Live Updates: Wall Street Slumps Further as Trump Defends His Tariffs  —  The S&P 500 tumbled, entering bear market territory, after more losses in Asia and Europe.  President Trump said he would not back off his trade war, reinforcing fears of a global economic downturn.  —  Here's the latest.

Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.  —  President Donald Trump for years has lusted after a big military parade over which he could preside—just like he sees leaders do in other mostly authoritative countries.  —  During his first term in 2018 …

Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult  —  🏌️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already …

Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador  —  Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago.

Trump asks Supreme Court to block order returning deportee from El Salvador  —  Judge Paula Xinis gave the Trump administration until midnight Monday to return Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported despite a court order forbidding it.  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court …

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff  —  The worsening problems come as Elon Musk's DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.  —  Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages …

April 6, 2025 (Sunday)  —  After President Donald Trump's tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.  —  Farmers, who were a part of Trump's base, are “struck and shocked” by the tariffs, the president …

I Should Have Seen This Coming  —  When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left.  The reactionary fringe has won.  —  Listen to more stories on Hark

‘Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down’: Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly  —  Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.

Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees  —  Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters …

As the markets fell, Trump putted  —  The stock markets have lost more than $6 trillion in value since Trump imposed sweeping tariffs.  But on Sunday the president won — at golf.  —  OUTSIDE TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, JUPITER — The stock markets have lost more than $6 trillion …

After a Blowout Week, Wall Street Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos  —  The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs.  They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week's major sell-off.  —  There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend.

Political Styles of the Rich and Clueless  —  There are none so blind as those that will not see  —  As we wait to see what fresh hell awaits us this week, one obvious question is, who put these malevolent clowns in power?  —  The short answer is ignorant people.  But political ignorance takes two different forms.

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough.  Layoffs are delaying it.  —  A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

Why Trump's Tariff Math Is a Joke  —  My first question, when the White House unveiled its tariff regime, was, “How on earth did they calculate such huge rates?”  Reciprocal tariffs, after all, are supposed to treat other countries the way they treat us, and foreign tariffs on American goods are nowhere near these levels.

Trump Admin Exempts Trump's Ads Thanking Himself From DOGE Review  —  The president's ads thanking himself for his anti-immigrant crackdown were exempted from review by Elon Musk's DOGE  —  It's very important to the Trump administration that the government spend huge taxpayer dollars on ads …

Trump's Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews  —  Taking a break from her work dismantling her own department, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon last week threatened roughly $9 billion of grants and contracts with Harvard because of “the school's failure to protect students …