By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end temporary protections for thousands of Syrians who have been living in the United States since the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters fifteen years ago.

The administration filed an emergency appeal at the high court, the first of 2026, asking the justices to not only let it end Temporary Protected Status for the Syrians but also to decide broader questions about the president’s power to make similar decisions in other cases.

TPS allows people who arrived from certain countries at times of upheaval to temporarily live and work in the US legally. As part of a broader effort to curb immigration, Trump has sought to end the status for multiple groups.

The Supreme Court has afforded the administration wide deference to cancel the designations in the past, including in a case involving Venezuelans with TPS status that the court decided in May. And it reiterated that position in a second emergency ruling in October.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who has argued that courts don’t have the power to review the TPS decisions, urged the Supreme Court to take up the issue on the merits or else lower courts would “continue to impede the termination of temporary protection that the secretary has deemed contrary to the national interest, tying those decisions up in protracted litigation with no end in sight.”

Several courts are considering similar decisions by the administration to end TPS.

The Obama administration granted TPS for certain Syrians in 2012 following the crackdown on protesters by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That designation was repeatedly extended amid a civil war that erupted there. But Trump officials noted that the Assad regime fell in 2024 and it announced that it would end the TPS designation last November.

A federal district court temporarily halted that decision last year, finding that the move by the Department of Homeland Security likely violated a federal law that dictates how agencies are supposed to consider and make decisions. The New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals left the lower court’s decision in place.

The lawsuit was filed by seven Syrian nationals who “face near certain danger if forced to return to Syria,” their attorneys told a lower court.

About 7,000 Syrians could be affected by the decision, according to court records filed at an earlier stage of the case.

“There is no reasonable basis in fact for this decision,” lawyers for the Syrians told a federal district court last year. “It is instead part of the Trump administration’s preordained, political decision — motivated by animus — to end this congressionally-authorized program by terminating TPS designations across the board.”

TPS recipients are vetted and are ineligible if they’ve been convicted of any felony or more than one misdemeanor in the US. The homeland security secretary has discretion to designate a country for TPS. But critics, including Trump, say that the designations were never intended to be permanent.

“This application marks the third time that the government has been compelled to seek a stay from this court after lower courts have baselessly blocked the secretary of Homeland Security’s determinations regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) just before they took effect,” the administration told the Supreme Court in its appeal on Thursday.

After flooding the Supreme Court with emergency

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN

(CNN) — Hollywood star Christina Applegate has said that she spends a lot of time in bed now because of her multiple sclerosis (MS).

In 2021, the “Dead to Me” actress revealed that she had been diagnosed with MS. Two years later, she told Vanity Fair that she was unlikely to appear on camera again due to her struggles with the disease.

MS affects the central nervous system and is considered an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system attacks its own healthy cells. MS, which has no cure, affects quality of life and can be disabling.

Now the actress, whose memoir “You With the Sad Eyes” is due to publish on March 3, has said the pain she experiences has made it difficult for her to move around.

She told People magazine in an interview published this week that she mostly stays in bed, except when she tries to take her 15-year-old daughter Sadie to school.

“I want to take her; it’s my favorite thing to do. It’s the only time we have together by ourselves,” she said. “I tell myself, ‘just get her there safely and get home so you can get back into bed.’ And that’s what I do.”

On a pinned post on Instagram last month, Applegate can be seen speaking from her bed.

She currently presents a podcast about living with MS called MeSsy, alongside fellow actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler – best known for her role as Meadow Soprano – who also has the condition.

“My life isn’t wrapped up with a bow,” Applegate said. “People’s lives, sorry for lack of a better term, f**king suck sometimes. So I’m being as honest and raw as I possibly can.”

Applegate’s upcoming book follows her from her early and tumultuous home life in Laurel Canyon in the 1970s and 1980s to her stardom on the sitcom “Married… with Children” and beyond.

Details released by publishing umbrella group Hachette states: “A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother’s fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due.”

Applegate told People: “We all have come from somewhere, some places more painful than others, and it’s what you do with it, I guess. This is not an inspirational book, by any means. But it can inspire.”

Admitting the book wasn’t easy to write, she said it’s “about a little girl with sad eyes who ended up becoming Christina Applegate.” She admitted that the sad eyes remain “but she’s a s

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By Devan Cole, CNN

Nashville (CNN) — Nine months after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was illegally deported by the Trump administration, became a defendant in one of the government’s marquee criminal cases, prosecutors are on the defensive in court as they try to convince a federal judge that the case wasn’t vindictively pursued.

The high-stakes hearing at a federal court in Nashville is the latest flashpoint in a sprawling web of court cases Abrego Garcia has found himself in since his hasty deportation last March to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador and the administration’s initial reluctance to bring him back came to symbolize President Donald Trump’s slapdash and contentious approach to immigration enforcement.

That the proceeding before US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw is happening at all is a remarkable turn of events in a criminal case that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche once described as “strong.” The department has for months tried to avoid being put in the awkward position of having to defend its prosecution of Abrego Garcia but amid the legal wrangling, it’s been forced to turn over some internal communications that further undermined the case.

Three officials, including Robert McGuire, a top-ranking federal prosecutor who secured the pair of human smuggling charges last year, will answer questions under oath on Thursday about the government’s decision making in the run-up to Abrego Garcia’s indictment.

Also in the hot seat are two agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s investigatory arm, who are set to testify about the agency’s decision to reopen a criminal probe into Abrego Garcia last year after several courts – including the Supreme Court – ordered the government to work to bring him back from El Salvador.

The integrity of the case has come under serious doubt by Crenshaw in recent months as he’s assessed Abrego Garcia’s claim that he’s being prosecuted in retaliation for successfully challenging his wrongful deportation, concluding that the Maryland father of three has shown evidence of a “realistic likelihood” that he’s the target of a vindictive prosecution. That conclusion could lead him to soon throw out the case – unless the trio of witnesses can convince him otherwise.

Requests by criminal defendants for judges to toss out charges based on their claim that they’re being vindictively prosecuted face extremely high hurdles in court and are overwhelmingly unsuccessful because of how difficult it can be to connect prosecutors’ decisions to a retaliatory motive.

But a pair of blockbuster rulings by Crenshaw last year revealed the shaky ground the case was on. The appointee of former President Barack Obama said that the burden was now on the government to fend off a presumption that officials only reopened a years-old probe into Abrego Garcia, and subsequently asked a grand jury to approve charges, to punish him for filing a lawsuit over his deportation.

“The government had a significant stake in retaliating against Abrego’s success in the Maryland lawsuit and deterring any future efforts in that lawsuit,” Crenshaw wrote in the first ruling, issued in October.

In that decision, the judge carefully laid out key moments leading up to Abrego Garcia’s indictment that appeared to support his claim that officials only reopened their investigation into him in response to his winning streak in the deportation case. He specifically called out public statements made by Blanche on the day Abrego Garcia was arrested that “directly linked the Maryland lawsuit to the investigation of criminal behavior by Abrego.”

“At minimum, this suggests the (administration’s) frustration with Abrego, and that his case was not a run-of-the-mill prosecution,” he wrote. “Even assuming the individual motive of Acting US Attorn

Por Kaanita Iyer, CNN

El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) arrestó a 261 beneficiarios del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) entre enero y noviembre del año pasado, informó la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Kristi Noem, en una carta al Congreso publicada el miércoles.

Más del 90 % de los arrestados (241 personas) “tenían antecedentes penales”, según la carta enviada al senador demócrata Dick Durbin el 11 de febrero. Noem indicó además que 86 beneficiarios de DACA también fueron deportados.

Los arrestos y deportaciones se realizaron entre el 1 de enero y el 19 de noviembre de 2025, período que incluye las últimas semanas del Gobierno de Biden.

Sin embargo, desde que el presidente Donald Trump asumió el cargo, su Gobierno ha puesto en marcha una agresiva ofensiva contra la inmigración, que ha incluido un aumento de los controles por parte de agentes federales en varias ciudades.

CBS News fue el primero en informar sobre la carta.

Durante su primer mandato, Trump intentó eliminar DACA, un programa de la era Obama que protege a los inmigrantes indocumentados que llegaron a Estados Unidos durante su infancia, pero la Corte Suprema bloqueó la iniciativa en 2020.

Noem compartió las cifras en respuesta a una carta de septiembre de 41 senadores demócratas, liderados por Durbin, Mark Kelly y Alex Padilla, que afirmaban que el DHS estaba “enfocándose en los beneficiarios de DACA”.

El miércoles, Durbin, Kelly y Padilla emitieron un comunicado conjunto en el que pedían a Noem que “proporcionara más información” sobre los arrestos y deportaciones.

“Las noticias sobre el arresto y la deportación de beneficiarios de DACA son profundamente preocupantes. Estos arrestos desestabilizan a las familias, perjudican a las comunidades e infligen costos sociales, emocionales y económicos innecesarios. Además, es un desperdicio del dinero de los contribuyentes”, declararon los senadores en el comunicado.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con el DHS y ICE para obtener comentarios.

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