Good evening. I'm Amman Avaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, states sue to block

massive cuts to medical research, while a federal judge says the Trump administration is ignoring his

court order to pause a broader funding freeze. President Trump announces new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, escalating his administration's

trade wars.

And the Los Angeles area wildfires reveal a devastating new reality.

In a world threatened by climate change, homeowners are increasingly left without insurance.

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and where I was going to be and all that stuff all my life.

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Welcome to the NewsHour. Today, a federal judge said that President Donald Trump violated his order that lifted a blanket freeze on federal spending and again directed the administration to release the funds.

That as top prosecutors in nearly half the country just won a temporary legal victory,

restoring medical research funding, stripped late last week. White House correspondent Laura Brone

Lopez joins us now for more. So Laura, we're three weeks in to the Trump administration.

You're seeing a growing number of federal judges describe the president's actions as overreach.

What more did federal judges say about Mr. Trump's attempts to freeze some of those federal

funds?

So on that sweeping freeze of federal funding, District Judge John McConnell said in a ruling

today that the Trump administration's continued freeze of those funds, quote, violate

the plain text of an order that he previously

issued saying that they needed to stop and that they needed to release all of those funds.

And Judge McConnell called Trump's actions, quote, likely unconstitutional and said that the

freeze continues to, quote, cause irreparable harm to much of the country.

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