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 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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

‘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 …

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.

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 …

‘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.