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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 …
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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.


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 …


Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief — Brussels' zero-for-zero tariff offer not enough, U.S. president says, but indicates he's open to a deal if the bloc commits to closing the trade deficit in goods. — The European Union will have to commit to buying $350 billion …


In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou — We may be spiraling into an uncertain future of lawlessness, economic meltdown, and social instability, but at least we've got the galaxy-brain takes of our leaders to sustain us. On the vice president's mind this morning:


Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
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Stop Freaking Out. Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work. — Last week's “Liberation Day” marked a kind of D-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system. That reordering is desperately needed to address the system's imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization …


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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Stocks rebound on hopes Trump will negotiate tariff deals
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Trump's refusal to blink on tariffs raises the risks of an ugly endgame
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‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
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Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system
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Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain
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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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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.
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‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
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Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now
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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 …
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China condemns JD Vance's ‘peasants’ jibe — Beijing hammers US vice president as lacking “knowledge and respect” in escalating feud. — China on Tuesday branded U.S. Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”
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China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat
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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 …
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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 …


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Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list — U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO's military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration, U.S. officials said Monday.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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Major steel project in JD Vance's hometown on a list of Trump cuts to manufacturing industry — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry. But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests …


Justice Dept. Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump's Policies in Court — Inside the department's civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses' instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs. — The Trump administration's aggressive efforts …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …


BREAKING: Ukraine captured 2 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, Zelensky says — Ukrainian troops have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting in the ranks of the Russian military against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 8. — “We have information …
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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 …
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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 …
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