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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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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 …
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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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“Horrifying”: Trump's Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked — After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday. He ranted and rambled delusionally about how everything is just great.
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Buffett denies social media rumors after Trump shares wild claim that investor backs president crashing market — WATCH NOW — Warren Buffett went on the record Friday to deny social media posts after President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social a fan video that claimed the president …
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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 …
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‘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.
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America's astonishing act of self-harm
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Breaking | China hits back at US with 34% tariff on American imports in retaliation for Trump's duties
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MSNBC Host: Trump's Treasury Sec ‘Looking for an Exit Door’
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China hit brakes on TikTok deal after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs, AP source says
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Wall Street thinks Trump's tariffs will eat Main Street alive
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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
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As stock market continues plummeting over tariffs, Trump spends the day at his golf course
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China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs
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Appeals Court orders new vote calculations in NC Supreme Court election dispute — The North Carolina Court of Appeals split, 2-1, in ordering the state elections board to recalculate vote totals in the disputed 2024 state Supreme Court election. — Voters with incomplete registration records …
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Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election
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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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Judge orders Trump administration to bring back Md. man mistakenly deported
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US judge to hear lawsuit of man deported to El Salvador in error
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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 …


Judge finds FEMA withholding grants in violation of court order — A federal judge Friday ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to disburse millions of dollars of grants to Democratic-led states, finding the administration's withholding of the funds breached his previous ruling.
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Divided Supreme Court sides with Trump to block teacher grants
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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 …
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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.


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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Conversation At Hamilton College
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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 …


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.


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 …


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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes.


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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