Existence of group chat including Hegseth, his wife and others prompt calls for defense secretary to step down * US politics live – latest updates A former top Pentagon spokesperson has slammed secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the department of defense, as pressure mounts on the US’s top military official following reports of a second Signal chatroom used to discuss sensitive military operations. John Ullyot, who resigned last week after initially serving as Pentagon spokesperson, said in a opinion essay published by Politico on Sunday that the Pentagon has been overwhelmed by staff drama and turnover in the initial months of the second Trump administration. Continue reading...

Fox News is all-in on Trump’s America-first trade war—just don’t look at where their “USA Strong” merchandise is actually made.

As democracy frays, the showrunners of “The Handmaid’s Tale” spoke to Status about the eerie ways their fiction has started to resemble reality.

Donald Trump escalated his attacks on CBS News in a Sunday night tirade. But it’s what prospective new owner David Ellison was doing 24 hours beforehand that’s also left the newsroom on edge.

He said what now?

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

President Trump’s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

On yesterday’s sickening Oval Office summit.

Harvard faces a funding freeze as elite universities warn of growing threats to free inquiry and civil rights * US politics live – latest updates Barack Obama, Yale and other academic institutions have come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school in Massachusetts rejected what it said was an attempt at “government regulation” of the university. “Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect,” said a statement from Obama, the US president from 2009 to 2017. “Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.” Continue reading...

As an abortion provider living in Texas, I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives.

Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.

The party of deficit-busting is about to blow a multi-trillion dollar hole in federal revenues—and paper it over with a budgetary gimmick.