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CNN:
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump's feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as “woke.”
Claire A. Michal / The Harvard Crimson:
DHS Threatens To Revoke Harvard's Eligibility To Host International Students Unless It Turns Over Disciplinary Records
Discussion: Yale Daily News
The Harvard Crimson:   Joe Biden Applauds Harvard's Resistance at Private Kennedy School Event
Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Noem Terminates $2.7 Million in DHS Grants; Orders Harvard to Prove Compliance with Foreign Student Requirements
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Trump says Powell's “termination can't come fast enough”  —  President Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday with the strongest suggestion yet of intentions to try to fire the nation's most powerful economic policymaker.  —  Why it matters: Trump's attack comes …
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
Trump Says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’  —  The president said that Jerome Powell has been too hesitant to cut interest rates, and “he should certainly lower them now.”  —  President Trump lashed out at Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve …
Phillip Inman / The Guardian:
ECB cuts rates for third time this year as Europe braces for Trump tariffs  —  Quarter-point cut in cost of borrowing aimed at combating slowing eurozone growth and impact of US border taxes  —  The cost of borrowing fell across the 20-member euro area for the third time this year on Thursday …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Powell Warns of ‘Challenging Scenario’ for Fed as Trade War Rages
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Deportation Flights  —  The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.  —  A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday …
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Trump challenges judges' probes of compliance with deportation orders  —  NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is appealing efforts by two judges to investigate whether government officials defied their rulings over the deportation of migrants to El Salvador …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Persuasion
Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump in trouble? Stagflation, judicial contempt, and sagging polls
Discussion: Des Moines Register
Greg Sullivan / Bloomberg:
Russia Lifts Ban on Taliban Amid Deepening Ties With the Group  —  Russia's Supreme Court lifted a ban on the Taliban, the latest step in growing relations between Moscow and the Islamist group in Afghanistan.  —  “The decision comes into legal force immediately,” the court said on Thursday …
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Reuters:   Russia removes Afghan Taliban from list of banned terrorist groups
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet  —  Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.  —  The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Most Damning Aspect of the Supreme Court's Latest Trump Dodge  —  The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Maryland father wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison—has captivated the nation and spurred Democratic lawmakers into action, with Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flying to El Salvador on Wednesday to try to get him freed.
Discussion: NBC News
CNN:
Trump's pick to be DC's top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate  —  Ed Martin, the Trump administration's nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he's made in the past few years …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
GOP photos at El Salvador prison evoke Abu Ghraib—and worse  —  Members of Congress visited CECOT for some torture tourism—and to prove loyalty to Trump. … A row of Latino men with shaved heads and stoic expressions wearing identical white boxer shorts stand behind thick metal bars.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: Fox Business and The Defense Post
NBC News:
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack  —  After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.  —  After a man tried …
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
GOP Rep Says Arson On Shapiro's House Should Make Him ‘Tone It Down’ On Trump
Discussion: Politico, PennLive and Daily Kos
CNN:
Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies  —  The Trump administration is formulating plans to cut roughly a third of the federal health budget, eliminate dozens of programs and vastly whittle down health agencies, according to an internal document reviewed by CNN.
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USA Today:
Abrego Garcia updates: Defiant senator 'won't rest' until he brings deported man home  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador − The Maryland senator who traveled here hoping to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker who was living in Maryland when he was wrongly deported a month ago …
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps  —  This is your TPM evening briefing.  —  Extraordinary times call for extraordinary and strong language.  President Trump's plan to have migrants — and potentially U.S. citizens — rounded up, flown to El Salvador, and confined there in a maximum security facility …
Discussion: The Independent
Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:
CDC autism report disputes RFK Jr's claims about why the condition is on the rise  —  Experts attribute increase in case numbers to improved diagnostics as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr insists ‘epidemic’ underway  —  The number of U.S. children diagnosed with autism continues to rise …
Tom Pappert / Tennessee Star:
Biden's FBI Ordered TN Highway Patrol to Release ‘Maryland Man’ Recently Deported to El Salvador After He Was Detained in 2022 Traffic Stop on Suspicion of Human Trafficking  —  The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha …
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards  —  Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.  —  Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month …
New York Times:
Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program  —  The Texas House approved the plan, part of a push by President Trump's allies to offer up to $10,000 for private school, home-school or virtual learning.  —  The Texas House of Representatives voted early Thursday morning …
Hana Kiros / The Atlantic:
‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’  —  Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children.  Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.  —  After Elon Musk made a public show of remedying an apparent error in DOGE's massive cuts to foreign aid …
National Environmental Satellite …:
Notice of Changes  —  Estuarine Bathymetry  —  Name of product or service:  —  Estuarine Bathymetry  —  Type of change:  —  Product will be decommissioned  —  Description of change:  —  Estuarine Bathymetry is being decommissioned and will no longer be available.
Chris Cillizza / The Daily Beast:
What Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Planning?  —  You don't need a degree in math (or politics) to know what record-breaking fundraising, a national tour and positive polling add up to.  —  FOURTH TIME  —  Fred Piccolo, 47, briefly worked as the Florida governor's communications director.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
White guy DEI  —  Affirmative action, Trumper style. … 📚 🧑‍🏫 📚  —  Republicans have spent decades howling about how affirmative action led to unqualified minorities taking jobs away from well-qualified straight white men.
Discussion: Inside Higher Ed
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
We're About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The Trump administration is working hard to convince the public that its mass-deportation campaign is fully under way.
 
 
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Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Trump's tariffs are ‘inviting corruption,’ Democrats tell Bessent, Lutnick
Jonathan Lambert / NPR:
Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as ‘harm’ under proposed Trump rule
Claire Heddles / NOTUS:
A Supreme Court Ruling on Labor Boards Could Let Trump Take Over the Federal Reserve
Discussion: CBS News
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
The Next Frontier of Plutocracy
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Bloomberg:
Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market
Thomas Catenacci / The Washington Free Beacon:
Bernie Sanders Spent $221K on Private Jets Amid ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour
Discussion: The Independent
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Jeffrey Mervis / Science:
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Leah Douglas / Reuters:
Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
Discussion: The Guardian and The Federalist
Tiffany Razzano / Bradenton, FL Patch:
FL Governor's Former Spokesman Accused Of Exposing Himself 4 Times
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times and Raw Story