US defense secretary Pete Hegseth sent detailed information on military strikes in Yemen to chat including his wife and brother, New York Times says<\/p>\n
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and I\u2019ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.<\/p>\n
We start with news that defense secretary Pete Hegseth sent detailed information about military strikes on Yemen in March to a private Signal group chat that he created himself and included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people, the New York Times reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Immigration <\/a>officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.<\/strong> Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old New Mexico resident visiting Arizona, was detained by border patrol agents in Nogales, a city along the Mexico border about an hour south of Tucson. Hermosillo\u2019s wrongful arrest and prolonged detention comes amid escalating attacks by the Trump administration on immigrants in the US.<\/p>\n Senator Chris Van Hollen, who travelled to El Salvador last week to meet<\/a> Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda, the man at the center of a wrongful deportation dispute, said on Sunday that his trip was to support \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda\u2019s right to due process because if that was denied then everyone\u2019s constitutional rights were threatened in the US.<\/strong> The White House has claimed \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda was a member of the MS-13 gang though he has not been charged with any gang related crimes and the supreme court has ordered his return to the US be facilitated.<\/p>\n Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is \u201cgetting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis\u201d, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration<\/a> policies, and public protest were holding it off.<\/strong> \u201cI believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,\u201d Klobuchar told CNN\u2019s State of the Union, adding \u201cbut Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n Massachusetts governor Maura Healey said on Sunday that Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on Harvard University<\/a> and other schools are having detrimental ripple effects, with the shutdown of research labs and cuts to hospitals linked to colleges.<\/strong> During an interview on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation, the Democratic governor said that the effects on Harvard are damaging \u201cAmerican competitiveness\u201d, since a number of researchers are leaving the US for opportunities in other countries. After decades of investment in science and innovation, she said: \u201cintellectual assets are being given away.\u201d<\/p>\n A draft Trump administration executive order reported to be circulating among US diplomats proposes a radical restructuring of the US state department, including drastic reductions to sub-Saharan operations, envoys and bureaus relating to climate, refugees, human rights, democracy and gender equality.<\/strong> The changes, if enacted, would be one of the biggest reorganizations of the department since its founding in 1789, according to Bloomberg,<\/a> which had seen a copy of the 16-page draft.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US defense secretary Pete Hegseth sent detailed information on military strikes in Yemen to chat including his wife and brother, New York Times says Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and I\u2019ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with news that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}