Imagine a six-inch-thick, high-voltage electricity transmission line running underwater on the bottom of the Columbia River, from just east of The Dalles, Ore., to Portland. The line carries mostly wind and solar power from eastern Washington and Oregon, Idaho and Montana, the windiest, sunniest places in the Pacific Northwest.

Yunseo Chung, 21, a permanent resident and junior at Columbia who moved to the United States from South Korea at age 7, is suing the Trump administration to stop the detention and deportation of her and other pro-Palestinian protesters.

Flood risk management, hydropower generation and salmon runs will suffer if the United States and Canada don’t renew a key provision of the treaty that guides how they manage the Columbia River.

For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.

Amid the turmoil over the river, the administration also has been threatening and imposing tariffs as high as 25% on some goods from Canada. Trump had to walk back some tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods to protect the U.S. auto industry, after acknowledging the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement he himself had signed in 2020.

Chung’s legal team argued the actions by the Trump administration is an attempt to “chill” her free speech. The student has called the US home since she was 7 years old and is a legal permanent

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A Columbia University student has sued President Trump and other administration officials after they attempted to revoke her permanent resident status and remove her.

A visa revocation and agents at her door upended life of Ranjani Srinivasan, spooking her into leaving her home and cat.