Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying  —  You should know that the question to Stephen Miller about habeas corpus was a set up.  —  The male “journalist” who asked it after Miller called on him for the first question at a staged press event posed it in terms of …

Live Updates: Trump Announces Truce Between India and Pakistan  —  Officials in both countries acknowledged a halt after several days of their most expansive fighting in decades.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire …

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures  —  An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration's overhaul of the federal government.  —  A federal judge on Friday called for a two-week pause …

Trump Promised to End Two Wars Quickly.  In Private, He Admits He's Frustrated.  —  The president has told donors resolving the conflicts has been more difficult than he thought  —  When President Trump spoke to a room of top donors at his Florida club last week, he described ending Russia's war …

Newark's Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center  —  Ras J. Baraka and city officials have said that the lockup is operating without a valid certificate of occupancy.  Three members of Congress from New Jersey were with Mr. Baraka when he was arrested.

Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports.  Officials haven't seen that since the pandemic  —  On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.

There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill  —  Republicans have created impossible restraints on their tax-and-budget package.  —  You might have heard the riddle about the man who must row a fox, a chicken and a sack of corn across a river one at a time.

Trump Media Warns Of ‘Material Weakness’ In Financial Controls  —  Topline  —  Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, disclosed “material weaknesses” in its financial reporting controls—acknowledging the risk of errors in its financial statements …

America's Richest Foundations Team Up Against Feared Trump Assault  —  Grantmakers are discussing legal and other strategies to help them avoid the recent fates of law firms and universities  —  Some of America's wealthiest and most powerful private foundations are informally banding together …

Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters  —  Rumeysa Ozturk has been in Louisiana for over six weeks following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school's response to Israel's war in Gaza  —  Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk …

Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters … The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title.  Naturally, this caught his attention.

Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues  —  The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21

Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to become U.S. attorney in Washington D.C., the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.  A Missouri political operative with no experience as a prosecutor, Martin defended …

Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms  —  Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP's majorities in Congress.  —  Early in Donald Trump's first term, the president received what he now views as bad advice: Don't worry about the midterms, some advisers whispered back then.

AOC Warns Republicans Are ‘Robbing People’ to Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts  —  The congresswoman tells Rolling Stone Trump and Republicans are gutting “what is left of the health care and social safety net in the United States”  —  As Republicans and Democrats prepare to face off …

Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts  —  The order, which would use state and local officers, among others, would represent an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement.  But it is unclear how it would be paid for.  —  President Trump ordered the Department …

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won't run for U.S. Senate  —  Republicans, who are wary of Greene, have been looking for an alternative candidate after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he wouldn't enter the Senate race.  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said definitively on Friday …

Trove of documents unsealed in NYC mayor's criminal case offers a glimpse of thwarted investigation  —  Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days before Justice Department leaders ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case …

How an American Cardinal Beat the Odds to Become Pope  —  U.S.-born Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave  —  VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo's monumental fresco of the Last Judgement …

New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake … Speaking at a Black church in Brooklyn last September, Andrew Cuomo tested the message that would quickly become the centerpiece of his campaign to be mayor of the country's largest city.  “We're on the decline,” the former New York governor said.