Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting  —  It's the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.  —  The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study …

White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims  —  Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides  —  The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used …

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner  —  Paul Walczak's pardon application cited his mother's support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.  —  As Paul Walczak awaited sentencing early this year …

NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House  —  NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.

Hegseth's Safe Space  —  As backlash brewed over new restrictions on press access, the Pentagon made a second, quieter move—one that sent another troubling signal about how far it's willing to go to create a safe space for Pete Hegseth.  —  On Friday afternoon, just before the holiday weekend …

There's a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk's Broken Promises  —  The entrepreneur's habit of overpromising on deadlines may be frustrating for investors—but for those looking to see whether a Musk pledge will come good, there's a key phrase to watch out for.

Tesla's Europe sales plunge 49% on brand damage, rising competition … European sales of Tesla vehicles plunged in April, as the U.S. electric car maker continues to face reputational damage regionally and rising competition.  —  Tesla sold 7,261 cars in Europe in April, down 49% year on year …

The Trump White House and The Great Quieting  —  I want to start this week with a comment about the meta-news environment.  It's a point that may not surprise you.  But it shapes everything we're seeing today and does so with an uncanny silence.  Quite simply, lots and lots of things …

Trump's 5-step push to keep GOP control of the House in '26  —  President Trump's team has launched an early and aggressive behind-the-scenes effort to maintain the GOP's tenuous grip on the House in 2026 — and avoid his third impeachment.  —  Why it matters: Trump allies believe …

US, Argentina launching new ‘alternative’ to WHO  —  The top health authorities of the U.S. and Argentina are launching what they call an “alternative international health system” separate from the World Health Organization (WHO).  —  On the first day of his second term …

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows  —  Data from a license plate-scanning tool that is primarily marketed as a surveillance solution for small towns to combat crimes like car jackings or finding missing people is being used by ICE, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

The CDC is no longer recommending Covid vaccines for healthy children, pregnant women  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the decision without waiting for an agency advisory panel to vote.  —  The CDC is no longer recommending that “healthy” children and pregnant women …

Trump Court Pick Once Called For Bringing Back Literacy Tests In Elections  —  Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Josh Divine argued in a 2010 college opinion piece.  —  WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump's nominees …

A Letter to Europe  —  On Friday Donald Trump, claiming that he was unhappy with European negotiating tactics, announced his intention to impose 50 percent tariffs on goods imported from the European Union.  A rate that high would virtually shut down trans-Atlantic trade.

The ugly truth behind ICE agents' masks  —  Victoria Brownworth was one of those forces of nature you tend to find here in Philadelphia.  She was a pioneering LGBTQ journalist whose work in recent years appeared in the Philadelphia Gay News, the Inquirer Opinion section (here and here), and too many other outlets to count.

Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic Party  —  Obama White House and campaign alumni have been setting the course of the Democratic Party for years.  After 2024, more Democrats want to see that change.  —  After Kamala Harris entered the presidential race last year …

GOP declares war on GAO  —  Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse.  —  The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation's chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century.

Surely Trump's Wacko West Point Commencement Speech Proves He's Mentally Unfit to Serve  —  Trophy wives.  Short golfers.  This guy is really our president?  —  Oh, The New York Times, you are a normalizing machine, you are, titling your article “Trump Administration Highlights …

Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns  —  Ray Dalio writes in book president wants to ‘dictate’ Maga policies and calls his skirting of democratic norms more ‘aggressive’ than Andrew Jackson and FDR  —  Donald Trump wants to “dictate” …

The New Dark Age … The warlords who sacked rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance.  It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions.  The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking …

MAHA in Disarray: Leading Anti-Vaxxer Parts Ways with RFK  —  New MAHA Turmoil  —  There could be more trouble afoot in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.  —  The primary fault line in MAHA land runs between the anti-vaccine veterans and the more optics-focused influencers eager …

GOP-led committee advances voter suppression bill related to Washington, D.C., elections  —  Republicans, who've spread conspiracy theories about noncitizen voters swaying federal elections, are using their powers to target legal voters.  —  Republicans in the House Oversight Committee advanced …

A Vermont Start-Up Was Close to Becoming Profitable.  Then the Tariffs Hit.  —  A small Vermont business that sells water bottles used by cyclists and others is struggling to adapt to President Trump's tariffs even after they were temporarily lowered.  —  When President Trump temporarily reduced tariffs …

Ed Martin personally reviewed pardon application for Jan. 6 ringleader Stewart Rhodes  —  During his first full week in office, Trump's pardon attorney has reviewed applications for Jan. 6 rioters and a former state senator prosecuted by Jack Smith's onetime unit.

There are two Gen Zs  —  We can confidently say that Gen Z got a lot more Republican over the last couple of years, thanks to a swarm of new, first-time young voters — specifically men of all races.  —  Pre-election polling captured this phenomenon, voter registration trends tracked it …

Another Indefensible Trump Pardon  —  Not even Donald Trump's own White House staff can keep track of what his tariff policies are.  After weeks of White House messaging that a 10 percent global tariff would remain the floor for all countries going forward, Trump's economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC …

Trump's border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm  —  Newly released disclosure shows Tom Homan previously consulted for the GEO Group, a key contractor in the administration's mass deportation agenda.  —  A leader of the Trump administration's effort to detain …