“El Salvador Is Said to Have Spurned U.S. Request for Return of Deported Migrant; It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the plight of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia”: Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Feuer, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Maggie Haberman, and Maria Abi-Habib of The New York Times have this report.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett, Julie Turkewitz, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, and Annie Correal of The New York Times have an article headlined “Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison; New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.”

Shawn McCreesh and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times report that “Trump Would Not Concede ‘MS-13’ Letters Were Digitally Added; The White House declined to explain why President Trump did not appear to realize that the photograph he held up on social media had been altered.”

Tarini Parti, Mariah Timms, and Juan Forero of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump Insists Wrongly Deported Man Has ‘MS-13’ Tattooed on His Knuckles; Notorious gang’s initials were digitally added to an image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s hand.”

And Sarah Cahlan, María Luisa Paúl, Teo Armus, and Samantha Schmidt of The Washington Post report that “Kilmar Abrego García’s tattoos do not prove MS-13 membership, experts say; The Trump administration has highlighted the wrongly deported man’s tattoos as proof that he is a dangerous gang member; Law enforcement officials and researchers question that assertion.”

“Texas Senate votes 31-0 to clarify exceptions to abortion ban; The state House is considering an identical bill; The legislation would allow abortion if the mother’s life is in danger, even if the risk is not imminent”: Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post has this report.

And Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune reports that “Wide-ranging crackdown on abortion pills passes Texas Senate; The bill gives the state new tools to try to stop the flow of abortion pills, but critics say it’s legally dubious on several fronts.”

“John Bash, first candidate to enter Texas attorney general’s race, exits; The former federal prosecutor cited shifting priorities after a family health scare for his withdrawal, which comes less than a month after his entry into the race”: Ayden Runnels of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Trump’s Maximalist Assertion of Presidential Power Tests the Rule of Law; The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Mysterious new investigation in Donna Adelson case may delay her murder trial again”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Supreme Court Appears Open to Approving Religious Charter Schools; The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs; But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Roberts might hold key Supreme Court vote over first publicly funded religious charter school.”