A Dishonorable Strike  —  Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Roundup—brief daily summaries of news developments and commentary related to executive power.  —  One can imagine stretching Article II of the Constitution to authorize the U.S. drug boat campaign.

Northwestern strikes deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding  —  This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.  Last updated on Nov. 28 at 8:25 p.m.  —  Northwestern reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore …

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case  —  Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers.  He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals  —  The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.  —  Just now  —  The United States on Friday halted all decisions relating …

F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines  —  The agency's top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots.  But public health experts want to examine the data.  —  The director of the Food …

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's Watch  —  Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible.  President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.

Inside Trump's Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible … As President Trump took a stroll on the White House roof in August, generating headlines and questions about what he was up to, the man walking beside him was little noticed.  —  Wearing his signature bow tie …

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.  —  Trump, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers …

America stares down erasure of Black history and progress … - $3.4 billion in grants for HBCUs, public health research and Black entrepreneurs have been cut or frozen, according to the Blackout Report, from the nonprofit Onyx Impact.  — 6,769 federal datasets have been deleted …

D.C. Ambush Exposes Risks for National Guard on Capital's Crime Patrols  —  A fatal attack on a routine patrol has intensified questions over the administration's open-ended military deployments in American cities  —  Soon after a gunman shot two National Guard members in downtown Washington …

Two tankers of Russia's shadow fleet hit by Ukraine's Security Service maritime drones - Ukrainska Pravda source  —  The blowing up of two tankers in Russia's shadow fleet has been carried out as a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).  —  Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in the SSU

Russia Bombards Ukraine for Nearly 10 Hours in a Deadly Assault  —  The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.  —  Russia unleashed a nearly 10-hour air assault across Ukraine on Saturday …

As Trump's popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump's mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump's people are trying to grab all they can, while they can.  —  A source has told The Telegraph that Trump …

Pentagon's right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's briefing at the Pentagon next week will welcome a new crop of media that no longer includes the mainstream press.  —  Just now  —  The Defense Department is set to play host to right-wing media …

The campaign to make Richard Nixon great again  —  The late president, who resigned in disgrace in 1974, actually wasn't a crook, pundits on the right argue.  —  During a segment on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher” in August, activist Christopher Rufo astonished the studio audience …

Another Talk With Martin Wolf  —  Sharing anxieties and a bit of hope  —  Too disrupted to set up an interview this week.  But I did do another talk with Martin Wolf of the FT. Here's the video; transcript below  —  TRANSCRIPT  —  Wolf Well, Paul.  Hello.  How are you?  —  Krugman I'm good.

Trump Says He Is Canceling All Biden Executive Orders Signed With Autopen  —  The president has antagonized his predecessor over using proxy to sign documents  —  President Trump said Friday he was revoking all executive orders former President Joe Biden signed with an autopen …