An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison  —  The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction …

D-Day for Musk: Democrats in Special Elections Target Trump's DOGE Chief  —  Special Elections Reveal Trump's Weak Spot: Elon Musk  —  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trumpeting new tariffs he hopes will return industry to America, President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day.”

Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food  —  Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America's Moral Moment on the Senate Floor  —  Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed a...

'I don't know anyone that isn't pissed off at him': Trump world turns on Lutnick  —  As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration.  —  Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of …

Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks  —  Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth … Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what's left of USAID …

DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show  —  The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.  —  The DOGE-affiliated acting president …

Attorney General Pamela Bondi Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement:  —  “Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children …

The CDC Has Been Gutted  —  Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force.  Experts say people will die.  —  Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

As Republicans Target Colleges, Harvard Cower  —  Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism.  The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway.  —  The Trump administration has turned campaign promises …

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”  —  Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.

Caine denies Trump's MAGA hat tale  —  The nominee for the Joint Chiefs chair said the president “was actually talking about somebody else.”  —  Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, the nominee for Joint Chiefs chair, on Tuesday disputed President Donald Trump's claim that he donned a MAGA hat when they met in Iraq.

Ten weeks that shook the world  —  On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power  —  Civilisations are not murdered, said the historian Arnold Toynbee.  They die from suicide.  Though military clout and geographic fortune will sustain America, its republic is flirting with Toynbee's script.

Center for Public Integrity Is Shutting Down  —  Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair.  The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.  —  The Center for Public Integrity, a thirty-six-year-old nonprofit newsroom in Washington, DC …

The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted  —  The looming economic contraction will be unique in past-war America in that it will be the first directly caused by White House policy.  —  The US economy is plodding toward a recession, a result of the Trump administration's pursuit …

Immigrant removals continue slide under Trump, new data show  —  The Trump administration's pace of removing immigrants from the U.S. continues to lag behind Joe Biden's pace last year, even as detentions have jumped under President Trump, new numbers show.  —  Driving the news …

23 states, DC sue Trump administration over billions in lost public health funding  —  Democratic attorneys general and governors in 23 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …

EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump's mega tariffs  —  Brussels sees America's transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles' heel.  —  BRUSSELS — It's one thing to hit Harley-Davidson motorbikes and bourbon whiskey.  It's another to go after Silicon Valley or Wall Street.

Senate Democrat will block Trump's VA nominees to protest cuts  —  Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says he will put a hold on President Trump's nominees to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs to protest cuts at the agency that provides lifelong healthcare services to military veterans.

Federal Workers Get Second Musk Buyout Offer  —  Some federal departments are offering employees a second chance to accept a buyout offer, the latest effort to downsize the US government amid a wave of cuts spearheaded by Elon Musk.  —  The Transportation Department gave workers through April 7 …

Divergence From the Interests of Capital  —  One of the most interesting things about the current Trump administration is the fact that we have a Republican president who is boldly leading the nation down a path that is contrary to the standard interests of capital.  I do not say this in a complimentary sense.

Scoop: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandate  —  A Commerce Department requirement to have Secretary Howard Lutnick approve many NOAA contracts or extensions is slowing the agency's operations to a crawl, current and former NOAA staff tell Axios.

Trump's Risky Move on Tariffs  —  When Americans feel pain, presidents get the blame.  —  It was an odd note in his recent speech to Congress when President Donald Trump suggested that Americans might feel a bit of pain from his economic policies.  —  The president who had promised …