IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks …

Trump says Powell's “termination can't come fast enough”  —  President Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday with the strongest suggestion yet of intentions to try to fire the nation's most powerful economic policymaker.  —  Why it matters: Trump's attack comes …

Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Deportation Flights  —  The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.  —  A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday …

GOP photos at El Salvador prison evoke Abu Ghraib—and worse  —  Members of Congress visited CECOT for some torture tourism—and to prove loyalty to Trump. … A row of Latino men with shaved heads and stoic expressions wearing identical white boxer shorts stand behind thick metal bars.

Trump's pick to be DC's top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate  —  Ed Martin, the Trump administration's nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he's made in the past few years …

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

The Most Damning Aspect of the Supreme Court's Latest Trump Dodge  —  The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Maryland father wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison—has captivated the nation and spurred Democratic lawmakers into action, with Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flying to El Salvador on Wednesday to try to get him freed.

‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’  —  Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children.  Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.  —  After Elon Musk made a public show of remedying an apparent error in DOGE's massive cuts to foreign aid …

‘We are all afraid’: Speaking to Alaska nonprofit leaders, Murkowski gets candid on upheaval in federal government  —  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a room full of Alaska nonprofit leaders that the tumult of tariffs, executive orders, court battles, and cuts to federal services under …

Biden's FBI Ordered TN Highway Patrol to Release ‘Maryland Man’ Recently Deported to El Salvador After He Was Detained in 2022 Traffic Stop on Suspicion of Human Trafficking  —  The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha …

Scoop: Democrats seek probe of DOGE's Social Security meddling  —  House Democrats are pressing the Social Security Administration's inspector general to open a probe into DOGE's tinkering with the agency, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Social Security is an extremely sensitive issue …

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet  —  Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.  —  The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries …

April 16, 2025  —  In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist prison CECOT.  Abrego Garcia is Van Hollen's constituent …

Can Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts?  It's Possible, but Not That Simple.  —  Harvard's endowment is not a $53.2 billion pile of cash.  But as the University sits on the precipice of historic financial losses, it has increasingly faced calls to draw from endowment funds to make up the difference.

A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution  —  Donald Trump's most frightening power grab was undertaken with an undertone of sinister jocularity.  There was no column of tanks in the streets, no burning of the legislature.  The president and his partner in despotism …

What Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Planning?  —  You don't need a degree in math (or politics) to know what record-breaking fundraising, a national tour and positive polling add up to.  —  FOURTH TIME  —  Fred Piccolo, 47, briefly worked as the Florida governor's communications director.

White guy DEI  —  Affirmative action, Trumper style. … 📚 🧑‍🏫 📚  —  Republicans have spent decades howling about how affirmative action led to unqualified minorities taking jobs away from well-qualified straight white men.

Trump Is Sending People To The Camps  —  This is your TPM evening briefing.  —  Extraordinary times call for extraordinary and strong language.  President Trump's plan to have migrants — and potentially U.S. citizens — rounded up, flown to El Salvador, and confined there in a maximum security facility …

Trump's tariff policy has nothing to do with trade  —  The president is using economic warfare to compel corporate loyalty  —  The writer is the junior US senator for Connecticut  —  Economists and pundits have spent the last two weeks frantically trying to decode what President Donald Trump's ultimate aim is with tariffs.

HUD Building Put Up for Sale as Trump Looks to Unload Properties  —  The Trump administration is offering the Washington, DC headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for sale as it seeks to reduce its real estate footprint for a shrinking federal workforce.

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately  —  Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.  —  A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately.

Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program  —  The Texas House approved the plan, part of a push by President Trump's allies to offer up to $10,000 for private school, home-school or virtual learning.  —  The Texas House of Representatives voted early Thursday morning …

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Key Federal Elections Agency Moving Forward With Trump's Anti-Voting Order  —  An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump's sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states' constitutional authority to run their own elections.