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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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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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HotAir, The Hill, Bloomberg, Tennessee Star, The Verge, Twitchy, The Wrap, Daily Mail, Townhall, New York Post, Raw Story, WCNC-TV and Dan O'Donnell
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge — Democratic lawmakers reacted with ferocity — and some Republicans with cheers — to the Friday arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly helping an undocumented defendant avoid arrest by ICE agents.
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Democracy Docket, Associated Press, Mother Jones, One America News Network, masslive.com and WisPolitics
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents — Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media post that he later deleted.
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Axios, Washington Times, The Guardian, Mediaite, The National Pulse and NewsNation
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
FBI arrests Wisconsin Judge Dugan on obstruction charge, 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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UPI, CNN, Rolling Stone, Axios, Politico, Vanity Fair, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Talking Points Memo and The Post Millennial
Washington Post:
Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI, charged with obstructing immigrant arrest
Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI, charged with obstructing immigrant arrest
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Truthout, USA Today, Reason, New York Magazine and WisPolitics
Reuters:
US officials arrest Milwaukee judge for obstructing immigration operation
US officials arrest Milwaukee judge for obstructing immigration operation
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, New York Times, Townhall, Raw Story, WTOP News and U V ∇ •
Associated Press:
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
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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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: I ‘love the concept’ of millionaire tax hike, but ‘may not be acceptable to the public’
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NBC News:
Trump calls his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war on Day one ‘an exaggeration’
Trump calls his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war on Day one ‘an exaggeration’
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The Hill, Associated Press, Politico, MSNBC, New Republic, Alternet.org, New York Post, The Daily Wire, Reuters and WTOP News
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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USA Today, Fox News, New York Post, KTFT, The Gateway Pundit, Al Jazeera, Global News, Whiskey Riff, Washington Examiner and Politico
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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Daily Californian:
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Davis Vanguard, The Stanford Daily, Reuters and The Hill
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations
Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations
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Skift and Orlando Sentinel
Haley Chi-Sing / Fox News:
Ex-GOP congressman George Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison in federal fraud case — Santos pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges in August — Former New York GOP Rep. George Santos was sentenced to 87 months in federal court Friday in connection with his wire fraud and identity theft case.
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NBC News:
Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why. — Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency this time around on the most openly ethno-nationalist platform in memory, one he explicitly promised to implement with undisguised authoritarian measures.
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Off Message and Raw Story
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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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The Hill, Daily Mail, ABC News, New York Daily News, Washington Times and The Independent
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.
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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New Republic, Raw Story, Daily Kos, American Thinker, Techdirt and WCNC-TV
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Elon Musk and DOGE's Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
Elon Musk and DOGE's Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
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Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Futurism, Hopium Chronicles and Hartford Courant
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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Raw Story, New Republic and Plain Dealer
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Consumer expectations crater to three-decade low amid Trump tariff chaos — The danger for Trump is if consumers' declining faith in the economy causes them to slow their spending in the coming months. — Just three months into President Donald Trump's second term, Americans' confidence in the economy's prospects is plunging.
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The Guardian, CPA Practice Advisor and AP-NORC
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Coming Economic Nightmare
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 …
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CNN:
Russian general killed in car blast just outside Moscow ahead of Witkoff-Putin meeting
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Associated Press:
In rare rebuke of Putin, Trump urges Russia to ‘STOP!’ after deadly attack on Kyiv
In rare rebuke of Putin, Trump urges Russia to ‘STOP!’ after deadly attack on Kyiv
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done — Imagine that Joe Biden, just as he was assuming office, had started a new company with Hunter Biden and used his main social media account to recruit financial backers, then promised that the most generous among them would earn …
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Washington Post, Fox Business, Wired, Reuters and The Guardian
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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Politico and emptywheel
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 …
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia — At each stage in the political and legal fight over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation, the Trump administration has pushed back harder and dug in deeper. — The administration first called Abrego Garcia's deportation an …
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Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Health agencies “not creating an autism registry,” official says, contradicting NIH director — A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director …
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EurekAlert!, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Alternet.org and STAT
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Chart of the week: Young people are anti-Trump again — If it's Friday, it's time for the Chart of the Week! I was going to write about Trump's sinking approval ratings on economics and immigration, and about the stock market, but I already wrote about that this week so I decided to do something new instead.
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BlackPressUSA, Global News and Teen Vogue
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 …
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The Guardian
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.
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.
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New York Post, Euromaidan Press and LewRockwell

