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Justin Fairfax presides over the Senate at the Virginia State Capitol.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backlit.

The GOP’s latest attempt to privatize Medicare is a nightmare. RFK Jr. must answer for it.

Rep. Suzan DelBene

George Eastman looks down while speaking in front of a podium.

California attorney who tried to help overturn 2020 election loses law license

The Associated Press

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump talking on the phone in 2019, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the text of their 2019 phone overlayed

Tulsi Gabbard didn’t prove a conspiracy. But she did expose something more alarming.

Hayes Brown

Gabbard revives ‘deep state’ conspiracy claims, alarming Democrats who see a pattern

David Rohde

DNI Gabbard targets whistleblower, ex-inspector general in criminal referral

David Rohde

President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump depart the White House.

Eric Trump joining his father in China isn’t just inappropriate — it sends a message

Zeeshan Aleem

Chris Hayes; Donald Trump.

As his war with Iran rages on, Trump is acting like a madman

Chris Hayes

Gregory Meeks speaks into microphones.

House to vote on constraining Trump’s Iran war — with GOP support undecided

Kevin Frey & Mychael Schnell

Pete Hegseth takes questions during a press briefing on March 31, 2026 at the Pentagon.
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Mejia, Hathaway race to fill House seat in NJ special election

Ebony Davis

President Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

Mehmet Oz says Trump told him that diet soda might help kill cancer cells

Steve Benen

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‘Outrageous’: American journalist detained in Kuwait after posting Iran war video

Tributes — flowers and a sign in the shape of a gravestone that says "RIP USAID 1961-2025" — are placed beneath the covered seal of the USAID at their headquarters.

How I became one of the first whistleblowers of the second Trump administration

Nicholas Enrich

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Wall Street rakes in big returns amid market turmoil 

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Lawrence: Trump says ‘nobody has ever ended one war.’ Is that the stupidity or insanity speaking?
The Department of Justice with a blue banner featuring an image of Donald Trump.

Trump’s DOJ doubles down on pipe bomb charges while ditching sedition convictions

Jordan Rubin

The Albina Bulk carrier sits anchored at Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman.

Trump’s naval blockade is a disaster in the making

Zeeshan Aleem

JD Vance; Tom Homan.

Trump encouraged Christians to get political. Now his allies are telling them to stop.

Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump receives a DoorDash delivery of McDonald's outside the Oval Office.

Trump’s McDonald’s photo-op shows he has run out of answers on the economy

Jen Psaki

Photoillustration of three heads of Donald Trump, merged together, stuck within a spinning globe.

Iran doesn’t believe Trump. That’s about to become very dangerous.

Nicholas Grossman

Jerome Powell clasps his hands and looks down while sitting in front of a microphone.

Trump threatens to fire Powell again ahead of Supreme Court ruling on Fed’s independence

Jordan Rubin

Mookie Betts and his teammates walk into Dodger Stadium, all wearing jersey number 42.

One of sports’ biggest lies circulates on Jackie Robinson Day

Kevin B. Blackistone

Eric Swalwell.

As Swalwell exits Congress in disgrace, Republicans concoct weird new conspiracy theory

Steve Benen

Ahmed Shihab‑Eldin at the Opening Night of the Doha Film Festival 2025.

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin detained by Kuwaiti authorities

Erum Salam

Live Nation offices.

Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster had harmful monopoly over big concert venues

The Associated Press

James Talarico speaks into a megaphone under a gazebo-style building. Outside, a crowd of people look at him, some of them filming.

In race for Texas Senate seat, Democrat James Talarico reports massive fundraising haul

Ja'han Jones

Photoillustration of hundred-dollar and one-dollar bills in brackets, surrounded by brackets of different fonts.

The quiet collapse at the heart of America’s tax code

Samarth Gupta

New York Attorney General Letitia James on verdict against Ticketmaster and Live Nation

Lawrence: Trump says ‘nobody has ever ended one war.’ Is that the stupidity or insanity speaking?

Sen. Klobuchar: What Trump is asking for his Iran war could help the lives of Americans

Ilhan Omar says Democrats should embrace Marjorie Taylor Greene

Molly Jong Fast: How a poorly attended TPUSA event capped JD Vance’s ‘humiliation tour’ 

‘Outrageous’: American journalist detained in Kuwait after posting Iran war video

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  1. President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone, only the lower half of his face visible.

    Trump thought he could bully the pope. Leo called his bluff.

    Michael Steele

  2. Donald Trump stands in front of a cross, which is illuminated from behind.

    The backlash to Trump’s ‘blasphemous’ meme was a long time coming. He just didn’t know it.

    Jarvis DeBerry

  3. Photoillustration of J.D. Vance looking downtrodden in calendar day blocks.

    Vance’s weekend may have been even worse than it seemed

    Hayes Brown

  4. Viktor Orbán stands in front of microphones.

    How Péter Magyar brought down Trump’s favorite European strongman

    Julia Sonnevend

  5. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

    Democrats need to start planning now for a return to power

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  6. People of all ages stand in an airplane hangar holding American flags.

    Trump’s refugee gatekeeping is starting to pay off — for one very specific ‘minority’ group

    Hayes Brown

  7. Photoillustration of Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson on a tan background. Donald Trump has a storm cloud over his head, and Tucker Carlson has a check mark over his head.

    The sneaky reason Tucker Carlson and other far-right voices are criticizing Trump

    Nicole Hemmer

  8. A collage showing a silhouette of Donald Trump and acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez

    Trump’s pivot on Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez undercuts what leverage the U.S. still has

    Retired Amb. James Story

  9. A person waving a Hungarian flag celebrates among a crowd of other people.

    Viktor Orbán’s loss is democracy’s gain

    Michael McFaul

  10. Donald Trump, walks forward as Eric and Don Jr. follow him, emerging from behind a blue curtain.

    Why Fox News won’t cover the Trump family’s conflicts of interest

    Matt Gertz

  11. Chris Van Hollen.

    Democrats are falling for a familiar trap on tax cuts

    Zeeshan Aleem

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Opinion

Morning Joe

RacheL Maddow

Deadline: White House

The weekend

NEWSLETTERS

White House

Congress

Supreme Court

Culture

World

Science & Tech

Civil Rights

Business

Sports

Justin Fairfax presides over the Senate at the Virginia State Capitol.
Breaking

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife and then himself, police say

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backlit.

The GOP’s latest attempt to privatize Medicare is a nightmare. RFK Jr. must answer for it.

Rep. Suzan DelBene

George Eastman looks down while speaking in front of a podium.

California attorney who tried to help overturn 2020 election loses law license

The Associated Press

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump talking on the phone in 2019, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the text of their 2019 phone overlayed

Tulsi Gabbard didn’t prove a conspiracy. But she did expose something more alarming.

Hayes Brown

Gabbard revives ‘deep state’ conspiracy claims, alarming Democrats who see a pattern

David Rohde

DNI Gabbard targets whistleblower, ex-inspector general in criminal referral

David Rohde

President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump depart the White House.

Eric Trump joining his father in China isn’t just inappropriate — it sends a message

Zeeshan Aleem

Chris Hayes; Donald Trump.

As his war with Iran rages on, Trump is acting like a madman

Chris Hayes

Gregory Meeks speaks into microphones.

House to vote on constraining Trump’s Iran war — with GOP support undecided

Kevin Frey & Mychael Schnell

Pete Hegseth takes questions during a press briefing on March 31, 2026 at the Pentagon.
Live Updates

Hegseth holds briefing, again threatens Iran with infrastructure strikes
28 minutes ago

Iran’s supreme leader ‘believed to be alive, wounded and disfigured’

Sydney Carruth

46 minutes ago

Gen. Dan Caine threatens Iran with military force amid ceasefire

Sydney Carruth

51 minutes ago

Hegseth: U.S. blockade of Iranian ports will last ‘as long as it takes’

Sydney Carruth

Watch

Officials: U.S. and Iran to likely meet next week

Mejia, Hathaway race to fill House seat in NJ special election

Ebony Davis

President Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

Mehmet Oz says Trump told him that diet soda might help kill cancer cells

Steve Benen

Watch

‘Outrageous’: American journalist detained in Kuwait after posting Iran war video

Tributes — flowers and a sign in the shape of a gravestone that says "RIP USAID 1961-2025" — are placed beneath the covered seal of the USAID at their headquarters.

How I became one of the first whistleblowers of the second Trump administration

Nicholas Enrich

Watch

Wall Street rakes in big returns amid market turmoil 

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Lawrence: Trump says ‘nobody has ever ended one war.’ Is that the stupidity or insanity speaking?
The Department of Justice with a blue banner featuring an image of Donald Trump.

Trump’s DOJ doubles down on pipe bomb charges while ditching sedition convictions

Jordan Rubin

The Albina Bulk carrier sits anchored at Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman.

Trump’s naval blockade is a disaster in the making

Zeeshan Aleem

JD Vance; Tom Homan.

Trump encouraged Christians to get political. Now his allies are telling them to stop.

Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump receives a DoorDash delivery of McDonald's outside the Oval Office.

Trump’s McDonald’s photo-op shows he has run out of answers on the economy

Jen Psaki

Photoillustration of three heads of Donald Trump, merged together, stuck within a spinning globe.

Iran doesn’t believe Trump. That’s about to become very dangerous.

Nicholas Grossman

Jerome Powell clasps his hands and looks down while sitting in front of a microphone.

Trump threatens to fire Powell again ahead of Supreme Court ruling on Fed’s independence

Jordan Rubin

Mookie Betts and his teammates walk into Dodger Stadium, all wearing jersey number 42.

One of sports’ biggest lies circulates on Jackie Robinson Day

Kevin B. Blackistone

Eric Swalwell.

As Swalwell exits Congress in disgrace, Republicans concoct weird new conspiracy theory

Steve Benen

Ahmed Shihab‑Eldin at the Opening Night of the Doha Film Festival 2025.

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin detained by Kuwaiti authorities

Erum Salam

Live Nation offices.

Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster had harmful monopoly over big concert venues

The Associated Press

James Talarico speaks into a megaphone under a gazebo-style building. Outside, a crowd of people look at him, some of them filming.

In race for Texas Senate seat, Democrat James Talarico reports massive fundraising haul

Ja'han Jones

Photoillustration of hundred-dollar and one-dollar bills in brackets, surrounded by brackets of different fonts.

The quiet collapse at the heart of America’s tax code

Samarth Gupta

New York Attorney General Letitia James on verdict against Ticketmaster and Live Nation

Lawrence: Trump says ‘nobody has ever ended one war.’ Is that the stupidity or insanity speaking?

Sen. Klobuchar: What Trump is asking for his Iran war could help the lives of Americans

Ilhan Omar says Democrats should embrace Marjorie Taylor Greene

Molly Jong Fast: How a poorly attended TPUSA event capped JD Vance’s ‘humiliation tour’ 

‘Outrageous’: American journalist detained in Kuwait after posting Iran war video

MS NOW OPINION

Understand Today’s News

  1. President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone, only the lower half of his face visible.

    Trump thought he could bully the pope. Leo called his bluff.

    Michael Steele

  2. Donald Trump stands in front of a cross, which is illuminated from behind.

    The backlash to Trump’s ‘blasphemous’ meme was a long time coming. He just didn’t know it.

    Jarvis DeBerry

  3. Photoillustration of J.D. Vance looking downtrodden in calendar day blocks.

    Vance’s weekend may have been even worse than it seemed

    Hayes Brown

  4. Viktor Orbán stands in front of microphones.

    How Péter Magyar brought down Trump’s favorite European strongman

    Julia Sonnevend

  5. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

    Democrats need to start planning now for a return to power

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  6. People of all ages stand in an airplane hangar holding American flags.

    Trump’s refugee gatekeeping is starting to pay off — for one very specific ‘minority’ group

    Hayes Brown

  7. Photoillustration of Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson on a tan background. Donald Trump has a storm cloud over his head, and Tucker Carlson has a check mark over his head.

    The sneaky reason Tucker Carlson and other far-right voices are criticizing Trump

    Nicole Hemmer

  8. A collage showing a silhouette of Donald Trump and acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez

    Trump’s pivot on Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez undercuts what leverage the U.S. still has

    Retired Amb. James Story

  9. A person waving a Hungarian flag celebrates among a crowd of other people.

    Viktor Orbán’s loss is democracy’s gain

    Michael McFaul

  10. Donald Trump, walks forward as Eric and Don Jr. follow him, emerging from behind a blue curtain.

    Why Fox News won’t cover the Trump family’s conflicts of interest

    Matt Gertz

  11. Chris Van Hollen.

    Democrats are falling for a familiar trap on tax cuts

    Zeeshan Aleem

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Portrait of American NASA astronaut Eileen Collins at the Pilot's Station on Shuttle Discovery.

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Annika Malacinski smiles with her ski outside.

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This is a video screenshot, showing Mamdana Dayani interviewing Noor Pahlavi - side by side.

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Halle Berry poses for photos at a red carpet event.

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A graphic headlined "Forbes 30/50 Summit." On it, photos from (top left, clockwise) Simone Biles, Diane von Furstenburg, Sophia Bush and Diana Flores.

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Shot of a young black businesswoman looking stressed out in an office.

The words that slipped out after HR fired me still terrify me

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Maddowblog

Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not
16h ago
Maddowblog

Wednesday’s Mini-Report, 4.15.26
17h ago
News

What we know about the U.S.-Iran ceasefire — and what could unravel it
17h ago
News

After Bondi skips testimony, top Oversight Democrat warns interim AG: You’re next
19h ago
Maddowblog

Pressed on controversial FEMA official, Trump asks, ‘What does teleport mean?’
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