The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment. Opposing attorney Leecia Welch says the Justice Department has said it will ask a federal judge to terminate what is known as the Flores agreement at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. The move could strain President Joe Biden's already rocky relationship with immigration advocates as he confronts an unprecedented surge in border crossings, with arrests topping 2 million in each of the last two budget years.

The Supreme Court on Monday has extended its block, for now, on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. Opponents have called the law, known as Senate Bill 4, the most dramatic attempt by a state to police immigration since an Arizona law more than a decade ago, portions of which were struck down by the Supreme Court. The Texas Attorney General has said the state's law mirrored federal law and "was adopted to address the ongoing crisis at the southern border, which hurts Texans more than anyone else."

A federal judge appeared reluctant to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump after his lawyers argued for hours that the case trampled on the former president's rights. As Trump looked on in the courtroom Thursday, his attorneys pressed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to throw out the case. Trump's lawyers argued he was legally entitled to keep the sensitive records he is charged with illegally retaining after he left the White House. A prosecutor told Cannon that there are "all sorts of reasons" that Trump's argument is wrong. Cannon didn't immediately rule, but made it clear through her questions that she was skeptical of the defense effort.

After a 2 1/2 hour physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Maryland, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says the Joe Biden's doctor was "happy with how everything went" and will release a "robust, comprehensive" memo. At 81 years old, the oldest U.S. president's annual physical was closely watched. When asked about why the president did not complete a cognitive test, Jean-Pierre says Biden's doctor and neurologist "don't believe he needs one." After his last physical, performed in February 2023, doctors declared Biden "healthy, vigorous" and "fit" to handle his White House duties. But voters are approaching this year's election with misgivings about Biden's age.

A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants has started walking north from southern Mexico, a week after a larger group that set out on Christmas Eve largely dissolved. The migrants are mostly from Central and South America, and say they have grown tired of waiting in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border. The migrants carried a sign reading "Migrating is not a crime, it is a crime for a government to use repression against migrants." The group managed to walk past two highway control checkpoints Thursday as immigration agents and National Guard troopers stood by.