Protesters tee off against Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies across the US  —  Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in scores of American cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying …

Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders  —  Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.

138. Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power  —  Federal courts don't have jurisdiction over foreign prisons.  That doesn't mean that they're powerless when the U.S. government wrongly removes someone from the United States.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS.  It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data  —  DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.  —  Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency …

Lesotho, a Small African Nation, Expects a Big Hit From Trump's Tariffs  —  The amount of manufactured goods exported from Africa to the United States is minuscule.  But for Lesotho, the impact of a stunning 50 percent tariff is enormous.  —  The nation that the Trump administration slapped …

Musk slams key Trump adviser Navarro as tariffs bite  —  Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials.  —  Why it matters: The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping …

Firing of National Security Agency Chief Rattles Lawmakers  —  Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who was also the head of U.S. Cyber Command, was one of several national security officials fired on the advice of a conspiracy theorist.  —  As soon as word spread that President Trump had fired Gen. Timothy D. Haugh …

DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants  —  The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information.  But immigration officials now say they're seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without authorization.

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library  —  We now have a list of the 381 books that have been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland.  Many of the books in the list fall under categories such as Critical Race Theory, Gender and Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies, etc.

Trump Family's Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out  —  The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president's Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.  —  The financial market meltdown was underway …

I was a British tourist trying to leave America.  Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre  —  Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime.  But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE.

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On  —  The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers.  The video appears to contradict Israel's version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

This 15-Year-Old Just Scorched Team Trump in a Frankly Amazing Interview  —  The kids are all right.  —  On Saturday, thousands of people all across the globe took to the streets to protest President Donald Trump's administration.  Out of the dozens of great people our reporters spoke to, one young interviewee stood out.

Doug Emhoff publicly criticizes his law firm for coming to agreement with Trump administration  —  Speaking at a charity gala dinner Thursday night in Los Angeles, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff condemned the decision by his law firm to preemptively come to an arrangement …

Jaguar Land Rover suspends shipments to US after Trump tariffs  —  The company, which exports almost a quarter of its production to the U.S., is pausing shipments in April as it works out longer-term solutions.  —  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), U.K.-based luxury automaker, said it will “pause” …

You're Not Crazy.  America Has Gone Mad … This is an oft-quoted passage from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.  And it's one that has proven especially popular in the years since the rise of Trump and explosion of global authoritarianism.  —  I open with it here because I …