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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 …
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
Discussion: HuffPost and ABC News
William Kristol / The Bulwark:   In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou
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
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 …
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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 …
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
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’  —  The Trump administration's arguments in a high-profile immigration case have much broader implications.  —  The Supreme Court is about to decide whether the Trump administration can exile Americans to a gulag overseas and then leave them there.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
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
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
Politico:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported
Washington Post:
U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge  —  Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump's return to Washington.  —  The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:   Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud  —  In a memo sent to the Justice Department on Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will largely stop bringing cases that violate the Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregistered broker dealer violations …
Discussion: Fortune and Wausau, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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
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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.
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NBC News:
FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino  —  The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail.  Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said.  —  The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …
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
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
NBC News:
Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels  —  The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade.  —  The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels …
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Tim Zadorozhnyy / The Kyiv Independent:
BREAKING: Ukraine captured 2 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, Zelensky says
Discussion: Reuters
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Stock Market Chaos Over Tariffs Could Take Toll on Economy
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Yoon So-Yeon / Korea Joongang Daily:
Ten North Korean troops cross MDL, retreat after South fires warning shots: JCS
Discussion: CBS News, Fox News and Reuters
Reuters:
US is starting to look like an emerging market after tariff shock, Euronext CEO says
Discussion: Human Events
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Vance's whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pumps Cash Into the Long-Term Legal Fight Against Trump
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Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste
Discussion: Althouse
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
Madison Muller / Bloomberg:
RFK Jr. Plans to Tell CDC to Stop Recommending Fluoride, AP Says
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led 2020 election probe agrees to surrender law license
Discussion: Raw Story, WPR and WisPolitics
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
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