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Stan Choe / Associated Press:
US stocks drop after another stunning day of reversals as uncertainty reigns about Trump's tariffs — U.S. stocks dropped after a second day of stunning reversals. The S&P 500 fell 1.6% Tuesday after wiping out an early gain of 4.1%, which had it on track for its best day in years.
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Offers An Uneasy World No Reassurance In Word Salad Oval Office Remarks — WASHINGTON ― With a world economy on edge since he declared a trade war with the rest of the planet last week, President Donald Trump offered no reassuring words Monday and instead provided yet more evidence …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed — There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions — We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Tariffs on China set to rise to at least 104% on Wednesday, White House says
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Reuters:
Limited options push China into trade ‘war of attrition’ with Trump
Limited options push China into trade ‘war of attrition’ with Trump
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Donald Trump Increases Tariffs to 104% on China
Donald Trump Increases Tariffs to 104% on China
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: A dozen House Republicans mull defying Trump on tariff bill — At least a dozen House Republicans are considering signing onto Rep. Don Bacon's (R-Neb.) bill to restrict the White House's ability to impose tariffs unilaterally, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out
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Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica:
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
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Bloomberg:
Republicans Fracture Over How Much Debt to Run Up for Tax Cuts
Republicans Fracture Over How Much Debt to Run Up for Tax Cuts
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Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hill, NOTUS, Raw Story and Washington Post
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats forge ahead with effort to kill Trump tariffs
Democrats forge ahead with effort to kill Trump tariffs
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say — Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
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Justin Glawe / Rolling Stone:
Trump and DOGE Are ‘Trying to Get Around’ Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information With ICE — The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes. — The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants …
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk calls Navarro “moron” as trade spat intensifies — Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” over comments about Musk's businesses. — Why it matters: The gloves are off …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal judge says White House's punishment of Associated Press is unconstitutional — The White House's decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Sides With The Associated Press In Fight Over Access to Trump — A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet's access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions. — A federal judge in Washington rejected …
Associated Press:
Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app — CBP One was a cornerstone of the Biden administration's strategy to create and expand legal pathways to enter the United States in an attempt to discourage illegal border crossings. — / Source: The Associated Press
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New York Times:
Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry — The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades. — President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed …
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump signs executive orders to boost coal
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Live updates: Trump's approval hits new low after “Liberation Day” tariffs — His average economic approval also hits a new low (-13), and his tariffs are underwater by 30 points … As of midday April 8, 2025, two pollsters have published new polls of Trump's approval rating …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division … I didn't know this until this morning. And I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more press attention. We know that DOGE is in the process of gutting the IRS. According to internal IRS estimates reviewed by The Washington Post this internal sabotage …
Marin Scotten / New Republic:
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” … In his latest rewrite of European history, Donald Trump made a ridiculous and sympathetic declaration about the Nazis. — Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday …
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Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:
US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere — Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation — In a series of narrow rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary's legitimacy. — 6 MIN READ — Justices Give Trump a Tentative Win in Push to Fire 16,000 Federal Workers
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NBC News:
FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino — The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail. Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said. — The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …
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Wired:
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall — Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers. — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator …
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New York Times:
Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’ — Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels. — Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in.
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Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted — What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
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Paul Krugman:
Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex — By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness. And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts. — For the past few days everyone …
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Suspect in Trump's second alleged assassination attempt asks judge to suppress eyewitness — Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second alleged assassination attempt against President Trump, has formally asked a judge to suppress statements from the eyewitness who identified him to police …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces New Deportation Challenge After Supreme Court Order — President Donald Trump is facing a new challenge to his use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, less than a day after the US Supreme Court sided with the administration in an earlier fight.
VOA an essential service:
VOA an essential service — President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to dismantle several U.S.-funded media outlets. Among those is Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and most prominently, Voice of America, an international broadcasting service, which provides content to more than 361 million people around the world.


