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Peter Navarro / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system  —  Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports  —  The writer is President Trump's senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing  —  The international trade system is broken — and Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff doctrine will fix it.
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Washington Post:
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs  —  The world's richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful.  —  Just now  —  Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing …
CNBC:
Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't remove retaliatory duties: Live updates … WATCH NOW … CNBC's reporters are covering the tariffs and their effects, live on air and online from our bureaus in Washington; London; Singapore; San Francisco; and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
7 GOP senators sign on to bill to check Trump's trade authority  —  Seven Republican senators, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the Senate's president pro tempore, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), the former Senate Republican leader, have signed on to a bipartisan bill that would require Congress …
Politico:
Bessent flew to Florida to lobby Trump on tariff message  —  Bessent flew to Florida on Sunday to encourage Trump to start putting more emphasis on talking about his endgame.  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew to Florida Sunday to encourage President Donald Trump to focus his message …
Discussion: USA Today, Raw Story, The Hill and Forbes
Axios:
Scoop: Trump issues veto threat on tariff bill
New York Times:
Live Updates: Wall Street Slumps Further as Trump Defends His Tariffs
Victoria Guida / Politico:
‘How Ugly Is This Going to Be?’  —  A roundtable of POLITICO reporters discuss where Trump's tariffs may be headed.
Discussion: Euronews
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely …
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Politico:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported  —  The Trump administration has described Abrego Garcia's deportation both as an “administrative error” and a “clerical error.”  —  The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order to return Maryland man from El Salvador
CNN:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Wall Street Journal:
The False Tariff Headline That Sent Stocks on a $2 Trillion Ride  —  Misinformation on a White House official's remarks triggers a short-lived rally  —  A wild stock-market swing based on false information added $2.4 trillion in value and erased it almost as quickly Monday morning.
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CNN:
How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony, letter shows  —  The U.S. Justice Department sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
RFK's Anti-Vax Flock Turns on Him  —  RFK's biggest fans turn on him  —  For vaccine opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as secretary of health and human services represented something close to nirvana.  It was a chance, finally, to take on Big Pharma and to bring …
Discussion: Ars Technica, CBS News and STAT
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Washington Post:
RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
UAW President Shawn Fain explains why he supports Trump's tariffs  —  President Trump's announcements on tariffs have dismayed many of his erstwhile supporters on Wall Street.  The suddenness — and steepness — of the tariffs announced last Wednesday prompted some global manufacturers …
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees  —  Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.  —  In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case.  But these aren't normal times.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
Associated Press:
RFK Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water  —  The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century.  —  / Source: The Associated Press
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service  —  “The risk to people's civil rights is enormous.”  —  As if Elon Musk didn't already have enough advantages, between his billions and his leverage over President Donald Trump, he appears to have another ace up his sleeve: the US Marshals Service.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Gilbert / Wired:
‘Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down’: Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly  —  Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.
Discussion: The Hill
Barrett Media:
Stephen A. Smith No Longer Ruling Out Possibility of Running for President in 2028  —  “I've decided that I'm no longer going to close that door.  I'm gonna keep my options open.  I'm going to entertain the possibility.”  —  After some polls had shown him as one of the top candidates …
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Turns Out Trump Lied About Those Deportations to El Salvador … 60 Minutes' Cecelia Vega on Sunday confirmed what anyone who's been paying attention already suspected: An overwhelming majority of the Venezuelan men that Trump deported to a Salvadoran megaprison have no criminal record whatsoever.
Anastasia Edel / The Atlantic:
Why America's Oligarchs May Regret Their Obedience  —  Putin's Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman.  —  When tech billionaires and crypto moguls hailed Donald Trump's reelection and flocked to his inauguration ceremony and ball …
 
 
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
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Axios:
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 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case now in senior DOJ position
Reuters:
Exclusive: US admiral at NATO fired in expanding national security purge
Discussion: Stars & Stripes and Task & Purpose
Luke O'Brien / Mother Jones:
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Paul Krugman:
Political Styles of the Rich and Clueless
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump tariffs, corporations cower
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
I Should Have Seen This Coming  —  When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s …
Discussion: Raw Story and OutsideTheBeltway