Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk  —  Simmering anger at the billionaire's unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting.  The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.  —  Marco Rubio was incensed.

Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants for Columbia University  —  The move comes shortly after the administration notified Columbia University that it was conducting a “comprehensive review” of its federal grants and contracts.  —  The Trump administration on Friday announced …

Justice Dept. Is Said to Put Two Prosecutors in Adams Case on Leave  —  The prosecutors, Celia Cohen and Andrew Rohrbach, had held high-ranking positions in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.  —  Two Manhattan prosecutors who worked on the corruption case …

Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows  —  The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump's direction knew it wouldn't reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.  —  Just now

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say  —  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research …

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.

We Live in the Dumbest Times  —  In an increasingly hostile world of great power competition, it's nice to know that in Pete Hegseth we finally have a secretary of defense focused on the important things: purging military web databases of thousands of images featuring women, minorities …

Sam Bankman-Fried Ramps Up Effort for a Pardon From Trump  —  Mr. Bankman-Fried's family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.  —  Consulting with a lawyer who has ties to President Trump.

How Democrats Can Win This Shutdown Fight  —  WITH NO CONSTITUTIONAL POLICE TO ENFORCE our nation's basic laws, the most practical check on a tyrannical president is Congress's power of the purse.  And for the last couple of weeks, as the March 14 deadline for passing a government funding bill approaches …

Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run For President in 2028  —  When President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Fox News last month, anchor Bret Baier asked what should have been a softball question: “Do you view Vice President JD Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?”

New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch  —  Sam Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk's DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud  —  There is a new staffer from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeking access …

Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy  —  A day after offering Canada a one-month reprieve on punishing nearly across-the-board 25% tariffs, President Donald Trump has threatened new tariffs as soon as Friday on Canadian lumber and dairy products.

Strike, or Else  —  The most important thing about a union contract is that it is a contract.  It is a legally binding agreement.  It is not a passing fancy.  It is not an empty promise, a public relations ploy.  It is a contract.  It is a guarantee.  The things that are laid …

Fox Business host on ‘shocking decline’ in consumer spending: ‘The boom times are over’  —  Fox Business Network host Charles Payne said the apparent decline in consumer spending was “shocking” on Friday, and said a return to “boom times” was not on the horizon.

Treasury Secretary Bessent says economy could be ‘starting to roll a little bit’  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday acknowledged some signs of weakness in the U.S. economy.  —  “Could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit?  Sure.

‘Just following Hispanic people’: Citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump  —  Manassas man says he was pulled over on his way to work by agents looking for another man  —  A naturalized Hispanic man says he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were looking …

The One Question That Really Matters: If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What?  —  It is not hyperbole to say that the future of American constitutional democracy now rests on a single question: Will President Trump and his administration defy court orders?  —  Federal judges have issued …

How Trump's ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious  —  President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn't like their shared water agreements.  —  After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday …

Trump Plans to Restrict Loan Forgiveness for Non-Profit Workers  —  President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that will restrict eligibility for a government-run student loan forgiveness program, targeting individuals whose work for non-profits clashes with the administration's immigration policies.

Monmouth University will shutter its gold-standard polling institute  —  Patrick Murray, institute's director since 2005, will depart  —  Monmouth University is planning to imminently shutter its lauded polling institute, sources with direct knowledge of the matter have told the New Jersey Globe …

LIVE March 7, 2025, 12:36 p.m. ET Trump Talks About Tariffs, Ukraine and Student Loans From the Oval Office  —  Where Things Stand  — Russia sanctions: President Trump said Friday that he was “strongly considering” imposing new sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a cease-fire …

OCC Clarifies Bank Authority to Engage in Certain Cryptocurrency Activities  —  WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today took action to reaffirm that a range of cryptocurrency activities are permissible in the federal banking system.

Trans women transferred to men's prisons despite rulings against Trump's order  —  Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: 'I'm punished for existing'  —  Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred …

Trump Organization Sues Capital One for Closing Its Accounts  —  President Trump's family business accused the bank of violating consumer protection laws by closing its accounts in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack.  —  President Trump's family business sued Capital One on Friday for …

RFK Jr. Is About to Ax Some of the World's Best Scientists at NIH  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS is refusing to renew contracts for some of the nation's brightest science minds … The NIH is best known for funding a broad spectrum of research science at universities with approximately $40 billion in annual grants.

Trump's Tariffs Are No ‘Emergency’  —  The President invokes a law that doesn't give him power to impose sweeping tariffs.  Someone should sue.  —  Tap For Sound  —  President Trump delayed his Mexico-Canada tariffs again on Thursday—this time for another month.

Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices  —  This issue is part one of a three-part series on the egg industry.  It is written by antitrust lawyer Basel Musharbash, based in part on a report he authored for Farm Action.  —  Over the past two months, egg prices have become a political football.