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11:40 PM ET, April 12, 2025

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Politico:
Trump administration says wrongly deported man is alive in El Salvador prison  —  The U.S. government continued to refuse to provide any details about whether it has taken any steps to return him to the United States.  —  The Trump administration confirmed Saturday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia …
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Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Trump DOJ Flips Off SCOTUS in Brazen Update on Deported Dad  —  ‘BARBARIANS’  —  A senior department official stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained under the sovereign authority of El Salvador.  —  The Trump administration is continuing to seemingly do everything it can to avoid securing …
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
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
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:   Trump tariffs on China will soon bring ‘irreversible’ damage to many American businesses
Bloomberg:
Apple, Nvidia Score Relief From US Tariffs With Exemptions
Financial Times:   Trump excludes smartphones from reciprocal tariffs
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.
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
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 …
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners  —  If there is something you can do, even one thing, to ensure humanity exists behind bars, do it.  —Albert Woodfox (2019)  —  Sherrilyn's Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk goes where no other Trump adviser can: Publicly disagreeing with the president  —  The Trump adviser appears uninhibited in sharing his opinions — and that seems to be just fine with the president.  —  President Donald Trump is notorious for selecting advisers who closely follow his command — and firing those who don't.
Discussion: CNN
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
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 …
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
NBC News:
Bond market moves raise fears of growing bets against America  —  Treasury yields have been behaving unusually, sparking concerns that the typical “safe haven” investment might be losing some of its shine.  —  Government bonds have been selling off while stocks have plunged.
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Measles cases rise to 700, adding pressure to RFK Jr.  —  The measles outbreak has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rein in the deadly virus.  —  Overall, 712 cases have been reported with new cases …
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.”
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.
 
 
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Fear Shadows Many Children in Immigrant Families
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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 …
Politico:
Forget tariffs — Beijing is already choking off US exports on the sly
Discussion: Fortune
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin's Russia
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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