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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge — He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday. Stocks fall. — President Trump likes to cite the stock market when it's rising as a sign of his policy success, so what does he think about Monday's plunge?
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Joshua Kirby / Wall Street Journal:
Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns — The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s — The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows …
New Republic:
Trump Hit by Brutal Fox News Graphic on Tariffs as More Bad Polls Land — On Monday, while President Trump talked about his tariffs, Fox News showed him speaking even as a graphic in the corner displayed the markets sliding. That said it all: No matter how much boasting he does about the economy …
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María Verza / Associated Press:
Mexico to impose retaliatory tariffs on US following China and Canada as trade war heats up
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Associated Press:
Trump's trade war draws swift retaliation with new tariffs from Mexico, Canada and China
Trump's trade war draws swift retaliation with new tariffs from Mexico, Canada and China
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Yun Li / CNBC:
Trump tariffs live updates: White House threatens even more tariffs on Canada as trade war escalates
Trump tariffs live updates: White House threatens even more tariffs on Canada as trade war escalates
Bloomberg:
Trump's Goal in Trade War Is to Annex Canada, Trudeau Says
Trump's Goal in Trade War Is to Annex Canada, Trudeau Says
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Politico:
Republicans squirm as Trump's tariffs come for their states
Republicans squirm as Trump's tariffs come for their states
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CNBC:
Trump's Mexico tariffs could raise produce prices in the next few days, Target CEO says
Trump's Mexico tariffs could raise produce prices in the next few days, Target CEO says
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Reuters:
Canada is imposing 25% tariffs on $30 bln of US imports, says Trudeau
Canada is imposing 25% tariffs on $30 bln of US imports, says Trudeau
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CNBC:
Dow drops 700 points, Nasdaq enters correction as Trump ignites trade war: Live updates
Dow drops 700 points, Nasdaq enters correction as Trump ignites trade war: Live updates
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Fox Business
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trudeau says Trump's ‘dumb’ trade war is designed to collapse the Canadian economy
Trudeau says Trump's ‘dumb’ trade war is designed to collapse the Canadian economy
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
No more town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans — The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.
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Axios:
Scoop: Some Dems plot to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress … - “The part that we all agree on is that this is not business as usual and we would like to find a way — productively — to express our outrage,” one House Democrat told Axios. — There is widespread disagreement among Democrats …
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Andrea González-Ramírez / The Cut:
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump's Speech by Wearing Pink — Pink for the rights of women and families, black to meet the somberness of the political moment, yellow and blue in support of Ukraine: Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during …
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Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Elon Is Coming for Your Social Security — The sweeping cuts brought on by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, through their “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), have swept all the way up to the Social Security Administration. While Trump has long pledged not to touch …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jeffries cracks down on Trump speech disruptions
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez skipping Trump address, will live post instead
Ocasio-Cortez skipping Trump address, will live post instead
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Daily Kos, PBS NewsHour, PoliticusUSA, Boston.com and The Daily Wire
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Democrats seek to probe Musk conflicts and DOGE firings with resolutions of inquiry in the House
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Democrats Are Serious About a Shutdown
Democrats Are Serious About a Shutdown
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Wired:
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries — Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting. — Some staffers at Elon Musk's so-called Department …
HuffPost:
Trump Abruptly Walks Back His Directive To Fire Thousands Of Federal Employees — His administration is suddenly reversing course after a federal judge ruled that the mass firings of probationary workers were probably illegal. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly walked …
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NBC News:
Trump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps ‘not fit to have a job at this moment’ — Emily Erroa, an Army veteran who was fired from the Department of Energy last month, called Habba's comments “ridiculous” and “insulting.” — WASHINGTON — White House adviser Alina Habba …
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Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Cuts Hit Veterans Especially Hard
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Washington Times
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Alina Habba suggests some veterans ‘not fit’ for government jobs
Alina Habba suggests some veterans ‘not fit’ for government jobs
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CNBC, New Republic, Representative Laura Gillen and Mediaite
Kenn Oliver / National Post:
U.S. is busting more people with prohibited eggs at the Canadian border — The Detroit-Windsor crossing, for instance, witnessed a 36% increase in ‘interceptions of eggs’ between Oct. 2024 and Feb. 2025 — As egg prices soar to record highs in the U.S., Customs and Border Protection …
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Justin Trudeau / Prime Minister of Canada:
Statement by the Prime Minister on unjustified U.S. tariffs against Canada — Statement by the Prime Minister on unjustified U.S. tariffs against Canada — The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on unjustified U.S. tariffs against Canada:
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William R. Cotter Fb / U.S. General Services …:
Non-core property list — We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps …
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Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst's Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee — Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked on Capitol Hill.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Vance Ignites Outrage in Britain With ‘Random Country’ Comment — The vice president denied that he was talking about Britain and France when he downplayed “20,000 troops from some random country” protecting Ukraine. No other countries have pledged troops.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Vengeance Is His — With Trump back in the White House, each new week produces an onslaught of radical policy initiatives. — In an essay posted on Substack, Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown, described a sequence — running from Feb. 21 to Feb. 27 …
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Economic growth is slowing — so Trump wants to redefine “economic growth” — The government produces many of America's most important economic indicators. And that data influences the media's coverage of the economy, which likely colors voters' views of the president.
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Trump official floats new approach on GDP, as economy poised to slow sharply
Trump official floats new approach on GDP, as economy poised to slow sharply
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The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7? — The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist. — Days after the 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance followed @capitivedreamer7 …
U.S. Department of Education:
Secretary McMahon: Our Department's Final Mission — When I took the oath of office as Secretary of Education, I accepted responsibility for overseeing the U.S. Department of Education and those who work here. But more importantly, I took responsibility for supporting over 100 million American children …
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Anna North / Vox:
What Trump is trying to do to the Education Department, explained
What Trump is trying to do to the Education Department, explained
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Zelensky Offers Terms to Stop Fighting, Assuring U.S. That Ukraine Wants Peace — “We are working on all possible scenarios to protect Ukraine,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country was looking to European allies for support. — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine …
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Angrej Singh / Axios:
CDC sends disease experts to Texas as measles cases rise — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday sent federal disease experts to assist in the response to the intensifying measles outbreak in Texas … - The partnership, known as an Epi-Aid, is a rapid-response effort …
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Scaachi Koul / Slate:
I Followed Three Women Who Wanted to Divorce Their Trump-Supporting Husbands. I Can't Believe Where They Ended Up. — This fall, I followed three women who had been thinking about divorce. What happened when Donald Trump won again? — Marriage is hardly a new invention.
Kate Shaw / New York Times:
There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution — It's difficult to convey the full magnitude of the legal chaos emanating from the Trump administration. It goes well beyond the violation of individual laws — much of the past month has featured what feels like an assault on the very idea of law as a binding constraint.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Courts push back on DOJ's effort to expand reach of Trump's Jan. 6 pardon — What did President Donald Trump intend, and when did he intend it? — Federal judges are pumping the brakes on the Justice Department's newfound claim that President Donald Trump's blanket pardon of Jan. 6 defendants …
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