Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.

Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors  —  Move is latest in effort to remake higher education after the president and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation process  —  President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to shake …

Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law.

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish  —  A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.  —  The personal cellphones of dozens of current and former Barnard College employees pinged Monday evening …

Trump's Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows  —  President Trump's approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office.  —  President Trump's job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office …

Trump Offers Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin  —  The offer, which caused President Trump's memecoin to surge in price, was his family's latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.  —  The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World …

Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer  —  The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.

Trump's Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia  —  Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he would make peace between Ukraine and Russia in a day.  Three months later, he's behind schedule, and his plan now is to end the fighting quickly by selling out Ukraine and its people to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match  —  Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated shouting match in earshot of President Trump and other officials in the White House last week during a dispute about the IRS, two witnesses and three sources briefed on the matter tell Axios.

Abrego Garcia's Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up  —  The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.

Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame  —  Democrats have long intensely debated whether to appear on Fox News.  Going on Fox risks providing a sheen of legitimacy to a propaganda outlet.  But not going on risks leaving Republican news consumers …

Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations  —  The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to deport immigrants to Rwanda who can't be sent back to their country of origin due to fears of prosecution.  —  The Handbasket newsletter reported Tuesday that a State Department cable sent …

A dozen states sue to stop Trump's tariffs  —  Democratic attorneys general from 12 states filed a joint lawsuit arguing that the president doesn't have the constitutional authority to execute his sweeping tariff agenda.  —  Twelve states filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality …

STAT+: New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias  —  Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias.  Now, one of the world's leading medical journals, has received a similar inquiry as well.

Jan Schakowsky planning May 5 retirement announcement  —  The veteran House Democrat is facing a longshot primary challenge.  —  Rep. Jan Schakowsky is planning to announce next month she won't seek reelection after 14 terms in the House and has started informing allies of her retirement decision …

Majorities disapprove of some key Trump administration actions  —  Post Infographics  — More disapprove than approve of the administration's government cuts, but views largely split along partisan lines  — Among Republicans, support for ending DEI policies in federal government varies across demographic groups

Let's talk about a civic uprising  —  Mainstream media coverage of the widespread anti-Trump protests on April 19 was much more extensive than it was after the April 5 protests — despite smaller crowds.  —  Watch MSBNC's Rachel Maddow wrap up the coverage and the protests on her show Monday night - it's must-see TV.

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records  —  The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.

Fearing Trump's Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds  —  Campus newspapers confront ethics debates as international students try to remove their names and opinions from past articles  —  The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America's most prominent universities …

Mega-investor Ken Griffin: Trump's trade war ‘has devolved into a nonsensical place’  —  Billionaire investor Ken Griffin said President Trump's trade war has “devolved into a nonsensical place,” as markets see-saw on the latest signals from the White House.

Democratic Governor Moves To Boycott El Salvador For Aiding Trump  —  Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker is ordering the state's pension funds and procurement agencies to review any investments in the Latin American country.  —  Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is asking his state's pension funds …

Yale Derecognizes Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter After Group Blocks Jewish Students' Access to Parts of Campus  —  Yale University stripped the school's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, Yalies4Palestine, of its status as a recognized student group on Wednesday after it established a short-lived encampment.

Pastor calls for ‘full Target boycott’ over concerns about diversity, equity, inclusion  —  The pastor of a Georgia megachurch who led a nationwide 40-day “fast” boycott of Target stores over the retail chain's commitment to diversity initiatives is now calling for that effort to continue as a “full Target boycott.”