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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 Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived  —  America has reached a very dangerous moment, as the Supreme Court's indulgence of President Donald Trump's belief in his own untrammeled authority collides with the justices' expectation that he will abide by their decisions.
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.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: SCOTUS says Trump admin must “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday evening upheld a district court's order that the Trump administration “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man sent to a prison El Salvador illegally …
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 …
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Tells Government to Seek Return of Man Mistakenly Deported to El Salvador Prison
Mark Alfred / NOTUS:   Supreme Court Tells Trump Administration It Must ‘Facilitate’ Return of Man Mistakenly Deported
Ilya Somin / Reason:
The Tariff Madness Isn't Over  —  When Donald Trump paused many of his awful “Liberation Day” tariffs yesterday, there was some understandable relief.  Some even seem to assume the tariff crisis is over.  For example, Democratic Senate Leader Charles Schumer, posted on Bluesky that …
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CNBC:
Trump trade advisor says stock market plunge ‘No big deal’: Live updates
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
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Team Races to Cut Piecemeal Tariff Deals With More Than 70 Countries
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
BBC:
Gold hits record high as Trump tariffs trigger US-China trade war fears
Discussion: Breitbart, Crikey and The Atlantic
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Has Added 145% Tariff to China, White House Clarifies
New York Times:
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers … Migrants who arrived in New York last year waited for shelter assignments at the Roosevelt Hotel.Todd Heisler/The New York Times  —  Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively …
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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.
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump moves to legally enforce 2020 election denialism
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
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University  —  Government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding  —  The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University …
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New York Times:   Trump May Seek Judicial Oversight of Columbia, Potentially for Years
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.
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
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.
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 …
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:
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: Bloomberg, Raw Story, CBS News, UPI and Daily Kos
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.
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 …
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.
 
 
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Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing:
Trump's new loyalty test: “golden Trump bust lapel pins”
Michael Kosnar / NBC News:
Justice Department drops charges against man it called a top MS-13 gang leader
Rajiv Sethi / Imperfect Information:
The University in Exile  —  I feel like we are witnessing a charade.
Discussion: UPI
Reuters:
EU, China will look into setting minimum prices on electric vehicles, EU says
Discussion: Quartz
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Democrats, a Cabinet secretary and a DOGE chatbot tee off over another airport close-call
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Politico:
House GOP calls Hochul, Pritzker and Walz to testify on immigration
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Riley Ceder / Defense News:
DOD issues guidance to advance civilian workforce overhaul
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The Economist:
The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Top Senate Dems propose emergency Social Security payment boost
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