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Perhaps the biggest common theme of Donald Trump’s second term is that his administration has aggressively used federal power to punish those deemed...
By withholding federal funds and threatening investigations, President Donald Trump has tried to bend universities to his will. Now, he’s doing...
The second Trump administration has shown remarkable aggression in abruptly canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants at elite...
A legal showdown this past weekend shows that the Trump administration is continuing to test the limits of how far they can get away with ignoring or...
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It is a political truism that it’s bad to be the president in charge when the economy turns sour. It may be especially bad for President Donald...
Is Donald Trump tanking the economy? The stock market has taken a beating, giving up six months of gains in the past three weeks. Several economic...
Conservative activists have been dreaming of dismantling the Department of Education for decades. They’re halfway there. On Tuesday, the...
The beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidential term has most certainly been full of sound and fury. What has it signified? As in the first...
President Donald Trump made the surprising announcement Thursday that his Cabinet secretaries do in fact run the government agencies they head — and...
In the first major speech to Congress of his second term, President Donald Trump made clear that he intends to barrel ahead with the MAGA agenda....
Donald Trump’s long-threatened trade war has finally begun. The Trump Administration slapped big new tariffs onto Canada, Mexico, and China Tuesday,...
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he’d include select cryptocurrency tokens in a “U.S. Crypto Reserve” — but what that actually...
The Trump administration utterly botched a hyped release of “Jeffrey Epstein files” Thursday, a saga that resulted in disappointment among the...
Will Donald Trump succeed in his long-held goal of weaponizing the Justice Department against his political enemies? Much of the answer will depend on...
The latest stage in Elon Musk’s effort to purge the civil service came on Saturday afternoon with an email to federal workers asking: “What did...
Is the right’s era of good feelings and unity coming to an end? For the past year, the many factions of the GOP have been united around the cause of...
As Elon Musk has rampaged around the federal government for four weeks, canceling contracts and dismantling whole departments, he’s claimed all the...
President Donald Trump wants larger nonprofits and academic institutions investigated for the “egregious” use of DEI. Elon Musk is trying to purge...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to transform federal spending and the federal workforce is crashing up against judges who’ve temporarily...
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping...
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping effort to purge and reshape the federal government is underway. Federal employees have arrived at a “fork in...
New executive actions from the Trump administration on Tuesday make clear that not only is President Donald Trump using his power to purge the...
The dizzying array of executive actions President Donald Trump issued on Monday, the first day of his second term, show that he is increasingly...
Three days before leaving office, President Joe Biden has made a surprising announcement: He declared that a decades-old proposed Constitutional...
One of the main reasons Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election is the Biden administration’s record on immigration and the border — polls...
Did Donald Trump deliver the Gaza ceasefire that Joe Biden couldn’t? After many long months of inconclusive talks, a ceasefire deal between the...
Is Donald Trump going to risk throwing the global economy into crisis by enacting the gargantuan tariffs he’s proposed? Or is he just pretending...
A bitter public feud split the MAGA movement over the holidays, as supporters of high-skilled legal immigration like Elon Musk argued vociferously...
President-elect Donald Trump didn’t even wait to start his second term before throwing Congress into chaos, sinking a bipartisan spending deal and...