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Associated Press:
Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The FBI took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody on Friday morning at the county courthouse.
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David Thomas / Reuters:
Wisconsin judge arrested in immigration case retains top conservative lawyer
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Townhall, MSNBC, One America News Network, Twitchy and Fox News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends Judge Hannah Dugan after federal charges
Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends Judge Hannah Dugan after federal charges
New York Times:
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit — Paramount's interest in settling has dismayed CBS's news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week. — Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News …
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New York Times:
Trump Signs Executive Order Walking Back Some Auto Tariffs — Most levies on imported cars and car parts will remain in place, but automakers have secured some relaxation of the trade policy. — President Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Tuesday that walked back some tariffs for carmakers …
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Washington Post:
Trump praises Bezos after Amazon denies plan to show tariffs' costs
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Associated Press:
Trump offers automakers some relief on his 25% tariffs, after worries they could hurt US factories
Trump offers automakers some relief on his 25% tariffs, after worries they could hurt US factories
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New York Times:
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum — “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,” Mr. Emhoff said in reaction to the removal of him and senior Biden White House officials from the board that oversees the museum.
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Touts Tariffs in Michigan Rally as Voters' Economic Concerns Mount — The president returned to the rally stage with a speech focused on immigration and the economy — WARREN, Mich.—President Trump swept into a sports complex here and declared the first 100 days of his administration a success.
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements — New language in antisemitism bill clarifies First Amendment protections — Senate Republicans added an amendment to bipartisan legislation addressing rising antisemitism …
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Jewish Insider
House Committee on Appropriations:
100 Days In, Trump Blocks At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People — Since taking office, President Trump has trampled on our nation's laws and choked off critical investments that families, businesses, and local governments in every zip code in America are counting on.
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Ilana Arougheti / Kansas City Star:
Kansas woman went to KC for a green card interview. Now, she faces deportation … When Rosmery Alvarado, 42, arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday with her husband and daughter to attend a spousal interview for her green card application, everyone had a bad feeling.
New York Times:
Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines — In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals. — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents …
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Knight First Amendment Institute:
Federal Court Says First Amendment Bars Government From Deporting Students and Faculty on Basis of Political Viewpoint, Says Challenge to Trump Policy Can Go Forward — Ruling is a victory for free speech and step towards ending unconstitutional policy across U.S. campuses, Knight Institute says
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months — Millions of people in France and Germany have left X, according to X itself. — X's user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.
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New York Daily News
ABC News:
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump's exclusive 100 days broadcast interview with ABC News — President Donald Trump sat down with ABC News' Terry Moran in the Oval Office. — ABC News Exclusive: President Donald J. Trump sits down with Anchor and Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran, April, 29 …
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Washington Post:
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show — The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtained by The Washington Post.
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Raw Story
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court considers endorsing country's first religious public charter school — Oklahoma's Republican attorney general says the proposal to launch a Catholic virtual charter school violates the Constitution's First Amendment. — WASHINGTON — A case that could weaken the separation …
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Politico:
What's in those trade ‘proposals on paper’ countries have sent the White House? Depends who you ask. — While the Trump administration has been bragging about a number of potential trade deals, foreign officials say discussions are much more tentative. — White House officials have boasted …
Mike Hughlett / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company — President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota. … Target gave $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural fund.
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Business Insider and Skift
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Marks 100 Days Of Trump By Reading Aloud 100 Reports Of His Corruption — The Massachusetts senator plans to read into the congressional record dozens of cases of Trump using the presidency to benefit himself personally. — WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is 100 days into his second presidency …
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Boston Herald
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Trump's knuckle sandwich — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Good Wednesday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, taking a deep breath and diving into the next 100 days. Join me! I'm sure we'll find some fun along the way. — In today's Playbook:
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House Republican says no way to party's proposal to overhaul federal worker pension — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will mark up its portion of the GOP megabill Wednesday, and one Republican on the panel is already coming out against it.
Bloomberg:
A $6 Billion Shortfall Has US Mass Transit Facing a Death Spiral — The federal government stepped in with $70 billion to get commuter rail and bus service through the pandemic. The funds are running out. — When Covid-19 broke the US economy, the trains and buses that carried millions of Americans to work every day emptied out.
David Weigel / Semafor:
Native American woman gets a chance to topple Hogg at DNC — The Scoop — A candidate who failed to win a Democratic National Committee leadership role is challenging her defeat — the first threat to DNC Vice Chair David Hogg since he vowed to keep backing some primary challenges to incumbents.
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NOTUS:
DOGE Cuts Off Funds to Congressionally Mandated National Security Centers — The Department of Homeland Security-affiliated centers were housed at universities and researched everything from domestic terrorism threats and border security to weather emergencies. — Copy
New York Post:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused of being gang-banger in 2018 court docs — in latest claim of MS-13 affiliation — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in 2018 court papers, The Post can reveal — as the fight continues over whether the deported illegal immigrant dad was a part of MS-13.
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Townhall, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, The Independent, CBS News and Breitbart
Moriah Balingit / Associated Press:
The US government has a new policy for terminating international students' legal status — The U.S. government has begun shedding new light on a crackdown on international students, spelling out how it targeted thousands of people and laying out the grounds for terminating their legal status.
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WBEZ Chicago and Mercury News
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Judge says she's ‘shocked’ Florida attorney general defied her order on immigration arrests — A Miami federal judge said Tuesday she was “surprised and shocked” when state Attorney General James Uthmeier first told police officers to obey her order not to arrest undocumented immigrants entering Florida …
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Reason and CityNews Halifax
Dame Magazine:
Why I Am Leaving the USA — The author, a trans woman and mother of neurodivergent kids, has been monitoring this nation's political climate since Trump's first term. Now that her worst fears are fast becoming a reality, she's had to make the most difficult decision of her life.
David Goldman / CNN:
China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won't ‘kneel down’ — In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's trade war, China's Foreign Ministry posted to social media a striking video that calls on the international community to stand up to America's “bully” leader.
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Wall Street Journal and Fox News
Paul Bois / Breitbart:
In Memoriam: Author and Conservative Activist David Horowitz (1939-2025) — Author and conservative activist David Horowitz, most famous for his book Radical Son and his speeches on college campuses, died on Tuesday at the age of 86. — The official David Horowitz account on X announced …
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New York Post, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter — U.S. immigration officials' deportation of a woman to Cuba last week, separating her from her 1-year-old daughter, has drawn fresh attention to what critics say is the Trump administration's willingness to split up families as part of its migration crackdown.
Axios:
Trump's late push for huge new corporate tax cuts — The Trump administration is pressing Congress to dramatically expand the number of business-friendly tax cuts in a budget bill that's already complicated and costly. — Why it matters: New additions, such as full expensing to build …
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Help Us Break 100k — Hey guys, it's Sarah. — We've just crossed the 100-day mark of this administration. It's been every bit as catastrophic as we all thought it would be—and even worse in a lot of ways. — Here at The Bulwark, we've been calling out Trump's lies the whole way.
The Harvard Crimson:
Across 500 Pages, Harvard Task Force Reports Detail Hostility on Campus and Urge Broad Policy Changes — Harvard's twin task forces on combating bias toward Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian affiliates released their long-awaited reports on Tuesday afternoon …
Washington Post:
100 days of Trump down, 1,360 to go — On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Emily Davies to discuss President Trump's first 100 days back in office - from his campaign-trail promises to his shock-and-awe campaign …
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The Free Press and RedState

