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 Says He Didn't ‘Chicken Out’ on Tariffs  —  President Trump rejected claims that he is backing down on tariffs in Oval Office comments Wednesday, when asked about a new saying from Wall Street analysts that “Trump always chickens out” after imposing high duties.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World's Most Fragile Locations  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

Missouri Supreme Court leaves abortion ban in place  —  Abortion is now banned in Missouri again after the state's highest court overturned two lower court rulings blocking its abortion ban.  —  The Missouri Supreme Court ruled a district judge used the wrong standard in two rulings …

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.

America Turns Its Back on the World  —  Blocking foreign students is an act of self-destruction — and self-betrayal  —  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 …

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 …

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 …

DOGE Days  —  In August 2014, President Obama and Congress created the United States Digital Service (USDS).  —  In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to rename and reorganize it as the United States DOGE Service.  —  In consultation with USDS, each Agency Head shall establish within …

Russia proposes to Ukraine date and venue for peace talks, expects a reply  —  Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia's delegation at peace talks on Ukraine, said on Wednesday he had sent proposals to Ukraine with a date and venue to exchange memorandums, or conditions, to stop the fighting.

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 …

Bowser to replace D.C. Streetcar with ‘next generation streetcar.’ It's a bus.  —  The system, proposed in the early 2000s, never got beyond one line that opened in 2016.  —  After less than a decade of operation, the D.C. Streetcar is set to be phased out and replaced by an electric bus …

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 …

Judge Orders Release of HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova From ICE Custody  —  A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a Wednesday bail hearing in Vermont.

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.

Retiring Capitol Police chief says Trump's Jan. 6 pardons were “slap in the face”  —  U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, who is retiring Friday, tells CBS News' Scott MacFarlane that the day President Trump issued January 6 pardons was one of his worst days on the job and a …

GOP rejects ‘millionaire tax’ pitch, advancing breaks for rich Americans  —  Legislation moving through Congress includes breaks for the upper and middle classes as the House rebuffs President Donald Trump's suggestions.  —  Grover Norquist had about 15 minutes before boarding his flight to Poland this month when his phone rang.