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8:55 AM ET, April 20, 2025

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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department  —  The draft executive order to be signed by President Trump would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.  —  A draft White House executive order proposes …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US  —  Thousands of protesters rallied in Washington and other cities across the U.S. on Saturday to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump's policies on deportations, government firings, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
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New York Times:
‘Shame!’  Protesters Nationwide Rally Again to Condemn Trump Policies.  —  Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday to speak out against the president's handling of immigration, civil liberties, job cuts and many other issues.  —  Thousands of protesters across …
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration, gets chocolate eggs for kids  —  U.S. Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration's migrant deportation plans.
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Washington Post:
Vance meets with pope as Francis's Easter message decries ‘logic of fear’  —  The visit at the Vatican brought together the ailing head of the Catholic church and a high-profile convert who has criticized the pope's social teachings.  —  Vance meets with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One  —  Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order halting the Trump administration's reported efforts to fly Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison before they could challenge their deportation.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Supported Federal Immigration Efforts
Discussion: Breitbart and To the Contrary
Alana Wise / NPR:
White House solicits corporate sponsors for its Easter Egg Roll event  —  The White House is for the first time soliciting corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll event to be held Monday on the South Lawn.  This comes as billionaire tech executives have faced growing criticism for cozying up to the Trump administration.
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Companies vying for Trump's attention are sponsoring the Easter Egg Roll
Discussion: Business Insider
Washington Post:
How a defunct gang registry helped deliver Kilmar Abrego García to a Salvadoran prison  —  Federal officials have launched a full-throated effort to label Abrego García a gang member and “a terrorist,” an argument based on a gang survey that was decommissioned amid questions over racial profiling.
Danyelle Khmara / Arizona Public Media:
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days  —  IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS IN TUCSON ARRESTED THE 19-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM ALBUQUERQUE ON APRIL 8, SAYING HE HAD ENTERED THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY, BEFORE A JUDGE DISMISSED HIS CASE ON APRIL 17.  —  19-year-old Jose Hermosillo …
Washington Post:
Trump isn't holding rallies these days — and doesn't seem to miss them much  —  “There's really no reason to do it,” a senior White House official said of holding a rally.  —  In his first eight months in the White House in 2017, Donald Trump held nine rallies — the kind of campaign-style events …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump claims unfettered presidential power on immigration  —  The president's deportations have created a clash between the rule of law and due process, and his assertions of presidential power and resistance to challenges by federal judges.  —  From the day he came down the escalator …
Discussion: Grabien
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry ‘baseless attacks’  —  Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
America's Second-Richest Elected Official Is Acting Like He Wants to Be President  —  Billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is one of the top Democrats being watched as the party searches for a way out of the political wilderness  —  CHICAGO—If JB Pritzker runs for the Democratic presidential nomination …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rampin' Up, Baby!  That Thiel Start Up Hunting the Motherlode Contract is Inside Treasury … One of the most important stories in some time came out two days ago.  But with so much else going it didn't get quite as much attention as it should have.  It's from ProPublica.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Arizona Democrats are suddenly engulfed in party chaos  —  The state party chair attacked Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego in a letter.  They responded he “lost their trust.”  —  Arizona's Democratic Party is in a meltdown.  —  Bitter infighting among the state's top Democrats …
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch  —  While presidents have been at odds before, there is often a sort of camaraderie among the small club of individuals who have served in the highest office in the land.  —  Barack Obama urged Americans to resist President Donald Trump's bullying.
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block  —  THE LIKELIHOOD OF DONALD TRUMP and his allies in Congress taking Medicaid away from millions of low-income Americans—and, in the process, rolling back a huge piece of the Affordable Care Act—has increased significantly in the last two weeks.
Discussion: CNN
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop  —  Acyn Torabi dominates the internet with fast-cut clips of political mayhem.  Are they news, or something else?  —  The man behind the most influential progressive account on social media starts his days at 6 a.m. in front …
 
 
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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Elon Musk Faces Questions About His Government Influence After Setbacks
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
‘Margarita-gate’: Sen. Chris Van Hollen slams efforts to stage optics of meeting with Abrego Garcia
Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe:
Crowds gather peacefully at 250th anniversary celebrations despite divided political climate
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
'He's got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles': Trump appears to hold up altered image of Abrego Garcia's hand
Tara Patel / Bloomberg:
Firing Powell Would Hurt the Dollar and US Economy, France Says
David Smith / The Guardian:
US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’
 Earlier Items: 
Kenneth Schrupp / Washington Examiner:
California bill would prioritize illegal immigrants for disaster aid: lawmaker
ABC News:
Naval Academy cancels speech by podcaster amid cultural turmoil
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Former Trump Staff Members Liken His Actions to Those of ‘Royal Despot’
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say
Jp Lawrence / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Indonesian man details surprise ICE arrest in Minnesota hospital; judge denies release
Discussion: The Guardian