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Washington Post:
Inside President Trump's whirlwind decision to upend global trade  —  Ultimately, Trump resolved to follow his own instincts — and was surrounded by senior officials who enabled him.  —  Not long after President Donald Trump's inauguration, the administration's economic staff went to work …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House Republican moves to rein in tariff powers  —  Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at reclaiming Congress' authority over tariffs, becoming the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Associated Press and CNBC
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Shares Video About How He Is ‘Purposely Crashing the Stock Market’  —  Several close allies of the president told Rolling Stone they were “at a loss for words” when asked about the video … Economists are warning that the president's actions are putting not just the United States …
Financial Times:
America's astonishing act of self-harm  —  Trump's tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity  —  If it endures, Donald Trump's decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Gavin Newsom angles for California exemptions to Trump trade war  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he is pursuing agreements with other countries to ensure California is exempted from retaliatory tariffs aimed at the U.S.  —  Why it matters: President Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs spurred global blowback.
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs  —  While lobbyists, business leaders, and lawmakers are worried about Donald Trump's tariffs, there's a culture of fear in Washington preventing many from speaking out.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dharna Noor / The Guardian:
‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
New Republic:   Transcript: Trump's Tariff Madness Can Be Stopped. Here's How.
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Ted Cruz warns Trump tariffs could be ‘terrible for America’
CNBC:
Dow drops 1,400 points, Nasdaq set to close in bear market as Trump tariff sell-off worsens: Live updates  —  The stock market took another pounding Friday after China retaliated with new tariffs on U.S. goods, further lending credibility to fears of a trade war that could spark a global a recession.
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South China Morning Post:
Breaking | China hits back at US with 34% tariff on American imports in retaliation for Trump's duties
Ruxandra Iordache / CNBC:
China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs
New York Times:
Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election  —  The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November.  The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.  —  In the prolonged legal battle …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Carolina Journal:
Appeals Court orders new vote calculations in NC Supreme Court election dispute
Associated Press:
The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says  —  A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison …
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Washington Post:
Judge orders Trump administration to bring back Md. man mistakenly deported
Discussion: CBS News, Axios and Bridge Michigan
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Divided Supreme Court sides with Trump to block teacher grants
Liz Essley Whyte / Wall Street Journal:
Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.'s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance  —  Peter Marks says the new health secretary's team wants to show vaccines aren't safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments  —  The top vaccine regulator ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits  —  The liberal group Data For Progress conducted the survey of likely Democratic voters.  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading Chuck Schumer by double digits in a new head-to-head poll of the 2028 New York primary.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Hundreds of law firms back Perkins Coie in fight against Trump sanctions  —  The largest U.S. firms did not join a court filing supporting Perkins Coie and denouncing President Trump's orders targeting firms.  —  just now  —  More than 500 law firms on Friday denounced President Donald Trump's campaign …
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Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault  —  Actor and comedian charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, say police  —  The comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape as well as two counts of sexual assault.
Shannon Osaka / Washington Post:
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled  —  Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.  —  Just now  —  Over the past few years, electric vehicle manufacturing facilities producing lithium batteries …
Discussion: Electrek
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Skips Return Of Dead U.S. Soldiers To Play Golf And Boost His Business Instead  —  The four Army soldiers died in a training exercise in Lithuania.  Trump chose to attend his personal business partners' dinner Thursday and play golf Friday.  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump skipped …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Obama says he is ‘deeply concerned’ with the Trump administration's targeting of students, journalists and law firms  —  His comments came on the same day that former Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke out against the administration.  —  Former President Barack Obama said he is …
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever  —  Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration's direction …
Washington Post:
IRS will cut 25% of its employees, eliminating its civil rights office  —  The tax agency began telling employees about the coming reduction in emails sent Friday.  —  Just now  —  The Internal Revenue Service plans to eliminate nearly a quarter of its workforce in layoffs starting Friday …
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
It's a terrifying time for free speech and civil liberties in Trump's America  —  We don't have to imagine what Trump would do with wartime powers.  He's already doing it, and U.S. citizens could be next.  —  President Donald Trump is running headlong into his radical reimagining of America …
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
RFK Jr. Says He's Rehiring Thousands Of People He Mistakenly Fired  —  The cuts were a mistake he'd always planned to make, Kennedy said in head-scratching remarks.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, told reporters Thursday that he plans …
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Nintendo Halts Switch 2 Pre-Orders Over Trump's Tariffs  —  New tariffs threaten massive price hikes on gaming hardware and other consumer goods  —  Switch 2 pre-orders were supposed to begin on April 9.  No longer.  In an unprecedented move, Nintendo announced on Friday that it's halting pre-orders …
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Trump's Jewish Cover Story … The Trump administration wants you to know that it's just looking out for Jews.  In recent weeks, the White House has cited anti-Semitism as the motivation for many of its controversial moves, whether deporting foreign students who allegedly engaged …
Discussion: The Forward and MPR News
Thomas Frank / Politico:
FEMA chief given lie detector test after leak of private meeting  —  The Department of Homeland Security tested acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton shortly after he met with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.  —  The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was given a lie detector test …
 
 
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately, citing an “error”
Discussion: Politico
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Judge blocks Trump's takeover of Inter-American Foundation
Alex Fitzpatrick / Axios:
Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
Lauren Rosenthal / Bloomberg:
US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract Cuts
Discussion: Axios, KTVZ-TV and Common Dreams
CBS News:
Bernie Sanders warns the U.S. is now a “pseudo-democracy”
Discussion: Jacobin
 Earlier Items: 
Diane Harris / New York Times:
How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
Siddarth S / Reuters:
Global brokerages raise recession odds; J.P.Morgan sees 60% chance
Paul Krugman:
How a Con Man President Is Destroying Confidence
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and C-SPAN.org
NPR:
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
Discussion: Daily Kos and MBA
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Bloomberg:
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CNBC:
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