Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the White House says it will decide which news organizations can routinely cover President Trump, raising questions about freedom of the press.

A measles outbreak in West Texas spreads amid declining childhood vaccinations.

How a lack of resources for students with disabilities could soon be made worse by efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.

And a message from space.

Don't be afraid of change. You know, we've experienced it and we all will live through it. We'll all be fine.

We hear from the NASA astronauts whose space journey has been longer than expected,

but who are now finally set to come home. Welcome to the News Hour. Today, the Trump administration faced legal pushback on several of the president's executive orders, including his suspension on all refugee admissions.

That is while Elon Musk and his team, known as the Department of Government

Efficiency, are continuing their efforts to dramatically shrink the federal workforce. In a post on

his platform X, Musk wrote that government employees had a second chance to reply to an email,

requesting a list of what they accomplished last week, but, quote, failure to respond a second time will result in termination.

Our White House correspondent Laura Broan Lopez has been covering the latest and joins us now.

So Laura, let's start with the news on the legal front first.

There's a lot of ongoing litigation when it comes to refugee admissions and to foreign aid funding.

What did we hear from federal judges on those fronts today?

There were three big actions by federal judges today. So when we break them down first, a federal

judge extended a block on the Trump's federal funding freeze. Another judge ordered the release

of foreign aid payments by Wednesday at midnight. And then a third federal judge in Seattle

blocked Trump's blanket

suspension of refugee admissions.

Now that indefinite pause on admissions as well as the foreign aid freeze impacted thousands

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