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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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: New Rule Exempts Smartphones and Computers From Most Tariffs  —  Where Things Stand  — Smartphone reprieve: The Trump administration published a rule late Friday night that appears to exempt many electronic parts and devices from most of the president's punishing tariffs …
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.
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump's latest tariffs
Associated Press:
Trump's China tariff shocks US importers. One CEO calls it ‘end of days’
Discussion: KRDO
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
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: Twitchy and New Republic
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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 …
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NBC News:   FBI analyst targeted in Kash Patel's book placed on leave
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
HHS officials did not know how many people have been fired  —  Department of Health and Human Services officials during a closed-door briefing could not give a full accounting of the number of people who have been fired from the agency, a Democratic aide for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Friday.
Discussion: Politico
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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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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 …
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas  —  Senior Kyiv economist describes latest postion of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying  —  The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe …
Politico:
Forget tariffs — Beijing is already choking off US exports on the sly  —  China juices trade war with nontariff barriers targeting MAGA-friendly U.S. export sectors.  —  Beijing is showing the Trump administration that tariffs aren't the only weapon in a trade war.
Politico:
USDA's $1B bird flu plan uses money intended for schools, food banks  —  The move tees up a major political fight over the Trump administration's priorities — and the small pot of money USDA has to spread around.  —  Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu …
Discussion: Carolina Journal
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down  —  Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters - and surrounded by yes men  —  After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back - all the way to a Florida golf course.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Judge relaxes ban on DOGE access to sensitive US Treasury information  —  A federal judge ruled at least one DOGE worker can have access if he goes through training and submits disclosures.  —  A New York judge has relaxed a ban she'd put on Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency preventing …
Discussion: New York Times
Elena Moore / NPR:
For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality  —  Last spring, Cornell University was home to a student encampment, where dozens slept in tents on the quad to protest Israel's war in Gaza.  The demonstration lasted more than two weeks.
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 …
Discussion: The Independent
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.
 
 
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