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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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Trump Tax Cut, Debt Limit Plan Advances Amid Tariff Turmoil — Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump's tax cut agenda and increasing the debt ceiling that could inject a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled by the president's tariff policies.
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Daily Caller News Foundation and Semafor


Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after late-night session — Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurtling past hardened Democratic opposition toward …
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NPR, New York Times, NBC News, Wausau, HuffPost, Associated Press, Politico and National Review


Senate Approves G.O.P. Budget Plan After Overnight Vote-a-Thon — Republicans pushed through their blueprint for tax and spending cuts after Democrats forced them to cast politically painful votes into the early morning on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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A scary quote for the GOP on Trump and tariffs — What if Trump is willing to go down with the tariff ship — and take his party with him? — Just now — Perhaps the most infamous quote Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) ever offered about Donald Trump came in May 2016.
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‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs
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Wall Street Journal, Mediaite and Raw Story

Fate of the Filibuster Emerges as a Central Issue in Senate Budget Fight
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Roll Call, New York Post, The Nevada Independent, The Federalist, NBC News, Slate, Politico and Washington Post


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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April 4, 2025 — The stock market rout continued today. As expected, China announced …
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New York Times and The Mahablog

Trump's Tariffs Are a Self-Inflicted Debacle
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Friday's stock market comes after a historically bad day as investors react to Trump's tariff plan
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Americans Were Souring on Trump's Economic Plans Even Before Tariff Bloodbath
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Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda — In a campus speech, the former president said universities should be prepared to lose federal funds to defend academic freedom, rather than be “intimidated.” — Just now — Former president Barack Obama called …
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Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up for Core Values — As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn't be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out opposing voices.
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USA Today, Observer-Dispatch, Syracuse Post-Standard, Barack Obama, Breitbart, ABC News, The Hill and Washington Examiner


Hundreds of law firms, former judges sign onto briefs in support of Perkins Coie — Hundreds of law firms and former judges have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Perkins Coie as the law firm challenges President Trump's executive order targeting it.
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Business Insider and Reuters
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More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump
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Hundreds of law firms back Perkins Coie in fight against Trump sanctions
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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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Electrek and Heatmap News


U.S. Peace Corps says Musk's DOGE has arrived at its HQ — Members of Elon Musk's cost-cutting team arrived at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, the agency told Reuters, a signal it could become the latest U.S. government agency to face job cuts. — “Staff from the Department …
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IRS will cut 25% of its employees, eliminating its civil rights office
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IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say
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WAGA-TV, Fox News, GovExec.com and Wausau


US embassy's response to Russia's Kryvyi Rih attack ‘unpleasantly surprising,’ Zelensky says. — The U.S. Embassy to Ukraine's response to Russia's attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on April 4, which killed 19 people and injured 68, was “unpleasantly surprising,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 5.
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Russian Strike on Zelenskiy's Home Town Kills 19 People
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Euromaidan Press, The Kyiv Independent, Associated Press, KTVZ-TV and Al Jazeera


Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On — The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel's version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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The Irish Times and Drop Site News


New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order — New York's stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration's threats. — The New York State Education Department on Friday issued a defiant response …
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These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
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RFK Jr. said HHS would rehire thousands of fired workers. That wasn't true. — The health department has no plan to mass reinstate employees it cut earlier this week. — When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that he planned to rehire 20 percent of the employees he'd just terminated …
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RFK Jr. Says He's Rehiring Thousands Of People He Mistakenly Fired
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre — Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE.


President Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error. — President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent.
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Drezner's World, Asia Times, Reuters, Washington Post, Axios, CBC News and FactCheck.org


George Santos Should Get Seven Years for Campaign Fraud, US Says — Trump's $1.6 Trillion Corporate Pledge Parade: What's Real, What's Not … Year of Elections
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Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs — As stocks continued to slide after markets opened, President Trump is speaking at a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner Friday at Mar-a-Lago, according to an invitation reviewed by CBS News.
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Judge orders Trump administration to bring back Md. man mistakenly deported — U.S. officials have argued in court records that the United States is powerless to effectuate his return because he is now in Salvadoran custody, and that Kilmar Abrego García's lawyers have “not clearly shown” that he would face harm in the prison.
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The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says
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Trump Rejects Biden Plan to Expand Medicare Coverage for Obesity Drugs — Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid. — The Trump administration …
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Reuters, Politico, Roll Call, Associated Press, KTVZ-TV, The Hill, Washington Examiner and STAT


Montana GOP censures 9 Senate Republicans for working with Dems — HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Republican Party announced Friday it is censuring nine state senators after “repeated alignment with Senate Democrats” this legislative session. — A press release claims the senators …


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 …