The Trump Organization’s February trademark application covers dozens of potential digital products, including simulated limo rides, virtual footwear and virtual reality games.

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“Elon and I had a great relationship,” the president said, referring to his former DOGE chief and campaign donor. “I don’t know if we will anymore.”

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Symbols aren’t just symbols.

“We have to understand the dismantling of Roe as being an assault against democracy,” says Georgetown Law professor Michelle Goodwin. This week, a Louisiana woman pleaded not guilty to a felony charge after allegedly giving her teenage daughter abortion-inducing medication that was prescribed and shipped from a doctor in New York, where the medication is legal. The NYC-based doctor was also indicted on a felony charge for allegedly prescribing and sending the medication to Louisiana after a telemedicine appointment. “Once you begin to say that women’s lives have no meaning, that their autonomy, that their equal protection, that all of the things that are protected in the constitutional rights do not apply to them, then you can say then for other people too in other circumstances.”

Canada is going through a period of transition and Canadians feel “galvanized” as it faces an “existential” threat from Donald Trump, says Tom Clark, Canada’s Consul General in New York. Mark Carney was just sworn in as the country’s new Prime Minister and America, its close and long-time ally, has turned hostile under the second Trump administration. Trump is continuing to use tariffs to wage a trade war with Canada and has continued to propose making the country America’s 51st state. Canadians are feeling a “sense of anger and betrayal,” Clark tells Ali Velshi. “We’ve been punched in the nose by our very best friend and we’re trying to figure out why.”

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth is one of many scholars across the country who have spoken out against the Trump administration’s recent assault on higher education and the First Amendment, urging peers to stand up for free speech and resist “this effort to make everyone align with the government.” “People have a right to express their opinions,” says Roth. “The law should not dictate what your opinion is.”

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.