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Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system — Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports — The writer is President Trump's senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing — The international trade system is broken — and Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff doctrine will fix it.
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Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't remove retaliatory duties: Live updates … WATCH NOW … CNBC's reporters are covering the tariffs and their effects, live on air and online from our bureaus in Washington; London; Singapore; San Francisco; and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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Scoop: Trump issues veto threat on tariff bill — President Trump would veto the legislation introduced by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would limit the president's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, according to a White House statement seen by Axios.
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Live Updates: Wall Street Slumps Further as Trump Defends His Tariffs
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EU Commission proposes 25% counter-tariffs on some US imports, document shows
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The Post Millennial, Forbes, Fox Business and Bloomberg

In Response to Trump, E.U. Prepares to Vote on Retaliatory Tariffs
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New York Post, Politico, Marketplace, Al Jazeera, The Daily Wire, NBC News, Blaze Media, Townhall, Washington Times and Bloomberg

Peter Navarro says Vietnam's 0% tariff offer is not enough: 'It's the nontariff cheating that matters'
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Global Leaders Rush to Woo Trump, Hoping to Sway Him on Tariffs
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‘How Ugly Is This Going to Be?’ — A roundtable of POLITICO reporters discuss where Trump's tariffs may be headed.
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Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs
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Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely …
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported — The Trump administration has described Abrego Garcia's deportation both as an “administrative error” and a “clerical error.” — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court …
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Supreme Court briefly pauses order to return deportee from El Salvador — Judge Paula Xinis gave the Trump administration until midnight Monday to return Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported despite a court order forbidding it.
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Supreme Court puts hold on order that deported Maryland man must be returned to US — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily placed on hold a judge's order that the Trump administration must bring back to the United States a Maryland father it had mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
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Chief Justice Pauses Order to Return Wrongfully Deported Man
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Reuters, RedState, The Post Millennial, Law & Crime and The Daily Wire

Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order to return Maryland man from El Salvador

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order Requiring Return of Wrongly Deported Migrant
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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Supreme Court pauses order requiring deported Maryland man be returned to U.S.
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How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash — New York CNN — An errant post on X may have just shaken the stock market, showing how influential — and unreliable — the social media platform can be. — Unsourced “headlines” about a potential “90-day pause in tariffs” …
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7 GOP senators sign on to bill to check Trump's trade authority — Seven Republican senators, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the Senate's president pro tempore, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), the former Senate Republican leader, have signed on to a bipartisan bill that would require Congress …
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Axios, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and Reason
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Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult
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Washington Examiner, America 2.0, Bloomberg and Washington Post


US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony, letter shows — The U.S. Justice Department sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
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Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times and Wausau


RFK's Anti-Vax Flock Turns on Him — RFK's biggest fans turn on him — For vaccine opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as secretary of health and human services represented something close to nirvana. It was a chance, finally, to take on Big Pharma and to bring …
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Ars Technica, STAT and Politico
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RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak
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RFK Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide.
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CBS News, Axios, The Hill, Forbes, New York Times and Washington Examiner


Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and PoliticusUSA


Trump tariffs, corporations cower — During the Biden administration, corporate executives regularly expressed their displeasure with policies they opposed. Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, for example, blasted the Biden administration in May 2022 for excessive stimulus spending, which he blamed for inflation.
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Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs
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UAW President Shawn Fain explains why he supports Trump's tariffs — President Trump's announcements on tariffs have dismayed many of his erstwhile supporters on Wall Street. The suddenness — and steepness — of the tariffs announced last Wednesday prompted some global manufacturers …
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Detroit Free Press, RedState and The Hill


‘Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down’: Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly — Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.


US bishops halt partnerships with federal government on aid programs, citing funding cuts — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and children, saying the “heartbreaking” …
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USCCB, Washington Post, Axios, America Magazine, The Daily Caller and Deseret News


Bluesky Can't Take a Joke — Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there's less hate, there's also fewer lolz. — Amy Brown was not screaming. She was not crying. She was not throwing up. — But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously.
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Why America's Oligarchs May Regret Their Obedience — Putin's Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman. — When tech billionaires and crypto moguls hailed Donald Trump's reelection and flocked to his inauguration ceremony and ball …


Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself — Donald Trump may finally get his long-desired military parade through the streets of Washington. — The Washington City Paper, citing an unnamed D.C. source, reports that the president has chosen June 14, 2025 …
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Stephen A. Smith No Longer Ruling Out Possibility of Running for President in 2028 — “I've decided that I'm no longer going to close that door. I'm gonna keep my options open. I'm going to entertain the possibility.” — After some polls had shown him as one of the top candidates …
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