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Administration in touch with Nayib Bukele over detention of wrongly deported man, according to two peopleThe Trump administration has been in touch directly with the Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele in recent days about the detention of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, according to two people familiar with the matter.The nature of the discussion and its purpose was not clear because multiple Trump officials have said the administration was not interested in his coming back to the US despite the US supreme court ordering it to “facilitate” Ábrego García’s release. Continue reading...

Youth Endowment Fund says specialised lessons needed to tackle issues such as abuse, consent and coercionA thinktank is calling for schools to appoint relationship violence prevention leaders, modelled on the success of mental health coordinators, as teachers say they are ill-equipped to advise on the complex issues involved.A study by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), supported by the Home Office, wants young teenagers in England and Wales to be taught “relationship violence prevention lessons”, aimed at tackling emotional, physical and sexual violence, psychological abuse, stalking and harassment. Continue reading...

CNN's Daniel Dale dissected President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting Wednesday, during which his secretaries took turns lavishing praise and even touting Trump's presidency as one of the best "ever." Trump's exaggerations were par for the course, Dale said. "Well, he kind of vaguely repeated his frequent claim that the U.S. had a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China under President Biden," Dale began. "It did have a big trade deficit, but he's grossly exaggerating it — it was about $263 billion last year — so, he's about quadrupling it." ALSO READ: 'Never so scared': Furious pastor berates cops after witnessing tasing of MTG constituentDale continued, "And, while he blames Biden for letting it get out of control, that was actually a lower figure than the trade deficit with China in each and every year of Trump's first presidency, so it did not 'explode' under President Biden." Dale then commented on something he claimed was "subjective," but something he, as a Canadian, felt the need to speak up about. "He said, in the Canadian election, he said it was the one who 'hated Trump the least' who won. I don't know how to measure hate," Dale said, "but certainly Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney was much harsher in his public rhetoric than his main opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. So, I don't know about the one who hated Trump the least." Dale said it was interesting that Trump did "a kind of self-fact-check of his previous rhetoric." "He made a comment about imported dolls, and he said, 'Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30. Maybe those two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more.' So that acknowledgment that imported products like dolls might cost a couple of bucks more is sharply at odds with what we heard him say over and over — certainly on the campaign trail, even more recently — when he said, 'It's foreign countries who pay those tariffs, consumers aren't going to pay them at all.' So here, at least briefly, he acknowledged that, yeah, stuff might cost more money here for Americans." Watch the clip below via CNN.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that her jaw dropped when she heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio response when asked whether the United States has been in touch with El Salvador about the Maryland father wrongfully deported there. "I'd never tell you that," Rubio said about facilitating the return of Kilmar Ábrego García. "And you know who else? I would never tell a judge, because foreign policy belongs to the president and the executive branch. Not some judge. We'll conduct foreign policy appropriately if we need to, but we won't discuss it, and no one can make us discuss it because that's how foreign policy works."Rubin said of the comment, "My jaw just dropped open for a couple of reasons." She said that Rubio's claim of what he would "never tell a judge" is "in fact, something that A. happened and B. likely was communicated to the judge overseeing [the] Ábrego García case."ALSO READ: The Republican Party finally meets its reckoningShe noted that litigation has paused because an application was filed to seal the case, allowing them to discuss foreign policy privately. "We later learned that discovery was stayed at the agreement of both parties. Usually, when that happens in any civil litigation, much less an immigration case, it's because some sort of resolution is forthcoming, or at least people believe they're driving toward a resolution," Rubin explained.She said that her "guess" is that the government asked the judge to keep things under seal because they're trying to negotiate the return of Ábrego García. "So, one, there are indications that what Secretary Rubio said might not be true," Rubin explained. "But the second part is that this is an astonishing conception of what's known as the State Secrets Privilege," she continued. "In very rare circumstances, the administration can walk into a court and say to a judge, I don't have to tell you that because it would compromise the foreign policy of this country and reveal what are known as state secrets. But the justification for the invocation of that privilege has to be very specific and supported by case law. There's no indication it has been invoked in this case, much less in very many cases over the history of the United States."So, for Rubio to claim that they won't discuss foreign policy with any judge, "That's not how the law works," Rubin said.See her comments below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be