The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

Taking a page from authoritarians around the world, Trump is targeting his political opposition with criminal investigations.

The directive to investigate fundraising platforms like ActBlue shows an erosion of the traditional separation between the White House and Justice Department.

The president has said he wants to do away with the agency entirely.

What do Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have in common with the recently “de-extincted” dire wolves? What they’re selling you is better than the real thing. Genetically-engineered gray wolves are not dire wolves, and Trump’s tariffs are not “the art of the deal” no matter how many times they try to tell you otherwise. “Trump is hungry like the wolf, you might say, for tariffs – but he has not been able to make ‘fetch’ happen,” journalist Jim Acosta tells Ali Velshi. He notes that Trump has taken a “huge hit” as some voters experience “buyer’s remorse” for supporting him. Michael Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute adds that it was “shocking” to see what happened this week. “In my judgment, it was a direct reaction from global investors to what they’re perceiving as a lot of incompetence in the formulation and execution of economic policy in part of the Trump administration.”

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

Trump’s foreign policy philosophy is not “containment” or “engagement,” but “smash and grab.”

It’s easy to get inured to the corruption, but hawking Teslas on the South Lawn was among the most obscene events in White House history.