decided what it supports and to what extent,” the nation also has responsibility to ensure that withdrawal from such programs is “done in an orderly and humane way” that allows countries to find alternative resources.

As of 2024, PEPFAR had saved 26 million lives from HIV/AIDS and enabled 7.8 million babies to be born HIV-free to mothers living with HIV.

CNN’s Rachel Wilson contributed to this report.

The Justice Department on Tuesday filled in some details on what happened with deportations the Trump administration carried out Saturday night after President Donald Trump invoked a sweeping wartime authority to quickly remove some migrants whom the government has accused of being affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

In a sworn declaration from a senior ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Enforcement and Removal Operations official, the Justice Department answered a series of questions from US District Judge James Boasberg about the flights, including whether one that took off minutes after he temporarily ordered any planes carrying the migrants to turn around included any individuals who were being removed “solely on the basis” of the Alien Enemies Act.

Cerna also said that Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act was signed on Friday but said the administration understood it “to be effective only once it was posted to the White House website … which was at or around 3:53 PM EDT” on Saturday.

But while the Justice Department provided Boasberg with some of the information he sought, it pushed back on his request that it provide additional information about the deportation flights at issue in the case.

In a brief filing, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials told the judge that “there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate.”

The officials went on to say that if the court orders the government to provide additional details, it should be permitted to do so in a way that ensures the information remains classified.