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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Tirade at Reporter Wrecks His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia — President Donald Trump grew angry as a reporter persistently questioned him about his refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador—and in so doing, Trump accidentally demolished his whole case …
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Karina Tsui / CNN:
Trump says he ‘could’ bring Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador, but won't — President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month but refuses to do so.
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Jeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador Trips — [Note: This article has been updated to include a new response from the office of Hakeem Jeffries.] — HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Hakeem Jeffries was asked Monday whether Democrats should continue to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia …
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Ben Finley / Associated Press:
Trump officials must report efforts, if any, to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, judge rules
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Axios:
Senate GOP leaders succeed in protecting Trump tariffs — The Senate on Wednesday killed a resolution that would have effectively reversed President Trump's 10% tariffs on all imported goods, with just three Republicans joining with Democrats in support of the measure.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Says Kids May Just Have To Live With Fewer Toys Because Of His Tariffs
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CNN:
House Republicans block vote to probe Hegseth's Signal use
House Republicans block vote to probe Hegseth's Signal use
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David Morgan / Reuters:
US Senate rejects bill to rein in Trump tariffs as economy contracts
US Senate rejects bill to rein in Trump tariffs as economy contracts
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Daniel Desrochers / Politico:
The Senate is poised to again reject Trump's tariffs
The Senate is poised to again reject Trump's tariffs
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Wired:
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations — A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
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Bryan Mena / CNN:
US economy goes into reverse from Trump's abrupt policy shifts — The US economy just had its worst quarter since 2022 as President Donald Trump's significant policy changes unnerved consumers and businesses. — Gross domestic product, which measures all the goods and services produced in the economy …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses
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Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal:
China's Export Orders Plunge, Hit by Trump's Trade War
China's Export Orders Plunge, Hit by Trump's Trade War
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New York Times:
Behind Trump's Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador's Most Feared Prison … As they addressed reporters inside the Oval Office in mid-April, President Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart appeared to be operating in lock step. — The United States had just deported more than 200 migrants …
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New York Times:
El Salvador Is Said to Have Spurned U.S. Request for Return of Deported Migrant — It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the plight of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. — The Trump administration recently sent …
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Emily Mullin / Wired:
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research — NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.
Politico:
Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport — Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States. — BURLINGTON, Vermont — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered …
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Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released
Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Three House Democrats ask to be removed from Trump impeachment resolution — A trio of House Democrats asked to be removed as co-sponsors of a resolution to impeach President Trump, a sign that many in the party do not want to go down the path of trying to remove the president from office — at least at the current moment.
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Democrats are all but done with Trump impeachment talk
Democrats are all but done with Trump impeachment talk
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Politico:
The GOP plan to fund Trump's agenda is running into a major roadblock: Trump — House Republicans are relying on deep cuts to the safety-net health program to finance their megabill. But the president is deeply wary. — President Donald Trump is skeptical of congressional Republicans' emerging plans …
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New York Times:
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Economic and Reconstruction Deal — The agreement is intended to give the U.S. access to proceeds from Ukraine's reserves of minerals and to help fund the rebuilding of Ukraine when the fighting stops. — The United States and Ukraine announced on Wednesday the creation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk — With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company — About a month ago, with Tesla's stock sinking and some investors irritated about Elon Musk's White House focus …
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Politico:
DOGE hits Trump country — Red states have borne the brunt of DOGE's targeting of AmeriCorps — Three months in, it's become abundantly clear that it's not just federal Washington-based programs and overseas aid that are feeling the wrath of Elon Musk and DOGE.
Paul Bois / Breitbart:
Robert De Niro's Son Comes Out as Transgender at Age 29 — Robert De Niro's 29-year-old son Airyn (formerly Aaron) has come out as transgender after beginning hormone treatment in 2024. — Born via surrogate with the acclaimed actor's ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith, Airyn told Them magazine …
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CNN:
Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say — The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Rwanda responds warmly to Trump request to take noncitizen deportees
Rwanda responds warmly to Trump request to take noncitizen deportees
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The religious right is headed toward a revolutionary victory in the Supreme Court — The Court's Christian right makeover of the Constitution enters its endgame. … During an oral argument on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared all but certain to divide along party lines in a case …
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Supreme Court appears ready to bless the country's first public religious charter school
Supreme Court appears ready to bless the country's first public religious charter school
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Ismael M. Belkoura / STAT:
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths — Non-profits scramble to continue program despite ‘devastating’ loss of federal support — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Chris Krebs kicked off CBP's Global Entry program — Chris Krebs', President Donald Trump's former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election …
New York Times:
New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to a Foreign Government — The Trump Organization agreed to partner on a real estate project in Qatar in the latest of a series of projects tied to foreign governments. — The Trump Organization has agreed to a new Middle East golf course …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump is losing — In the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things. The Department of Government Efficiency's total demolition of USAID, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s depopulation of America's public health agencies …
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Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory … With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. — A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a parasitic worm “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
12 Most Painfully Sycophantic Comments From Trump's ‘Kim Jong Il-Style’ Cabinet Meeting — President Donald Trump assembled his cabinet Wednesday for a two-hour meeting — in which every official seated at the table went out of their way to fawn over him. — One-by-one, the Trump officials …
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Julia Angwin / New York Times:
Musk's Parting Gift: The Construction of a Surveillance State — Elon Musk may be stepping back from running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration …
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ICE:
Haitian national in ICE custody passes away — MIAMI — Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by medical professionals at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida, April 25 …
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Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post:
‘Bumbling f-king idiot’ Steve Witkoff shouldn't be leading Iran, Russia negotiations, allies and insiders say — WASHINGTON — President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, former real estate attorney and investor Steve Witkoff, has left administration insiders distressed by his approach …
Kate Selig / New York Times:
Judge Temporarily Blocks Border Patrol's Stop-and-Arrest Tactics in California — Border Patrol agents carried out sweeps in California's Central Valley. Lawyers argued that people were stopped and arrested based on their skin color. — In January, Border Patrol agents conducted sweeps …
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Erich Wagner / GovExec.com:
House Republicans advance plan to cut federal worker benefits and undermine civil service protections — Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday mostly along party lines to advance a series of proposals that would require federal workers to pay …
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