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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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Washington Post, CNBC, NBC News, The Independent and The Contrarian
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Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter — The reading fell short of the 0.4% growth that economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected — The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025, as businesses rushed to stock up on imports ahead of tariffs and consumers eased their pace of spending.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses — The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025, fueling recession fears at the start of President Donald Trump's second term in office as he wages a potentially costly trade war.
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CBS News, USA Today, Fox Business, HotAir, Scripps News, MeidasTouch News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, UPI, Breitbart and Washington Times
Axios:
U.S. economy shrinks at 0.3% rate in first Trump-era GDP report — The U.S. economy contracted at an annualized 0.3% rate in the first quarter, as a rush to import goods ahead of President Trump's tariffs weighed on economic growth, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.
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Washington Examiner and Decrypt
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
US economy shrinks in first quarter of Trump 2.0 amid sweeping tariffs — Drop comes amid a huge fall in consumer sentiment which in April dropped 32% to lowest level since 1990 recession — The US economy shrank in the first three months of Donald Trump's second term as the president sought …
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Reuters, New York Daily News, Fox News, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Max Zahn / ABC News:
US economy shrank at start of Trump's 2nd term — Trump's tariffs have stoked uncertainty among consumers and businesses. — A woman shops in the shoe aisle at a department store in New York, April 10, 2025. — The U.S. economy shrank over the initial months of President Donald Trump's second term …
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Axios
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
US economy contracts in the first quarter; tariffs unleash flood of imports — The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter, weighed down by a deluge of goods imported by businesses eager to avoid higher costs, underscoring the disruptive nature of President Donald Trump's often chaotic tariff policy.
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City A.M., Los Angeles Times, Politico, Breitbart and Cafe Hayek
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter, in Reading Clouded by Messy Trade Data
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter, in Reading Clouded by Messy Trade Data
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NPR
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How to Prepare For Trump's Next 1,361 Days
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Yahoo Finance, Breitbart and Fox News
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Could Bring Back Wrongly Deported Man, but Won't — Where Things Stand — Deportations: President Trump said that he does have the ability to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador …
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The Hill
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won't
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CNN, The Hill, Baltimore Sun, Townhall, Zeteo, New York Post, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, Axios, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Deadline, Reuters, Breitbart and Washington Times
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Trump's knuckle sandwich
Trump's knuckle sandwich
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Mediaite, Al Jazeera, Daily Mail, RedState, LADbible, Raw Story and PolitiFact
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Donald Trump, You're No Franklin Roosevelt — There is no question that Donald Trump's ambition in the first 100 days of his return to the Oval Office was to set a new standard for presidential accomplishment. To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt's efforts nearly a century ago …
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Letters from an American, National Review, The Daily Wire, CBS News, NPR, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic and Steady
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
After the Arrests and Bullets, Trump Takes on Second Term With a New Fervor
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emptywheel, Althouse and The Colorado Sun
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump, Who Owes His Freedom to Due Process, Is Destroying It for Everyone Else — The president owes his freedom to due process. Now, he's shredding this foundational American right for the rest of us — Donald Trump owes his continued freedom — and very likely his second term as president …
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Florida Politics and NPR
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers unnerved by Trump's intensifying fight with judiciary
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump is losing his war on democracy — Trump's power grabs are dangerous. But he's going about them all wrong — and facing effective resistance as a result. … In the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things.
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New Statesman
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 …
Axios:
Exclusive: When Speaker Johnson is willing to “step in” on tariffs — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) said Wednesday at an Axios News Shapers event that he'd call President Trump before stepping in if he ever felt the administration's tariff policy had begun to encroach on Congress' constitutional powers.
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HuffPost, Washington Times, Raw Story, Fox News, New Republic, Washington Examiner and The Hill
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson cracks door to congressional action on tariffs
Johnson cracks door to congressional action on tariffs
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Axios
NBC News:
Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released — Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont. — A judge ordered Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi …
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VTDigger, The Guardian, Newsbusters, The Independent, NPR and The Hill
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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The Hill, HotAir, The Contrarian, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves — The right-wing billionaire's platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base. — Europeans are fleeing X en masse, according to a new report from Elon Musk's social media platform.
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Mashable and New York Daily News
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump demands states obey law he just announced via tweet — 🏙️ 🚕 💨 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
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Scripps News
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Trump's Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows — Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue. — Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-run economic damage equivalent …
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Florida Politics
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 Telegraphic Agency and Jewish Insider
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.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate) — Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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New York Post and IJR
John Wilkerson / STAT:
STAT+: GOP Senator Collins says Trump's layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’ — WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, rebuked the Trump administration for cutting federal biomedical research funding …
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Bangor Daily News
Evan Perez / CNN:
Exclusive: FBI reassigns agents from iconic photo of them kneeling during George Floyd protest — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN.
Politico:
Capitol agenda: The megabill has mega issues — Republicans' drive toward the “big, beautiful bill” is starting to hit some big potholes. As lawmakers get into gear on extending President Donald Trump's tax cuts, cracks are deepening on critical issues, including Medicaid …
New York Times:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett Recuses Herself in a Charter School Case — The justice will not participate in oral argument, deliberations or vote. She gave no explanation. — When the justices take the bench for oral arguments on Wednesday, one seat will be empty: Justice Amy Coney Barrett …
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.
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 …
CNN:
Gaza edges closer to famine as Israel's total blockade nears its third month — Sitting inside her fly-infested tent in Gaza City, Iman Rajab sifts clumps of flour through a sieve, over and over again. — She found the half-bag of flour in a garbage dumpster. It is crawling with pests and shows clear signs of contamination.
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Reuters
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Trump's support sinks in Georgia as economic fears rise — Battleground voters show deep unease about the president's second-term agenda just months after his election. — Georgia voters are sharply divided over President Donald Trump's second-term agenda, with many opposing key pieces …
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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The Texas Tribune and STAT
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Trump border pick accused of ‘cover-up’ over death of man beaten by US agents — Former top official calls for Rodney Scott to be blocked from CBP role over handling of investigation into Anastasio Hernández Rojas's death — Rodney Scott, Donald Trump's nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection …
