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Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Judge Leaves Harvard Student Visa Program In Place Indefinitely; Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates Trump Tariffs; MAHA Report And "Formatting Issues"; Tech CEO On What Worries Him About A.I.; Chaotic Scenes Around Gaza Aid Distribution; Next Generation Police Training Focuses On De-Escalation. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Interview with Harvard University Professor of Government Steven Levitsky; Interview with Harvard University Physician and Professor Dr. Kari Nadeau; Interview with "The Phoenician Scheme" Director Wes Anderson; Interview with Representative Blake Moore (R-UT). Aired 1-2p ET


CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt
• Just In: Court Pauses Ruling That Blocked Trump's Tariffs; Harvard Wins Initial Court Fight Over Foreign Students; Just In: Jury Dismissed For Day In Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial; Musk Leaves Trump Admin After Contentious Tenure. Aired 4-5p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates Trump's Tariffs; Ultra- Rich Pony Up Millions For Proximity To Trump; Ex-Assistant Says She Saw Combs Attack Ventura; Hamas Issues Counterproposal To Latest U.S. Ceasefire Plan; Law Enforcement Alarmed Over Rise Of Violence Linked To Crypto. Aired 5-6p ET
• Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates Trump's Tariffs; White House Pressure For More Immigration Arrests Strains Law Enforcement Agencies; Tech CEO Warns A.I. Could Cause Mass Unemployment; Bike Tour Company Says Tariffs Deter International Tourists; D.C. Jewish Museum Reopens After Fatal Shooting. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
• Trump Tariffs Reinstated By Appeals Court For Now; Trump's Health Report Full Of Flawed And Nonexistent Studies; DHS Says, Migrant Vowed To Kill Trump, Investigators Call It A Set-Up; New Trump Administration Policy Brings Back Memories Of The Cold War; FBI's New Deputy Director Realizes Government Jobs Are Not So Easy. Aired 10-11p ET


CNN News Central
• Federal Court Blocks Most of Trump's Sweeping Tariffs; Trump Administration to Aggressively Revoke Chinese Student Visas; Soon, Stylist to Resume Testimony in Sean Combs Criminal Trial. Aired 7- 7:30a ET
• Asian Markets Rise After Court Blocks Most Of Trump's Tariffs; Trump Issues New Round Of Pardons And Sentence Commutations; Graduation Day At Harvard As Ivy League School Goes To Court. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Court Hearing on Harvard's Fight to Keep International Students; Federal Court Blocks Most of Trump's Sweeping Tariffs. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Celebrity Stylist Testified in Combs Trial; U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter; Rick Newman is Interviewed about Tariffs; Kurt Volker is Interviewed about Putin; Karen Read Retrial Resumes. Aired 8:30-9a ET
• Formal Process Started to Strip Harvard of International Students; Court Rules on Tariffs; Areva Martin is Interviewed about the Combs Trial; Breakthrough Close on Gaza Ceasefire. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Markets Open Higher; Christine Greenberg is Interviewed about Tariffs; Octavia Spencer is Interviewed about "My Happy Place." Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Trump Administration Targets Chinese Student Visas; Harvard Wins Legal Victory; Housing Market Cooling?; Trade War Interrupted. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Combs' Ex-Assistant and Alleged Victim "Mia" Resumes Testimony; Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders Review of Homeschool Support Efforts; Another Court Rules Trump Lacks Authority to Levy Tariffs with Emergency Powers. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Second Federal Court Rules Against Trump Tariffs; U.S. District Judge Says Tariffs Under Emergency Powers Act Are Unlawful; Fed Chair Jerome Powell Meets Donald Trump in the White House; Judge Hears Arguments as Harvard Fights to Keep International Students. Aired 2- 2:30p ET
• Combs' Ex-Assistant and Alleged Victim "Mia" Testifying; Israel Accepts New U.S. Proposal for Ceasefire with Hamas; Palestinian Health Ministry: Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 54,000; Police Confident They're Close to Capturing Last 2 Escapees. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Second Federal Court Agrees Trump's Tariffs Are Unlawful; Elon Musk Says His Time In Washington Has "Come To An End"; Judge To Order Trump Admin Not To Make Changes To Harvard Student Visa Program Indefinitely; Judge Hears Arguments As Harvard Fights To Keep Intl. Students. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Ex-Assistant Testifies Combs Sexually Assaulted Her Multiple Times; Appeals Court Pauses Ruling that Blocked Trump's Tariffs; Trump Administration Defends MAHA Report Amid Questions About Whether It Cites Nonexistent Scientific Studies. Aired 3:30-4p ET


CNN Newsroom
• Federal Court Blocks Most Of President Trump's Global Tariffs; Germany Announces Joint Germany-Ukraine Missile Production; Political Violence Flares Ahead Of Mexican Elections; Why The Macron Shove Video Is Old News In France. Aired 12-12:45a ET
• U.S. Court Blocks Trump From Imposing The Bulk Of His Tariffs; Two Dead After People Break Into WFP Warehouse In Search Of Food; Germany And Ukraine Reach Deal For Long-Range Weapons Production; U.S. Announces Visa Curbs Targeting Social Media Censorship; 7M New Jobs Will Vanish Due to Economic Slowdown; Anthropic CEO Warns of Imminent Widespread Job Losses Due to A.I.; The European Bison Returns to the U.K.; CNN Examines Backup Systems for Ground Control Failures Aired 1- 2a ET
• Federal Court Blocks Most Of President's Global Tariffs; U.S. Will Aggressively Revoke Visas For Chinese Students; Freed Captives And Families Plead For Hostages' Return; Sergey Lavrov Says Next Round of Peace Talks on Monday in Istanbul; Ukraine's Zelenskyy Agrees to $5.7 Billion Arms Deal With Germany; Germany Agrees to Joint Production of Long-Range Missiles Inside Ukraine; Kremlin Says Ukraine Deal Entirely Irresponsible of Germany; Glacier Collapse Leaves Swiss Village Buried by Mud and Rock; China's Tianwen-2 Mission to Explore Asteroid and Comet. Aired 2-2:45a ET
• Most Of Trump's Tariffs Blocked By Federal Judges; Round 2 Of Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Set On Monday; U.S. To Pause Issuing Student Visas; Elon Musk To End His DOGE Stint. Aired 3-4a ET


CNN This Morning
• Federal Court Strikes Down Trump's Sweeping Tariffs; Musk Knocks Budget Bill as He Exits DOGE; Buy Now, Pay Later: What the Growing Demand Says About Economy. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Alyse Adamson is Interviewed about the Combs Trial; Details of Trump's Spending Bill; Yael Ossowski is Interviewed about Crypto Violence; Fight over International Students. Aired 6:30-7a ET


Connect the World
• Judges on Court of International Trade Appointed by Reagan, Obama and Trump; Trump Administration to Revoke Visas of Chinese Students with Ties to Communist Party, Those Students Studying in "Critical" Fields; Russia: New Peace Talks Set for Monday; Federal Court Blocks Most of Trump's Global Tariffs; Thunder Cruise Past T-Wolves to Clinch Spot in NBA Finals. Aired 9-10a ET
• U.S. Federal Court Blocks Most of Trump's Global Tariffs; Gaza Health Ministry Says 11 Killed since Aid Hubs Opened; UNRWA Chief Says Aid Delivery Is "Undignified" and "Unsafe"; Trump Administration Formally Stripping Harvard's Ability to Host International Students; Israel- Hezbollah War Deepens Economic Crisis; Interview with Lebanese Prime Minister on Rebuilding Lebanon; Stylist Returns to the Stand in Sean Combs Trial; Embassy in Syria Raises U.S. Flag for the First Time since 2012. Aired 10-11a ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• One Court Reinstates Trump Tariffs As Another Rules Against Them; Putin War Hero Killed In Mysterious Explosion Deep Inside Russia; On Commencement Day, Harvard Gets A Court Win Against Trump. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with Rahel Solomon
• Federal Court Blocks Most of President's Global Tariffs; Stock Futures Surge After Court Blocks Most Trump Tariffs; Trump's Journey From Crypto Critic To Bitcoin Buff; Ukraine's Zelenskyy Agrees To $5.7B Arms Deal With Germany; WFP: Two Killed As Crowd Storms Gaza Food Warehouse. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Judge Denies Mistrial, More Testimony About Combs' Violence; Trump Issues Slew Of New Pardons And Commutations; Why The Macron Shove Is Old News In France. Aired 5:30-6a ET


Inside Politics
• Federal Judge To Indefinitely Block Trump From Banning Harvard University From Enrolling Foreign Students; Harvard President Gets Extended Ovation At Commencement; Trump Administration To "Aggressively Revoke" Chinese Student Visas; Tariff Ruling Could Threaten Trump's Entire Economic Agenda; Trump On Chickening Out Allegation: "Don't Ever Say What You Said, That's A Nasty Question". Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Musk Ends Historic And Chaotic Four Months In Government; At Least 121,000 Federal Workers Targeted In DOGE Layoffs; Far-Right Activist With History Of Anti-Gay Rhetoric Fired From Kennedy Center After CNN Investigation; HHS Cancels Moderna Contract For Bird Flu Vaccine; Grandson Of 10th President John Tyler Dies At 96; Trump Has Been Setting Two-Week Deadlines Since At Least 2017. Aired 12:30-1p ET


Isa Soares Tonight
• Israel Approves Massive West Bank Settlement Expansion; Trump Tariffs Dominate The Astana International Forum; Court Blocks Trump From Imposing The Bulk Of His Tariffs; Israel Approves U.S. Ceasefire Proposal; Croatian Minister Talks Trump Trade War; The Future Of Ukraine's Minerals; Tariffs, Global Conflicts Adding To Economic Uncertainty. Aired 2-3p ET


Laura Coates Live
• Laura Coates And Guests Discuss The Latest In The Federal Trial Of Sean "Diddy" Combs; Laura Coates Interviews Suge Knight; Witnesses Testify About Diddy's Ex-Chief Of Staff; Small Business Owners Take On Trump's Tariffs. Aired 11p-12a ET


One World with Zain Asher
• Federal Court: Trump Overstepped Authority with Sweeping Tariffs; Judge to Order Trump Admin not to Make Changes to Harvard Student Visa Program Indefinitely; More Deaths Reported as Desperate Palestinians Crowd New Aid Hubs; Rubio: U.S. will Revoke Visas of Many Chinese Students; Russia: New Peace Talks Set for Monday; Greggs Sausage Roll to be Display at Madame Tussauds. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Court Blocks Trump From Imposing The Bulk Of His Tariffs; Judge To Bar Trump From Pulling Harvard's Student Visa Access; Glacier Collapse Leaves Swiss Village Buried By Mud And Rock; CNN Examines Backup Systems For Ground Control Failures; Concerns Over U.S. Changes To COVID Vaccine Recommendations; Reality T.V. Stars The Chrisleys Released From Prison; Aired 12-1p ET


Quest Means Business
• U.S. Appeals Court Pauses Ruling That Blocked Tariffs; Small Businesses Make Case Against U.S. Tariffs; Class Of 2025 Graduates As Harvard Battles Trump Administration; Interview With Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. Aired 4-5p ET


The Situation Room
• Federal Court Blocks Trump from Imposing the Bulk of His Tariffs; Trump Admin Begins Formal Process of Stripping Harvard of Its Ability to Host International Students; Trump Issues Slew of New Pardons and Sentence Commutation. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• "The Rehearsal" Examines Pilot Communication; Combs' Former Assistant "Mia" Testifying Criminal Trial. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Harvard Pushes Back Against Trump Administration; Trump Issues More Controversial Pardons; Federal Court Blocks Trump Tariffs. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Wolf Blitzer's Happy Place; Benefits of Stretching; Former Assistant Testifies in Combs Trial; Interview With Former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Aired 11:30a-12p ET


The Source with Kaitlan Collins
• Trump Blasts Judges, Including One He Nominated, In Lengthy Tirade; RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist; Bongino Laments FBI Deputy Director Role: "I Miss Me." Aired 9-10p ET


The Brief with Jim Sciutto
• Trump Tariffs Temporarily Reinstated; Judge Lets Harvard Continue Foreign Student Enrollment; Trump Trade Talks Continue; New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal; Israel To Expand West Bank Settlements; Future Of U.S. Military In South Korea. Aired 6-7p ET


What We Know with Max Foster
• White House: Tariff Ruling Example of "Judicial Overreach"; Fed Chairman Meets With Trump At White House; Leaders Discuss Trade & Innovation Amid Global Uncertainty; U.S. Will "Aggressively Revoke" Chinese Student Visas; Elon Musk Leaving Trump Administration; Judge To Bar Trump Admin. From Making Changes To Harvard's Student Visa Program Indefinitely; U.S. Appeals Court Reinstates Trump Tariffs During Appeal; White House: Israel Has Accepted New U.S. Ceasefire Proposal. Aired 3-4p ET