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Peter Navarro / Financial Times:
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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Washington Post:
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs  —  The world's richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful.  —  Just now  —  Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing …
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Lutnick's Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides  —  Some executives have come away from meetings with the commerce secretary confused and exasperated  —  WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has tried to sell President Trump's trade agenda to American companies for months.
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Offers An Uneasy World No Reassurance In Word Salad Oval Office Remarks  —  WASHINGTON ― With a world economy on edge since he declared a trade war with the rest of the planet last week, President Donald Trump offered no reassuring words Monday and instead provided yet more evidence …
Discussion: Politico, CBS News and Washington Times
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed  —  There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions  —  We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Discussion: HuffPost and ABC News
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat  —  Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a ‘mistake on top of a mistake’ as Wednesday deadline for latest levies looms  —  China's government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war …
Oren Cass / New York Times:
Stop Freaking Out. Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.
Discussion: Axios and Fortune
Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
Discussion: NOTUS
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and The Hill
John Fritze / CNN:
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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Steve Vladeck / One First:
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.  —  In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case.  But these aren't normal times.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
Discussion: Reason and Talking Points Memo
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's New 5-4 Bailout for Trump Couldn't Be More Ominous  —  The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory on Monday night, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison under an 18th century wartime law.
Discussion: Daily Kos and CBS News
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Block on Venezuelan Deportations  —  The Trump administration asked the justices to weigh in after a federal judge paused the president's use of a wartime powers law to deport Venezuelans it accused of being gang members.
Discussion: Mediaite, Breitbart and HotAir
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
Politico:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family  — Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.  — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Wall Street Journal:
The False Tariff Headline That Sent Stocks on a $2 Trillion Ride  —  Misinformation on a White House official's remarks triggers a short-lived rally  —  A wild stock-market swing based on false information added $2.4 trillion in value and erased it almost as quickly Monday morning.
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CNN:
How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash
Elijah Westbrook / CBS News:
MTA, feds reach agreement that could keep NYC congestion pricing tolls in place into the fall  —  The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that could keep New York City congestion pricing in place into the fall.  —  Once the agreed-to timeline expires …
Wall Street Journal:
The Case of Wrongful Migrant Deportation  —  The Trump Administration fights to keep a man falsely expelled in a Salvadoran hellhole.  —  Click for Sound  —  The Trump Administration's never-back-down style is becoming a governance problem with overtones of cruelty.
Discussion: Raw Story and Reason
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump.  It Has Yet to Pay Off.  —  With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.  —  The biggest technology companies …
Axios:
1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea  —  Republicans admit President Trump's tariffs are spiking their blood pressure.  Their Wall Street donors are feeling it too, with some giving top GOP lawmakers an earful this weekend.  —  Why it matters: Trump is making it clear he won't tolerate …
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Politico
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say  —  Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
New York Times:
Nearly 150 Students Have Had Visas Revoked and Could Face Deportation  —  Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days.  For many, the reasons are unclear.
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention  —  A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.  —  The Trump administration is seeking …
Latin Times:
Influencer Who Bought Trump a Rolex Has Lost Over $10M Since Tariffs Hit the Market: 'It's So Bad'  —  “It's bad, I'm not gonna lie to you”  —  Just months after gifting President Donald Trump a gold Rolex and a custom MAGA-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck, controversial streamer Adin Ross …
Discussion: Raw Story
NPS.gov:
What is the Underground Railroad?  —  I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.  —  The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight …
Reuters:
US is starting to look like an emerging market after tariff shock, Euronext CEO says  —  The United States is starting to resemble an emerging market more than a developed country, the head of pan-European stock exchange operator Euronext (ENX.PA) said on Tuesday as financial markets remained volatile …
Discussion: Human Events
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs  —  New Civil Liberties Alliance says president's invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful  —  A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge …
Discussion: Washington Post
Yoon So-Yeon / Korea Joongang Daily:
Ten North Korean troops cross MDL, retreat after South fires warning shots: JCS  —  Ten North Korean soldiers crossed the military demarcation line (MDL) but retreated when South Korean soldiers fired warning shots, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) on Tuesday.
Discussion: CBS News and Reuters
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste  —  Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, now in Guatemala, had racked up large tax debt at Stedsans forest retreat  —  A Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” …
Discussion: Althouse
NBC News:
Pentagon considering proposal to cut thousands of troops from Europe, officials say  —  Experts warn that the timing of the potential drawdown could alarm NATO allies and embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin.  —  Senior Defense Department officials are considering a proposal to withdraw …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and Wausau
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led 2020 election probe agrees to surrender law license  —  A former Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracies and led an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 loss in the swing state agreed Monday to surrender …
Discussion: Raw Story, WPR and WisPolitics
Paul Krugman:
Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex  —  By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness.  And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts.  —  For the past few days everyone …
 
 
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Stock Market Chaos Over Tariffs Could Take Toll on Economy
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Vance's whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
NBC News:
Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pumps Cash Into the Long-Term Legal Fight Against Trump
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Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
N.C. Supreme Court halts decision requiring verification of 65,000 votes in tight judicial race
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