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 …

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 …

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.

GOP photos at El Salvador prison evoke Abu Ghraib—and worse  —  Members of Congress visited CECOT for some torture tourism—and to prove loyalty to Trump. … A row of Latino men with shaved heads and stoic expressions wearing identical white boxer shorts stand behind thick metal bars.

Russia Lifts Ban on Taliban Amid Deepening Ties With the Group  —  Russia's Supreme Court lifted a ban on the Taliban, the latest step in growing relations between Moscow and the Islamist group in Afghanistan.  —  “The decision comes into legal force immediately,” the court said on Thursday …

Scoop: Democrats seek probe of DOGE's Social Security meddling  —  House Democrats are pressing the Social Security Administration's inspector general to open a probe into DOGE's tinkering with the agency, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Social Security is an extremely sensitive issue …

Can Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts?  It's Possible, but Not That Simple.  —  Harvard's endowment is not a $53.2 billion pile of cash.  But as the University sits on the precipice of historic financial losses, it has increasingly faced calls to draw from endowment funds to make up the difference.

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 …

The Most Damning Aspect of the Supreme Court's Latest Trump Dodge  —  The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Maryland father wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison—has captivated the nation and spurred Democratic lawmakers into action, with Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flying to El Salvador on Wednesday to try to get him freed.

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 …

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 …

Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies  —  The Trump administration is formulating plans to cut roughly a third of the federal health budget, eliminate dozens of programs and vastly whittle down health agencies, according to an internal document reviewed by CNN.

Biden's FBI Ordered TN Highway Patrol to Release ‘Maryland Man’ Recently Deported to El Salvador After He Was Detained in 2022 Traffic Stop on Suspicion of Human Trafficking  —  The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha …

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 …

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 …

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately  —  Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.  —  A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately.

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 …

‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’  —  Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children.  Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.  —  After Elon Musk made a public show of remedying an apparent error in DOGE's massive cuts to foreign aid …

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White guy DEI  —  Affirmative action, Trumper style. … 📚 🧑‍🏫 📚  —  Republicans have spent decades howling about how affirmative action led to unqualified minorities taking jobs away from well-qualified straight white men.

What Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Planning?  —  You don't need a degree in math (or politics) to know what record-breaking fundraising, a national tour and positive polling add up to.  —  FOURTH TIME  —  Fred Piccolo, 47, briefly worked as the Florida governor's communications director.

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 …