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Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors — Move is latest in effort to remake higher education after the president and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation process — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to shake …
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Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 …
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Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
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Trump signs executive orders targeting colleges, plus schools' equity efforts
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New York Times, The Guardian, The Post Millennial, Washington Times, Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal

Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies
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The Hill, Politico, Chalkbeat, The Gateway Pundit and Blaze Media


Trump's Tariffs Bump Into Reality as Economic Strategy Wavers — President Trump has said his punishing tariffs would force companies to build factories in the United States. But it is far from clear that they will have the effects he predicted. — 阅读.体中 …
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China tells US to ‘cancel all unilateral tariffs’ if it wants talks — Beijing says claims it is nearing a deal with Washington to resolve the trade war are ‘fake news’ — Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks …
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Trump Is a Virus — Chaos is about to take its toll — Hammering out a few words before getting on the bike.
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Mega-investor Ken Griffin: Trump's trade war ‘has devolved into a nonsensical place’
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Trio Of Top CEOs Warn Trump Tariffs Will Empty Store Shelves: Report
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Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose. A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law.
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Trump's Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows — President Trump's approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office. — President Trump's job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office …
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Trump Offers Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin — The offer, which caused President Trump's memecoin to surge in price, was his family's latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies. — The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World …
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Trump to Host Dinner With Top Holders of His Memecoin
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Trump to host dinner with top holders of his meme coin
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Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer — The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.
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New York Times, Axios and Raw Story


U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish — A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed. — The personal cellphones of dozens of current and former Barnard College employees pinged Monday evening …
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The Intercept, Raw Story, The Forward and Columbia Daily Spectator


Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match — Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated shouting match in earshot of President Trump and other officials in the White House last week during a dispute about the IRS, two witnesses and three sources briefed on the matter tell Axios.
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Elon Musk Has ‘F-Word Screaming Match’ Feet From Oval Office
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Trump approval falls, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 100 days, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: April 19-22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll — Findings from the latest Economist/YouGov poll about: — How much Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen in the past month — Whether Americans …
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Fox News, Pew Research Center, Mediaite, Forbes and The Post Millennial


The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor — Martin's career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried …
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Fearing Trump's Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds — Campus newspapers confront ethics debates as international students try to remove their names and opinions from past articles — The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America's most prominent universities …
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A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters. So Why Did They Get Blamed for It? — A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn't know that from the school's statements. — WHEN A BOMB threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest …


Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations — The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to deport immigrants to Rwanda who can't be sent back to their country of origin due to fears of prosecution. — The Handbasket newsletter reported Tuesday that a State Department cable sent …
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Reuters and The Handbasket


Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online — Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family's address on social media — The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living …
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Abrego Garcia's Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up
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STAT+: New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias — Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, one of the world's leading medical journals, has received a similar inquiry as well.


Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame — Democrats have long intensely debated whether to appear on Fox News. Going on Fox risks providing a sheen of legitimacy to a propaganda outlet. But not going on risks leaving Republican news consumers …
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The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration — A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry.


NIH autism study will pull from private medical records — The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.
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The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s — The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and culture.


Majorities disapprove of some key Trump administration actions — Post Infographics — More disapprove than approve of the administration's government cuts, but views largely split along partisan lines — Among Republicans, support for ending DEI policies in federal government varies across demographic groups


Switching from ICE to DoD Custody: An Alarming Violation of Court Order on Deportations to El Salvador — Earlier today, I discussed one of the “sleeper” immigration cases that had largely flown below the radar: D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.


Exclusive: Trump administration moved Venezuelan to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order — President Donald Trump's administration moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge had issued …


Furor over Trump's targeting of law firms heats up with court fight and ad campaign — As judges question the constitutionality of Donald Trump's targeting of law firms he dislikes, a liberal group is encouraging firms to “stop bending the knee.” — WASHINGTON — A liberal group will launch …
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Let's talk about a civic uprising — Mainstream media coverage of the widespread anti-Trump protests on April 19 was much more extensive than it was after the April 5 protests — despite smaller crowds. — Watch MSBNC's Rachel Maddow wrap up the coverage and the protests on her show Monday night - it's must-see TV.
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A dozen states sue to stop Trump's tariffs — Democratic attorneys general from 12 states filed a joint lawsuit arguing that the president doesn't have the constitutional authority to execute his sweeping tariff agenda. — Twelve states filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality …
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