In the day's other headlines, the Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration and its push to lay off thousands of federal workers.

In a seven to two vote, the justices blocked a lower court order to reinstate probationary employees across six federal agencies.

The high court's decision will keep employees on paid administrative leave for now while lawsuits play out. This marks

the third time in less than a week that the justices have sided with the administration as it

challenges orders against its agenda. Also in court today, a judge has ordered the White House to

allow the Associated Press back into briefings, presidential trips, and events.

The AP was barred from covering many White House events after it wouldn't refer to the Gulf of Mexico

as the Gulf of America in its coverage.

The judge, who is a Trump appointee, ruled that under the First Amendment, quote,

if the government opens its doors to some journalists, it cannot then

shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints. The Trump administration

has until Sunday to appeal. President Trump signed four executive orders today designed to boost

coal production in the U.S. after decades of decline. Coal once provided more than half of America's

electricity, but that fell to just 16 percent in 2023. Among the executive orders, Trump ended

the Obama-era leasing moratorium that paused new coal projects on federal lands. He also required

federal agencies to stop any policies that transition the country

away from coal production. And with coal miners lined up behind him, the president pledged

to use his unique authorities to reopen or rebuild coal plants.

We'll streamline permitting. We will end the government bias against coal, and we're going to unlock

the sweeping authorities of Defense Production Act, the Defense Production Act, to turbo-charge

coal mining in America. They made it impossible to, impossible.

Mr. Trump has long been a champion of coal, in particular. He's proposed using coal to meet the growing demand for electricity to power massive data centers required for artificial intelligence.

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