Head of I.R.S. Is Ousted in Treasury's Power Struggle With Elon Musk  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.  —  President Trump has replaced the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service …

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard  —  An official on the administration's antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.  —  Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration …

Trump White House Lashes Out At Senator Who Visited Wrongly Deported Man In El Salvador  —  “GRANDSTANDER!!!” the president wrote on social media.  He later smeared the Maryland immigrant's character, as well.  —  President Donald Trump accused Sen. Chris Van Hollen of political grandstanding …

THE ORIGIN  —  1.  —  The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.  —  2.  —  Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans.  This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.  —  3.

Top Trump econ adviser says White House is studying ways to fire Powell  —  President Trump's top economic adviser told reporters Friday the White House is exploring how to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite the legal guardrails on his position.

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?  —  As an attorney I'm deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise awareness of the legal and constitutional crossroads we are rapidly approaching.

Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro's Absence to Push for Tariff Pause  —  Peter Navarro, an adviser to Trump in favor of wide-ranging tariffs, had been a fixture on the president's side after ‘Liberation Day’  —  They needed to get the president alone.  —  On April 9, financial markets were going haywire.

Trump administration may form task force to handle China tariff impact  —  Trump administration officials, anticipating supply chain strains due to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, have discussed forming a working group to deal with the problems with urgency if there's no breakthrough with Beijing, multiple sources told CBS News.

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants  —  DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.  —  Operatives from Elon Musk's so-called Department …

Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label  —  The immigrants are among more than 6,000 who were falsely added to a deaths database by DHS and the U.S. DOGE Service in a bid to pressure them to leave the United States.  —  Immigrants falsely labeled dead …

Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post  —  Other Defense Department officials were placed on leave earlier this week.  —  Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency …

Barbara Lee wins Oakland mayor's race  —  Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city.

Trump moves to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers  —  President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term.

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies  —  At a convention of the pronatalist movement, the relatively few women in attendance agreed: Motherhood needs a rebrand.  —  “We're going to fix the birthrate decline in this room,” said the dating app entrepreneur Amanda Bradford …

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights  —  The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions …

Why Trump's Embattled US Attorney in DC Is Talking About Russia  —  Ed Martin, the acting US attorney in Washington, who has earned some notoriety through attempts to use his office to attack political opponents of the Trump administration, recently turned his sights on Special Counsel Robert …

Trump's Justice Department Steps In for Him on E. Jean Carroll Appeal  —  JOINT MOTION  —  A federal jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million after ruling he defamed her denying her sexual abuse allegations.  —  The Justice Department is looking to intervene on behalf …

Attorney General Bondi's Claim that ‘Courts’ Have ‘Ruled’ that Abrego Garcia Is a Member of MS-13  —  I've previously posted on the absurd commentary of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Tuesday's Oval Office confab.  Now, let's turn to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status  —  The move is the latest from Elon Musk's unofficial cost-cutting agency to exert influence beyond traditional federal agencies.  —  Representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency met with leadership …

Video shows doctor with measles treating kids.  RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer  —  A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met …

For now, Pentagon and DHS won't recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to send …

You Cannot Appease Someone Who Intends to Destroy You  —  Last month, the law firm of Paul Weiss struck a deal with the White House, promising to donate $40 million in pro bono legal services to Trump-approved causes in order to avoid a cartoonishly unconstitutional executive order targeting the firm and its clients.

Why do Trump voters have no regrets?  Because the people they hate are getting hurt more  —  Even amid political chaos and rising prices, what matters most to his supporters is a macabre form of payback and vengeance  —  The stock market is plunging, prices are rising …

13 Trump Voters on the Highs and Lows of His Term So Far  —  “There's a lot of social media saying: Hey, are you Republicans or MAGA people regretting your vote?  And no, I'm not,” one participant told us in Opinion's latest conversation with voters in our America in Focus series.

Housing Secretary Lets Staff Go Home Early For Easter To Reflect On Jesus  —  “We go into this holy weekend with freedoms that the world has never known,” reads a department-wide email from Scott Turner's chief of staff.  —  WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner told …

What to know about the nationwide ‘50501’ protests planned against Trump  —  Organizers say the demonstrations are expected in cities across the U.S., focused on different issues and include ‘day of action’ community service elements.  —  A national action against the Trump administration's policies …

FSU Shooter Shows Radicalized White Men Are The Threats to College Campuses—Not Student Protestors  —  In this Teen Vogue Take, news & politics editor Lex McMenamin analyzes the April 17th Florida State University shooting and the politics of alleged gunman Phoenix Ikner, 20.

Judge orders halt to mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  —  About 1,500 employees were set to be jettisoned at the bureau.  —  A security officer works inside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building headquarters Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington.

Rep. Andy Biggs announces death of daughter after cancer battle  —  Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) announced Friday that his adult daughter Cosette died after battling cancer.  —  “Earlier this week, our daughter Cosette lost her battle with cancer.  We are devastated by her passing, but take comfort knowing she is at peace with the Lord.

‘Little Marco’ Rubio Splits With Trump With Brutal Slapdown on Ukraine  —  MAKING A STATE-MENT  —  The secretary of state has broken ranks and angered MAGA supporters.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio broke with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday …

A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country  —  A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son's birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges.

Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says  —  The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

DHS tells US citizen and immigration advocate to leave the country … Aldo Martinez received an email April 11 from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), telling him to leave the country or he would be removed.  It read: … “I was born in National City, California,” Martinez said.

Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias  —  An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.  —  A federal prosecutor has sent letters …