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10:40 AM ET, May 5, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Shares of Disney, Netflix and Other Studios Fall After Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on Movies ‘Produced in Foreign Lands’  —  Shares of entertainment companies including Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global took a hit Monday as investors assessed Hollywood's potential exposure …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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The Guardian:
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’  —  President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff  —  Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Put 100% Tariff on Movies Made Outside U.S.
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.
Discussion: CBS News and Wall Street Journal
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He Asked Mexico to Let U.S. Military In to Fight Cartels
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
In New York, a GOP congressman is shelled with questions about Trump during raucous town hall  —  Voters in U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler's suburban New York swing district unloaded a barrage of criticism on the Republican during a raucous town hall Sunday night, peppering him with questions around …
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Washington Post:
These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump's policy plans  —  “Some of these are clearly in conflict,” one former Republican aide said.  —  As Republican lawmakers hammer out a “big, beautiful bill” to enact President Donald Trump's policy plans, they're running into a problem: their colleagues' growing list of red lines.
Discussion: Raw Story, Semafor and Press Herald
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   Lawler town hall devolves into chaos
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Netanyahu's Plan to Expand Israel's Fight in Gaza Is Met With Skepticism  —  It is not clear how the Israeli prime minister's plan to add tens of thousands of soldiers will fundamentally alter a dynamic seen over 18 months of conflict.  —  Israel's security cabinet met on Sunday and approved plans …
Discussion: CNN, BBC, CBS News, Semafor and Israpundit
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Kristin Wright / NPR:
An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters  —  An exhibit showing victims of gun violence has been taken down at the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice has confirmed.
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Memorial to victims of gun violence taken down at ATF headquarters  —  The “Faces of Gun Violence” memorial was installed at ATF in 2024 to remind the workforce of the human toll.  —  The Trump administration has removed a memorial honoring victims of gun violence from the main atrium …
Discussion: Townhall
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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Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Von der Leyen, Macron knock Trump's war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’
Discussion: Semafor
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Punchbowl News:
5/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Happy Cinco de Mayo. … During the last week …
Discussion: Roll Call
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Former Maine governor moves to challenge vulnerable House Democrat  —  Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) filed paperwork on Sunday to run against Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) for Maine's 2nd Congressional District next year.  —  LePage served as the governor of Maine between 2011 and 2019 …
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Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News:
Paul LePage files to run for Maine's swing 2nd District
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
Trump Team Set to Dissolve Reagan-Era Transnational Crime Unit  —  Task forces that specialize in fighting organized crime, drug cartels and human traffickers were told to shut down by Sept. 30, according to documents and people familiar with the matter  —  The Trump administration is …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Levitz / Vox:
How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer  —  The immediate costs of President Donald Trump's trade war are fairly clear.  Prices for imported goods are rising while economic growth is slowing.  Manufacturers are slashing orders, small businesses with Chinese suppliers are on the brink …
Discussion: New York Times
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Scott Bessent / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Three Steps to Economic Growth
Discussion: The Hill and Semafor
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Pence says January 6 attack's failure ‘became a triumph of freedom’ as he receives JFK Profile in Courage Award  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday while receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award that January 6, 2021, “became a triumph of freedom” …
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
China's Garment Factories Face a Tipping Point After New Tariffs  —  As a U.S. tax loophole ends, the apparel makers that sell to America are forced to consider alternative markets or cheaper locations in and outside China.  —  Liu Miao has sold clothing on Amazon to wholesale buyers in the United States for the past five years.
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Ackman Slams Harvard for Failures, Calls for Pritzker Removal  —  Bill Ackman rattled off a list of concerns over how his alma mater Harvard University has handled the conflict with President Donald Trump, arguing it needs a change in board leadership.  —  The Pershing Square Capital …
Thomas Zimmer / Democracy Americana:
The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis  —  News broke Friday morning that Germany's domestic intelligence service is now officially classifying the AfD as a “confirmed rightwing extremist” group.  The decision came after three years of investigating the party and was presented in a 1,100-page report.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
From One Fake Left-wing Hysteria to the Next … The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.  —  For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style …
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 …
NOTUS:
'He Didn't Save My Life': Veterans Question Rep. Cory Mills' Bronze Star  —  The Florida Republican was awarded a Bronze Star for his purported actions in 2003.  Five people who served with him say they don't remember Mills being on the scene.  — Copy  —  Under “intense enemy fire” …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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