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 Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard  —  A letter to federal agencies will instruct them to end contracts, totaling about $100 million.  It is meant to sever the government's remaining ties with Harvard.  —  The Trump administration is set to cancel …

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.

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.

Another Indefensible Trump Pardon  —  The president's use of the power, which he deployed again over the weekend, is legal.  It's also a grave threat to the rule of law.  —  Not even Donald Trump's own White House staff can keep track of what his tariff policies are.

Playbook: Trump's weird weekend  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Tuesday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard, stuffed full of marionberry cobbler after a weekend on the magnificent Oregon coast.  —  SO HOW WAS YOUR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND?  Not as weird as Donald Trump's, I'll wager.

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 …

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 …

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” …

Supreme Court rejects student's challenge to ‘two genders’ T-shirt ban  —  A middle school student in Massachusetts was told he could not wear the T-shirt based on the school's dress code, which forbids hate speech.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear …

MAGA Erupts Over ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent's Viral Warnings About Trump  —  SOMETHING HE SAID?  —  Scott Pelley decried how journalism and freedom of speech are now “under attack” in the U.S.  —  The MAGA faithful lashed out at Scott Pelley after the veteran CBS reporter delivered …

Harvard's Laurence Tribe Delivers Unflinching Message To Foreign Students In Trump Crosshairs  —  The constitutional law scholar slammed the president's attacks as “obviously unhinged” and explained why students should not be afraid.  —  Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe …

Trump Says Retailers Should ‘Eat the Tariffs.’ Good Luck With That.  —  Maybe I've misunderstood how retail businesses are supposed to operate, but I was always led to believe that the cost of goods should not exceed actual revenues.  —  Yet that fundamental principle is essentially …

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 …

Judge pleads with Trump administration for reason over rhetoric in deportation case  —  A Biden appointee issued a withering order Monday night rejecting the Trump administration's demand that he reconsider or delay a ruling granting deportees bound for South Sudan certain protections.

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.

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 …

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 …

At Veterans Affairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks morale  —  The government's second-largest agency, serving some of America's most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under Trump administration cutbacks.  —  Morale is plummeting inside the Department of Veterans Affairs …

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.

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 …