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Texas and New Mexico on Friday reported an additional 69 cases of measles, bringing the total in those two states to 228 as the outbreak spread further after causing the first U.S. measles deaths in a decade. In Texas, site of the largest U.S. outbreak, measles cases grew to 198 on March 4, up 39. These included 30 new cases in Gaines County, center of the outbreak, which now has a total of 137. Measles has claimed the life of one unvaccinated child who had no underlying health concerns.
Texas, New Mexico Report Increase in Measles Cases | Reuters
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it would cancel approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University "due to the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."
Trump Administration Cancels $400 million in Grants for Columbia University
President Trump is offering an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship to some South African farmers, calling their treatment in the country "terrible."
"They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT," he wrote in a Friday morning post on Truth Social. Trump signed an executive order last month halting federal aid to South Africa over property laws he said impose "unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaner farmers. "To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship," he wrote Friday. "This process will begin immediately!"
Donald Trump Offers Expedited Citizenship to South African Farmers
MAGA activists have turned against one of President Donald Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Appointed by Trump in 2020, Barrett is a staunch conservative who has joined major rulings in which the court has moved U.S. law to the right, including on abortion and affirmative action.
But that's not enough for some of Trump's most aggressive supporters, who think the former Notre Dame Law School professor has been a disappointment. MAGA supporters see what some call an independent streak as a sign she isn't sufficiently aligned with or loyal to Trump.
"She is a rattled law professor with her head up her ass", said Mike Davis, who once clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Neil Gorsuch and described Barrett as "weak and timid."
The anger from Davis and other right-wing personalities with large online followings stems mostly from a couple of recent high-profile, 5-4 decisions in which Barrett has been the deciding vote against Trump's side.
"DEI judge," influencer Jack Posobiec posted on X, suggesting that Barrett was a "diversity, equity and inclusion" hire, presumably because she is a woman.
Trump at the time promised to pick a woman to replace liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee," another far-right influencer, Laura Loomer, wrote.
One law professor, Josh Blackman at South Texas College of Law Houston, suggested that Barrett should step down from her lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court so that Trump can pick a replacement.
MAGA World Turns Against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
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