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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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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 — The S&P 500 tumbled, entering bear market territory, after more losses in Asia and Europe. President Trump said he would not back off his trade war, reinforcing fears of a global economic downturn. — Here's the latest.
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Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a blunt warning about President Donald Trump's tariff policy: It threatens to raise prices, drive the global economy into a downturn and weaken America's standing in the world.
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Peter Navarro says Vietnam's 0% tariff offer is not enough: 'It's the nontariff cheating that matters'
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Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't remove retaliatory duties: Live updates
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EU Commission proposes 25% counter-tariffs on some US imports, document shows
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Why Trump's Tariff Math Is a Joke
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Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks on Saturday, Trump Says
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Bloomberg, The American Conservative and Al Jazeera

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

‘This is the Trump recession,’ CEOs say, with tariff price increases, job losses coming: CNBC survey
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Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs
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Reuters, Raw Story, The American Spectator and Baltimore Sun


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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Chief Justice Pauses Order to Return Wrongfully Deported Man — The US chief justice temporarily paused an order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador.
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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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‘This is a Path of Perfect Lawlessness’: Court Condemns Trump Over Wrongful Deportation
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Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult — 🏌️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers. If you aren't one already …
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America 2.0, Washington Post and Bloomberg
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7 GOP senators sign on to bill to check Trump's trade authority
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Washington Examiner and Reason

After President Donald Trump's tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars …
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Axios


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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How an errant headline about a tariffs ‘pause’ briefly sent stocks soaring
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Markets lurch on false Trump tariff pause report
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Deseret News 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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RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak
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Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.
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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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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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Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday
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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 and PoliticusUSA


Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff — The worsening problems come as Elon Musk's DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website. — Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages …
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New Republic, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Fortune, Business Insider and Can We Still Govern?


Exclusive: US admiral at NATO fired in expanding national security purge — U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in NATO, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the Trump administration, three sources told Reuters on Monday.
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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 …


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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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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PROCEEDINGS AND ORDERS — Application (24A949) to vacate injunction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, submitted to The Chief Justice. — Letter of applicant Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. filed.
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Supreme Court pauses order requiring deported Maryland man be returned to U.S.


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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New Yorker


N.C. Supreme Court halts decision requiring verification of 65,000 votes in tight judicial race — The order temporarily pauses a ruling that had the potential to tip the results of a North Carolina Supreme Court race that the Democratic candidate currently leads by 734 votes.
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New York Times, Wausau and Carolina Journal


I Should Have Seen This Coming — When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won. — Listen to more stories on Hark
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‘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.