Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From Fed  —  Although Jerome H. Powell's term as Fed chair officially ends on May 15, he can stay on as a governor until 2028 and said he would not leave until a criminal investigation was over.  —  President Trump on Wednesday vowed …

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran  —  The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.  —  Summary  —  The Pentagon is sending thousands …

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology  —  The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV's statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport … Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case.  She's been a court interpreter for over 20 years …

Scoop: Dems file 5 impeachment articles against Hegseth  —  House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing. … - Democrats previously pushed …

Trump Spirals Into Fury at Bad Iran News as Polls Hit Shocking New Low  —  Donald Trump is now raging at a staunch ally, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.  After she sided with the pope's criticism of the Iran war, which had infuriated Trump, he unloaded again, ripping her as “unacceptable” …

How Eric Swalwell rose to the top of Democratic politics as rumors followed him  —  Allies like Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Ruben Gallego say they knew nothing about the misconduct allegations, with Gallego saying the congressman led a “double life.”  —  Summary

New CBS Boss to Host Fancy Dinner ‘Honoring’ Trump  —  TAKES THE CAKE  —  David Ellison's friendly ties with the president have horrified staffers.  —  Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is hosting an intimate event to honor Donald Trump's White House, along with correspondents from the now-MAGA-friendly CBS News.

MAGA Is Starting to Look Beyond Trump  —  A seemingly endless torrent of criticism directed toward Trump from former MAGA allies suggests the president is losing support from his base.  —  For months now, it seems that every day brings with it a new faction of MAGAworld getting angry …

There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's leadership on Sunday, April 12.  His party's loss of control of the government to a supermajority of its opponents undermined the belief that right-wing authoritarianism …

It's Tax Day.  Ahead of the deadline, 53 million filers used new Trump tax exemptions, Treasury says  —  It's Tax Day on Wednesday, the deadline for most Americans to file taxes, and the Trump administration says millions of people have already used new breaks such as no tax on tips and overtime …

Autocracy = Corruption  —  What the U.S. resistance can learn from Hungary  —  There will be many post-mortems on the demise of the Orbán regime.  The stunning victory of Hungary's opposition was delivered by an electoral surge so large that it swamped the anti-democratic breakwaters …

Why House Republicans are protecting Cory Mills … But key leaders and several rank-and-file members from both parties signaled this week they will wait for the conclusion of an active House Ethics Committee investigation into Mills before moving to punish him.

The Presidential Records Act is Constitutional  —  On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's constitutional powers and aggrandizes …

Wounded Trump, 79, Scrambles to Downplay Stinging Defeat  —  🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️  —  The president insisted he wasn't actively campaigning for his ally.  —  Donald Trump awkwardly brushed off his ally Viktor Orban's crushing defeat …

Trump makes last-minute plea for GOP to ‘stick together’ on key surveillance powers vote  —  President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure for Republicans to “unify” behind a clean, 18-month extension of a key spy power — making a last minute plea to GOP holdouts refusing to bend without certain amendments.

Let's Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter  —  Bernie Sanders is trying to end the shipment of US bulldozers to Israel—like the one that crushed my daughter, Rachel Corrie, to death 13 years ago.  —  Pocket  —  Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza …

Trump's Go-To Justification for Contentious Decisions: National Security  —  The administration has invoked national security in a variety of matters, including the White House ballroom and offshore wind farms, drawing rebukes from some judges.  —  President Trump offered a surprising justification …

EXCLUSIVE POLL: Michigan's Dem Senate Race Is Wide Open, AIPAC Is Toxic, Hasan Piker Is Not  —  🚨 HUGE NEWS!  Our podcast, 'We're Not Kidding' is nominated for a Webby's People's Voice Award, and we need your help to win!  Vote for us before Thursday, April 16.  —  Vote here!  —  Good morning!

Jared Kushner's Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration  —  Is the president's son-in-law carrying out the public's business or pursuing his own private interests?  —  In 2021, shortly after he left his role as a senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner let it be known that he had loved …

Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka seeks top counterterrorism job  —  The maneuvering comes a month after Joe Kent, the National Counterterrorism Center's previous director, resigned in protest over the Iran war.  —  Summary  —  Sebastian Gorka, a national security aide to President Donald Trump …

Elise Stefanik's endgame  —  Presented by With additional help from Gelila Negesse  —  GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING.  This is Nick Reisman in Albany.  No budget deal is on the horizon at the statehouse.  But there is plenty to discuss with the Empire State's raucous House races …

Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys  —  The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms …

Ship ‘Spoofing’ in Strait of Hormuz May Compound Confusion  —  A new pattern of deceptive activity by some vessels around the critical waterway suggests the new American blockade is changing how some ships linked to Iran are behaving.  —  Maritime intelligence experts are starting to see a new pattern of …

Conservative Judges' Early Hiring Fuels Two-Track Clerkship System at Harvard Law  —  Federal judges — particularly those aligned with the conservative legal movement — are increasingly recruiting Harvard Law School students during their first year, accelerating a clerkship hiring process …

Rick Jackson cannonballed into the governor race.  It's having ripple effects across Georgia. … HOMER, Georgia — The last few players of the day were finishing their rounds at the Chimney Oaks Golf Club when a steady wind picked up by the practice putting green.  Pin flags bent to a near snap.

A cautionary tale about tax cuts  —  Americans are getting crankier about paying taxes.  —  Most people don't enjoy paying Uncle Sam, but for much of the 2000s and 2010s, a sizable percentage of Americans thought that the amount of federal taxes they paid was “about right,” according to Gallup.