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People gather to take photos with the John Harvard statue at Harvard University. President Trump made another threat to Harvard’s tax-exempt status in a social media post on Friday. Sophie Park/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sophie Park/Getty Images On Friday, President Trump again threatened to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. His comments marked the latest volley in a battle between the Trump administration and the wealthiest college in the world. Trump first suggested revoking the school’s nonprofit…

Elon Musk and SpaceX are big winners in Donald J. Trump’s 2026 spending plan.President Trump is delivering on Mr. Musk’s wish list at both NASA and the Pentagon to reorient federal spending on space in a way likely to drive billions of dollars in new business to Mr. Musk’s space technology company, if Congress signs off on the budget plan.At the Pentagon, Mr. Trump is calling for a massive jump in spending, an extraordinary 13 percent increase, almost entirely through allocations in a Congressional budget reconciliation plan under consideration.The jump would happen while many other federal agencies would be slashed,…

The Army is planning for a potential military parade on President Trump’s birthday in June that would include “thousands” of troops, as well and Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, a defense official confirmed.According to planning documents obtained by the AP, the parade calls for over 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, tanks, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians. The documents, dated April 29 and 30, have not been publicly released. They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th anniversary festival on the National Mall and the newly added element — a large military…

We should welcome the humiliation of Trump’s hawkish, neocon national security adviser. Ad Policy Yesterday’s man: Former national security adviser Michael Waltz in the Cabinet Room of the White House in March.Shawn Thew / EPA / Bloomberg via Getty Images On Thursday, national security adviser Michael Waltz was ousted from his post in the most unceremonious way possible. Waltz had been long rumored to be on thin ice with President Donald Trump even before the adviser became the center of a security scandal that erupted on March 24, when Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been mistakenly added…

As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all.At a White House economic briefing this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demurred multiple times when pressed about President Trump’s recent claim that President Xi Jinping of China had called him. Although top economic officials might usually be aware of such high-level talks, Mr. Bessent insisted that he was not logging the president’s calls.“I have a lot of jobs around the White House; running the switchboard isn’t…

Cheaper goods from China are set to become a lot more expensive for U.S. consumers with the May 2 expiration of a loophole that allowed lower cost packages to enter the country duty-free.Ultra-low cost retailers like Shein and Temu are among the major players that until Friday relied on a tax loophole that allowed them to ship low-value parcels to the U.S. tax-free, allowing them to undercut U.S.-based sellers. American shoppers relied on the de minimis loophole, too, for bargain-basement prices that couldn’t be matched for goods made in the U.S.With the end of the loophole, which exempted packages worth…

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Thursday night that, for now, the Trump administration could continue to withhold money from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, federally funded organizations that provide news coverage to countries with limited press freedoms.In doing so, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily reversed parts of two lower-court rulings from last month that stopped the administration from cutting off funds to the news outlets.The appeals court kept in effect parts of one lower court ruling, which required that Trump officials bring…

Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a bespectacled, soft-spoken 56-year-old nominated by President Trump, turned his high-backed leather chair toward a government lawyer at the federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, and asked a question. Can the president define what counts as an invasion, then declare that an invasion is happening, and then use a 1798 war powers law to expel the so-called invaders?“Yes,” answered Michael Velchik, a Justice Department lawyer.Judge Rodriguez followed up: Wouldn’t that make Mr. Trump’s powers under the wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, “effectively limitless?”The question hinted at a groundbreaking ruling that Judge Rodriguez issued on Thursday when…

Harvard, White House in court over funding Harvard, Trump administration have court hearing over funding threats 02:30 Washington — President Trump said Friday his administration will be rescinding Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, further escalating the ongoing feud with the Ivy League school.”We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” the president said in a post to Truth Social.Mr. Trump did not provide further details about the effort to strip Harvard of its designation as a 501(c)(3) organization, but he has floated taking such a step as recently as last month.Roughly 2 million organizations…

Voters line up to cast their ballots at Allegiant Stadium on Nov. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas, behind a sign reading “Vote, Bumoto, Vote” — directions in English, Tagalog and Spanish. David Becker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Becker/Getty Images Pauline Lee is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States as teenagers, with nothing. “When they came here they were dirt poor,” she recalled. They worked entry-level jobs at first, before they both went on to study and build successful careers in California. Lee is proud of her family’s immigration stories — and the fact that…