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8:55 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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Politico:
Hounded by Wall Street, Trump tempers his populist rhetoric  —  The president has heard from all corners and appears to be listening.  At least a little.  —  Donald Trump has described his trade war as a bold effort to prioritize Main Street concerns, the fulfilment of a promise …
Washington Post:
U.S. races to head off economic shock from China trade war restriction  —  Beijing's curbs on rare earth exports, used to make military drones, consumer electronics, electric cars and more, have caused alarm across federal agencies.  —  Senior administration officials are scrambling …
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Trump-honored economist says tariffs causing scariest period in his lifetime
Discussion: Commonplace
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 …
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David Montgomery / YouGov:
Trump approval falls, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 100 days, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: April 19-22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll  —  Findings from the latest Economist/YouGov poll about:  — How much Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen in the past month  — Whether Americans …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
A New Poll Shows the Peril of Trump's Tariffs
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.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
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New York Times:   Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
Ronald J. Deibert / Foreign Affairs:   The Real Lesson of SignalGate
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.
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: Politico
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.
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 …
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
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
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
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Elon Musk Has ‘F-Word Screaming Match’ Feet From Oval Office  —  WWE-STYLE  —  “It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing,” one witness told Axios.  —  Elon Musk had a WWE-style “screaming match” with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feet …
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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
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters.  So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?  —  A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.”  But you wouldn't know that from the school's statements.  —  WHEN A BOMB threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest …
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.
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.
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
Alana Wise / NPR:
NIH autism study will pull from private medical records  —  The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame  —  Democrats have long intensely debated whether to appear on Fox News.  Going on Fox risks providing a sheen of legitimacy to a propaganda outlet.  But not going on risks leaving Republican news consumers …
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.
Pew Research Center:
Majorities disapprove of some key Trump administration actions  —  Post Infographics  — More disapprove than approve of the administration's government cuts, but views largely split along partisan lines  — Among Republicans, support for ending DEI policies in federal government varies across demographic groups
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Laws are for the little people  —  For Trump's friends, everything; for his enemies, Pam Bondi. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯  —  It's no secret that the second Trump administration is full of grifters who are thrilled to spend your tax dollars to enrich themselves.
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration moved Venezuelan to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order  —  President Donald Trump's administration moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge had issued …
Sydney Carruth / NBC News:
A dozen states sue to stop Trump's tariffs  —  Democratic attorneys general from 12 states filed a joint lawsuit arguing that the president doesn't have the constitutional authority to execute his sweeping tariff agenda.  —  Twelve states filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality …
Dan Froomkin / Heads Up News:
Let's talk about a civic uprising  —  Mainstream media coverage of the widespread anti-Trump protests on April 19 was much more extensive than it was after the April 5 protests — despite smaller crowds.  —  Watch MSBNC's Rachel Maddow wrap up the coverage and the protests on her show Monday night - it's must-see TV.
Discussion: New Republic
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety  —  Americans have often moved between states for opportunities.  Now they're being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump  —  America is on the move.  Hundreds of thousands of people are packing up boxes …
Discussion: Alternet.org
 
 
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Associated Press:
Pastor calls for ‘full Target boycott’ over concerns about diversity, equity, inclusion
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Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
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