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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.
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Fortune
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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.


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.
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Associated Press, Reuters and Lawyers, Guns & Money


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.


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 …
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The Hill


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.
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Politico, HuffPost, ABC News and Daily Caller News Foundation


Trump says he's not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel
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CBS News, NH Journal, The Hill, Bloomberg, Washington Times, Boston Herald, Wausau, Al Jazeera, The Independent, Fortune and Washington Post

Trump to America as Markets Crash: ‘Sometimes You Have to Take Medicine’
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The Mahablog


Trump says he doesn't want stocks to go down, ‘but sometimes you have to take medicine’
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Business Insider and Al Jazeera

Trump administration to markets: Don't expect a rescue
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USA Today, Washington Times, The Hill, New York Post and The Gateway Pundit

Democrats hammer Trump for his weekend of golf as stocks tumble
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Wall Street Journal

Bill Ackman warns Trump to call a timeout on trade war: ‘This is not what we voted for’
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Bloomberg, Axios, Washington Post, Human Events, Mediaite and Wausau

Commerce Secretary Lutnick doesn't back down in face of market sell-off: ‘The tariffs are coming’
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CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and The Independent

Trump defends tariffs as markets plunge: 'I don't want anything to go down'
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, CNN and Raw Story

Meet the Press - April 6, 2025
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HuffPost, RedState, The Wrap, The Hill, Business Insider, Bloomberg and The American Conservative

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans looking to retire aren't concerned about day-to-day markets, dismisses concerns about a potential recession
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Newsbusters, Fortune, Washington Examiner, Axios and Semafor

Trump's Tariffs Will Wound Free Trade, but the Blow May Not Be Fatal
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The Guardian, Semafor, Al Jazeera and Daily Mail


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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WISH-TV, The Independent and Associated Press
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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 …
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New York Times, Rolling Stone, Townhall, Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, CNN, RedState and Associated Press

DOJ suspends attorney who said Maryland man's deportation was a mistake
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Politico, CBS News, Reuters, Associated Press, The Guardian, Washington Times, UPI, RedState, Raw Story, New York Times and NBC News


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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STAT, Fox News, Axios, One America News Network, WAGA-TV and Hollywood Life
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Second child dies of measles in Texas, media reports
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STAT, Washington Post, New York Post and Los Angeles Times

Second measles death reported in Texas
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Axios, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, The Texas Tribune, The Bulwark, New York Daily News, The Guardian and Wausau


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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Sen. Mullin suggests ‘fake news’ would decline if violence could ‘still’ settle disputes
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Times-Standard and The Gateway Pundit


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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The Register, RedState, Mediaite, The Daily Wire, The Independent, CBS News, TechCrunch, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Examiner
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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.
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Fortune, New York Post, Scripps News, USA Today and The Daily Wire

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.


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 …
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Raw Story


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 …
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UPI


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
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CNN and Rolling Stone


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 …


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 …
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Raw Story