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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison — The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction …
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The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act — The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses. — Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine.
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Trump Admin Admits Deporting the Wrong Guy to El Salvador Mega Prison. They Still Won't Bring Him Home — DOUBLING DOWN — Despite the “error,” the federal government doesn't plan to bring him home and says the courts can't make them. — The Trump administration admitted …


Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador — The Department of Justice says it has no recourse now that the man is in his home country, where he'd previously feared torture and persecution. — The Trump administration acknowledged late Monday …
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Innocent (in a Brutal Prison) Abroad — Big night for developments in the field of White House mass-deportation rake steps. Let's get right into it. Happy Tuesday. — Ordeal of Innocence — by William Kristol — Last night, Nick Miroff of the Atlantic reported …
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Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
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Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food — Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
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The CDC Has Been Gutted — Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. — Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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D-Day for Musk: Democrats in Special Elections Target Trump's DOGE Chief — Special Elections Reveal Trump's Weak Spot: Elon Musk — DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trumpeting new tariffs he hopes will return industry to America, President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day.”
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Trump Hit by Brutal New Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear … President Donald Trump is set to announce that he'll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly to try to shield their states and districts from the fallout.
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Trump's “Art of the Deal” hits new hurdles — President Trump's global dealmaking blitz is facing new obstacles, with early optimism eclipsed by broken ceasefires, pissed-off allies and thinning patience at home and abroad. — Why it matters: Ten weeks isn't a long time in foreign policy.
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GOP senators line up with Democrats to oppose Trump's Canada tariffs
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Republican Anxiety Grows as Florida Races Test Trump Strength
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America's Moral Moment on the Senate Floor — Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed a...
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Inside Cory Booker's Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor — A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening — and he doesn't plan on leaving it any time soon. In a text message to TPM, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was about to begin speaking for as long as he could stand.
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Booker talks through the night in marathon floor speech to protest Trump
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker speaks through the night to protest Trump's agenda
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'I don't know anyone that isn't pissed off at him': Trump world turns on Lutnick — As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration. — Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of …
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Markets Remain Uneasy as Trump Prepares to Impose Sweeping ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs
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A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase?
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Tariffs only “work” if they make prices higher
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House GOP leaders move to kill proxy-voting effort — Speaker Mike Johnson's clash with a fellow Republican over allowing proxy voting for new parents in the House is set to play out on the floor Tuesday. The House Rules Committee approved a measure that would effectively kill Florida …
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Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at stake in race that's drawn powerful political interests
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Democrats Have Problems. Turning Out for Special Elections Isn't One of Them.
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Democrats Sue to Block Trump Bid to Control Elections
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DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show — The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost. — The DOGE-affiliated acting president …
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Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks — Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth … Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what's left of USAID …
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As Republicans Target Colleges, Harvard Cower — Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway. — The Trump administration has turned campaign promises …
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” — Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
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Immigrant removals continue slide under Trump, new data show — The Trump administration's pace of removing immigrants from the U.S. continues to lag behind Joe Biden's pace last year, even as detentions have jumped under President Trump, new numbers show. — Driving the news …


The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted — The looming economic contraction will be unique in past-war America in that it will be the first directly caused by White House policy. — The US economy is plodding toward a recession, a result of the Trump administration's pursuit …
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Ten weeks that shook the world — On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power — Civilisations are not murdered, said the historian Arnold Toynbee. They die from suicide. Though military clout and geographic fortune will sustain America, its republic is flirting with Toynbee's script.


EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump's mega tariffs — Brussels sees America's transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles' heel. — BRUSSELS — It's one thing to hit Harley-Davidson motorbikes and bourbon whiskey. It's another to go after Silicon Valley or Wall Street.
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DOJ to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in CEO Brian Thompson murder case … Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said she had ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case against Luigi Mangione in connection with the December slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.
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Center for Public Integrity Is Shutting Down — Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group. — The Center for Public Integrity, a thirty-six-year-old nonprofit newsroom in Washington, DC …


Massive layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies — The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services. — April 1, 2025 — The Fix — Analysis — Aaron Blake
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Senate Democrat will block Trump's VA nominees to protest cuts — Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says he will put a hold on President Trump's nominees to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs to protest cuts at the agency that provides lifelong healthcare services to military veterans.
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