3 ways Trump's immigration crackdown could hit U.S. citizens  —  Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants — who criticizes Trump's policies.

Trump softens tariff tone amid empty shelves warning, market slump  —  President Trump got a scare from CEOs and markets on Monday.  On Tuesday, he blunted some of his sharpest threats — signaling a softer stance on China and retreating from fiery rhetoric targeting the Fed.

U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false  —  Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days.  In his first media interview, he tells his story.  —  On April 8, Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen …

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.  —  Note: Five-day moving average.  Views are only shown up to 400,000.  Source: X  —  When Mr. Musk purchased X in 2022, he promised to create a free speech haven and named himself a “free speech absolutist.”

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid  —  Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.  —  ×  —  A man is detained by officers with the U.S. Department …

Harvard Plans to Use Trump's Haste Against Him as It Fights Funding Cut  —  Harvard's lawyers suggest the administration was sloppy when it froze billions in federal funding.  A mundane but crucial law is essential to the university's case against the government.

Trump unlikely to dismiss Hegseth, but officials are troubled by disarray in Pentagon chief's inner circle  —  A defiant Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth booked himself on the television network where he used to work as a host Tuesday morning in a bid to address the fallout over revelations …

Shari Redstone kept tabs on ‘60 Minutes’ segments on Trump  —  The Scoop  —  Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know which upcoming stories were about President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation — triggering a series of events that ended …

Americans sour on Trump's handling of the economy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  Americans elected President Donald Trump in hopes that he would fight inflation and boost the U.S. economy, but as he approaches his 100th day in office they are giving the Republican poor marks for his handling of both, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

The courage to be decent  —  One of the more pernicious effects of authoritarianism is to make the everyday participation in civic life we take for granted feel subversive.  The goal isn't to police all behavior at all times.  It's to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.

What to know as the government begins collections on defaulted student debt  —  The Trump administration says it will soon resume collections on defaulted student loans for the first time in five years, raising questions and anxieties for millions of borrowers across the country.

Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences”  —  Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer's chief of staff issued the warning as department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of their agency …

Tracking the Trump administration's nosedive  —  A lot of lines on a lot of charts are pointing down and to the right.  —  Perhaps the best analogy for the first three months of Donald Trump's second presidential term comes not from American history but from Looney Tunes.

Rümeysa Öztürk's Ordeal Is Our Nation's Disgrace  —  ON MARCH 25, RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK, a Turkish national working on her Ph.D. at Tufts University, was snatched off the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, by masked, plainclothes federal immigrant agents.

Cronyism, Capitulation and Utter Chaos  —  Hitting the road today, but I have time for a note on the news that moved markets yesterday.  Bloomberg reports: … Investors liked this report, but it was, if you think about it, deeply disturbing on two levels.

Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Political Backlash  —  Net income drops 71% in first quarter  —  Tesla's net income slid 71% in the first quarter, as the company struggled to overcome competitive pressure overseas and a reputational hit from Chief Executive Elon Musk's polarizing role in the Trump administration.

Rubio and Witkoff bail on crucial Ukraine talks amid Crimea split  —  Donald Trump's peace proposal involves a potential lifting of sanctions and informal U.S. recognition of Russia's control over Crimea.  That's a nonstarter for Kyiv.  —  LONDON — British plans to host a summit Wednesday …

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: ‘The cruelty is apparent’ … We rely on your support to make local news available to all  —  Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025.  Donate today  —  Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right.  We Should Say So.  —  Throughout the Trump era I've been firmly in the camp unaffectionately dismissed as ‘alarmist’ by most commentators.  Put simply: It is that bad.  Liberal democracy is in danger.  Fascism is a reasonable term for what we're fighting.

The Trump Administration's War on Children  —  The administration is quietly putting America's children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.  —  The clear-cutting across …

Sarah Palin loses defamation retrial against New York Times  —  The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee had won a retrial over a 2017 editorial.  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her defamation retrial against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial …

HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline's Program for LGBTQ Youth  —  In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.  —  The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline …

IRS in turmoil: Leadership changes, exits, and tax threats shake agency  —  The height of tax season was the height of turmoil at the IRS  —  WASHINGTON — The height of tax season was the height of turmoil at the IRS.  —  The agency shuffled through three acting directors over the course of a week.

What DEI threatens isn't merit.  It's monopoly.  —  A few days ago, Jonathan Berk, a professor of finance at the Graduate School of Business, responded to a piece by professor Elliott White Jr., an assistant professor of earth system science, writing that DEI has no place at Stanford.

Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes  —  Several initiatives intended to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes in Ukraine have been vacated, including a bipartisan intelligence coordinator office.  —  The Trump administration has been engaged in a concerted effort …

World Economic Forum Opens New Probe Into Founder Klaus Schwab  —  Founder quit after board moved to investigate whistleblower allegations, which he denies, including use of luxury property and travel  —  World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab is under investigation by the organization …

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe's digital rules  —  The European Commission issued the first fines under its Digital Markets Act on Wednesday, slapping tech giants Apple and Meta with penalties for breaching the EU's new digital rulebook.

Law firms fighting Trump to ask judges to permanently block executive orders  —  Two major law firms are expected to ask separate judges on Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump's executive orders that were designed to punish them and hurt their business operations.

When government thinks you're dead, it upends lives.  DOGE may make it worse.  —  Elon Musk's team has pushed to move millions of Social Security numbers into the agency's deaths database, raising the risk of errors.  —  When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn't realize he was dead.

Pete Hegseth: The made for TV sec def  —  📺 🎥 📺 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already …

The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Send American Allies to Their Deaths  —  OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, the Trump administration has begun laying the groundwork for a possible mass deportation of the nearly 90,000 Afghans living in the United States, most of whom came during or shortly after the fall of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump  —  Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism.  He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: “We are no longer living in a democratic regime.”  —  DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

Harvard Youth Poll  —  Introduction  —  A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bonds, and declining trust in institutions.  As the nation confronts generational turnover and a volatile political climate …