President Donald Trump Thursday said he didn’t check his 401K account when he was asked about the market crash as a result of his tariffs on about 60 countries. “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation. Like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is,” the president said a day after Liberation Day.

While his reaction was called tone-deaf on social media, personal finance expert Michelle Singletary in her column on Washington Post advised the same: don’t look at your 401(k).
“Like many of you, I’ve gone without some things I wanted — for decades — so that I could put money in a 401(k). I understand how worrisome this is when you’re the first generation in your family to have money in the stock market. And like you, I have contemplated what should I do on a day like today,” she wrote.

“Except for yelling, I don’t plan to change my investing strategy right now. In fact, I haven’t looked at my 401(k) since the markets began to skid in reaction to Trump’s tariffs.”
Some things are better left unseen, the adviser wrote. “If you have a good long-term investment plan and you’re years away from having to tap your retirement funds, don’t keep checking on how the daily stock swings are affecting your retirement account.”

Did Fox News remove its ticker when the stock market collapsed?

Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro urged the audience Thursday to ignore the pain for the “sake of patriotic dedication to the president”. “I don’t really care about my 401k today. You know why?… I believe in this man,” Pirro said. “Who’s complaining? Wall Street. Too bad, he’s helping the middle class. I think it’s gonna be over this summer.”

Social media users flagged that Fox apparently removed the stock market ticker for the first time in 28 years. Fox dismissed the claim and said Fox never deploys the stock ticker full-time. “These claims on social media that this is the first time in 28 years the ticker has come down are not accurate. The stock ticker has never been deployed on screen on a full-time basis,” a rep for Fox News told TV Insider.

Protesters demand the release of recent Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil outside his immigration court hearing in Newark, New Jersey, March 28, 2025. Mr. Khalil’s supporters say he deserves due process rights as he faces possible deportation based on pro-Palestinian activism. But former immigration judge Andrew Arthur says it’s “an open question” how much process is due to noncitizens in removal cases under the Alien Enemies Act. And looking at “the way that Congress wrote the provision, it’s likely not much,” Judge Arthur, a resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, adds in an email. Legal experts say due process boils down to providing notice of accusations and giving people the opportunity to be heard in their own defense. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment guards against depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

In a court filing, Justice Department lawyers said the administration deported a Salvadoran man living in Maryland to El Salvador last month because of an “administrative error,” the Atlantic reported. An immigration judge had previously granted the man a legal protection against deportation. Details are still emerging, but the government claims that the federal court now lacks jurisdiction over the matter because the man is no longer in U.S. custody.

What does due process mean?

“It’s not intended as the general method of removal of people in the United States,” says Deep Gulasekaram, immigration and constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. But “The more you expand it, the more it becomes the default regime. ”Yes. In the realm of immigration enforcement, though, the process to which they are entitled is generally dictated by Congress.

Immigrants may not have the same status as citizens, but they do have legal rights in the United States. Boundaries are being tested as the Trump administration claims broad authority to deport “alien enemies” and others.

So are immigrants entitled to due process?

An immigrant considered a threat to public safety and national security waits to be processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles, after an early morning raid, June 6, 2022. “If you give one branch of government an extraordinary amount of power over a group of people, which is what we’ve done with noncitizens in the United States, we are relying on that branch of government to use that power judiciously,” Professor Hallett says. Meanwhile, the current White House “intends to stretch their power to the absolute limit.”

Still, “People do have a right to go to court and say ‘I’m not a Tren de Aragua member, and therefore this [proclamation] doesn’t apply to me,’” says Mr. Krikorian. After all, “What if an American citizen got picked up?”

Expedited removal is a fast-track deportation option the government can use.

Immigrants don’t need to be convicted of a crime to be deported, though. Immigration courts, which decide whether people can stay or must leave, are separate from the federal court system. As immigration judges don’t hear criminal cases, noncitizens in that system are not entitled to free counsel. That has led, at times, to children representing themselves.

The Trump administration and its allies offer a different position. White House adviser Stephen Miller wrote on the social platform X Tuesday: “If you illegally invaded our country the only ‘process’ you are entitled to is deportation.”

In criminal matters, noncitizens are afforded the same due process protections as citizens. Relatedly, they have a right to be protected from self-incrimination. Criminal defendants, no matter their immigration status, are also entitled to free counsel.

As the Trump administration claims broad authority to summarily deport “alien enemies” in an “invasion,” efforts to control U.S. borders and immigration are running up against concerns for individual rights.Different immigration pathways also have their own protocols. The State Department can revoke visas – as it currently is doing for certain foreign students tied to campus protests. Generally, it’s up to an immigration judge to decide whether a green card holder’s lawful permanent resident status should be taken away. But again, there may be exceptions, such as if the government, within the first five years, concludes the green card was issued in error.

The government began deporting immigrants to El Salvador under that authority last month; a federal appeals court has since upheld a temporary restraining order that bars deportations under the act. The government has asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

Defense of immigrants’ due process rights has transcended ideological lines. Late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative, wrote in a 1993 opinion: “It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.”The most prominent case involves the president’s reliance on a rarely used wartime authority to deport immigrants whom the government accuses of being terrorists.

So far, it’s unclear if there has been an increase in authorities using expedited removal, in part because the government hasn’t published monthly enforcement statistics since the inauguration.

This rapid deportation option became part of U.S. immigration law in 1996 under President Bill Clinton. The provision, since its start, has allowed for the expedited removal of immigrants in the U.S. within two years of their arrival. In practice, however, it has typically been enforced along the borders, including for unauthorized immigrants apprehended within two weeks of their arrival.

What is expedited removal?

In a proclamation signed last month, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to direct the detention and removal of suspected members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang the government has called a foreign terrorist organization. (The president has said he “didn’t sign” the proclamation, despite his signature reflected in the Federal Register.)Immigration lawyers generally see it as an exception, created by Congress, to immigrants’ typical access to due process. That’s because expedited removal allows for an immigrant to be deported without access to an immigration judge, unless they speak up about wanting to seek asylum. Just as in the Fifth Amendment, lawyers note the use of “person” – not citizen.

The tension isn’t entirely new. Due process for immigrants has been litigated over for more than a century, says Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. But the Trump administration is using executive powers “in a new and unprecedented way.” Courts may ultimately decide where the line around protections gets drawn.

Mr. Trump has signaled an expansion of enforcement. A notice published Jan. 24 in the Federal Register by the Department of Homeland Security says it is restoring “the scope of expedited removal to the fullest extent authorized by Congress” as a way to “enhance national security and public safety.”

Yet as the Trump administration revokes legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants previously granted temporary permission to live and work in the U.S., lawyers say those people could be exposed to expedited removal. And that could mean no immigration court hearing. The government has admitted at least one mistake so far.

A Washington family got a pleasant surprise when Barack Obama entered the frame of their family photo.

Former president Barack Obama said sorry for unintentionally photobombing what an overjoyed family claimed will now go down into their family heirloom. One Portia Moore posted the photo of her kids with Barack Obama passing by in the background. “Preston and Belle, I hope you enjoyed peak bloom! My bad for stepping into the shot,” Barack Obama commented in the now viral photo.

The viral photo was part of Portia’s family photo shoot for Cherry Blossom. “It’s the kids turn to take a photo together and Damien is saying something to me. I’m just focused on Preston not running towards the water (peak mom moment). After that shoot was done I pick Preston up and asked Damien “what were you saying”? He goes “that was President Obama who just walked by” and looks his direction. I was like whaaaaat?! I ran to the photographer and asked her if she got the picture. She scrolls through and BOOM there is it! The perfect shot!” Portia described how the photobombing unfolded.

“This story is one to remember and the picture is a family heirloom (literally). And nope, we did not bother him on his much needed peaceful stroll,” the caption read.
Briana Inell, the photographer, told the New York Times that she did not even notice that Barack Obama entered the frame as she was focusing on the blossoms on the right and the Washington Monument on the left.

It was 7.30 in the morning and Obama probably went out to take a morning stroll at the Tidal Basin, a reservoir between the National Mall and the Potomac River. “It’s fun to be able to play tourist once in a while,” Mr. Obama said on Instagram later on Monday. “The cherry blossoms were beautiful this morning!”

“In the act of it, or as it transpired, you’re not realizing because you don’t even think that you’re going to see President Obama, right?” Belle and Preston’s father Damien Thomas said. “So you don’t put two and two together until after the fact and you realize, OK, that really is President Obama.”