Trump's Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam  —  President Donald Trump has mostly justified his lawless attempt to restrict international students from attending Harvard University by pretending it's designed to root out the antisemites, woke radicals …

Trump's not happy about Wall Street's name for tariff flip-flops  —  He bristles at the acronym TACO, which stands for ‘Trump always chickens out.’  —  Wall Street has a new shorthand about President Donald Trump — and he's not happy about it.  —  Traders have reportedly come up with the acronym TACO …

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests  —  In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump.  Then Carol Was Detained.  —  For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.

Judge Says Government Should Release Russian Scientist  —  The judge ordered ICE to release Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who also faces criminal charges.  —  A federal judge on Wednesday said she would grant bail to Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed …

Trump Says He Will Nominate His Former Defense Lawyer to Appeals Court  —  Emil Bove, a former federal prosecutor, has been working as the president's enforcer at the Justice Department  —  President Trump on Wednesday said he would nominate Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official …

White House plans — at last — to send some DOGE cuts to Hill  —  House Republicans are expecting a modest package next week amid an online pressure campaign.  —  The White House plans to send a small package of spending cuts to Congress next week, senior GOP officials told several House Republicans Wednesday.

Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.'s ‘whipping boy’  —  Musk made his comments at an inflection point for SpaceX amid a string of failures of its Starship spacecraft in recent test flights.  —  STARBASE, Tex. — Elon Musk, returning to SpaceX on Tuesday for a test flight …

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr …

RFK Jr.'s War on Vaccines Is Here  —  Always another thing with these guys: … The administration may already be abusing the customs process to block entry to the country for conduct as innocuous as criticism of the president.  But we're sure this power won't be one they'll abuse.  Happy Wednesday.

Why Musk is so important  —  WHY MUSK IS SO IMPORTANT.  Elon Musk's giant Starship spacecraft went out of control, tumbled, and broke apart several minutes into a test flight Tuesday night.  It was the latest in a series of unsuccessful-but-still-instructive tests of Musk's hugely ambitious rocket program …

Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at possible pardons for men convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer  —  Whitmer, who met with Trump multiple times this year, once placed some of the blame for the plot on Trump's rhetoric.  —  President Donald Trump said he would look …

Turnout didn't cost Kamala Harris the election  —  Two quick announcements.  The World Series of Poker began yesterday and continues through mid-July; I'll be there beginning the week of June 9.  Although I'm not going to send out a separate email about it, I've revised and improved the guide to the WSOP that I wrote last year.

Trump Has Commuted Larry Hoover's Sentence  —  The president, on a pardon spree, shortened the infamous former gang leader's sentence after years of advocates pressing for his release.  — Copy  —  President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former gang leader …

Part One: DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Reveals Jill Biden's Chief of Staff Ran the Biden White House  —  Key Quotes - David Hogg, Vice Chair, Democratic National Committee  — “Jill Biden's Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power.”  — “The bigger issue was the inner circle that was around Biden.”

Immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to El Salvador, potentially cutting off their return  —  An immigration judge in San Diego dismissed the asylum claim of a gay makeup artist from Venezuela — one of at least 14 such dismissals to take place in recent weeks.

Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era  —  In a show that recently opened at the LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village, a group of actors led by a young, ambitious, charmingly naïve director are almost finished rehearsing Chekhov's “The Seagull” …

The Trump Presidency's World-Historical Heist … During his first presidency, Donald Trump collected millions of dollars of other people's money.  He charged the taxpayer nearly $2 million to protect him during the hundreds of times he visited his own properties.

Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her  —  According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

Republican Crumbles When Pressed About Tax Bill at Heated Town Hall  —  Rep. Mike Flood admitted to angry constituents that he hadn't read Trump's “big, beautiful” reconciliation package before voting for it  —  Republican Rep. Mike Flood appeared before his constituents in Nebraska on Tuesday …

Grading for Equity coming to San Francisco high schools this fall  —  District materials highlight a decrease in A grades for ‘more privileged’ students.  —  Without seeking approval of the San Francisco Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools Maria Su plans to unveil a new Grading …

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics  —  The decision will be seen as a significant blow to pandemic preparedness  —  The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop …

Tate brothers face rape and trafficking charges in the UK  —  Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged in Britain with rape and other crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday.  The charges were authorized in January last year and news media at the time reported on arrest warrants issued …

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases  —  Former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins claimed he was being targeted because of his support for Donald Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling …

Trump administration axes Biden-era barrier for crypto in 401(k) plans … The Trump administration on Wednesday relaxed barriers in 401(k) plans to buying cryptocurrency and related digital assets like NFTs and meme coins.  —  The Labor Department rescinded guidance put in place …

Vietnam vets' annual ceremony relocated from D.C. due to Army parade  —  For more than three decades, it has been held by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for those who served in the war and later died.  Not this year.  —  Janet Zamora never had the chance to visit D.C. with her husband.

Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath  —  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:  — AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs …

America Turns Its Back on the World  —  My wife and I are co-authors of a widely used textbook on the principles of economics, which is revised on a three-year cycle.  When a new edition comes out, I normally visit a number of schools that might adopt it, usually giving a big public talk …