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11:40 PM ET, April 6, 2025

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New York Times:
After a Blowout Week, Wall Street Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos  —  The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs.  They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week's major sell-off.  —  There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend.
Discussion: Fortune
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CNBC:
Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market rout escalates: Live updates  —  U.S. stock futures dropped on Sunday evening as the White House remained defiant even after a two-day historic stock market rout that followed President Donald Trump's rollout of shockingly high tariff rates on most key U.S. trading partners.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Mediaite, Wausau, VINnews and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Stock Futures, Nikkei Plunge as Tariff Turmoil Deepens  —  Oil prices and Treasury yields also fell as President Trump stood firm on imposing tariffs that investors fear will clobber the global economy  —  More pain appears to be in store for markets after their worst week to start a quarter since 2008.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Unbowed, Is Enacting Change on Scale Rarely Seen Before  —  Financial markets, universities, law firms and world leaders are reeling from the president's agenda, but White House officials say this was always the plan  —  WASHINGTON—And it's only been 77 days.
New York Times:
Stocks in Asia Fall Sharply, Extending a Rout Caused by Trump's Tariffs  —  Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index before regular trading begins on Monday, added to last week's sell-off.  —  Financial markets were hit hard by another wave of selling at the start …
Discussion: The Hill
Hakyung Kim / CNBC:
Trump not trying to crash market with tariffs, says White House economic advisor … A crashing stock market is not part of an intentional strategy by President Donald Trump, White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett told ABC's “This Week” on Sunday.
Associated Press:
Trump says he's not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel
Rolling Stone:
Trump to America as Markets Crash: ‘Sometimes You Have to Take Medicine’
Discussion: The Mahablog
Amala Balakrishner / CNBC:   Hong Kong's Hang Seng plunges nearly 10%, mainland's China CSI 300 slumps about 5% on trade war worries
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Trump says he doesn't want stocks to go down, ‘but sometimes you have to take medicine’
Discussion: Business Insider and Al Jazeera
CNN:
Dow futures tumble as the massive market sell-off continues
Discussion: New York Times
John Helton / Associated Press:
Democrats hammer Trump for his weekend of golf as stocks tumble
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Cecilia Vega / CBS News:
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador  —  Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago.
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Associated Press:
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’  —  The U.S. government's decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
DOJ suspends attorney who said Maryland man's deportation was a mistake
Danny Nguyen / Politico:
Kennedy announces support for measles vaccine amid outbreak  —  The statement is a surprising turn for the health secretary and comes amid reports of a second child's death.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who spent years promoting debunked theories and sowing doubts about the safety …
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New York Times:
Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report ‘fake news’  —  Markwayne Mullin recounted how a reporter fatally shot a former congressman in 1890, adding there might be less “fake news ... if we could still handle our differences that way.”
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: how the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat  —  Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making  —  Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz included a journalist …
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Zack Stanton / Politico:   Playbook: The Resistance arrives
NBC News:
Treasury Sec. Bessent says 'there doesn't have to be a recession': Full interview  —  Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent exclusively joins Meet the Press days after President Donald Trump unveiled expansive tariffs on the United States' largest trading partners.
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough.  Layoffs are delaying it.  —  A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
Tom Sherwood / Washington City Paper:
Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.  —  President Donald Trump for years has lusted after a big military parade over which he could preside—just like he sees leaders do in other mostly authoritative countries.  —  During his first term in 2018 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Diana Ramirez-Simon / The Guardian:
Chinese woman detained by US border patrol in Arizona dies by suicide  —  Officials reportedly didn't publicly acknowledge death until inquiries were made about woman, 52, who overstayed visa  —  A woman being detained in Arizona by US border patrol for overstaying her visa has died by suicide …
Discussion: UPI
Washington Post:
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad  —  Since Trump took office, the park service — an agency charged with preserving American history — has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
Discussion: CNN and Rolling Stone
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Try that in a small town  —  ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children.  Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no. … If you want to support independent media during these dark times for democracy, become a paid subscriber today. … Principal Jaime Cook describes one of the third graders …
Discussion: NBC News and Townhall
The Atlantic:
The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked  —  Interior Secretary Doug Burgum likes chocolate-chip cookies—preferably freshly baked and still warm.  —  This peculiar fact became the talk of the Department of Interior in recent weeks after his chief of staff, JoDee Hanson …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Meg Tirrell / CNN:
‘A huge impact on worker safety’: Protection for miners, firefighters in jeopardy after CDC cuts
Discussion: Associated Press
Craig Fox / Syracuse Post-Standard:
More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Civil rights-era government agency in Justice Department to be purged
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The only national emergency is the law that empowers a mad king
Telegraph:
Apple's collapse proves cosying up to Trump is no guarantee of safety
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
“The Trump Administration's Unconstitutional Hate Mail to Harvard,” by Prof. Genevieve Lakier (Chicago)
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Elon Musk appears to break with Trump admin on tariffs — as he slams Peter Navarro and says he wants ‘zero tariff situation’ with Europe
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
For Republicans, Tariffs Pose a Risk Like No Other
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Washington worries Trump could bail out Zuckerberg
Washington Post:
Younger Democrats want to force an uncomfortable conversation about age
Discussion: The Hill
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Defending America's Security through Visa and Travel Restrictions on South Sudan