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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs  —  The Chinese government said it would match President Trump's tariff, and also barred a group of American companies from doing business in China.  —  China has struck back at President Trump on Friday.
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New Republic:
“Horrifying”: Trump's Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked  —  After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday.  He ranted and rambled delusionaly about how everything is just great.
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump's Tariff Madness Can Be Stopped.  Here's How.  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 4 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: New York Times
South China Morning Post:
Breaking |  China hits back at US with 34% tariff on American imports in retaliation for Trump's duties  —  The tariff comes into effect on April 10 and is part of a raft of measures that includes more rare earths controls  —  China will impose a 34 per cent tariff on imported American goods …
Politico:
Republicans play powerless as Trump tariff fears sweep across the globe  —  While GOP lawmakers could stop the presidential levies, they made clear they would not do so anytime soon.  —  Faced with President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs, Wall Street traders voted with their dollars Thursday …
Financial Times:
America's astonishing act of self-harm  —  Trump's tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity  —  If it endures, Donald Trump's decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history.
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump sued over China tariffs
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The real reason Trump is destroying the economy
Discussion: The Economist
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Ego Melts the Global Economy
more at Techmeme »
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:   Trump administration ramps up farm aid discussions amid tariff fallout
Rebecca Robbins / New York Times:
Trump's Next Tariffs Target Could Be Foreign-Made Medicines
Discussion: Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
Trump and His ‘Little Disturbance’ From Tariffs
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
National Security Agency and Cyber Command chief Gen. Timothy Haugh ousted  —  The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired and reassigned Thursday, according to U.S. officials.  —  just now  —  The director of the powerful wiretapping …
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command Is Ousted  —  No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, but the far-right activist Laura Loomer had called for his ouster in a meeting with President Trump, an official said.  —  The head of the National Security Agency …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Trump fires head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command  —  The Trump administration has fired Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, several news publications reported overnight into Friday.  —  Haugh, a career military official …
Discussion: UPI and Reuters
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
South Korean court removes president from office, says he violated duties  —  The Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law, a decision expected to exacerbate political divisions.  —  Just now
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New York Times:
Jubilation in South Korea After President Who Declared Martial Law Is Ousted  —  The nation's top court unanimously upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, clearing the way for the election of a new president.  —  Here's the latest.  —  South Korea's top court voted unanimously to dismiss …
Cheyenne Haslett / Associated Press:
RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake  —  He didn't indicate when the reinstatements would happen.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs …
Discussion: Punchbowl News and The Independent
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Sophie Gardner / Politico:   Which jobs were cut at CDC? Here's a list.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University  —  The administration has now targeted five schools' federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.  —  The Trump administration intends to block $510 million …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The American Age Is Over  —  1. Canada  —  Fittingly, it was the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, who declared the official time of death. … And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended.  —  Share  —  We cannot overstate what has just happened.
Discussion: Reuters and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers  —  The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe …
Discussion: 19FortyFive
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:   Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin
Politico:
Boasberg signals he may hold Trump officials in contempt over deportation flights  —  The federal judge grilled a DOJ lawyer about whether the administration had tried to evade a court order.  —  A frustrated federal judge is strongly considering holding Trump administration officials …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Officials Could Be Held in Contempt for Deportation Flights, Judge Says
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Trump Picks Golf Dinner Over Dignified Transfer of U.S. Troops' Bodies  —  VALUES  —  Trump flew to the Saudi-funded event in Florida on Friday.  —  Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania …
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Eugene Robinson Leaves the Washington Post After Jeff Bezos' ‘Significant Shift’ to Opinion Section  —  “I wish nothing but the very best for the paper and for all of you.  I won't be a stranger,” the political columnist tells his colleagues after 45 years at WaPo
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Blocks H.H.S. From Terminating $11 Billion in Public Health Grants  —  A coalition of states sued over the Trump administration's unexpected move to cut off the funds, which they said imperiled everything from childhood vaccination programs to opioid addiction treatment.
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NPR:
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes  —  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes.
Max Kozlov / Nature:
Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition … - Max Kozlov  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to defund nearly every research project on transgender health …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Matt Taibbi / Racket News:
A Response to a Member of Congress  —  Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Democrat representing California's 37th district in Los Angeles, began her opening remarks in a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing Tuesday with a comment directed to me.  “To distract from the dumpster fire this administration is pursuing …
 
 
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NBC News:
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