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Elon Musk's team has gotten access to the Treasury Department's payments system. — Trump tariffs: The Canadian government has been notified by the United States government that goods exported to the United States will be subject to a 25 percent tariff, with a lower rate for Canadian oil …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk's representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump launches trade war against Canada with with 25 per cent tariff on most goods — U.S. president slaps 25% tariff on most Canadian goods — Canada braces for threatened U.S. tariffs — President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff …
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The United States Senate Committee on Finance:
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System — In New Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent, Wyden Warns That Political Meddling in Treasury Payments Risks Severe Economic Damage, Calls Out Dangerous Conflicts …
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TechCrunch, Truthout, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times and Mediaite
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Did you hear about the Friday coup? — The Handbasket is 100% subscriber-funded. If you want to support independent media during these dark times for democracy, become a paid subscriber today. — Story updated 4:35pm ET — This week felt like the first battle of a long war—and that's because it was.
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Business Today:
‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump's ‘first friend’ Elon Musk's Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war — Canada's EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US. — Business Today Desk
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Crooks and Liars, The Canadian Press, Althouse and InsideEVs
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Canada Poised to Retaliate Against Trump Tariffs, Rethink US Reliance — Freeland, a candidate for PM, calls for tariffs on Tesla cars — Levies will first hit goods easy to substitute, minister says — Canada is set to introduce escalating retaliatory counter-tariffs to try …
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Washington Post:
Trump signs order imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China — It's the first official action of the president's second-term trade war. — President Donald Trump on Saturday imposed tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, the nation's three largest trading partners …
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers — The new levies on America's top trade partners could drive prices higher for cars, electronics, lumber and more, threatening to crimp an economy that the president has vowed to improve.
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API:
API Statement on Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China — The American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement from President and CEO Mike Sommers on the Trump administration's decision to impose tariffs on U.S. imports from Canada, Mexico and China.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Dumbest Trade War in History
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for US consumers
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Tariffs Are Coming on Computer Chips, Steel and More
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Jason Lalljee / Axios:
Trump tariffs will cost U.S. households $830 a year, study says
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NBC News:
Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings — Brian Driscoll pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed. Driscoll has so far not handed over the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6th cases.
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Eric Reinhart / New Republic:
The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the Los Angeles Times Didn't Want You to Read — Editors note: As The New Republic reported on Friday, the Los Angeles Times—currently in a race to the bottom with The Washington Post to determine which of the two venerable institutions can sell out to Donald Trump the hardest …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Ken Martin wins election as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee — The DNC's chair election marks a first step for a party looking to fill a void of leadership after the 2024 election. — Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the state Democratic Party organization in Minnesota …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Who Is Ken Martin, the New Leader of the D.N.C.?
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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
The Truth About Democrats, According to Amy Klobuchar — Let's skip the happy talk: Democrats are in a dark place. It's not merely that Donald Trump has rolled back into Washington with an everything-everywhere-all-at- once approach to grabbing power. The new president is buoyed by eager …
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government — Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now — I've long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country …
Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid — Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work. — Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut …
Makena Kelly / Wired:
DOGE Staff Had Questions About the ‘Resign’ Email. Their New HR Chief Dodged Them — “I think the information that you're going to have about this is available to you right now,” Stephanie Holmes told workers at Elon Musk's DOGE who pressed for detail on offers of “deferred resignation.”
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Pentagon to swap traditional media with pro-Trump outlets under new rotational program for Defense Department workspace — One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night.
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Amanda Terkel / NBC News:
Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations in new ‘rotation program’
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Alex Galbraith / Salon:
Defense Dept. evicts NBC, NPR, NYT from Pentagon offices to make way for Breitbart, OANN
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators …
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Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Rebecca Lobach ID'd as female soldier inside doomed Black Hawk during DC crash — The U.S. Army has identified the female soldier in the doomed Black Hawk helicopter which crashed into an American Airlines flight this week, killing more than 60 people. — Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘There will be many casualties’: Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talks — On the ground in Panama City ahead of Marco Rubio's first trip as secretary of State. — PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio's weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years …
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Rubio embarks on mission impossible: Retake the Panama Canal
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Washington Post:
Army helicopter was alerted to plane's presence two minutes before collision — It was the first of two warnings before the crash that left 67 people feared dead, radio transmissions show. — Audio: Air traffic control warns helicopter of plane — Air traffic controllers twice alerted …
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