Here’s a look at what made news on April 15, 2025.

• Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump and Elon Musk for their damaging changes to the social security administration in his first public address since leaving office.
• A federal judge has rebuked the Trump administration for failing to ensure the return of a man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The court is considering contempt proceedings.
• President Trump issued an executive order aimed at lowering drug prices and reducing costs for Medicare, which comes amidst his administration’s push to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical imports.
• Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has reportedly uncovered hundreds of millions in fraudulent unemployment claims, although federal investigators claim to have discovered the same fraud on a larger scale years earlier.
• Harvard University’s lawyers, Robert Hur and another unnamed attorney, both with experience in high-profile Washington investigations, are representing the university in a dispute with the Trump administration.
• Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland plans to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, a constituent deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, warning that the situation has led to a constitutional crisis in the United States.
• A group of students from Pentagon schools, represented by the ACLU, are suing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his book bans focused on race and gender topics.
• Harvard University has become the first to openly defy the Trump administration’s demand for sweeping changes at colleges accused of tolerating campus antisemitism.
• President Trump proposed to give money and an airplane ticket to any immigrant in the country illegally who chooses to self-deport, with plans to work towards getting “good” immigrants back in the U.S.
• The White House is reviewing trade deals drafted by over 15 countries, with some deals expected to be announced soon.
• The Trump administration is attempting to deport a student from Columbia University, claiming his activities could undermine the Middle East peace process.
• An unidentified homeless man in California won a $1 million lottery jackpot from a scratcher ticket he purchased from a local liquor store.
• A suspect accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida has been permitted by a judge to hire an expert to examine the rifle found at the scene.
• The Trump administration continues to resist repatriation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite court rulings that he was wrongly deported and should be returned to the U.S.
• The Trump administration has been criticized by a federal judge for failing to secure the return of an unjustly deported man to the U.S., as ordered by the Supreme Court.
• President Trump has directed his health department to work with Congress on a law allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, a move sought after by the pharmaceutical industry.
• Donald Trump is expected to name Gary Shapley, a former IRS criminal investigator and whistleblower in the Hunter Biden investigation, as acting commissioner of the IRS.