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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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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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Senate Approves G.O.P. Budget Plan After Overnight Vote-a-Thon
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Americans Were Souring on Trump's Economic Plans Even Before Tariff Bloodbath
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US consumers rush to buy big-ticket items before Trump's tariffs kick in
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Associated Press and The Hill

Trump Tax Cut, Debt Limit Plan Advances Amid Tariff Turmoil
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Must Read Alaska, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal, Axios, The Hill and Daily Caller News Foundation

House Republican moves to rein in tariff powers
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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, Raw Story and Washington Post


Musk slams key Trump adviser Navarro as tariffs bite — Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials. — Why it matters: The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping …
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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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Buffett denies social media rumors after Trump shares wild claim that investor backs president crashing market
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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
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Observer-Dispatch, The Guardian, Syracuse Post-Standard, ABC News, The Hill and Washington Examiner

Jerry Nadler on Trump's university attacks: 'He doesn't give a damn about antisemitism'
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Obama on Trump: ‘Imagine if I had done any of this’
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Breitbart and The Hill


138. Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power — Federal courts don't have jurisdiction over foreign prisons. That doesn't mean that they're powerless when the U.S. government wrongly removes someone from the United States. — Welcome back to “One First,” an …
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Trump Admin Dismisses Judge's Order to Bring Back Man Accidentally Sent to El Salvador — “We suggest the judge contact President Bukele,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt … “We suggest the judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction …
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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants — The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they're seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without authorization.


The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library — We now have a list of the 381 books that have been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland. Many of the books in the list fall under categories such as Critical Race Theory, Gender and Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies, etc.
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Big Law Firms Struck a Truce With Trump—and Set Off a Clash With Recruits — Law students at top schools reconsider offers at Skadden and other firms while associates cancel interviews in protest — Campus recruiting is the newest front in the Trump-induced turmoil at some of the country's most prominent law firms.
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Hundreds of law firms, former judges sign onto briefs in support of Perkins Coie
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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.


Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger — The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country's fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections. — When President Trump abruptly fired …
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Firing of National Security Agency Chief Rattles Lawmakers — Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who was also the head of U.S. Cyber Command, was one of several national security officials fired on the advice of a conspiracy theorist. — As soon as word spread that President Trump had fired Gen. Timothy D. Haugh …
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US embassy's response to Russia's Kryvyi Rih attack ‘surprisingly disappointing,’ 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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The Kyiv Independent, Euromaidan Press, 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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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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Tariffs bring overnight economic chaos — In one 48-minute speech, President Trump scrambled every American's budget, every U.S. company's balance sheet and every global alliance. — Tariffs, a sometimes obscure economic tool, have massive power, especially when enacted this expansively.
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The Theories Behind the Trump Shock
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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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You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad … This is an oft-quoted passage from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. And it's one that has proven especially popular in the years since the rise of Trump and explosion of global authoritarianism. — I open with it here because I …


‘Hands Off!’ protests against Trump and Musk are planned across the US — Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk plan to rally across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration's actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.
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