Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday.
El Salvador won't return wrongly deported manIn an Oval Office meeting today with President Trump, El Salvador's leader said that he would not return a man who was wrongly deported from the U.S. and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. "Of course I'm not going to do it," the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, said. He compared returning the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to smuggling "a terrorist into the United States." Trump smiled in approval. Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old father of three, came to the U.S. illegally in 2011, and gained protected legal status in 2019. Until last month, he lived in Maryland with his wife and children, who are all U.S. citizens, and he has never been charged with a crime. Trump administration officials acknowledged that his deportation was an "administrative error." While the Supreme Court last week ordered the government to "facilitate" his return, Trump's aides have insisted that the courts lack the authority to make such calls. Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic senator from Maryland, said he would travel to El Salvador this week if Abrego Garcia was not returned. For more: In arguments against returning Abrego Garcia, some of Trump's top aides misstated several facts.
Harvard rejected Trump's demandsHarvard University said today that it would not comply with the policy changes requested by the Trump administration, setting up a showdown between the government and the nation's wealthiest university. The Trump administration, which had said that it was reviewing $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard, had laid out several demands in a letter: The school must reduce the power of students and faculty over the university's affairs, report foreign students who commit conduct violations to the federal authorities and bring in an outside party to ensure that the school is "viewpoint-diverse," among other actions. Read Harvard's response. For more: Trump and his aides are trying to shift the ideological tilt of higher education. Take a look inside the pressure campaign.
Zuckerberg took the stand in the Meta antitrust trialMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, took the witness stand today to defend his company on the opening day of a landmark antitrust trial. The Federal Trade Commission began the day by accusing Meta of creating a monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to squelch competition. If successful, the F.T.C. is expected to seek to break up the company. Zuckerberg responded by describing the social media market as much larger than how the government was defining it. He said that while social media was a core focus of Meta, the company was also involved in "the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what's going on."
Teachers worry about A.I. for students, but love it themselvesAs artificial intelligence has made its way into schools, many teachers have voiced concerns that the technology will allow for cheating and shortcuts, while disrupting the human connections at the core of learning. At the same time, teachers are increasingly using A.I. tools themselves, to save time and make their jobs easier. My colleague Dana Goldstein talked to educators about that paradox, which has prompted some difficult questions. More top news
Remembering Mario Vargas LlosaThe Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who died yesterday at 89, was the last surviving member of Latin America's Boom literary movement, which included other freewheeling and socially conscious writers like Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar. Our critic Dwight Garner called Vargas Llosa the world's savviest and most accomplished political novelist. Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and his work won high praise from one of the best American novelists of his era, John Updike, who developed a sustained literary man crush on him.
With the No. 1 pick …Less than two hours after this newsletter hits your inbox, the W.N.B.A.'s Dallas Wings are all but certain to select Paige Bueckers with this year's No. 1 overall draft pick. She's already a star. Bueckers was a college sensation who led her UConn team to a national championship earlier this month. She was the first college athlete to get her own Nike shoe, and she's known for her confidence and style. Bueckers has planned several looks for draft night, her stylist said, including "liquid rhinestone cascades."
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A club for dads with strollersJoe Gonzales didn't have many dad friends when he became a father last year. In hopes of connecting with others like him, Gonzales went on social media and invited any and all New York dads to hang out, children in tow. Fathers showed up, shared stories, complimented their shoes and agreed to do it again. Gonzales calls it the Brooklyn Stroll Club. It's only been six months since the first stroll, and the group has already generated a buzz. When Gonzales announced a recent space-limited indoor meet-up, there was a mad dash to secure tickets. Have a nurturing evening. Thanks for reading. I'll be back tomorrow. — Matthew Sean Kawasaki-Culligan was our photo editor. We welcome your feedback. Write to us at evening@nytimes.com.
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