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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.
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Scoop: A dozen House Republicans mull defying Trump on tariff bill — At least a dozen House Republicans are considering signing onto Rep. Don Bacon's (R-Neb.) bill to restrict the White House's ability to impose tariffs unilaterally, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out
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‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
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No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
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Republicans Fracture Over How Much Debt to Run Up for Tax Cuts
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MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
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Musk calls Navarro “moron” as trade spat intensifies — Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” over comments about Musk's businesses. — Why it matters: The gloves are off …
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Musk Disparages Trump's Trade Adviser, Exposing Rift in President's Inner Circle — The feud between two of President Trump's top advisers is playing out as the administration's new tariffs have caused huge losses across global financial markets. — Elon Musk slammed President Trump's top trade adviser …


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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Trump and DOGE Are ‘Trying to Get Around’ Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
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I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information With ICE — The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes. — The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants …
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Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
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US stocks drop after another stunning day of reversals as uncertainty reigns about Trump's tariffs — U.S. stocks dropped after a second day of stunning reversals. The S&P 500 fell 1.6% Tuesday after wiping out an early gain of 4.1%, which had it on track for its best day in years.
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Tariffs on China set to rise to at least 104% on Wednesday, White House says
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Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app — CBP One was a cornerstone of the Biden administration's strategy to create and expand legal pathways to enter the United States in an attempt to discourage illegal border crossings. — / Source: The Associated Press
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Federal judge says White House's punishment of Associated Press is unconstitutional — The White House's decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry — The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades. — President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed …
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Live updates: Trump signs executive orders to boost coal
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Live updates: Trump's approval hits new low after “Liberation Day” tariffs — His average economic approval also hits a new low (-13), and his tariffs are underwater by 30 points … As of midday April 8, 2025, two pollsters have published new polls of Trump's approval rating …
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Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
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Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” … In his latest rewrite of European history, Donald Trump made a ridiculous and sympathetic declaration about the Nazis. — Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday …
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DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division … I didn't know this until this morning. And I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more press attention. We know that DOGE is in the process of gutting the IRS. According to internal IRS estimates reviewed by The Washington Post this internal sabotage …


In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation — In a series of narrow rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary's legitimacy. — 6 MIN READ — Justices Give Trump a Tentative Win in Push to Fire 16,000 Federal Workers
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US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere — Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco.


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 Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted — What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.


Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall — Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers. — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator …
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Suspect in Trump's second alleged assassination attempt asks judge to suppress eyewitness — Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second alleged assassination attempt against President Trump, has formally asked a judge to suppress statements from the eyewitness who identified him to police …
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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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Keystone pipeline shut down after rupture — The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after a rupture in North Dakota halted the flow from Canada to U.S. refineries. — South Bow, which manages the pipeline, said the pipeline was shut down after a pressure drop was detected …
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Trump Faces New Deportation Challenge After Supreme Court Order — President Donald Trump is facing a new challenge to his use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, less than a day after the US Supreme Court sided with the administration in an earlier fight.


Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews — More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance — Table of Contents Table of Contents — More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance
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VOA an essential service — President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to dismantle several U.S.-funded media outlets. Among those is Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and most prominently, Voice of America, an international broadcasting service, which provides content to more than 361 million people around the world.