Live updates: Trump to sign executive order shuttering the Education Department

What to Know

• President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sets in motion the dismantling and eventual shuttering of the Education Department. Officially closing the department would require an act of Congress.
• The Justice Department had until noon ET to respond to a federal judge’s questions about deportation flights last weekend that the Trump administration ordered under a rarely used 18th century wartime law. Trump and his allies have called for impeaching the judge over his questioning of the deportations.
• The Trump administration has negotiated the release of airline mechanic George Glezmann, an American hostage held for more than two years by the Taliban.