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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Donald Trump's top advisors and El Salvador's President, Nayib Buccalay, are saying they have no basis for the small Central American country to return a Maryland man wrongly deported there. The administration is saying despite a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kimbrough Abrego Garcia, he is not a U.S. citizen. And then there's Daniel Kurtz-Leibman says Trump is also talking about possibly sending U.S. citizens to a notorious prison there. Danielle Pletka Trump again brought up something he's been

suggesting for months now, the possibility of deporting U.S. citizens to El Salvador, what he calls homegrown criminals. Now, later in the event, Trump again said he and his team are studying the laws about this possibility, saying he wants it to be violent people sent to El Salvador. But many legal scholars have said this would be blatantly unconstitutional to deport U.S. citizens, whether or not they're violent. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben, the Trump administration without evidence, has said Abrego Garcia is a gang member. A federal judge in Colorado has issued an order blocking two Venezuelan men from being deported.

As Colorado Public Radio's Alison Sherry reports, the order follows the latest lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members. The federal government says the two men, a 25-year-old and a 32-year-old, identified only by their initials in court documents, are members of the gang trained at Agua.

They were at risk of immediate removal, and the ACLU of Colorado sought a block on that. The ACLU says the government has it wrong. The two men were fleeing persecution and dangers the gang poses. They were not members of it. Yes, they have tattoos, but those are of family members' names and not related to gang poses. They were not members of it. Yes, they have tattoos, but those are of family members' names and not related to gang activity. A hearing will be held next week on the men's fates. For NPR News, I'm Allison Scherri in Denver.

Stocks rose today after the Trump administration granted a partial reprieve from some of its steep new tariffs on imports from China. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the president hinted he may grant other car vouts in the days to come. iPhones and laptops made in China are getting a temporary break from President Trump's punishing new tariffs. The administration announced late Friday that electronic goods will not be subject to the 145 import tax applied to other Chinese products. The president also says he's considering suspending the 25% tariff on imported cars and car parts that he ordered less than three weeks ago.

The news helped keep a relief rally going in the stock market, but it also adds to uncertainty about the size and shape of tariffs in the months and years to come. That uncertainty has left many businesses in limbo and reluctant to make big bets on an unpredictable economic future. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Take a look at the numbers. The Dow is up 312 points today. They closed at 40,524.

The NASDAQ rose 107 points. The S&P gained 42 points. This is NPR. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died 80 years ago in Warm Springs, Georgia. His descendants and others gathered there over the weekend to reflect on the fate of his legacy of building up the federal government to pull America out of the Great Depression. MPR's Debbie Elliott has more. FDR found relief from polio soaking in the namesake waters of Warm Springs, Georgia,

and he also connected with struggling people in this rural landscape. What he saw down there informed his political vision of what needed to be done for the nation in the midst of the Great Depression. FDR's great-grandson, Haven Roosevelt Luke, says the New Deal programs that came from that experience, including Social Security and labor and

banking reforms, are under threat as President Trump slashes the federal government. We're watching FDR's legacy get torn down, death by a thousand cuts. Luke says FDR never stopped hoping and believing in the nation. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Warm Springs, Georgia. Harvard University now says it intends to fight demands from the Trump administration to change its governance structure as part of what the White House says in an effort to stop anti-Semitism.

The response expected to spark a battle between the nation's oldest and wealthiest university and the administration, which are threatened to withhold nearly $9 billion in grants and contracts with the school. Harvard President Alan Garber is saying in a letter to the university community Harvard will quote, not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights. Critical futures are up slightly, oil gained three cents a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.