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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
A GOP congressman is peppered with questions about Trump during raucous town hall — Voters in U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler's suburban New York swing district heaped criticism on the Republican during a raucous town hall Sunday night, peppering him with questions around President Donald Trump's aggressive agenda …
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Andres Picon / Politico:
GOP may be closer than ever to enacting a massive rule-busting bill — “For those who say it would make a radical change ... I'd say, ‘Thank heaven above for that,’” says Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee. — Conservative Republicans have spent more than a decade working toward a wholesale rollback …
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Washington Post:
These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump's policy plans
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Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler faces another rowdy town hall as police carry away audience member
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler faces another rowdy town hall as police carry away audience member
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New York Times:
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump — The president's older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied.
Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied.
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Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
‘60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment — NOT SCARED OF YOU — The show brought on lawyers and firms targeted by President Donald Trump's sweeping executive orders. — 60 Minutes examined Donald Trump's revenge tour against Big Law in a scathing episode on Sunday …
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Washington Post:
Trump says trade deals ‘could very well be’ announced this week — President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that deals with some trading partners “could very well be” announced this week, raising the prospect of an easing of the “Liberation Day” tariffs he announced last month.
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS Announces Historic Travel Assistance and Stipend for Voluntary Self-Deportation — The First Illegal Alien to Utilize Travel Assistance has Already Returned to Honduras — WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a historic opportunity for illegal aliens …
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Trump administration says it'll pay immigrants in the US illegally $1,000 to leave the country
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump administration offers $1,000 to migrants who self-deport
Trump administration offers $1,000 to migrants who self-deport
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Put 100% Tariff on Movies Made Outside U.S. — Declaring foreign film production a national security threat, the president said he had asked his top trade official to start the process of imposing a tax on Hollywood. — President Trump said he would impose a 100 percent tariff on movies …
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Trump Tells Hate Leader And J6 Seditionist ‘I Love You Guys’ At Mar-A-Lago: Report — The president chatted with the former extremist group boss as he was dining at Trump's country club. — Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys and convicted seditionist in the Jan. 6 …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Our Megalomaniacal President — More headlines from the disaster zone: … Happy Monday
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
America's least American president
New York Times:
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse … Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several customers about a change in company policy. It said they were no longer allowed to use Cursor on more than just one computer.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked — A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
GlobalX, Airline for Trump's Deportations, Hacked
Media Matters for America:
Trump ally Laura Loomer uses Nazi slogan to call for replacing Indian American congressperson — Loomer: “It'd be nice to have an American there, like a real blood and soil American” — Loomer's use of “blood and soil” is notable because the phrase is identified as a “Nazi rallying cry.”
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Scott Bessent / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Three Steps to Economic Growth — His tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation efforts make up a coherent strategy to benefit Main Street. — Readers of this paper know better than anyone: Wall Street has experienced historic success over the last four decades. Since 1980, the S&P 500 has increased more than 5,500%.
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer
How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer
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Associated Press:
Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say — Israel approved plans on Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, in a move that if implemented would vastly expand Israel's operations …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
We need a way to aggregate what Donald Trump is doing to this country — News organizations, along with good-government groups and other interested parties, are doing a commendable job of chronicling the damage the Trump regime is doing to the government, the country, and the world.
New York Times:
Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S. — The continent's leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.
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Emily Brindley / Dallas Morning News:
Texas bill would monitor wastewater for the abortion medication mifepristone — Under a bill filed in the Legislature, Texas could begin monitoring wastewater for substances including the abortion drug mifepristone.The legislation is part of a broader push spearheaded by anti-abortion advocates …
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Trump Directs Federal Bureau of Prisons to ‘Reopen a Substantially Enlarged and Rebuilt Alcatraz’ — “We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally,” president writes
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Politico:
Trump seeks to reopen Alcatraz, place tariffs on movies made abroad
Trump seeks to reopen Alcatraz, place tariffs on movies made abroad
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Throws a Tantrum After Getting Roasted by Karl Rove — LATE-NIGHT RANT — The president was stung after the Republican strategist ripped into him on tariffs, communications, and the AI image of Trump as the pope. — President Donald Trump ripped into Republican strategist Karl Rove …
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Liz Alderman / New York Times:
As Backlash to Trump's Tariffs Grows, Europe Boycotts American Brands — A shifting perception of the United States amid President Trump's trade war is prompting Europeans to pivot decisively away from U.S. goods and services. — For motorcycle lovers in Sweden, Harley-Davidson is the hottest brand on the road.
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies — Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT … It was the second marriage for both after marriages of 15-plus years and having kids …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The most disturbing aspect of Trump's first 100 days — Too many American businesses are acting like he's already a dictator — Almost everything Donald Trump does becomes a bizarre, larger-than-life spectacle. — But precisely for that reason, it's important to remember that “normal” …
John Wisely / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan AG Dana Nessel drops all charges against U-M pro-Palestinian Diag protesters — Decision came after calls for Nessel to recuse herself. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has dropped all charges against seven pro-Palestinian protesters arrested last year on the University of Michigan Diag.
Melody Schreiber / The Guardian:
‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr's national autism database — US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse — Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database …
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy / USA Today:
19 states sue RFK Jr., Trump administration for overhauling HHS and staff cuts — New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other Democratic state attorneys general are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the U.S. Department of Health …

