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Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• White House Press Secretary Calls Outrage Over Garcia Deportation "Despicable," "Sensationalism;" Interview With Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY); Interview With Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA); Former President Biden Criticizes Trump Administration In First Public Remarks Since Leaving The White House; White House: Trump Is "Actively" Considering At Least 15 Trade Deals; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raises Whopping $9.6 Million In Q1 Campaign Funds As Buzz Builds Over Her Future; Zuckerberg Defends Meta In Court Against Threat Of Instagram, WhatsApp Forced Sale; New Details In Death Of Legendary Actor Gene Hackman. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Interview with Member of Ukrainian Parliament and Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Oleksandr Merezhko; Interview with Sudanese Researcher and Political Analyst Kholood Khair; Interview with "Dark Money" Author and The New Yorker Staff Writer Jane Mayer; Interview with "The Dark Money Game" Director Alex Gibney; Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Artist, Illustrator and Author Art Spiegelman. Aired 1-2p ET


CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt
• Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax Exempt Status As It Defies His Demands; Now: Hearing In Case Of Man Mistakenly Deported To El Salvador; Biden Speaks Out. Aired 4-5p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Judge Questions Justice Department On Mistakenly Deported Man; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status; 145 Percent Tariffs On China Are Clobbering The Toy Industry; Autism Rates Have Risen To 1 In 31 School-Age Children; Jury Selection Begins For Harvey Weinstein Retrial. Aired 5-6p ET
• Judge Says, No Evidence Trump Admin is Following Orders In Garcia Case; White House Tells Harvard To Apologize After Rejecting Trump's Demands; Palestinian Student Detained Visiting Citizenship Office; Some Democrats Call For Insider Trading Probe On Trump's Tariff Pause. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
• Judge Scolds DOJ in Hearing Over Mistakenly Deported Man; Trump Says, I Would Love To Deport American Criminals To El Salvador; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status After Freezing Funds; Abby Phillip Sits Down With Philanthropist Melinda French Gates; Multiple Protesters Dragged Out of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Town Hall. Aired 10-11p ET


CNN News Central
• Trump Administration Freezing $2.2 Billion in Funding for Harvard University; Hearing Today on Wrongly Deported Man as White House, El Salvador Defy Courts; Markets Rise After Trump Considers Exemptions on Car Tariffs. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Trump Administration Freeze $2.2 Billion In Funding For Harvard University; Israel Proposes Gaza Ceasefire Deal To Release 10 Hostages For Hundreds Of Palestinians; Jury Selection To Begin In Harvey Weinstein's Sex Crimes Retrial. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Hearing Today on Wrongly Deported Man as White House, El Salvador Defy Courts; Global Markets Rise After Trump Considers Exemptions on Car Tariffs; New Details Emerge About Suspect Charged in Arson Attack at Pennsylvania Governor's Residence. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• IRS Workers Expected to Learn Layoff Fate; Independents Turn on Trump; Rep Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) is Interviewed about Tariffs; Businesses Struggle to Navigate Tariffs. Aired 8:30-9a ET
• Harvard University Funding Frozen; Hearing Today for Abrego Garcia; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is Interviewed about Abrego Garcia; Jury Selection in Weinstein Retrial; Lawrence Summers is Interviewed about Harvard Funding being Frozen. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Trump Considers Tariff Exemptions; Trump's Approval Rating Falls; Bueckers Number One WNBA Pick. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Israel-Hamas Talks Continue; Voters Expressing Anger Over Economy, DOGE Cuts; Federal Court Holds Deportation Hearing. Aired 1- 1:30p ET
• Hamas Military Wing Claims Contact Lost With Militants Holding Last Living American Hostage; E.U. Ready To Impose Tit-For-Tat Tariffs On U.S. If Talks Fail; Trump: Xi In Southeast Asia To Figure Out How To "Screw" The U.S.; Boeing Shares Fall On Report China Has Halted Its Deliveries As Part Of Trade War; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax Exempt Status After Freezing Funds; Suspect In Arson Of PA Governor Home Faced Mental, Legal Turmoil. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Hearing Today on Mistakenly Deported Man as Trump Administration Accused of Defying Courts; Trump Open to Deporting Homegrown Criminals to El Salvador; White House on Tariff Talks Says We Do Believe That We Can Announce Some Deals Very Soon; Progress Remains Stalled on Tariff Deal Between U.S. and E.U. After High Stakes Meeting This Week; Xi Looks to Strengthen Ties in Southeast Asia in Face of U.S. Tariffs. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Jury Selection Begins In Harvey Weinstein's Sex Crimes Retrial; Trump's Foreign Envoy Reverses Stance On Iran Nuclear Enrichment; Midnight Deadline Quickly Approaching To File Taxes. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Next Hour: Hearing On Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man As Trump Administration Accused Of Defying Courts; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status After Freezing Funds; Progress Stalls On U.S.-EU Trade Deal Talks; White House: Trump "Actively" Considering At Least 15 Trade Deals; Xi Looks To Strengthen Ties In Southeast Asia In Face Of U.S. Tariffs. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• About 25 Percent of IRS Workers Plan to Take Buyout Offer; Experts: Study Finds Autism Rate on Rise as RFK Jr Vows to Find Cause; Mistakenly Deported Man's Wife: Stop Playing Political Games. Aired 3:30-4p ET


CNN Newsroom
• U.S., El Salvador Make Clear, Deported Man Won't Be Returned; Russian Attacks Sumy, Ukraine On Palm Sunday; Xi Jinping Touts China As Reliable Trade Partner In Southeast Asia; Israeli Strike Puts Gaza City Hospital Out Of Service. Aired 12-12:45a ET
• Thirty-Five Killed, 117 Injured After Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Amid Peace Talks; El Salvador President Refuses To Order Return Of Wrongly Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia; U.S. Opens Door To Tariffs On Pharma, Semiconductors; China's Xi Seeks Trade Ties In Southeast Asia Amid Tariff Pressures; Israeli Strike Puts Gaza City Hospital Out of Service; Man Accused of Setting Fire Governor's Home Denied Bail; All-Female Space Flight Crew Returns Safely to Earth. Aired 1-2a ET
• Semiconductors And Pharmaceuticals May Be Next Tariff Targets; Xi Jinping Touts China As Reliable Trade Partner In Southeast Asia; Israeli Strikes Puts Gaza City Hospital Out Of Service; Mixed Messages From Donald Trump About Which Side Started The War; Ukraine Says 35 People Killed in Sumy and 117 Wounded; Mark Zuckerberg Testifies on First Day of Meta Antitrust Case; All-female Space Flight Crew Returns Safely to Earth. Aired 2-2:45a ET
• U.S., Salvadoran Leaders Made Clear that Kilmar Abrego Garcia Won't Return to the United States; Chinese President Kicked Off Southeast Asia Tour; Trump Freezes Grant Money to Harvard University; Blue Origin's All-Women Crew Back on Earth After a Successful Short Mission to Space. Aired 3-4a ET
• CNN International: Trump Freezes $2.2B In Funds After Harvard Reject Demands; Hamas: Lost Contact With Militants Holding U.S. Hostage; Soon: Hearing On Man Mistakenly Deported To El Salvador; Trump Looks To Give U.S. Automakers Tariff Break; Sudan's RSF Claims Control Of Major Darfur Camp; Meta Accused Of "Anticompetitive Conduct" To Build Companies. Aired 3-4p ET


CNN This Morning
• Harvard President: University 'Will Not Surrender Its Independence'; Trump Administration: Mistakenly Deported Man's Return 'Not Up to Us'. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Trump Open to Deporting Homegrown Violent Criminals; Makena Kelly is Interviewed about DOGE Access to Taxpayer Data; Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) is Interviewed about Tariffs and AI. Aired 6:30-7a ET


Connect the World
• U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Moving Forward; Bukele Says Returning Deported Man to U.S. is "Preposterous"; Trump's Efforts to Broker Ceasefire Appear Stalled; Global Markets Seesaw Amid Tariff Uncertainty; Elephants from Instinctive "Alert Circle" after Minor Quake. Aired 9-10a ET
• Global Markets Seesaw amid Tariff Uncertainty; E.U. Set to Impose Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. if Talks Fail; Xi Touts China as Reliable Trade Partner in Southeast Asia; Trump Open to Sending "Homegrown Criminals" to El Salvador; Trump Administration Freezes $2+ Billion in Funding to Harvard; Another Columbia Student Faces Deportation; Strike Damages Hospital in Gaza City; U.S. Surgeon Volunteering in Gaza Says Al-Ahli Is "Nonfunctional"; Trump Projecting Expansive View of Executive Power; "The Breakfast Club" Stars Reunite after 40 Years. Aired 10-11a ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Judge: No Evidence White House Is Following Order On Wrongly Deported Man; White House Defiant On China: "We Don't Have To Make A Deal," They Do; Biden Slams "Damage" Of Trump White House In First Major Post-White House Speech. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with Rahel Solomon
• Trump Administration Freezes $2.2B Over Harvard's Failure To Comply; Trump Considers Tariff Exemptions For U.S. Auto Industry; Ukraine: 35 People Killed In Sumy And 117 Wounded. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Man Accused Of Setting Fire To Governor's Home Denied Bail; Mark Zuckerberg Testifies On First Day Of Meta Antitrust Case; Number One Draft Pick Paige Bueckers Headed To Dallas Wings. Aired 5:30-6a ET


Inside Politics
• Trump Targets Harvard after it Rejects Administration Demandss; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax Status, Freezes $2.2B in Grants; Trump Freezes $2.2B in Grants After Harvard Rejects his Demands; Trump Admin: Courts Can't Force us to Bring Back Deported Man; No More Sunny Days. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• NYT: Trump Admin Asks Congress To Rescind $1.1B In Federal Funding For Public Broadcasting; WH Claims PBS And NPR Share "Radical, Woke Propaganda"; Zuckerberg Testifies In Second Day Of Antitrust Trial Against Meta; Meta Could Be Forced To Sell Instagram, WhatsApp If It Loses; Gov. Whitmer Laughs Off Viral Office Photo; AOC, Sanders Draw Large Crowds On "Fighting Oligarchy" Tour. Aired 12:30-1p ET


Isa Soares Tonight
• Hamas Says it Lost Contact with Militants Holding Edan Alexander; Hamas Studying Israeli Ceasefire Proposal; Trump's On-Again, Off-Again Tariffs; E.U. Lists U.S. Products That Could Get Tariffs; Elephants React to Earthquake in California. Aired 2:00-3p ET


Laura Coates Live
• Judge Scolds DOJ in Hearing Over Mistakenly Deported Man; Trump Issues New Funding Threat To Harvard; Palestinian Student Detained At U.S. Citizenship Interview; Biden Slams Trump White House In First Remarks Since Leaving Office; George Clooney Speaks Out On His Biden Op-Ed. Aired 11p-12a ET


One World with Zain Asher
• CNN International: Trump Freezes $2.2B In Funds After Harvard Rejects Demands; Investors On Edge Over On-Again, Off-Again Tariffs; Trump Signals New Tariffs On Drugs And Semiconductors. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Trump Battling Over Immigration, Tariffs, Academia; Trump's Approval Rating Falls To New Low With Independents; Russian FM: Not Easy To Agree On Ukraine Peace Deal With U.S.; Millions Displaced, At Risk Of Famine After Two Years Of War; Zuckerberg In Court To Defend Social Media Acquisitions; Xi Touts China As Reliable Trade Partner In Southeast Asia; Biden To Deliver First Public Remarks Since Leaving Office. Aired 12-1p ET


Quest Means Business
• Trump Administration Ramps Up Threats As Harvard Resists; European Visitors To U.S. Plunge Under Trump Administration; Bloomberg: China Has Halted Deliveries Of All Boeing Aircraft; Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand On Day Two At Meta Antitrust Trial; Hearing In Case Of Wrongfully Deported Maryland Man; Hamas Says It's Lost Contact With Militants Holding Hostage Edan Alexander; Merchants In New York's Chinatown Concerned By New Tariffs; Canadian Superhero Back In Action Amid Tariff Wars. Aired 4-5p ET


The Situation Room
• Palestinian Student Detained Just Before Citizenship Interview; Laying Out the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Harvard Rejects White House's Policy Change Demands. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Tariffs on Semiconductor and Pharmaceutical; Tariff Exemptions on Electronics, Smartphones are Temporary; Hearing Today for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Federal Hearing on DOGE; Trump Administration Defying Supreme Court?. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Meta Facing Antitrust Case; Trump Trade War Escalates; Ukraine- Russia Peace Talks Stalled?. Aired 11:30a-12p ET


The Source with Kaitlan Collins
• Judge Tells DOJ Lawyers: "Cancel" Vacations To Provide Evidence In Mistaken Deportation Case; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status In Funding Fight; Biden Slams Trump WH In First Remarks Since Leaving Office. Aired 9-10p ET


The Brief with Jim Sciutto
• CNN International: Hearing on Abrego Garcia; White House has No Evidence It's Following Garcia's Case; Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status; Trump Admin. Threatening First Amendment Rights; Boeing Might Halt Jet Deliveries to Chinese Airlines; NATO Chief Meets with Zelenskyy in Ukraine; U.S. Detains Another Palestinian Activist; Chinatown's Tariff Troubles. Aired 6-7p ET