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➤ Louis DeJoy resigned Monday as U.S. Postmaster General after nearly five years on the job, following an agreement with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help overhaul the agency. (More)

➤ President Trump will nominate acting director Susan Monarez to permanently lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House confirmed. (See Details)

➤ Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday he’ll join his wife, Usha, on a trip to Greenland. Local leaders criticized the trip as an attempt to show “power over us.” (More)

Security Leak Fallout Hits Capitol Hill

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said he took “full responsibility” for mistakenly adding Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, to a Signal group chat where top officials discussed upcoming airstrikes in Yemen.

Democrats have called for the resignations of Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the leak, but Trump said the error had “no impact at all” on the operation and that he was standing behind Waltz.

Intelligence chiefs Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, questioned on the issue by Senate Democrats Tuesday, said they didn’t share any classified material in the chat.

White House and Pentagon leaders also denied accusations that Hegseth shared military secrets. Hegseth, traveling in Hawaii, attacked Goldberg as a “deceitful journalist.”

Russia Probe Files to be Released

Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the FBI to declassify all documents related to the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia.

Calling the FBI investigation a “total weaponization,” Trump said Americans deserve to see the evidence and predicted the media would avoid it.

The FBI launched the investigation in 2016, and special counsel Robert Mueller later found no criminal conspiracy but stopped short of clearing Trump of obstruction.

The declassification follows years of contention, with Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report concluding the FBI lacked evidence to start the probe and failed to act on intelligence suggesting the probe was based on a Clinton campaign effort to link Trump to Russia.

Mapped: Every State’s Income Tax

Since 2000, 23 U.S. states have cut their top income tax rates, with Iowa leading the way—slashing its top rate by more than 5 percentage points. See a state-by-state breakdown.

Tennessee and New Hampshire went further, scrapping income taxes altogether and joining six other states with no income tax.

Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., raised rates, with Washington state’s 7% capital gains tax (counted as income) marking the biggest jump.

On the high end, California (13.3%), Hawai’i (11%), and New York (10.9%) still impose steep top rates—California’s climbs to 14.4% when payroll levies are included.