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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison — Sign up for Trump's Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. — The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status …
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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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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 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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Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
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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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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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Democrats Have Problems. Turning Out for Special Elections Isn't One of Them.
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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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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 Cory Booker Staffer Was Arrested for Carrying a Gun on Capitol Grounds, Police Said
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker speaks through the night to protest Trump's agenda
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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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Fauci's Successor Put on Leave as RFK Jr. Reshapes Agencies
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Attorney General Pamela Bondi Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione — For Immediate Release — Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement: — “Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children …
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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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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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'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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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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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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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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A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? — Navarro says tariffs will raise $600 billion a year for the government, but he says this is a tax cut. — Click for Sound — Financial markets have the shakes as President Trump prepares to launch his next big tariff salvo on Wednesday.
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Tariffs only “work” if they make prices higher
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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.


Professors Pushed Harvard to Resist Trump. Now Billions Are on the Line. — 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 …
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Alabama Can't Prosecute Those Who Help With Out-of-State Abortions, Judge Rules — The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state. — Alabama cannot prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations …
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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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23 states, DC sue Trump administration over billions in lost public health funding — Democratic attorneys general and governors in 23 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
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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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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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Caine denies Trump's MAGA hat tale — The nominee for the Joint Chiefs chair said the president “was actually talking about somebody else.” — Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, the nominee for Joint Chiefs chair, on Tuesday disputed President Donald Trump's claim that he donned a MAGA hat when they met in Iraq.
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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 …


Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen — The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law — The truth of the Marine Le Pen story is simple. She fucked around. She got found out. — What did she actually do?
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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 …


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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Doug Emhoff's Law Firm Is Said to Be Trump's Next Target — The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented President Trump's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. — The law firm that employs Doug Emhoff …
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When ‘Owning The Libs’ > The Constitution — Third Term Momentum — WILL DONALD TRUMP IGNORE THE CONSTITUTION and run for a third term in 2028? Would Republicans support it? — Trump himself is clearly open to it, or at least doing his best to pretend to be.
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