Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump seeks to defund NPR and PBS and threatens to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status.

The judge said the order against the law firm of Perkins Coie violated multiple provisions of the Constitution.

President Donald Trump has targeted several law firms with penalties, four of which sued to challenge his actions.

President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. was in a "transition period" and was going to do "fantastically" while downplaying the impact any short-term recession may have. When asked during an interview with NBC News whether it would be OK to have a recession in the short term,

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for all federal funding to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) to be blocked. On Thursday evening, Trump alleged that both organisations have engaged with "biased and partisan news coverage".

A 3D-printed miniature model of U.S. President Donald Trump with the National Public Radio (NPR) logo in the background is seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to cut funding to news outlets NPR and PBS,

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate outgoing national security adviser Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz, a former congressman from Florida, has been on shaky ground with Trump since March after he inadvertently added a journalist to a private chat on the messaging app Signal with other top national security officials to discuss military strikes in Yemen.

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz is set to depart the administration, according to two people familiar with the matter on Thursday, marking the first major staff shakeup of President Donald Trump’s second term.

President Trump took to his social media Friday, sharing plans to take away Harvard University's tax-exempt status, saying "it's what they deserve." This comes after the Trump administration also froze billions of dollars of Harvard's federal funding.

President Donald Trump says Harvard University will be stripped of its tax-exempt status — redoubling an extraordinary threat that the Ivy League school’s president is pushing back against.