SCOOP: Trump crafts plan to cut spending without Congress after shutdown is averted  —  Trump and his allies believe the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional  —  The White House has already started mapping out how to make good on its promise to slash federal spending in preparation …

Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules  —  U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government's central human resources office.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens …

Stocks Tumble Into Correction as Investors Sour on Trump  —  The S&P 500 is now more than 10% below its last record high — a line in the sand for investors worried about a sell-off gathering steam.  —  The world's most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday …

Inside Elon Musk's ‘Digital Coup’  —  Musk's loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people's most sensitive data.  The next step: Unleash the AI.  —  As America's most decorated civil servants sipped cocktails …

Scoop: White House to pull CDC director nomination  —  The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Dave Weldon to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), per a source close to Senate health committee and another source familiar.

Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days  —  The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.

Musk Shares Claim That Stalin and Hitler Didn't Murder Millions: ‘Public Sector Employees Did’  —  Musk's sharing of the inflammatory social media post comes amid his regular posting of memes and jokes related to Nazis and the Holocaust - and after the billionaire appeared to make a fascist salute at a Trump inauguration rally

Meta wins halt to promotion of ‘Careless People’ tell-all book by former employee  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book “Careless People” by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains  —  Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3  —  A B.C. mom is pleading for help after her daughter was unexpectedly detained in the United States over an incomplete visa.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow birthright citizenship ban in some states  —  Lower court judges have blocked Trump's initiative nationwide, saying it violates the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.  —  just now  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday …

Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war  —  The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general's corps  —  The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul …

Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange's Guilty Plea  —  Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea  —  Representatives of President Trump's family …

Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency  —  Meeting between Musk and the National Security Agency's leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul  —  Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday, current and former U.S. officials said …

Oz may have underpaid Medicare, Social Security taxes, Democrats say  —  Oz and his advisers said that he would not amend his returns.  —  Former TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have “significantly underpaid” …

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say  —  Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, according to two U.S. officials..

Voters' Ratings On Economy And Trump Dip, Trade And Russia - Ukraine War Weigh On Trump's Numbers, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Majority Disapprove Of Trump's Handling Of Zelensky Meeting  — mail_outline  —  Seven weeks after President Donald Trump began his second term …

Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers Funded by Federal Aid  —  The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration's cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.  —  Johns Hopkins University, one of the country's leading centers …

A DOGE reality check in Treasury data  —  Mega-tariffs!  Mass government layoffs!  Slashed federal spending!  Those have been the headlines, but if you get your information from the Treasury Department's monthly accounting of its revenue and spending, things don't look nearly so dramatic — at least, for now.

Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona dies at 77  —  Grijalva spent half a century in public service and represented Arizona in Congress for more than two decades.  —  Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., died Thursday due to “complications of his cancer treatment,” his office announced in a statement.

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find  —  Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency.  But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency …

Americans worry Trump too closely aligned with Russia, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  More than half of Americans, including one in four Republicans, think President Donald Trump is “too closely aligned” with Russia, as he radically realigns U.S. foreign policy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work  —  In the weeks since I left office in January, I've been committing my time and attention to the kinds of things that inevitably get shorted when you serve in public office, no matter how much you try to do right by them.

Tesla warns Trump administration it is ‘exposed’ to retaliatory tariffs  —  Elon Musk's electric-car maker says levies could make it costlier to produce vehicles in the US  —  Elon Musk's electric-car maker Tesla has warned that President Donald Trump's trade war could make it a target …

Nearly 100 protesters arrested after sit-in at Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil  —  Some protesters held signs that read “Fight Nazis not students,” “Free Mahmoud free Palestine,” and “You can't deport a movement.”  —  Nearly 100 protesters were arrested Thursday following …

A Little Personal News  —  I wanted y'all to be the first people to know—late last year, I was contacted by an editor at Penguin Random House.  He had read a post I wrote on November 19, Giving Up Is Unforgivable.  He wanted to know if I would be interested in writing a book.  I said yes.

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NH's new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates  —  It took three trips, but Brooke Yonge was finally able to cast her ballot.  —  On her first trip to the Derry polls Tuesday morning, Yonge didn't bring proof of her U.S. citizenship …

Detained Protester Mahmoud Khalil Sues Columbia University  —  Mahmoud Khalil, who ICE arrested on Saturday, and a group of other students from Columbia are suing the university to stop the release of disciplinary records.  —  Mahmoud Khalil, the green card holding legal permanent resident arrested …