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Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect — Treasury secretary helped persuade president to take time to negotiate with trading partners in face of pressure from business leaders — President Trump finally blinked. — It took a week for the plunge in the stock …
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Trump Says He Will Consider Exempting Some U.S. Companies From Tariffs — President Trump said Wednesday that he's considering granting some U.S. companies an exemption from his tariff program. “There are some that have been hard,” Trump told reporters when asked about companies requesting exemptions.
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From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’: Inside Trump's Reversal on Tariffs — Economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused President Trump to reverse course on the steep levies. — For the past week, President Trump has been urging calm in the face …


A ‘disaster’: Gretchen Whitmer's talk on tariffs and meeting with Trump anger fellow Democrats — The Michigan governor tried to play nice with Trump. Instead, there's a sense in the party that she got played when the president used her as a bipartisan Oval Office prop.
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Trump's ‘buy’ tip on social media before his tariffs pause made money for investors who listened
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Adam Schiff Calls For Insider Trading Investigation into Trump Over Tariff Pause
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The Damage From Trump's Tariff Pause Is Already Done
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Bessent reacts as Trump pauses tariffs but increases taxes on China to 125%
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EU pauses retaliatory tariffs against US to ‘give negotiations a chance’

Trump's team and supporters justify abrupt tariff reversal: It's ‘The Art of the Deal,’ dummy
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Trump draws criticism from Michigan business and auto groups as auto tariffs remain
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Trump's tariff whiplash leaves world dazed and confused
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Trump Signs Orders Punishing Those Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies — The president targeted two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm as part of his campaign for retribution. — President Trump on Wednesday signed executive orders punishing two officials …
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Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: 'I Think He's Guilty of Treason' — President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor over his “anonymous” essay and book hammering Trump during his first term.
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Addressing Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship
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Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him
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4/10/25 ☀️ AM: … Johnson and House GOP leaders delayed a vote on a compromise budget resolution, yielding to conservative hardliners who want deeper spending cuts than the Senate can likely stomach. — At the end of the day, Johnson had more than a dozen holdouts.
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House GOP cancels budget vote as hard-liners agitate for more spending cuts in Trump's ‘beautiful’ bill
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Johnson Delays Budget Vote as G.O.P. Defectors Balk
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Why Republicans in Congress Are Hiding Their Panic
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Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company — A Delaware judge, once again, has found that a conservative news outlet broadcast false and defamatory claims about the role a voting technology company played in the 2020 presidential election.
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Feds move to drop criminal case against man they previously called a major gang leader — Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and President Donald Trump celebrated his arrest. — Federal prosecutors have abruptly abandoned the criminal case against a Virginia man portrayed by the Justice Department …
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DOJ seeks to drop charges against man it said was “East Coast leader” of MS-13 gang
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The Pool Filter — Some White House pool reports are no longer making it to the official distribution list, Status has learned—an unsettling development in the Trump administration's escalating war on the press. — At approximately six-thirty on Tuesday evening, Joseph Morton …
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window — The arrest was captured on camera by her daughter — This Monday started off like any other day for Karen Cruz Berrios. — The 18-year-old and her mother — Elsy Noemi Berrios, 52 …
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H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump — Just over a month ago, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster received an unexpected call on his personal cell, four sources told CBS News. It was from the White House and he was instructed by the voice on the other end to stand by for the president.
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American Is Arrested in Thailand on Charges of Criticizing Royalty — The U.S. State Department said it was alarmed at the arrest of Paul Chambers, a lecturer in civil-military relations, under Thailand's strict lèse-majesté laws. — The arrest of an American academic …
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Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii — As Tulsi Gabbard completed her transformation from a Hawaii Democratic politician to a MAGA surrogate last year, she put down stakes in a far redder state. Gabbard and her husband bought a home outside of Austin …
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Raw Story and The Daily Wire


Russia Frees U.S.-Russian Dual National Ksenia Karelina in Prisoner Swap With United States — Russia released U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina in a prisoner exchange with the United States early Thursday in Abu Dhabi, U.S. officials confirmed. — “American Ksenia Karelina …
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Mixed Signals on Alleged Alien Enemies — The Supreme Court insists on due process but offers no specifics and leaves hundreds in a Salvadoran prison with no remedy. — Meet The Authors … The Supreme Court's decision Monday in Trump v. J.G.G. has sent a strange set of mixed messages …
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John Roberts will save the judiciary if he has to burn it down
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Law & Crime


NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University — Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment — After April Fools' Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos — Sifter — Gene editing fixes DNA—and treats incurable lung and liver disease
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Bloomberg and Ars Technica


Trump administration ends union dues collection for most feds without notice — The Trump administration has apparently ceased collecting federal workers' union dues via voluntary payroll deduction at agencies targeted by a recent executive order seeking to strip employees …
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Nextgov/FCW


Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose. Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom.
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