IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks …

Trump says Powell's “termination can't come fast enough”  —  President Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday with the strongest suggestion yet of intentions to try to fire the nation's most powerful economic policymaker.  —  Why it matters: Trump's attack comes …

Van Hollen speaks to press after meeting with El Salvador VP about return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  Van Hollen speaks to press from El Salvador after meeting with El Salvador Vice President Félix Ulloa about return of wrongly deported Marylander Kilmar Abre...

Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Deportation Flights  —  The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.  —  A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday …

DHS threatens to revoke Harvard's eligibility to host international students unless it turns over disciplinary records  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is threatening to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't turn over records …

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet  —  Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.  —  The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries …

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump's proposed health cuts  —  HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one third of its discretionary budget.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs …

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack  —  After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.  —  After a man tried …

Trump's pick to be DC's top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate  —  Ed Martin, the Trump administration's nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he's made in the past few years …

We're About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The Trump administration is working hard to convince the public that its mass-deportation campaign is fully under way.

Federal judge calls Trump's order targeting prominent law firm a ‘shocking abuse of power’  —  Trump, three months into his term, has moved swiftly to use the powers of the presidency in unprecedented ways to punish, weaken and silence his enemies, experts say.

Trump Is Sending People To The Camps  —  This is your TPM evening briefing.  —  Extraordinary times call for extraordinary and strong language.  President Trump's plan to have migrants — and potentially U.S. citizens — rounded up, flown to El Salvador, and confined there in a maximum security facility …

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards  —  Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.  —  Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month …

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CDC autism report disputes RFK Jr's claims about why the condition is on the rise  —  Experts attribute increase in case numbers to improved diagnostics as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr insists ‘epidemic’ underway  —  The number of U.S. children diagnosed with autism continues to rise …

Trump administration issues order to stop construction on New York offshore wind project  —  The Trump administration issued an order Wednesday to stop construction on a major offshore wind project to power more than 500,000 New York homes, the latest in a series of moves targeting the industry.

Trump Waved Off Israeli Strike After Divisions Emerged in His Administration  —  Israel developed plans for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities that would have required U.S. assistance.  But some administration officials had doubts.  —  Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites …

Top Pentagon official at center of Jackie Robinson controversy to resign  —  John Ullyot's departure comes during a week of upheaval at the Defense Department.  —  John Ullyot, the former top Pentagon spokesperson who found himself at the center of several controversies in the first months …

Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market … The company's share of EV sales in the state fell to 43.9% in the first quarter, from 55.5% a year ago, the California New Car Dealers Association said Wednesday.  Whereas Tesla registrations dropped 15%, sales of all other EVs increased 35% early this year.

Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program  —  The Texas House approved the plan, part of a push by President Trump's allies to offer up to $10,000 for private school, home-school or virtual learning.  —  The Texas House of Representatives voted early Thursday morning …

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data  —  The ad hoc Department of Government Efficiency team is assigning two staffers to work at the independent agency where a whistleblower alleged Tuesday DOGE may have already removed sensitive labor data from its systems.

A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza.  The U.S. Detained Him.  —  Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont.  He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.  —  As Columbia University's student protest …