Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips From ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs  —  President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker shock while benefiting electronics giants including Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead  —  A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency's deaths database were ignored.  —  Just now  —  Two days after the Social Security …

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador  —  Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador  —  Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views …

Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules  —  Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his role in Columbia University campus protests against Israel  —  An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the U.S. due to his involvement …

Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.'s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State  —  LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS  —  In Kennedy's bonkers speech to FDA employees on Friday, he accused agency employees of being shills for the industries they regulate.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday …

Musk's Latest Fraud Finding Isn't What It Seems  —  His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits.  But that fake data exists for a reason.  —  Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling …

Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border  —  It marks an escalation in the president's use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda.  —  A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under …

Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump  —  Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.  —  Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action …

Pennsylvania Man Charged with Making Threats to Assault and Murder President Donald J. Trump, Other U.S. Officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents  —  For Immediate Release  —  Shawn Monper, 32, a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint …

Trump envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies  —  Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump …

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions  —  A DOGE engineer removed users' access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.  —  U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves …

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X  —  The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.  —  The Social Security Administration …

F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel's So-Called Enemies List  —  The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.  —  The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel's …

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project  —  For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.  —  Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel …

Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading  —  The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.

‘A new golden age’: how rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed  —  Trump's tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the right  —  While Donald Trump recently instituted and paused hefty tariffs, sparking a trade war and chaos …

Who's In and Who's Out at the Naval Academy's Library?  —  An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.  —  Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou's transformative best-selling …

Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History  —  When people ask me to take them to the most important historic site in Boston, I take them to the Museum of African American History (MAAH) on Beacon Hill.  The museum, located in Smith Court along Joy Street …

She's Young, Trump-Friendly, and Has a White House Press Pass … Natalie Winters at Butterworth's, a restaurant in Washington popular with President Trump's supporters and associates.Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times  —  The waitress was pouring tap water.  But Natalie Winters was quick to ask for bottled.

Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy  —  The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump's policies.  —  The traditional gathering of former Treasury secretaries to welcome a newly minted one into the fold …