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12:55 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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg, NBC News and USA Today
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 …
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 …
AP-NORC:
100 days in and the public feels Trump's presidency is proceeding mostly as expected  —  Most partisans agree they are getting what they expected from Trump's second term, but 84% of Democrats think Trump is doing a poor or terrible job as president so far and 68% of Republicans think he's doing a good or great job.
Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:   Voters on How Trump Has Already Changed Their Day-to-Day Lives
Reuters:   Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order
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:
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.
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 …
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Marc Levy / Associated Press:
ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say
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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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
GOP Medicaid debate intensifies as Republicans search for cuts  —  House Republicans are under the gun to get specific on how they will offset President Trump's domestic policy agenda, and they will soon need to decide if they will touch the political stove by trying to scale back Medicaid benefits.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
These GOP Lawmakers Could Sink Trump's ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Bill
Discussion: The Guardian
Fox News:
Wisconsin judge threatens courtroom boycott over Hannah Dugan arrest  —  A Wisconsin judge is threatening not to hold court in protest of federal authorities arresting her fellow judge Hannah Dugan last week.  —  Judge Monica Isham made the announcement in an email to judges across the state on Saturday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and CNN
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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 …
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.
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.”
Associated Press:
Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing  —  The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West …
NBC News:
Young men and women are taking the ‘gender gap’ to staggering new levels  —  The gulf between Gen Z men and women on political and cultural issues is far wider than it is in older generations.  —  The split between men and women is one of the starkest divisions in American politics right now …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Rachel Janfaza / Politico:
The New Partisan Divide Is Old Gen Z vs. Young Gen Z
Discussion: New York Post
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
Joshua Zeitz / Politico:
The IRS Has Only Pulled a University's Tax Exemption Once.  Here's What Happened.  —  Using the IRS to advance a policy agenda — even a laudable one — can have unforeseen consequences.  —  After Harvard University stood up to reportedly unauthorized demands from the Trump administration …
Associated Press:
Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump  —  Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry's four offices.  Perry's team did not share details about the Republican congressman's public appearances until they were over.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Prompt Wave of Lawsuits as States and Businesses Fight Back  —  The cases are the latest test of the president's expansive claims of executive power.  —  Somewhere along a roughly 7,500-mile journey that begins in Shenzhen, China, there are 19 shipments bound for Rick Woldenberg …
Discussion: Business Insider
CNN:
Trump criticizes Putin after meeting with Zelensky: 'Maybe he doesn't want to stop the war'  —  US President Donald Trump questioned whether Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants a peace deal, shortly after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the heart of the Vatican minutes …
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Rachel Wolf / Fox News:
Trump and Zelenskyy have ‘very productive’ talk as they attend Pope Francis' funeral
 
 
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Alexis Wainwright / WUSA:
Civil rights leader says artifacts have been removed from Smithsonian's Museum of African American History
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
An unpopular president continues to push radical changes on the country
Eric Fayeulle / ABC News:
Bessent says he doesn't know if Trump has spoken with China's Xi
Discussion: The Guardian
CNN:
Analyzing the scale of Trump's federal layoffs in his first 100 days
CNN:
FBI director posts photo of arrested Wisconsin judge's perp walk, possibly violating DOJ policy
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U.S. says “further progress was made” in third round of nuclear talks with Iran
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump won these independent voters. Now some are souring on his second term.
Discussion: Twitchy
Ashley Parker / The Atlantic:
Trump's Cosplay Cabinet
Discussion: Raw Story
Dasha Burns / Politico:
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