CSMS # 64724565 - UPDATED GUIDANCE - Reciprocal Tariff Exclusion for Specified Products; April 5, 2025 Effective Date  —  The purpose of this message is to provide further guidance on the additional duties due on imported merchandise which were imposed by Executive Order 14257, issued April 2 …

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 …

Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.'s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State  —  LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS  —  In Kennedy's bonkers speech to FDA employees on Friday, he accused agency employees of being shills for the industries they regulate.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday …

‘Why are high fertility people always so weird?’:  A weekend with the pronatalists  —  CNN's Meena Duerson travels to Austin to join roughly 200 “pronatalists” for the second-ever Natal Conference, an event devoted to discussing the world's declining birth rates and potential solutions.

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 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 …

“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.

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.

USDA's $1B bird flu plan uses money intended for schools, food banks  —  The move tees up a major political fight over the Trump administration's priorities — and the small pot of money USDA has to spread around.  —  Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu …

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 …

US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas  —  Senior Kyiv economist describes latest postion of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying  —  The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe …

‘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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

‘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 …

Measles cases rise to 700, adding pressure to RFK Jr.  —  The measles outbreak has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rein in the deadly virus.  —  Overall, 712 cases have been reported with new cases …

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 …

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 …