Axios

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the U.S. to face criminal charges, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

The big picture: Abrego Garcia, whose deportation to El Salvador has been a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration agenda, has been charged with smuggling undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking.

Why it matters: U.S. researchers' fears are coming true. America’s science pipeline is drying up, and countries like China are seizing the opportunity to surge ahead.

The State Department is discussing allocating $500 million for funding of the U.S. and Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) that has been delivering food to Palestinians in Gaza in recent weeks, a U.S. official and a source with direct knowledge told Axios.

Why it matters: If the U.S. goes ahead with this massive funding, it will become the biggest donor to the foundation and will de facto "own" the operation.

Elon Musk's threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to get its astronauts into space.

Why it matters: Musk's rift with President Trump exposes how reliant NASA has become on a single private sector partner to reach the International Space Station after ending the space shuttle program in 2011.

As the nation remembers D-Day on Friday's 81st anniversary, a dwindling number of World War II veterans remain with us.

• There were about 66,100 living WWII vets nationwide as of 2024, per U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs projections.

The Trump administration announced sanctions on four International Criminal Court judges on Thursday over what Secretary of State Marco Rubio called "illegitimate actions" that he said targeted the U.S. and Israel.

The big picture: The sanctions are in response to the ICC issuing arrest warrants in November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and the court's investigation into alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's proclamation that suspended the entry of international students seeking to attend Harvard University.

Why it matters: U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs' temporary restraining order marks the latest legal blow for Trump in his attempt to strip Harvard of its ability to host international students amid a weeks-long legal battle with the Ivy League school.