Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak  —  Live shot of Donald Trump setting tariffs:  —  And here's what happened yesterday:  —  Anyone sounding the all-clear on tariffs, or Trump economic policy in general, should be kept away from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery.

House Republicans Just Passed a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions  —  Two weeks after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates …

Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs  —  Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo …

Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers … Migrants who arrived in New York last year waited for shelter assignments at the Roosevelt Hotel.Todd Heisler/The New York Times  —  Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively …

Six people have died in a helicopter crash in the Hudson River in New York City, an AP source says  —  A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday, killing all six people aboard in the latest high …

Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University  —  Government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding  —  The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University …

Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company  —  A Delaware judge, once again, has found that a conservative news outlet broadcast false and defamatory claims about the role a voting technology company played in the 2020 presidential election.

America's financial system came close to the brink  —  Chaotic markets threatened to trigger a full-blown crisis  —  For a good few hours on April 9th, disaster beckoned.  Share prices had been falling for weeks.  Then the market for American Treasury bonds—normally among the safest assets available—started convulsing, too.

Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward  —  A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far …

Trump directs agencies to quietly repeal regulations — without public notice  —  The memo appears to rely on a misinterpretation of a recent Supreme Court ruling.  —  President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies and their assigned DOGE teams to repeal any existing regulations …

White House axes land bureau pick after past Jan. 6 criticism  —  The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of Kathleen Sgamma to be director of the Bureau of Land Management, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Mike Lee said Thursday.  —  Why it matters …

Scoop: Top Senate Dems propose emergency Social Security payment boost  —  Top Senate Democrats plan to unveil legislation that would provide an emergency $200 monthly increase in Social Security benefits through the end of the year, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: It's …

Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime  —  Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off …

The Free Press' Passage Into the Dark Side  —  When Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times in 2020, she wrote an open letter to her boss, A.G. Sulzberger, explaining why she felt compelled to quit.  Citing bullying from liberal colleagues for her “wrongthink,” and depicting the culture …

Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump's Crackdown on Big Law  —  Steven Banks, who once ran New York's social services department, said he wanted to return to helping the homeless.  He leaves within weeks of the elite firm striking a deal with President Trump.

Feds move to drop criminal case against man they previously called a major gang leader  —  Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and President Donald Trump celebrated his arrest.  —  Federal prosecutors have abruptly abandoned the criminal case against a Virginia man portrayed by the Justice Department …

Johnson to budget holdouts: Remove me if I don't keep my promises  —  Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican holdouts on the party's crucial budget plan in a private meeting Wednesday night that they could oust him from the speakership if he doesn't follow through with his fiscal promises …

Inside Elon Musk's Gleeful Destruction of the Government  —  The world's richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump's DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in  —  B  —  en Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California.

Sen. Michael Bennet will run for governor of Colorado in 2026  —  The Democratic senator has chronicled his frustrations with politics in Washington and pointed to the states as places developing policy solutions.  —  Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is running for governor of Colorado next year …

What RFK Jr. Told Grieving Texas Families About the Measles Vaccine  —  The nation's top public-health official has been promoting suspicions of the shot even as he offers comfort.  —  On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas …

Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”  —  Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators can only remix and regurgitate the information in data those technologies are trained on …

U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to resign her post early  —  U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink intends to resign from her post early, three sources told CBS News.  —  The State Department confirmed her intent to step down Thursday afternoon.  —  “Ambassador Brink is stepping down.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  He blinked.  But we don't really know why.  —  Whether it was the stock market cascading downward, investors fleeing from U.S. Treasury bonds …

Small business angst is rising amid Trump's tariffs and spending cuts  —  Uncertainty is growing on Main Street as tariffs roil the economy and the Trump administration moves to cut small business programs.  —  President Donald Trump's tariffs could have a pandemic-sized shock on U.S. small businesses …

Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan Airport  —  Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said.  Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, “This has never happened to me.”