Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs … Smartphones and computers will be exempted from President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  —  The guidance comes after Trump earlier this month imposed 125% tariffs …

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 …

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador  —  Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador  —  Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views …

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 …

Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules  —  Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his role in Columbia University campus protests against Israel  —  An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the U.S. due to his involvement …

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.

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 …

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 …

Butler man accused of threatening to assassinate Trump  —  A Butler man is accused of threatening to assassinate President Trump, kill ICE agents and commit a mass shooting, federal prosecutors announced on Friday.  —  The Department of Justice said 32-year-old Shawn Monper posted threatening comments …

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”  —  Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients  — Shortchanged: Blue Cross Louisiana OK'd mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital's full bills.  For some claims, it paid nothing.

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘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.

For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality  —  Last spring, Cornell University was home to a student encampment, where dozens slept in tents on the quad to protest Israel's war in Gaza.  The demonstration lasted more than two weeks.

Federal judge orders USDA to unfreeze funds to Maine  —  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funding that was allocated to Maine from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — funds that had been withheld following President Trump's clash with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of transgender athletes.

The Trump Family Is Going All-In on Crypto Projects, From Bitcoin Mining to Stablecoins  —  President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry. … Taken together, the various projects are approaching $1 billion in paper gains …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History  —  When people ask me to take them to the most important historic site in Boston, I take them to the Museum of African American History (MAAH) on Beacon Hill.  The museum, located in Smith Court along Joy Street …