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 …

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.

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People  —  Palantir, the surveillance giant, is taking on an increased role with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation, according to Palantir Slacks and other internal messages obtained by 404 Media.

BYU Ph.D. student's international student visa revoked over apparent fishing license violation  —  A Brigham Young University Ph.D. candidate from Japan has had his international student visa revoked — perhaps because of a fishing violation from years ago.  —  Outside of a couple …

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.

‘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 …

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.

The New Transparency Rules and the El Salvador Detention Agreement  —  A 2022 statute could force disclosure of any U.S.-El Salvador agreements connected to the facility where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is detained.  —  oonahathaway  —  Meet The Authors … Editor's note: This piece was cross-posted at Just Security.

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Four days before Donald Trump's inauguration …

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 …

Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It  —  Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI.

Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory  —  Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety say they're concerned that there's no plan for managing biological samples tied to research projects.

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.

Federal judge rules Google has illegal ad tech monopoly  —  A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google illegally acquired and maintained a monopoly over advertising technology, the second time in less than a year that the tech giant has been found in violation of antitrust laws.

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 …

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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.