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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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Trump's Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit — As Trump administration officials seek to defend their refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after deporting him in “error,” one of the government's chief justifications has been that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.


Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration's refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man — “To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said. — GREENBELT, Maryland — A federal judge ordered an “intense” …
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Judge in Abrego Garcia case indicates she's weighing contempt proceedings against Trump administration
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Trump Says He's Powerless to Return Deported Migrant. But He's Done So Before.
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In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative
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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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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.
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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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Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze — A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
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How Harvard Ended Up Leading the University Fight Against Trump
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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.
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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.


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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White House Moves to Limit Newswire Access After AP Lawsuit Win
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Biden to deliver first public address since leaving White House — Former President Biden is set to deliver his first public address since leaving the White House, speaking at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) in Chicago on Tuesday, according to a release from the organization.
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Biden, breaking his silence, slams Trump on Social Security cuts
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Biden says Trump administration has ‘done so much damage’ since taking office
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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 …
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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
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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.
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MITRE-backed cyber vulnerability program to lose funding Wednesday
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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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California voters have Trump-resistance fatigue, poll finds
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U.S. Plans to Use Tariff Negotiations to Isolate China — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants trading partners to limit China's involvement in their economies in exchange for concessions on reciprocal tariffs — The Trump administration plans to use ongoing tariff negotiations …
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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.
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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 …
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Raw Story


‘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 …
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The Independent


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 …


Senator Chuck Grassley grilled at Iowa town hall over ‘shameful’ Trump policies — The Republican, 91, was confronted by attendees angered over mass deportations and executive overreach — The Republican senator Chuck Grassley struggled to control a town hall meeting on Tuesday …
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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 …
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Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor — BARGAIN BAROQUE — Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor … By Luke Kawa — 2H — US stocks slip on poor progress in trade talks with the EU — Major indexes gave up early gains …


The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long — For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.” — As President Trump has stated …


Protesters tased, arrested at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia town hall — Three people were arrested, two of whom were stunned with a Taser, police said. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a town hall in Cobb County, Ga., on April 15, 2025. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene …
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. — Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
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David Hogg, Parkland Survivor and D.N.C. Vice Chair, Hopes to Unseat Democratic Incumbents — David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party's older lawmakers in primaries.
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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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