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8:15 AM ET, April 24, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
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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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
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 …
Discussion: Politico
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
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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Paul Krugman:
Trump Is a Virus  —  Chaos is about to take its toll  —  Hammering out a few words before getting on the bike.
Discussion: Washington Post
Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Trio Of Top CEOs Warn Trump Tariffs Will Empty Store Shelves: Report
Discussion: CBS News, HuffPost, Alternet.org and So What
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
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.
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
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.
Discussion: Breitbart and National Review
New York Times:
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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Wall Street Journal:
A New Poll Shows the Peril of Trump's Tariffs
Discussion: Business Insider and The Hill
New York Times:
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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Bloomberg:
Trump to Host Dinner With Top Holders of His Memecoin
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
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.
Discussion: New York Times, Axios and Raw Story
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
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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David Montgomery / YouGov:
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 …
ProPublica:
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Xavier Martinez / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Discussion: masslive.com
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
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 …
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
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 …
Discussion: Reuters and The Handbasket
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy and Baltimore Sun
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Anil Oza / STAT:
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.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
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 …
Anna Lagos / Wired:
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.
Alana Wise / NPR:
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.
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
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.
Pew Research Center:
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
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
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.
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
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 …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
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 …
Dan Froomkin / Heads Up News:
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.
Discussion: New Republic
Sydney Carruth / NBC News:
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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Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities
Melissa Chan / NBC News:
Harvard's president says the school will ‘not compromise’ on its rights with the Trump admin
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Clare Duffy / CNN:
Investors got hosed when Trump's tariffs tanked markets. Some of America's billionaires managed to sell before the plunge
Emily Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Abe Foxman criticizes Trump administration in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech
Discussion: Staten Island Advance and CBS News
Associated Press:
Pastor calls for ‘full Target boycott’ over concerns about diversity, equity, inclusion
Discussion: WCNC-TV and Advocate
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
White House partners with conservative college for Independence Day videos
Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Zelensky Pushes Back on U.S. Peace Plan
 

 
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
RSF's 2025 Press Freedom Index classifies media freedom globally as “difficult”, a first; economic score hits a record low due to ownership concentration, more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
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