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10:20 AM ET, April 16, 2025

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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Deported ‘Father of the Year’  —  LEAVITT ALONE  —  Trump's press secretary mocked the Maryland father who the administration mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison.  —  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at reporters Tuesday …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit
Paul Krugman:
Why Trump Will Lose His Trade War  —  His people don't know what they're doing or what they want  —  Scenes from the trade war:  — In response to Donald Trump's huge tariffs on Chinese exports, China's government has suspended exports of rare earth minerals and magnets, both critical to many modern industries and the military
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Vox:
China has a plan to win Trump's trade war  —  China came to Trump's trade war ready to fight. … The United States and China are locked in an economic war.  They've levied tit-for-tat tariffs on each other, and there's little sign of detente.  —  President Donald Trump said in a statement Tuesday that …
Vivian Wang / New York Times:   A U.S.-China Trade War With Students and Tourists as Potential Pawns
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Plans to Use Tariff Negotiations to Isolate China
Discussion: Fox Business, emptywheel and Bloomberg
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Top Hegseth adviser Dan Caldwell put on leave in Pentagon leak probe  —  One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Trump dashed Musk's secret Pentagon briefing on China  —  Beyond tariffs and court battles over Trump policies, two pieces of White House palace intrigue emerged Tuesday:  — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suspended two top Pentagon officials, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Politico:
Two top Pentagon officials placed on leave in leak probe  —  The disclosures under investigation include Elon Musk's visit to the Pentagon.  —  The Pentagon placed two top political appointees under administrative leave on Tuesday after a probe into potential leaks of sensitive information, according to three defense officials.
New York Times:
Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump  —  The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands.  Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.  —  Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying …
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Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Atlantic:
Trump's Harvard Whiplash  —  The demands the Trump administration is placing on the university are internally contradictory.  —  On Friday, the Trump administration insisted that Harvard comply with an updated litany of demands or risk losing billions in federal funding and grants.
Wall Street Journal:
How Harvard Ended Up Leading the University Fight Against Trump
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California is first state to sue Trump on tariffs  —  It's Gov. Gavin Newsom's most direct move against Trump since the president retook office.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Donald Trump over tariffs in an aggressive move to end the president's stranglehold on global commerce.
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Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
California's Newsom Says State to Sue Over Trump's Tariffs
Discussion: Mercury News and Fox Business
Washington Post:
Trump's D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times  —  Trump nominee Ed Martin's 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Inside Democrats' scramble to travel to El Salvador  —  Democrats are rushing to organize trips to El Salvador as President Trump refuses to comply with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of a Maryland resident who was erroneously deported to the country.
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers  —  The world's richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump.  He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over money and privacy.
Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
2 Protesters at Marjorie Taylor Greene Town Hall Are Subdued With Stun Guns  —  Three people, including the two who were subdued with stun guns, were arrested.  —  A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia outside of Atlanta on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos …
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ABC News:
Protesters tased, arrested at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia town hall
Punchbowl News:
4/16/25 ☀️ AM:  —  The red lines begin: A dozen House Republicans say no to big Medicaid cuts  —  The rise of the million-dollar House fundraising quarter  —  Sheehy finds his footing after bruising campaign  —  Jordan to headline Feenstra's Iowa event
Discussion: RedState and National Review
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CNN:
The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP  —  Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
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Mohar Chatterjee / Politico:
Pentagon's ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse  —  Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE.  “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.  —  Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff …
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group  —  A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.  —  U.S. DOGE Service representatives told leaders of a nonprofit group Tuesday …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
Trump administration refers NY AG Letitia James for potential prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud  —  WASHINGTON — New York Attorney General Letitia James — who infamously declared that “no one is above the law” when she was targeting Donald Trump — was hit with a federal criminal referral …
Gerardo Beltran Salinas / The New Bedford Light:
Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminal record  —  A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.
Discussion: WPRI.com and KTSM 9 News
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program.  Yes, that CVE program  —  Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?  —  US government funding for the world's CVE program - the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws - ends Wednesday.
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
DOJ files lawsuit against Maine claiming the state violated Title IX by “by failing to protect women in women's sports”  —  Washington — Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is filing a civil lawsuit against Maine's Department of Education for …
Jericho Tran / NBC Boston:
‘Treated like a criminal’: US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada  —  Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont  —  A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home …
Discussion: The Independent
Angus Cochrane / BBC:
Supreme Court backs ‘biological’ definition of woman  —  Judges at the UK Supreme Court have unanimously ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.  —  It marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle which could have major implications …
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
Border deployment vehicle accident kills two service members, third in critical condition  —  Two service members deployed to the U.S. Southern border were killed and a third is in serious condition after a vehicle accident near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, the military announced late Tuesday.
 
 
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