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Miami — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted on Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U. S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import the “best and brightest” in a podcast taped Wednesday with venture capitalists and tech investors called the “All-In.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “What I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country.

A federal judge this week blocked provisions of a new Colorado law that would’ve limited interest rates on certain short-term loans made by out-of-state banks. U. S. District Judge Daniel D. Domenico granted a request by a trio of financial trade organizations to block the implementation of HB23-1229, which passed the legislature last year but was set to go into effect July 1.

Donald Trump has been bragging about his poll numbers on Truth Social for months now. He has been trying to capitalize on his May 30 conviction on 34 counts of business fraud, but as it happens, the idea of having a felon in the White House isn't the flex he thinks it is.

Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark complained that officials had not sent Steve Bannon to a minimum-security prison because "they want to see harm come to him." While speaking to Real America's Voice host Jack Posobiec on Wednesday, Clark claimed that "they want to send Steve Bannon even to Rikers Island." "Or they're going to send him to a place where he's going to be like in a communal lockup, you know, when he's 70 years old, you know, roughly," he said. Clark explained he was circulating a petition to have Congress nullify all convictions related to Jan.

(Above: Amelia Bond left, and Lisa and Leon Gorman. Leon died in 2015.) Suspicious deaths in an idyllic seaside community and detective work that points to poison sound like themes from a classic murder mystery. But the victims in this Maine whodunit were trees that stood in the way of a wealthy family's oceanfront view, allegedly felled by well-heeled killers who, while ostracized and publicly shamed, remain free.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry knew the score when he signed into law a requirement that every classroom in his state—from kindergarten classrooms to college chemistry labs—must post a copy of the Ten Commandments.