President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act has faced intense preliminary litigation in courts around the country, leading to rulings such as the Supreme Court’s insistence that people potentially subject to the act must receive

This Monday, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order, this one titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens.” As the ominous “unleashing” in the title makes clear, the order’s

Wednesday morning, we learned that the U.S. economy contracted slightly in the first quarter of 2025. Real gross domestic product was down 0.3%, a minor contraction but a large step down from the prior quarter’s GDP growth

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President Donald Trump’s plans to offer tariff relief to various industries being harmed by his haphazard and destructive trade war seems like overwhelming proof that this was a disastrous, ill-conceived idea from the beginning.The Trump administration has

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Amid mounting scandals out of the Trump administration, House Republicans voted Tuesday in favor of a rule that creates hurdles for Democrats looking to investigate it.Departments across Trump’s government have been rocked by scandals over a variety

This is an adapted excerpt from the April 29 episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”For all the talk about what the media got wrong about the last election, and how it failed to communicate the stakes

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Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, a weekly roundup of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics. One fewer rule for Elon MuskReuters reported in December that the incoming Trump administration

Looking back on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, NBC News has reported that his administration has faced more than 200 civil lawsuits to date — and that these lawsuits have been largely successful, with judges across

Larry David — co-creator of “Seinfeld” and creator/star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — penned a satirical column for The New York Times this month titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” which lampooned “Real Time” host Bill Maher’s public

As the Trump administration continues to fend off criticism of its haphazard mass deportation efforts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday pushed back on reports that three young children who are U.S. citizens had been removed