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10:05 AM ET, April 24, 2025

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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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Financial Times:
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 …
Washington Post:   U.S. races to head off economic shock from China trade war restriction
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Hassett on whether Trump is worried about empty shelves: ‘Absolutely not’
Discussion: Alternet.org
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Trump-honored economist says tariffs causing scariest period in his lifetime
Discussion: Commonplace
Bloomberg:
Tariffs Won't Bring US Allies On Board Against China
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.
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New York Times:
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office  —  The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the commercial messaging app Signal set up on a computer …
Ronald J. Deibert / Foreign Affairs:   The Real Lesson of SignalGate
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: The first 100 days of President Trump's second term  —  82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January  —  As Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, a Fox News survey finds voters pleased with the job he is doing on border security …
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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 …
David Montgomery / YouGov:
Trump approval falls, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 100 days, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: April 19-22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
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.
Reuters:
100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency  —  At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore headquarters to regional offices to replace veteran claims processors who have been fired or taken buyouts from the Trump administration.
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk had the government in his grasp. Then it unraveled.
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Elon Musk Has ‘F-Word Screaming Match’ Feet From Oval Office
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 …
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
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Politico
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton becomes the first to launch a bid for Dick Durbin's Senate seat  —  Stratton, who came into office alongside Gov. JB Pritzker in 2018, announced on Thursday she will seek Durbin's spot in the Senate.  —  CHICAGO — And the race is officially on.
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.
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
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
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
Volodymyr Ivanyshyn / The Kyiv Independent:
‘Russian peace in all its glory’ — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 9, injures 90  —  Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated.  —  Nine people have been killed and 90 injured, including at least six children, in a Russian mass missile and drone attack …
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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.
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters.  So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?  —  When a bomb threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest at Barnard College last month, the New York City Police Department arrested nine demonstrators.  By the next day, local and national media had picked up the story.
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Democrats can afford to fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  Immigration is Trump's best issue.  But the benefits of fighting his lawless deportations are worth the political risks. … President Donald Trump has been sending undocumented immigrants to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador  —  The judge in the case referenced the similar case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  —  A Salvadoran soldier stands guard at the CECOT prison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 4, 2025.  —  A federal judge in Maryland has ordered …
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
Politico:
David Jolly registers as a Democrat, making moves toward Florida governor bid  —  Jolly is launching a state political committee called Florida 2026, which he said will be geared at registering voters and tackling key affordability problems.  —  Democrats may get a second shot at running …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Joel Dodge / Washington Monthly:
In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism  —  Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail.  Those conditions turned out to be key to the program's success.
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.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
It's not just ‘leftist’ judges.  GOP appointees have many sharp words for Trump.  —  Three times in the last 16 days, Republican-nominated judges have pitched the administration's actions as brazen, lawless — and even dangerous.  —  President Donald Trump has spent almost …
Paul Krugman:
Trump Is a Virus  —  Chaos is about to take its toll  —  Hammering out a few words before getting on the bike.  —  It has been amazing to watch the stock market gyrating in response to things that aren't even policy changes — they're hints and rumors of policy changes.
Discussion: Washington Post and CBS News
 
 
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
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Sean Burch / The Wrap:
The LA Times Guild says 14 of its members have been laid off, or 6% of its newsroom staff, the third round of newsroom layoffs at LAT in as many years

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