Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence  —  The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.  —  CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of …

3 Adams Case Prosecutors Resign Rather Than Express Regret to Justice Dept.  —  They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams.  “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.

Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general's secure messages  —  Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — Minutes …

Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon  —  The defense secretary's inner circle is in disarray, and distrust is growing among civil servants and senior military officials.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at the Pentagon in January with almost no government experience …

Rubio unveils sweeping reorganization of State Department  —  The Trump administration's proposed shake-up targets human rights programs and others focused on war crimes and democracy.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan Tuesday to significantly reorganize the State Department …

George Mason University calls cops on student for article criticizing Trump  —  GMU student Nicholas Decker's Substack essay “When Must We Kill Them?” earned him a visit from the Secret Service  —  In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared  —  The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.  He has essentially disappeared.  —  In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez …

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts  —  The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States.  —  The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government …

Supreme Court weighs parents' objections to LGBTQ content in elementary schools  —  Some parents in Montgomery County, Md., schools say they have a religious right to ensure their children aren't exposed to LGBTQ books in the classroom.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday considers …

Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports, Los Angeles, Long Beach, sees steep drop … The pullback in trade between the U.S. and China as a result of President Trump's steep tariffs on Chinese goods and fears of a recession are starting to show up in major ports data …

Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal  —  Few think administration's negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain  —  Created with Highcharts 9.0.1Performance since April 2 'Liberation Day'Sources: Dow Jones Market Data …

Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany  —  The former vice president said the administration was “insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.”  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump's administration …

White House is ‘close’ on Japan, India tariff agreements — but expect them to be light on specifics  —  One person close to the White House said that it “may take months to hammer out the final deals.”  —  The White House is closing in on general agreements with Japan and India …

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them  —  Without scientist Kseniia Petrova's expertise, no one can fully unlock the data's potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Stop!  In the Name of Trump!  —  Yesterday Bloomberg posted an article titled “Markets Are Discovering the Real Trump Trade Is ‘Sell America’.”  That's about right.  Look at the value of the dollar on international markets, shown at the top of this post.  For a while after the election investors loved Trump, not wisely but too well.

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism  —  WASHINGTON — A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

Over 150 college presidents sign letter rebuking ‘government overreach’  —  Presidents from each Ivy League school — except for Columbia and Dartmouth — signed onto the letter.  —  More than 150 university and college presidents co-signed a letter Tuesday condemning the Trump administration's …

Authorities won't charge man caught on video vandalizing Teslas in Minneapolis  —  Police chief responds with frustration that the state white collar employee is being spared prosecution after causing more than $21,000 in damages. … A man was caught on video vandalizing a Tesla in Minneapolis last month.

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom … Look around, take stock of where you are, and know this: Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you'll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America.  If this sounds dramatic to you, it should.

Rainn Wilson challenges MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle over declining faith in media  —  Actor Rainn Wilson challenged MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle's idea that a “concerted effort” is responsible for the nation's declining faith in legacy media.  —  “Forty percent of Americans don't trust mainstream media.

The Force That Holds Trump's Coalition Together  —  Traditional Republican elites tolerate the authoritarianism because they want the tax cuts.  —  When I was 5 or 6 years old, I pulled an extremely mean trick on my little brother.  I told him that if he cleaned my room, I “might give him a dollar.”

White House asked FERC's Phillips to step down  —  His exit from the commission will leave a 2-2 partisan split, and allow President Donald Trump to tap a replacement commissioner.  —  FERC Commissioner Willie Phillips, a Democrat who chaired the agency under President Joe Biden …

From Fake Eyelashes to Care Bears, U.S.-Bound Goods Are Stuck in Tariff Limbo  —  Some companies are torn: Do they revamp supply chains or wait for the trade war to ebb?  —  Just after the Trump administration raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% this month, a truck full of fake eyelashes came …

Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Musk Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes  —  A Tesla engineer has accused Tesla of threatening her team with deportation after bringing up a brake safety issue with CEO Elon Musk in 2014.  —  Balan was fired after informing Musk …

The Hegseth Pentagon Chronicles  —  The Defense secretary is validating the concerns of his critics.  —  No doubt the Beltway press would love to knock Pete Hegseth out as Defense secretary, but that doesn't come close to explaining the mess at the Pentagon.

US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says  —  The U.S. and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

The Art of the F*ckup  —  1. A pileup of screwups  —  Last week's revelation that the Trump administration's high-stakes standoff with Harvard University had been sparked by a demand letter sent erroneously is notable for two reasons.  The most obvious is that the resulting imbroglio …

Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools  —  A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.  —  The Trump administration is considering issuing …