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10:30 PM ET, April 12, 2025

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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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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 …
Bloomberg:
Apple, Nvidia Score Relief From US Tariffs With Exemptions  —  President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers including Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp. even if it proves a temporary one.
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Smartphones and computers are now spared from Trump's reciprocal tariffs  —  The Trump administration has amended its list of imports that will be affected by sweeping global tariffs in order to exempt certain electronics, including smartphones and computers.
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:   Trump tariffs on China will soon bring ‘irreversible’ damage to many American businesses
Financial Times:   Trump excludes smartphones from reciprocal tariffs
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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 …
Discussion: New Republic, Twitchy and Politico
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Trump admin tells judge man wrongly deported to El Salvador is alive, still detained  —  A Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador is alive and still detained in the country, the Trump administration said in a filing to a federal judge on Saturday.
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 …
Discussion: USA Today
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Senior Social Security official removed by security after pointing out illegal plans: WaPo
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Cut Funding  —  The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.  —  Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat …
Discussion: AMAC
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New York Times:
Whitmer Shows How Democrats Are Playing With Fire in Cozying Up to Trump  —  The Michigan governor's awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president.
Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Trump Can't Recall the Details of His Favorite Cognitive Test  —  AN APPLE A DAY  —  Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “It's a pretty well known test.  Whatever it is.  I got every one right.”  —  President Donald Trump was unable to recall the details of the cognitive test …
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Washington Post:
‘One million.’ The private goal driving Trump's push for mass deportations.  —  Immigration officers and analysts are increasingly skeptical the Trump administration can deport that many immigrants in a single year.  —  Just now  —  As the Trump administration aggressively pushes to deport …
Deborah Brunswick / CNN:
‘Why are high fertility people always so weird?’:  A weekend with the pronatalists  —  CNN's Meena Duerson travels to Austin to join roughly 200 “pronatalists” for the second-ever Natal Conference, an event devoted to discussing the world's declining birth rates and potential solutions.
Gabe Cohen / CNN:
Dozens of DHS staffers, including top FEMA officials, given lie detector tests over alleged leaks  —  The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA's acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disaster relief agency …
Washington Post:
Paris said au revoir to cars.  Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.  —  Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.  —  Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries …
New Yorker:
So You Want to Be a Dissident?  —  A practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.  —  Once upon a time—say, several weeks ago—Americans tended to think of dissidents as of another place, perhaps, and another time.  They were overseas heroes—names like Alexei Navalny and Jamal Khashoggi …
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.
Will Hutton / The Guardian:
Donald Trump is now badly wounded.  Europe and the UK can seize an advantage  —  It's time to fashion a new global trade order without the US  —  The game-changing geopolitical event last week was the near collapse of the immense $29tn market in US government debt, threatening the stability …
Discussion: Fortune
Kara Voght / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, MAGA fashionistas lay claim to American hotness  —  At a party thrown by a conservative lifestyle publication, an “objectively beautiful lifestyle” and an “objectively superior worldview” go hand in hand.  —  “We are the zeitgeist now.”
Emily Ngo / Politico:
Canadians freeze visits to the US over Trump  —  Tourism from the north tanks amid annexation talk, tariff whiplash and border stops.  —  NEW YORK — Marketers for top U.S. destinations are trumpeting a reminder to Canadians amid a dive in tourism: You're welcome here regardless of who's president.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Far-right Republicans tease rebellion but fall in line when Trump asks  —  The House Freedom Caucus, which used to drive a hard bargain on spending, is facing an identity crisis and has capitulated when pressured by the president.  —  Just now  —  First, they threatened …
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says  —  Nikita Casap, 17, is accused of killing his mother and stepfather.  —  Nikita Casap is shown in court in the screen grab from a video.  —  WISN  —  A Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents to …
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Praises ‘Gracious,’ ‘Measured’ Trump After Wild White House Meeting: 'You Can Hate Me For It, But I'm Not a Liar'  —  Bill Maher praised President Donald Trump as “gracious” and “measured” during their recent White House meeting while providing a “book report” from the night's events to his audience.
Maeve Reston / Washington Post:
On the road, Bernie Sanders rallies crowds for his ‘working class movement’  —  Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are appearing together across the West in rallies aimed at mobilizing Democrats and independents against Trump.  —  just now  —  LOS ANGELES — Bernie Sanders launched the next round of his …
 
 
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk goes where no other Trump adviser can: Publicly disagreeing with the president
Discussion: CNN
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
On April 4, Trump fired head of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and director of the National Security Agency …
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin's Russia
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
HHS officials did not know how many people have been fired
Discussion: CBS News and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
USDA's $1B bird flu plan uses money intended for schools, food banks
Discussion: Carolina Journal
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Federal judge orders USDA to unfreeze funds to Maine
Bloomberg:
The Trump Family Is Going All-In on Crypto Projects, From Bitcoin Mining to Stablecoins
Discussion: New York Times
Kevin M. Levin / Civil War Memory:
Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History
Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
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In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
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