Good afternoon,

TGIF 🎉 

Before we get to the news, here’s a taste of what’s ahead for all of us this weekend from our weekly ‘Cheers to the Freakin’ Weekend’ section:

What We’re Watching: 

• Mosh: Your Friends & Neighbors ~ Apple TV+

• Jill: Hacks Season 4 ~ HBO

• Sari: Adolescence ~ Netflix

What We’re Reading:

• Mosh: Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History ~ Chris Whipple

• Jill: Are You a Hostile Punctuator??? ~ TIME’s Angela Haupt

• Lauren: The Year of Magical Thinking ~ Joan Didion

What We’re Eating:

• Mosh: Charoset and matzo

• Sari: ^ same

• Lauren: Nido for the best natural wines & sandwiches in D.C.

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🚨 ONE IMPORTANT THING

Judges Consider Major Immigration Challenges Over Trump’s Deportations

We have gotten a lot of major headlines from the courts in the past 24 hours. Judges ruled on some of the Trump administration’s most controversial moves to deport people who were legally living in the U.S.

• Just breaking: On Friday afternoon, a judge ruled that Columbia University graduate and leader of last year’s anti-Israel protests, Mahmoud Khalil, can be deported.

  • Khalil was in the U.S. legally on a green card and is married to an American citizen. The State Department ordered the revocation of his green card over his alleged support for Hamas — part of a broader move that has now targeted hundreds of foreign students in the U.S.

  • In ordering Khalil's deportation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio relied on the Immigration Nationality Act of 1952. It gives him authority to decide that a noncitizen's presence in the US threatens the country's foreign policy goals

  • Critics argue these deportations violate First Amendment and due process rights, which the U.S. extends to everyone on American soil.

MORE ON KHALIL
The 30-year-old's lawyer has vowed to appeal the ruling, which puts Khalil’s deportation on hold for now. His legal team has until April 23 to request a stay, or the judge warned that she will order his deportation to Syria, where he was born and lived in a Palestinian refugee camp, or to Algeria, where he is a citizen.

ANOTHER CASE MAKING NEWS
On Thursday evening, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant who was legally living in Maryland but was accidentally sent to El Salvador last month during a mass deportation of more than 200 alleged gang members. While he initially entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, a judge in 2019 granted him protection from being deported, because of concerns for his safety if he were to return to El Salvador.

• The Court stopped short of requiring the government to bring him back to the U.S., despite officials having ignored a judge’s prior order blocking his deportation. The government has acknowledged what they call an “administrative error” in deporting him, but said they had no power or interest in returning him to the U.S.

  • The Supreme Court order said a lower court needed to clarify what it meant requiring the government to “effectuate” his release. The lower court judge clarified Friday that she is instead now “directing” the government to facilitate his release.

• She also ordered the Justice Department to provide daily updates on efforts to bring Abrego Garcia back, after lawyers missed her previous 11:30 am ET deadline.

  • It followed a DOJ lawyer admitting that Abrego Garcia’s current location is unknown, and that they are unaware of any efforts by the Trump administration to facilitate his return. For now, the government says the need until Tuesday to answer questions about his status.

Have questions about what’s next? On Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT), Mo News Premium members are invited to our exclusive workshop: Understanding U.S. Immigration with Dr. Austin C. Kocher.

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🚨 ONE THING THAT COULD SPELL TROUBLE

Trump Tariffs, Policies Prompt Efforts To Boycott American Goods, Avoid Travel To U.S.

Anti-American sentiment is rising abroad, fueled by some of President Trump’s policies, including tariffs and his America First agenda. Foreigners say they’re avoiding American products and canceling travel to the U.S.

• Since Trump took office in January, global net favorability toward the U.S. has dropped by about 20 points, according to a Morning Consult analysis. Similar declines in U.S. favorability abroad have only occurred during wars.

There are reports of supermarkets in Europe and Canada spotlighting homegrown products and even removing American goods from the shelves. Mo News community members outside the U.S. shared what they've seen or heard:

BUYING POWER
With foreigners taking their capital — whether at supermarkets or through travel —elsewhere, the impact on the U.S. economy could be significant.

• The data bears that out: The U.S. tourism industry entered 2025 expecting a rebound to pre-COVID levels after a strong 2024. Last month, international arrivals dropped around 10% year-over-year, as travelers opt to go elsewhere amid travel advisories, strengthened immigration enforcement and detention concerns, and frustration over tariffs.

  • Travel analytics firm Tourism Economics expects a 20% drop in Canadians visiting the U.S. in 2025 than the year before, leading to more than $4 billion in lost revenue.

• Travelers are also expressing fear about crossing the U.S. border, citing anecdotes of visitors being detained for weeks or denied entry over anti-Trump sentiment found on their phones.

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 RFK Jr. claims new research effort will find cause of ‘autism epidemic’ by September (CNN)

📌 Dow jumps over 600 points to end wild week as investors shrug off China’s tariff retaliation (NEW YORK POST)

📌 Weekly measles cases top 90 in U.S. for first time in years (CBS)

📌 Family was to celebrate child’s birthday when NYC sightseeing helicopter crashed, killing 6 (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 China strikes back with 125% tariffs on U.S. goods as trade war intensifies (CNBC)

📌 Top Iranian officials told Khamenei to allow US nuke talks or risk fall of regime (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 Chinese state media tells people who weigh less than 110 lb to stay indoors for strange reason (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 73% of Americans are financially stressed. Two-thirds say tariff concerns are the source (CNBC)

📌 YouTube’s new AI tool generates free background music for videos (VERGE)

📌 Mortgage rates surge over 7% as tariffs hit bond market (CNBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Jason Isaacs Addresses White Lotus Cast Tensions amid Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood Feud Rumors (PEOPLE)

📌 Yoko Ono details pain of post-Beatles life with John Lennon in new documentary (CNN)

ICYMI FROM THE 📲

In case you missed it… You might have seen these viral AI Barbie/Ken-esque dolls popping up on social media. We tried it ourselves! Here’s how to do it:

• Sign in to your ChatGPT account.

• Upload a picture of yourself.

• Ask AI to make an action figure toy of the person in the photo.

• Specify that you want a full figure displayed in its original blister pack.

• Tell it: my figure always has... (insert objects of your choice here).

• If you dislike the first photo, add new instructions/photos! (FYI — it can take a few minutes.)

Voilà! Download the image and show your friends.

P.S. Do you think this doll above looks like Mosh? We gave ChatGPT several tries to get it right.