• Illegal convicted of murdering Morin: Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was found guilty on all counts of raping and murdering Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, in August 2023. Jurors took less than an hour to deliberate before delivering their verdict. Donald Trump praised the verdict while blaming Joe Biden for allowing this criminal alien into the country in the first place. “We will never forget Rachel Morin, and are committed to protecting women like her across our Country,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “We will deport Illegal Murderers, Rapists, and Criminals. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Harford County (Maryland) Sheriff Jeff Gahler observed, “The failure here, again, is the immigration system that allowed this person to enter our country illegally and remain in our country and commit crimes in Los Angeles and then here in Harford County.”

• Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding Biden’s migrant “parole” program: Dubbed CHNV for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Joe Biden’s dubious “parole” program brought into the U.S. more than 500,000 migrants from these respective countries. The parole program, which relied on these migrants having sponsors within the U.S., was rife with corruption and fraud. Nevertheless, a judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from rescinding CHNV. Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, said that the government “offered no substantial reason or public interest that justifies” a mass revoking of these migrants’ parole status and potentially forcing them to leave. Talwani added that their status could only be challenged on a case-by-case basis. Under the parole program, they can remain without fear of deportation for two years.

• Trump muses, media panics: If there’s one thing the media is good at, it’s cooking up a news story. When asked a question Monday about whether the criminals he wants to deport to El Salvadoran prisons might include U.S. citizens, Donald Trump did something awful: he answered the question. “If they’re criminals … and if they rape 87-year-old women … yeah, yeah.” He then explained that his administration is studying the law to see whether such deportations would be legal and that following the law is essential — an eminently reasonable thing to ponder aloud. Critical legal scholars say that U.S. citizenship is sacred and that there is no possible provision for deporting criminal Americans overseas. Perhaps they’re right. Despite media fearmongering about unjust deportations, the facts are these: If you ask Trump a question, he’s going to answer it.

• Harvard defies the government, loses funding: On April 11, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration sent a letter to Harvard University detailing the steps the school must take to continue receiving taxpayer funding. On Monday, Harvard rejected the demands. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote. It’s amazing how left-wing institutions relearn that lesson every time the Democrats lose power. The demands upon the school included implementing merit-based hiring and admission, as well as screening international students for terrorist sympathies. Last night, hours after the rejection letter, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard, with nearly $9 billion in taxpayer funding also coming under risk. Will Harvard be forced to end its DEI practices? Time and the pocketbook will tell.

• Arizona cleans its voter rolls: After a settlement in a lawsuit brought against 15 Arizona Counties by America First Legal (AFL), those 15 counties are now verifying the status of more than 50,000 voters who had not provided proof of citizenship. The infamous Maricopa County is among those affected, and the news could not be more welcome. Election security matters. Fifty thousand voters is much more than the 11,000 Arizona voters who decided the presidential election in Arizona in 2020. The affected counties have now petitioned the aid of the Department of Homeland Security for assistance in citizenship verification.

• Gov’t paid group to secretly text kids about sex: Since 2009, the federal government has spent $27 million for nonprofit researchers who target children and teenagers with sex-based information while intentionally hiding it from their parents. The Center for Innovative Public Health Research has received “waivers” from HHS that permitted it to secretly enroll children as young as 12 in a teenage sexual behavioral studies program. The Center’s director, Michele Ybarra, explained that the parental waivers “were granted … so that girls who wished to participate would not have to put themselves in a potentially unsafe situation by disclosing their sexual identity to their parents.” A similar research program targeted gay teenage boys, which secretly provided them with HIV tests and medication to stop the spread of HIV — all intentionally done to hide it from their parents.

• AI supercomputers, now made in America: In another win for President Trump’s America First policy, NVIDIA, a big name in computer hardware, is building half a trillion dollars’ worth of infrastructure in America for AI supercomputer manufacturing. More than a million square feet of manufacturing space has been commissioned in Arizona for NVIDIA’s Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs). In cooperation with other tech companies, supercomputer plants are being built in Houston and Dallas, and mass production is expected to ramp up in 12-15 months. NVIDIA’s plan is to manufacture these supercomputers entirely in the U.S. The AI supercomputer race is a vital national security issue for the 21st century, making this a major win for America.

• Muslim herdsmen massacre dozens of Christians in Nigeria: This month alone, more than 60 Christians have been murdered in attacks carried out by Muslims in Nigeria. Indeed, just this past Sunday, another 40 Christians were massacred when Muslim gunmen attacked a Christian farming community. As one local pastor put it, “Almost every week, a Christian is either killed on his farm or innocent Christians are attacked and either killed in their homes or kidnapped.” Genocide Watch calls Nigeria “a killing field of defenseless Christians,” and Global Christian Relief’s “Red List” marks the West African nation as the deadliest country in the world for Christians. Over the past two years, almost 10,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria, mostly by Muslim terrorist groups like Boko Haram. Furthermore, the African nations of Nigeria, Congo, Mozambique, and Ethiopia top the list of the most dangerous countries for Christians. However, China tops the list for the most arrests of Christians.

Headlines

• It’s Tax Day (Fox Business)

• Budget group says the actual federal debt is $158.6 trillion (Center Square)

• Albuquerque man charged in connection with arson attacks on Tesla dealership and Republican Party of New Mexico office (DOJ)

• Teen charged with murdering Austin Metcalf granted house arrest (Daily Wire)

• Meta fights to keep Instagram and WhatsApp as antitrust trial begins (WSJ)

• Oldest known military veteran survivor of Pearl Harbor attack dies at 106 (Washington Examiner)

• Humor: 7 surprising findings from Trump’s physical (Babylon Bee)

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