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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by federal authorities at Courthouse — Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested April 25 by federal authorities who are investigating whether she tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week, officials confirmed.
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Washington Post, NOTUS, RedState, Associated Press, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and The Guardian
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Eva Wen / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A Milwaukee judge is accused of helping a man evade ICE. What do legal experts have to say? — A Milwaukee County judge is under FBI investigation for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE agents. — Legal experts are dubious that the judge's actions constitute a crime, with intent being a key factor.
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Bloomberg, Townhall, Daily Mail, New York Post, Twitchy, Raw Story and WCNC-TV
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
FBI arrests Wisconsin Judge Dugan for obstruction, escalates Trump immigration enforcement effort … Federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday after she allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said. — Patel announced in an X post …
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CNN, Reuters, CBS News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Fox News and The Post Millennial
Time:
Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's ‘100 Days’ Interview With TIME — President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on April 22. — Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including his trade war and the economy …
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New Republic, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Fox News, Politico, NOTUS, CBS News, Axios, Associated Press, New York Post, Global News, Raw Story, Mediaite, Breitbart, The National Pulse, Jewish Insider, The 19th, The Kyiv Independent, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Euromaidan Press and IJR
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Russian general killed in Moscow car blast on day of Trump envoy visit — Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik named as victim of explosion that appears similar to previous attacks claimed by Ukraine — A senior Russian military official has been killed in a car explosion near Moscow …
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Trump says he's ‘not defying the Supreme Court’ amid standoff over wrongly deported man
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New Republic and Balkinization
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: I ‘love the concept’ of millionaire tax hike, but ‘may not be acceptable to the public’
Trump: I ‘love the concept’ of millionaire tax hike, but ‘may not be acceptable to the public’
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Business Insider, Associated Press, NBC News, Bloomberg, Alternet.org, Ace of Spades HQ, Fox News, The Independent and Washington Times
USA Today:
Trump's first 100 days: Here's 100 things that have changed (so far)
Trump's first 100 days: Here's 100 things that have changed (so far)
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Blaze Media and New York Times
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: 'I'm really not trolling' with talk of Canada as 51st state
Trump: 'I'm really not trolling' with talk of Canada as 51st state
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New York Post, KTFT, Al Jazeera, The Gateway Pundit, Global News, Whiskey Riff, Washington Examiner, Politico and Fortune
Time:
Exclusive: Inside Trump's First 100 Days
Exclusive: Inside Trump's First 100 Days
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Financial Times, The Independent, Alternet.org, Mediaite, HuffPost, Reuters and Blaze Media
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Trump says he's negotiated 200 trade deals — but won't say with whom
Trump says he's negotiated 200 trade deals — but won't say with whom
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, NOTUS, UPI, Axios, Alternet.org, Raw Story, CNN, Fusion Magazine, Rolling Stone and National Review
CNN:
Russian general killed in car blast just outside Moscow ahead of Witkoff-Putin meeting
Russian general killed in car blast just outside Moscow ahead of Witkoff-Putin meeting
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UPI, Reuters, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and The Kyiv Independent
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Trump Victim I Can't Stop Thinking About
New York Times:
Hegseth's Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities — The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the one used in a recent Signal chat …
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Tara Copp / Associated Press:
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon's security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer …
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Reuters, The Guardian, emptywheel, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, WTTG-TV, PBS NewsHour, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News and Washington Examiner
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk leaves legacy of self-destruction at DOGE — Elon Musk arrived in Washington as the most powerful political outsider ever, brimming with Silicon Valley swagger and bipartisan buy-in for his goal of streamlining the federal government. — He's leaving with his reputation in tatters …
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American Thinker, Daily Kos, Techdirt, Raw Story and WCNC-TV
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Elon Musk and DOGE's Savings May Be Erased by New Costs — An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk's cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year. — President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings …
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Hopium Chronicles and Hartford Courant
Politico:
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students' US visa registrations — DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges. — The Trump administration has restored …
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masslive.com and Bangor Daily News
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Daily Californian:
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal — Anonymity was granted to sources included in this story due to fears of retaliation. Some interviews were conducted in a language other than English and have been represented in translation.
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The Hill, Reuters, Davis Vanguard and The Stanford Daily
Adam Klasfeld / All Rise News:
Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem — The day after Donald Trump's election last year, three Georgetown Law students started a political movement to brace for impact. — The students texted each other, started organizing, and eventually discovered …
WUSA:
ICE backs down, says it will restore status of thousands of foreign students — Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 visas said they were informed their SEVIS records were suddenly terminated by DHS. — Local News — Sports — Unity Reed High School graduate Tyleik Williams drafted by Detroit Lions
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Plain Dealer
Washington Post:
Trump's immigration ratings turn negative, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds — President Donald Trump's approval ratings on immigration, relatively strong in the early weeks of his second term, have dipped into negative territory, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll …
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Daily Mail, ABC News, New York Daily News, Washington Times, The Hill, The Independent and Washington Examiner
April Ryan / BlackPressUSA:
The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance — BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE - Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in exhibit.
JoNel Aleccia / Associated Press:
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry — The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat.
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Civil Eats
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USA Today:
Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan — Trump administration officials directed law enforcement nationwide to pursue suspected gang members into their homes, in some cases without any sort of warrant, according to a copy of the directive exclusively obtained by USA TODAY.
Roger Parloff / Default:
A Reporter's Notes of the April 23 Perkins Coie Hearing — Judge Howell appeared likely to permanently enjoin implementation of President Trump's executive order targeting the law firm. — Meet The Authors … On April 23, Judge Beryl A. Howell held a hearing on “dispositive motions” …
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Trump and His Billionaires Are Giving the Rich a Bad Name — DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CHILDREN, cronies, allies, appointees, saboteurs, and fellow uber-rich will never stop trying to seize ever more power and make ever more money. It's taken some of us far too long to realize it …
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Lisa Murkowski reveals the ugly nature of Trump's rule — 🌻 🏡 🌸 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
New York Times:
The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're Closing. — Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.
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Althouse, Palo Alto Daily Post and Fortune
Rio Yamat / Associated Press:
Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer — President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.
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Politico, Daily Mail, Law & Crime, The Independent, UPI, WTTG-TV, Plain Dealer, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Mediaite, The Hill and The Nevada Independent
New York Times:
We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All. — A young woman walked casually down a public street only to find herself suddenly surrounded by masked law enforcement officers in plain clothes. Without explanation — and in the absence of criminal charges …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Coming Economic Nightmare … i remember the little stickers on restaurant menus. — In the 1970s, it cost much more to print a menu than it does today. Restaurants did not change them often. When prices rose, they'd retain their old menu—but affix little stickers with the new, handwritten prices atop the previous ones.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
ICE contradicts DOJ filing at SCOTUS that a pending habeas case blocks AEA removal — DOJ argued the Trump administration would not remove people under the AEA while a habeas petition is pending. An ICE official has stated there are multiple exceptions. — An Immigration and Customs …
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Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Yuliia Taradiuk / The Kyiv Independent:
CIA deputy director's son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claims — The son of a deputy head of the CIA was killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine in 2024, Russian publication Important Stories reported in an investigation published on April 25.
Discussion:
Euromaidan Press and LewRockwell
Washington Post:
White House ousts trade official over alleged ties to ‘Anonymous’ author — George Bogden, a senior aide at Customs and Border Protection, was pushed aside after officials circulated a photo of him at Miles Taylor's wedding. — The White House ousted a top customs official earlier …
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Trump's War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All … Mass deportations are difficult, and the White House knows it. President Donald Trump largely failed to carry out his far-reaching immigration enforcement plans during his first term. Some of his efforts were blocked by federal courts …
Renee Anderson / CBS News:
George Santos in court for sentencing on Long Island. Here's how long he faces behind bars. — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos faces sentencing Friday on Long Island. He pleaded guilty last August to federal wire fraud and identity theft charges, admitting he exaggerated or fabricated large parts of his backstory.


