Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal  —  So, about that Signal chat.  —  On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans …

Exclusive: DOGE staffer, ‘Big Balls’, provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show  —  WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 26 (Reuters) - (This story contains strong language in paragraph 15)  —  The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support …

‘A lot closer than people expected’: GOP worries, Dem cash dominate tense Florida special election  —  President Donald Trump handpicked state Sen. Randy Fine to replace Mike Waltz in the district.  —  Randy Fine has leaned into President Donald Trump's endorsement to try to win a congressional special election in Florida.

Tufts international graduate student taken into ICE custody  —  A Tufts University international graduate student is in federal custody after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.  —  Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and PhD student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences …

DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why  —  Fewer than 50 people have access to Social Security Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information.  —  But only one also has access …

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries  —  A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration's plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.  —  The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States' financial support for Gavi, the organization …

Trump's executive order on voting seems to ignore a lot of law  —  The process of governance matters, but the president pretends we don't have a Congress and rides roughshod over the states.  —  President Trump has finally issued an executive order on election administration.  —  I'd expected it to come sooner.

What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about  —  The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.  —  Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are striking a chord.

Rivals Pounce on Paul Weiss, a Top Law Firm, After Trump's Order  —  Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm's worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.  —  President Trump's executive order attacking Paul Weiss and severely restricting …

Inside DOGE's Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID  —  Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk's DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.  —  From the beginning of President Donald …

How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Elon Musk's aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes …

Supreme Court upholds federal regulations on ghost gun kits  —  The 7-2 decision came from Justice Neil Gorsuch.  —  A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, July 19, 2024.  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld government regulation of self-assemble firearm kits that produce untraceable weapons known as “ghost guns.”

Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy  —  Trump's people can be and are both  —  The amount of damage the second Trump administration has already done on many fronts, from foreign policy to public health to America's economic prospects, both for the months ahead and in the long run, is astonishing.

Gabbard says Signal comes ‘pre-installed’ on government devices  —  The app has been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past.  —  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to House Intelligence Committee members Wednesday that encrypted messaging app Signal comes …

Trump admin considers killing big energy projects in Dem states  —  The cuts, if carried through, would politicize the federal funds that Congress and the Biden administration awarded to seven regional applicants as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law.