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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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'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 …

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 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” …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Weighs Sanctions Against Russia as Relationship With Putin Sours  —  President expresses frustration over new attacks in Ukraine and slow pace of talks  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is eyeing sanctions against Moscow this week as he grows frustrated by Russian President Vladimir …

Trump pardons Virginia sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges  —  Scott Jenkins, who was sheriff in Culpeper, was to report to jail on Tuesday.  —  Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins speaks during a gun rights rally organized by The Virginia Citizens Defense League …

A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date.  ICE was waiting.  —  The Bronx high school student from Venezuela was trying to do everything right.  —  Dylan, 20, fled his home country last year and turned himself in at the U.S. border in April 2024 through a Biden-era entry program.

Putin and Trump agree to prisoner exchange, Russia says  —  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists Tuesday that President Donald Trump wanted results and accused European leaders of sabotaging swap efforts.  —  President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin …

Trump threatens California's federal funding over a trans athlete  —  President Donald Trump has no events on his public schedule but has been active on social media Tuesday, including threatening federal funding for California over its handling of a transgender athlete.

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.

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 …

How much should politicians (and pundits) follow the polls?  —  This is the wrong question.  —  ∙ Paid … A debate is raging among Democratic strategists and left-leaning commentators about how the Democratic Party should position itself ideologically to maximize its probability of winning the next election.

Democrats are looking to make gains in the South next year.  It could be their last shot.  —  A new class of Democratic party chairs see repairing the party's relationship with the working class as key to its political comeback.  —  With Republicans holding competitive …

How to kill 346 people and get away with it  —  On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea about 13 minutes after taking off from an airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.  All 189 people on board died.  Less than five months later, on March 10, 2019 …

Enough with the doom and gloom.  American education isn't failing.  —  Students in the U.S. are learning at normal levels by international standards  —  America's public schools are failing their students and the country.  That's long been the argument of many Republican politicians …

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 …