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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration's emergency appeal.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant  —  A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday instructed the government to take steps …
Reuters:
US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error  —  The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.
Discussion: Raw Story, Reason and Saywhat Politics
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived
Mark Alfred / NOTUS:   Supreme Court Tells Trump Administration It Must ‘Facilitate’ Return of Man Mistakenly Deported
CNBC:
Trump trade advisor says stock market plunge ‘No big deal’: Live updates … WATCH NOW … CNBC's reporters are covering the tariffs and their effects, live on air and online from our bureaus in Washington; London; Singapore; San Francisco; and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.  —  16 MIN AGO
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Axios:
Trump blinked, but the global economy will never be the same
Discussion: The Economist and New York Times
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’
Discussion: Reason
BBC:
Gold hits record high as Trump tariffs trigger US-China trade war fears
Discussion: Crikey, Breitbart and The Atlantic
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tariffs on China Actually 145%, Says White House
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Team Races to Cut Piecemeal Tariff Deals With More Than 70 Countries
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
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Washington Post:
Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown  —  The tactic is aimed at putting pressure on undocumented immigrants to self-deport from the country.  —  just now  —  The Social Security Administration this week entered the names and Social Security numbers …
Associated Press:
Six people have died in a helicopter crash in the Hudson River in New York City, an AP source says  —  A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday, killing all six people aboard in the latest high …
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abc7NY:
Pilot, family of 5 from Spain killed after helicopter crashes into Hudson River  —  Stream New York's #1 news - Accuweather - original content 24/7  —  JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) — Six people were killed after a helicopter believed to be carrying a family of tourists from Spain crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon.
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs  —  Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo …
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
ICE Says It Will Stop ‘Ideas’ From Crossing The Border Illegally
Discussion: Politico
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New York Times:   Trump May Seek Judicial Oversight of Columbia, Potentially for Years
Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward  —  A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far …
Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th:
House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote  —  Voting rights groups warn that the SAVE Act, which requires documentation proving citizenship, adds a burden to people who have changed their last names.  —  The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report  —  A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY.
Discussion: Advocate and them.
Thomas Novelly / Military.com:
Space Force Commander in Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vance After His Visit  —  Just days after Vice President JD Vance's March visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, the installation commander sent out an email to the base distancing it from Vance's criticism of Denmark …
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Space Force Colonel Removed After Disavowing JD Vance's Comments About Acquiring Greenland
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks  —  All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job, multiple officials tell CBS News, gutting the agency's ability to investigate outbreaks and conduct health inspections on cruise ships.
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Top Senate Dems propose emergency Social Security payment boost  —  Top Senate Democrats plan to unveil legislation that would provide an emergency $200 monthly increase in Social Security benefits through the end of the year, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: It's …
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Jordain Carney / Politico:   Democrats will press ahead with Senate tariff vote despite U-turn
Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico:
Trump directs agencies to quietly repeal regulations — without public notice  —  The memo appears to rely on a misinterpretation of a recent Supreme Court ruling.  —  President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies and their assigned DOGE teams to repeal any existing regulations …
New York Times:
In Cabinet Meeting, Musk Seems to Drastically Lower DOGE's Savings Goal  —  Musk said his group was on pace to cut $150 billion from the federal budget in one budget year.  That would be a sharp drop from his previous stated goal of $1 trillion.  —  While stumping for Donald J. Trump during …
New York Times:
Trump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law Firms  —  Four or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president's crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire.  —  President Trump is planning to announce new deals with several …
Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg, Raw Story and UPI
New York Times:
Trump Deploys Justice Dept. to Scrutinize Ex-Officials and Perceived Foes  —  A presidential decree instructing the Justice Department to scrutinize whether a former official broke the law crosses a new line.  —  President Trump's first-term efforts to spur law enforcement officials to pursue …
Grant Schwab / The Detroit News:
Slotkin's first bill seeks to prevent data-collecting Chinese cars from entering the U.S. … The bill, titled the Connected Vehicle National Security Review Act, would formally establish a national security review process for imports of internet-connected vehicles and components made by companies …
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Democrats, a Cabinet secretary and a DOGE chatbot tee off over another airport close-call  —  A commercial plane carrying several lawmakers bumped wings with another plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday, sparking a social media war over funding cuts, runway repairs — and DOGE.
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Tibor Nagy / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Surgery?  Yes.  Chainsaw?  No. How not to reform the U.S. government  —  Ready, fire, aim is never a good approach - most especially with matters of national importance.  Yet that is exactly the method Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has taken to cutting waste, duplication, and inefficiencies in the U.S. Government.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump moves to legally enforce 2020 election denialism  —  An official from the first Trump administration is being targeted for speaking the truth.  —  Just now  —  After the 2016 election, when it was understood that Russia had tried to influence the outcome, social media companies introduced …
Nature:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts … - Max Kozlov  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  — Chris Ryan  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Trump must face Central Park 5 defamation suit, judge rules  —  A federal judge declined to toss a defamation lawsuit against President Trump over his remarks last year about five Black and Hispanic men wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape, dubbed the Central Park Five.
Rajiv Sethi / Imperfect Information:
The University in Exile  —  I feel like we are witnessing a charade.  —  Federal agencies have frozen billions of dollars in grants and contracts that had previously been awarded to research universities, on the grounds that the latter have been insufficiently responsive to antisemitic harassment on campus.
Discussion: UPI
 
 
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Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing:
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Elon Musk responds with ‘laughing emojis’ to stories of workers' lives he's ruined: report
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Futurism
NBC News:
Tensions arise over Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to bring Rep. Elise Stefanik back into the fold
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Reuters:
EU, China will look into setting minimum prices on electric vehicles, EU says
Discussion: Quartz
Politico:
House GOP calls Hochul, Pritzker and Walz to testify on immigration
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Examiner
Zac Anderson / USA Today:
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Reuters:
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