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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) warned Trump administration officials they would soon face a “problem” if they continued arresting her fellow Democratic colleagues.

Ocasio-Cortez specifically called out Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan, and she accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of using “public intimidation.”

“If anyone’s breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” she said during an Instagram video posted Sunday. “It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem.”

“You lay a finger on someone, on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman … or any of the representatives that were there, you lay a finger on them, we are going to have a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “Because the people who are breaking the law are the people not abiding by it.”

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The Trump administration has canceled another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, two weeks after the Ivy League school released a scathing internal review about antisemitism on its campus.

The move ramps up the considerable pressure on one of the nation's most revered colleges, which has been the target of a barrage of White House threats and investigations, including reviews of its tax-exempt status and compliance with regulations that determine its ability to enroll international students.

In April, a multiagency federal task force paused roughly $2.2 billion in funding for Harvard. The Trump administration still has not clarified exactly how that pause has been implemented and which research grants are affected. On May 5, Education Secretary Linda McMahon escalated the fight and told Harvard's Jewish president, Alan Garber, that the school would no longer be eligible to receive any new federally supported research grants.

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A lawsuit that could test the limits of the Trump administration's power to detain visa holders, including students and scholars, is poised to go before a federal judge.

U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss will hear arguments May 14 in the case of a Harvard scientist from Russia who alleges the Trump administration wrongfully detained her.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection canceled Kseniia Petrova's visa in February after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to Boston from France, and officers turned her over to ICE. Her attorney argues that CBP's actions were "arbitrary and capricious" and her detention illegal.

The Trump administration says it acted within its authority. Petrova "was lawfully detained after lying to federal officers about carrying substances into the country," Homeland Security said in a statement.

Here's what to know about Petrova's case.

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is wearing another hat for the Trump administration, taking over as the acting librarian of Congress after the firing of Carla Hayden.

Blanche had been President Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer before becoming the second-ranking official inside the Justice Department.

Now Blanche has a second job following Trump's May 8 ouster of Hayden, the first Black librarian of Congress, over concerns about her focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

"We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters May 9. “There were quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.”

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Every night at midnight, Will Trim sits down to the piano in his Boston apartment and waits for lights out in the Louisiana ICE detention center where his best friend is being held.

His cellphone rings. On the other end, Kseniia Petrova is silent. She leans against a brick wall in a freezing ward with 101 other women, cradling one of six working phones to her ear. She listens.