Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead  —  A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency's deaths database were ignored.  —  Just now  —  Two days after the Social Security …

RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ references past work with ‘the r—  d’ in speech to FDA staff  —  The HHS secretary's remarks shocked staffers at the Food and Drug Administration, prompting some of them to walk out.  —  HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit to the FDA Friday …

Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants  —  Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to skirt immigration laws and transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.  —  Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a team of defense contractors are pitching the White House …

Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported  —  Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of kicking the activist …

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X  —  The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.  —  The Social Security Administration …

Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump  —  Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.  —  Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action …

Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border  —  It marks an escalation in the president's use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda.  —  A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under …

Pennsylvania Man Charged with Making Threats to Assault and Murder President Donald J. Trump, Other U.S. Officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents  —  For Immediate Release  —  Shawn Monper, 32, a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint …

Trump envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies  —  Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump …

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions  —  A DOGE engineer removed users' access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.  —  U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves …

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project  —  For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.  —  Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel …

F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel's So-Called Enemies List  —  The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.  —  The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel's …

Who's In and Who's Out at the Naval Academy's Library?  —  An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.  —  Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou's transformative best-selling …

Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading  —  The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.

Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again  —  It's already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.  —  This week the system worked.  Donald Trump blinked.  The unwinding is still just beginning.  It will be painful and tumultuous.

Musk's Latest Fraud Finding Isn't What It Seems  —  His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits.  But that fake data exists for a reason.  —  Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling …

Trump tariff collection for freight shipments delayed by Customs ‘glitch’ … An alert from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday notified users of a glitch in the system that is used to exempt freight from tariffs, including shipments from China that were already on the water …

‘A new golden age’: how rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed  —  Trump's tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the right  —  While Donald Trump recently instituted and paused hefty tariffs, sparking a trade war and chaos …

European travellers cancel US visits as Trump's policies threaten tourism  —  International visitors stay away as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border rise  —  The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension …

‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down  —  Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters - and surrounded by yes men  —  After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back - all the way to a Florida golf course.

Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips From ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs  —  President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker shock while benefiting electronics giants including Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy  —  The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump's policies.  —  The traditional gathering of former Treasury secretaries to welcome a newly minted one into the fold …

The playbook Trump is following to deport protesters  —  The Trump administration has been arresting and detaining protesters who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.  They have justified the action by calling those protesters — without evidence — “Hamas supporters.”

Trump's China tariffs swing a sledgehammer at importers and cheap goods  —  Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a sure-fire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trump's massive new taxes on Chinese imports.  “When he announced a 20% tariff …