Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.

Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors  —  Move is latest in effort to remake higher education after the president and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation process  —  President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to shake …

Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law.

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish  —  A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.  —  The personal cellphones of dozens of current and former Barnard College employees pinged Monday evening …

Trump Offers Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin  —  The offer, which caused President Trump's memecoin to surge in price, was his family's latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.  —  The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World …

Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer  —  The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.

Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match  —  Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated shouting match in earshot of President Trump and other officials in the White House last week during a dispute about the IRS, two witnesses and three sources briefed on the matter tell Axios.

Trump's Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia  —  Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he would make peace between Ukraine and Russia in a day.  Three months later, he's behind schedule, and his plan now is to end the fighting quickly by selling out Ukraine and its people to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump approval falls, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 100 days, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: April 19-22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll  —  Findings from the latest Economist/YouGov poll about:  — How much Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen in the past month  — Whether Americans …

Abrego Garcia's Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up  —  The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.

Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations  —  The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to deport immigrants to Rwanda who can't be sent back to their country of origin due to fears of prosecution.  —  The Handbasket newsletter reported Tuesday that a State Department cable sent …

A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters.  So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?  —  A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.”  But you wouldn't know that from the school's statements.  —  WHEN A BOMB threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest …

STAT+: New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias  —  Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias.  Now, one of the world's leading medical journals, has received a similar inquiry as well.

Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame  —  Democrats have long intensely debated whether to appear on Fox News.  Going on Fox risks providing a sheen of legitimacy to a propaganda outlet.  But not going on risks leaving Republican news consumers …

Trump's Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows  —  President Trump's approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office.  —  President Trump's job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office …

Fearing Trump's Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds  —  Campus newspapers confront ethics debates as international students try to remove their names and opinions from past articles  —  The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America's most prominent universities …

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records  —  The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.

The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s  —  The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and culture.

Majorities disapprove of some key Trump administration actions  —  Post Infographics  — More disapprove than approve of the administration's government cuts, but views largely split along partisan lines  — Among Republicans, support for ending DEI policies in federal government varies across demographic groups

Jan Schakowsky planning May 5 retirement announcement  —  The veteran House Democrat is facing a longshot primary challenge.  —  Rep. Jan Schakowsky is planning to announce next month she won't seek reelection after 14 terms in the House and has started informing allies of her retirement decision …

Let's talk about a civic uprising  —  Mainstream media coverage of the widespread anti-Trump protests on April 19 was much more extensive than it was after the April 5 protests — despite smaller crowds.  —  Watch MSBNC's Rachel Maddow wrap up the coverage and the protests on her show Monday night - it's must-see TV.

Switching from ICE to DoD Custody: An Alarming Violation of Court Order on Deportations to El Salvador  —  Earlier today, I discussed one of the “sleeper” immigration cases that had largely flown below the radar: D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

A dozen states sue to stop Trump's tariffs  —  Democratic attorneys general from 12 states filed a joint lawsuit arguing that the president doesn't have the constitutional authority to execute his sweeping tariff agenda.  —  Twelve states filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality …

Yale Derecognizes Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter After Group Blocks Jewish Students' Access to Parts of Campus  —  Yale University stripped the school's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, Yalies4Palestine, of its status as a recognized student group on Wednesday after it established a short-lived encampment.