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Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs … Smartphones and computers will be exempted from President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. — The guidance comes after Trump earlier this month imposed 125% tariffs …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips From ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs — President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker shock while benefiting electronics giants including Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
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Financial Times:
Trump excludes smartphones from reciprocal tariffs — Tech including routers and selected computers get reprieve after a week of turbulence in US markets — The Trump administration has excluded smartphones from its steep “reciprocal” tariffs as it battles to calm global markets by tempering …
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The Guardian
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again — It's already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out. — This week the system worked. Donald Trump blinked. The unwinding is still just beginning. It will be painful and tumultuous.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
CSMS # 64724565 - UPDATED GUIDANCE - Reciprocal Tariff Exclusion for Specified Products; April 5, 2025 Effective Date — The purpose of this message is to provide further guidance on the additional duties due on imported merchandise which were imposed by Executive Order 14257, issued April 2 …
Stephen McDonell / BBC:
Why Beijing is not backing down on tariffs
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Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
Trump tariff collection for freight shipments delayed by Customs ‘glitch’
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Washington Post:
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead — A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency's deaths database were ignored. — Just now — Two days after the Social Security …
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Raw Story
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Sophia Cai / Politico:
Inside the DOGE immigration task force
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Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador — Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador — Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views …
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Twitchy and New Republic
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Horrifying Removal of Man in “Error” Takes an Even Darker Turn
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Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: Formalist Delusions Confront Lawless Realities
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New York Times
Fox News:
Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules — Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his role in Columbia University campus protests against Israel — An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the U.S. due to his involvement …
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Associated Press:
Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Immigration Judge Rules Khalil Can Be Deported, but Legal Hurdles Remain
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Adrian Florido / NPR:
Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.'s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State — LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS — In Kennedy's bonkers speech to FDA employees on Friday, he accused agency employees of being shills for the industries they regulate. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday …
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Alexander Tin / CBS News:
FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
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The Hill, Politico, STAT and TechCrunch
Emily Badger / New York Times:
Musk's Latest Fraud Finding Isn't What It Seems — His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason. — Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling …
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The Daily Signal and Boston Herald
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border — It marks an escalation in the president's use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda. — A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under …
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Raw Story
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions
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Axios, Baltimore Sun, The Federalist, New York Post, The Hill, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit, Migrant Insider and USA Today
US Department of Justice:
Pennsylvania Man Charged with Making Threats to Assault and Murder President Donald J. Trump, Other U.S. Officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents — For Immediate Release — Shawn Monper, 32, a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint …
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Madeline Bartos / CBS News:
Butler man accused of threatening to assassinate Trump
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Reuters:
Trump envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies — Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump …
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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports. — Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action …
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Washington Post:
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions — A DOGE engineer removed users' access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year. — U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel's So-Called Enemies List — The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. — The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel's …
T. Christian Miller / ProPublica:
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay” — Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients — Shortchanged: Blue Cross Louisiana OK'd mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital's full bills. For some claims, it paid nothing.
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project — For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned. — Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel …
Eric Berger / The Guardian:
‘A new golden age’: how rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed — Trump's tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the right — While Donald Trump recently instituted and paused hefty tariffs, sparking a trade war and chaos …
Associated Press:
Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading — The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.
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Kevin M. Levin / Civil War Memory:
Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History — When people ask me to take them to the most important historic site in Boston, I take them to the Museum of African American History (MAAH) on Beacon Hill. The museum, located in Smith Court along Joy Street …
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Vanity Fair
Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X — The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned. — The Social Security Administration …
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HuffPost
John Ismay / New York Times:
Who's In and Who's Out at the Naval Academy's Library? — An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. — Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou's transformative best-selling …
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