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6:15 PM ET, April 2, 2025

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New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Unveils Sweeping Tariffs on All Imports  —  A 10 percent tariff will apply to all countries, but key trading partners like Europe and China will face rates two and three times as high.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump unveiled his most expansive tariffs to date …
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
McConnell breaks with party to reject Trump's Canada tariffs  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell privately indicated to Sen. Tim Kaine he would back the Virginia Democrat's resolution to undo President Donald Trump's Canada tariffs.  Kaine told reporters Wednesday that the former GOP leader told …
Paul Krugman:
Trump Goes Crazy on Trade  —  “Liberation Day” is even worse than expected  —  Just a quick update after Trump's Rose Garden speech.  —  I guess it's just possible that when we get details about the Trump tariffs they will be lower than what he just announced, but based on what he said, he's gone full-on crazy.
Discussion: ABC News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump launches tariffs, saying global trade has ‘looted, pillaged, raped, plundered’ US economy  —  President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States …
Paul Krugman:
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness  —  From Apocalypse Now: … Today, according to Trump and co., is Liberation Day — the day Trump will announce big new tariffs on top of the substantial tariffs he's already slapped on steel, aluminum and autos.  —  Nobody knows much about the details …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg:
Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon  —  The president is pleased with Musk but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.  —  President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping …
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
Musk has been everywhere. A new poll says Americans don't approve.
Dasha Burns / Politico:
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world  —  It's a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration's national security team relies on Signal.  —  National security adviser Mike Waltz's …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country  —  Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans.  —  Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history’  —  Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “may have changed the course of political history” with his marathon speech breaking the Senate's record for the longest floor speech in its history.
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Mahablog, Raw Story and Vibe
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Tracey Tully / New York Times:
‘Finally Some Fire’: Cory Booker's 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home
Dani Blum / New York Times:
The Physiology of Cory Booker's 25-Hour Senate Speech
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Why Cory Booker's Speech Matters
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Jesse Zanger / CBS News:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams corruption case dismissed with prejudice, judge rules  —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams' historic federal corruption case has been dropped.  —  Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so “with prejudice.”
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Associated Press:
Judge dismisses corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback  —  Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.  —  WASHINGTON ― Emails show that the Social Security Administration canceled contracts …
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Chris Isidore / CNN:
Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history  —  Tesla sales plunged 13% in the first three months of this year, as the company reported the largest drop in deliveries in its history by far, amid backlash against CEO Elon Musk and as growing competition from other automakers' electric vehicles took …
New York Times:
Inside Elite Law Firms, Protests and Quitting After Trump Deals  —  The discontent does not appear to be resonating with leaders at Paul Weiss and Skadden, but it could hamstring their recruitment efforts.  —  Ever since the elite law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden reached deals with President Trump …
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New York Times:
Read the Letter to the Chairman of Paul Weiss
Discussion: Raw Story
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Former aide slams California Democrat in video announcing primary campaign  —  Jake Rakov, a former aide to Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), on Wednesday announced he is launching a primary challenge against his onetime boss.  —  In a video announcing his campaign, Rakov directly criticized Sherman …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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Politico:
Scoop: Becerra jumps into field to succeed Newsom
Washington Post:
How the Trump administration took aim at Maine  —  Maine has faced investigations and arbitrary reversals of funding, turning it into a test case for the Trump administration's approach to perceived adversaries.
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk Can't Take the Heat  —  The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working.  So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.  —  Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what's ailing America: It's being destroyed by empathy.  In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Hunter Biden tax informant set to control IRS criminal division  —  The Trump administration has placed a political appointee in charge of tax investigations, in a break with longtime precedent.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration is amassing influence over criminal investigations at the IRS …
Discussion: Fortune and al.com
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval falls to 43%, lowest since returning to office, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to 43%, the lowest since his return to office, as Americans soured on his tariff moves and his administration's handling of information about a military strike in Yemen, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Discussion: 19FortyFive and Forbes
New York Times:
Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.  —  The e-commerce giant put in a last-minute offer for the popular video app, according to three people familiar with the talks.  TikTok faces a Saturday deadline to change its ownership structure.  —  Amazon has put in a last-minute bid …
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Washington Post:
Trump team has weighed deal to save TikTok that would leave algorithm in Chinese ownership
Al Root / Barron's Online:
The Stock Market Pain Is Just Getting Started.  'This is How You Sabotage the World's Economic Engine.'  —  The stock market was slumping after President Donald Trump made his tariff announcement.  To state the obvious, it was worse than investors feared and now they need to figure out what it means for stocks over the rest of 2025.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How to leak to a journalist  —  Planning to leak?  Read these tips first.  —  There's a lot out there to leak.  —  The second Trump administration, historically unfriendly to the press, has thrown Washington into chaos.  Tens of thousands of federal employees have been placed on leave …
Ale Franqueza / Migrant Insider:
ICE Raids Idaho Lawmaker's Farm  —  State Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen was reported to ICE for speaking out against Trump's immigration policies.  —  An Idaho Republican state representative has accused her own party of weaponizing federal immigration authorities against her after she publicly …
Discussion: NewsNation and InvestigateWest
Reuters:
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally  —  U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Discussion: Politico and Defense One
NBC News:
‘We were lied to:’ Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out  —  The women's accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration's vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison.  —  On March 15, the Trump administration loaded …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
M. Gessen / New York Times:
Unmarked Vans.  Secret Lists.  Public Denunciations.  Our Police State Has Arrived.  —  “It's the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said.  He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's abduction.
Discussion: Fox News and Jewish Insider
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65  —  A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable.  At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.  —  Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
In a new book, top Biden aide describes ‘out of it’ president before Trump debate  —  Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple then president could not focus and obsessed about foreign leaders ahead of debate that ended his campaign  —  In a new book, Joe Biden's former White House chief …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Hunter Biden gives up law license in Washington, D.C., avoiding disbarment proceedings  —  The voluntary decision to accept disbarment avoids potentially protracted proceedings over whether Hunter Biden's two prior criminal cases required him to lose his law license.
 
 
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NBC News:
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N.Y.U. Cancels Doctor's Speech at the Last Minute, Citing Anti-Government Tone
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Politico:
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Michelle Van Cleave / The Hill:
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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
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Coco Gong / The Princetonian:
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