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4:20 PM ET, April 27, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds  —  After high expectations before he returned to office, most Americans say the president has made the economy worse.  —  As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump is facing growing opposition …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump's approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades  —  Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches …
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL  —  Majorities of voters disapprove of many of Trump's policies, the poll found.  —  President Donald Trump talks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 23, 2025.  —  Donald Trump has the lowest 100 …
Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:
Voters on How Trump Has Already Changed Their Day-to-Day Lives
Discussion: Reuters
Hawes Spencer / Daily Progress:
ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted  —  After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.  —  ×  —  Week in Virginia
Discussion: emptywheel
NBC News:
Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem's purse is in the U.S. illegally, official says  —  Noem's bag was stolen by a masked man Sunday night while she was having dinner with her family in Washington, D.C.  —  The suspect who was arrested Saturday in the theft of Secretary Kristi Noem's purse …
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Washington Post:
Arrest made in Kristi Noem's purse snatching, officials say  —  The Department of Homeland Security secretary's purse contained her driver's license, medication, keys, checks, department badge, passport and $3,000 in cash.  —  Authorities have arrested a person in the theft of Department …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Fox News:
Suspect arrested for alleged theft of Kristi Noem's bag containing $3K in cash: reports
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Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
These GOP Lawmakers Could Sink Trump's ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Bill
Discussion: The Guardian
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
GOP Medicaid debate intensifies as Republicans search for cuts
Discussion: Bloomberg
NBC News:
Nine dead and multiple injured as driver plows into Vancouver crowd  —  The attack happened during a block party celebrating Filipino culture.  The crowd took the suspect into custody at the scene, and police say they are “confident” it was not an act of terrorism.
Associated Press:
Trump's first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies, igniting trade wars  —  In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump exerted his power in a sweep and scale that has no easy historical comparison.  —  His actions target the architecture of the New Deal and the Great Society, but they hardly stop there.
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Reuters:   Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order
Andrew O'Hehir / Salon:
The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Newest IRS Chief Tries to Steer a Leaner Agency Through Turmoil  —  Michael Faulkender, fourth interim leader since January, promises modernization of agency systems in two years  —  WASHINGTON—It's Michael Faulkender's turn in the hot seat atop the Internal Revenue Service …
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Joshua Zeitz / Politico:   The IRS Has Only Pulled a University's Tax Exemption Once. Here's What Happened.
CBS News:
Transcript: Gary Cohn on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 27, 2025  —  The following is the transcript of an interview with Gary Cohn, IBM vice chairman and former director of the U.S. National Economic Council, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 27, 2025.
New York Times:
Your Home Without China  —  It's hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products.  —  Many essentials are imported almost entirely from China — and with new tariffs, they're likely to become more expensive.  —  We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Meta's ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children  —  Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.  Some people inside the company are concerned.  —  Across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp …
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security  —  As Democrats link Trump to Social Security's struggles, he reiterates his promise to protect the agency's benefits while also carrying out sweeping staff and spending cuts.  —  Democrats, after weeks of struggling …
NPR:
Federal work shaped a Black middle class.  Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts  —  Shirley Hopkins built careers for herself and countless other Black workers through a federal government job.  —  While working in the National Institutes of Health's human resources office, she became known as the “recruitment lady.”
Simon Tisdall / The Guardian:
Tyrants like Trump always fall - and we can already predict how he will be dethroned  —  The US constitution protects incompetence.  But don't underestimate the self-destructive power of the president's own hubris  —  Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests.  Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brianna Leonard / KKTV-TV:
Drug bust at ‘underground illegal’ nightclub in Colorado Springs  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Law enforcement conducted a large-scale operation at what they are calling an underground illegal nightclub early Sunday morning, according to the Rocky Mountain Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Associated Press:
As Musk gained power in Washington, his popularity has fallen, an AP-NORC poll finds  —  Elon Musk spent years building cachet as a business titan and tech visionary, brushing aside critics and skeptics to become the richest person on the planet.  But as Musk gained power in Washington in recent months …
Washington Post:
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana  —  The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration's expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.  —  Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported …
CBS News:
Transcript: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 27, 2025  —  The following is the full transcript of an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 27, 2025.
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Bernie Sanders: Americans Know What ‘Oligarchy’ Means, They Aren't ‘Dumb’  —  “They understand very well, when the top one percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent... they are living in an oligarchy,” the senator said  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders has faith that the American people understand what …
Steve Contorno / CNN:
Ron and Casey DeSantis were plotting a political dynasty in Florida.  Then came a scandal  —  A year after his presidential ambitions collapsed, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey can no longer lay claim to the future of the Republican Party.  And in Florida, even their present is in jeopardy.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Sun-Sentinel and The Hill
Alexis Wainwright / WUSA:
Civil rights leader says artifacts have been removed from Smithsonian's Museum of African American History  —  A historical book and bible have been removed, there are concerns about the sit-in movement lunch counter being next. … WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution has begun quietly removing …
Discussion: BlackPressUSA
 
 
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Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
RFK Jr.'s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody's Getting Measles
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel, UPI and Off the Kuff
The Atlantic:
American Panopticon  —  The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans.  Experts fear what comes next.
Discussion: The Independent
Bloomberg:
Shein Hikes US Prices as Much as 377% Ahead of Tariff Increases
Samantha Hancox-Li / The UnPopulist:
Democrats are Losing Because they Give Not a Fig About Governing, Only Virtue Signaling
David Remnick / New Yorker:
One Hundred Days of Ineptitude
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump golf club to host speaker who claims bleach can cure cancer and Covid
David Edwards / Raw Story:
'Can't turn that over': James Comer accuses Trump admin of stonewalling on Epstein files
NBC News:
Young men and women are taking the ‘gender gap’ to staggering new levels
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
An unpopular president continues to push radical changes on the country
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Prompt Wave of Lawsuits as States and Businesses Fight Back
Discussion: Business Insider
Associated Press:
Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Analyzing the scale of Trump's federal layoffs in his first 100 days
Associated Press:
Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing
 

 
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