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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 …
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Calls for 100% Tariff on Movies Made Overseas  —  The president called the use of incentives by foreign countries to draw filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. a national-security threat  —  President Trump has found the next industry he wants to bring back to the U.S. with tariffs: Hollywood.
Reuters:
Trump says Hollywood ‘dying’; orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
Andrea Margolis / Fox News:
Trump announces 100% tariff on all foreign-produced movies: ‘WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!’  —  Trump said that Hollywood ‘is DYING a very fast death’  —  President Donald Trump decried the state of the motion picture industry in a social media post on Sunday while announcing plans to implement a Hollywood-related tariff.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian, Reuters and Variety
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Downplays Economic Concerns as He Looks to Cut Trade Deals
Discussion: The Guardian and Cafe Hayek
NBC News:
Read the full transcript: President Donald Trump interviewed by ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   Ron Johnson on a potential recession: ‘You have to act boldly’
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.
Punchbowl News:
5/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Happy Cinco de Mayo. … During the last week, several dynamics have emerged that make us wonder not only if a reconciliation deal is close but whether Republicans can even pull it off at all. … As of Sunday night, the timing for this critical discussion wasn't set.
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Andres Picon / Politico:
Conservatives have long dreamed of passing a bill to shred tons of regulations.  They may be closer than ever.  —  “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 …
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: Semafor and Press Herald
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison  —  President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island.  In a message on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long …
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Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Says Still Waiting to Hear When Next US Talks Will Happen  —  Iran said it's waiting for Oman to confirm when there will be a new round of nuclear talks with the US, while also saying it had nothing to do with Houthi missile strikes on Israel.  —  Iranian and US officials were set …
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CNN:
Israel fails to intercept Houthi missile targeting its main airport, showing the limits of US efforts to weaken the group
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
When asked if he needs to uphold the Constitution, Trump says: 'I don't know'
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump still would like to add Canada and Greenland but says attack on Canada ‘highly unlikely’
Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans to announce D.C. will host 2027 NFL Draft  —  President Trump plans to announce Monday that Washington, D.C., will host the 2027 NFL Draft, with the aim of holding it on the National Mall, Axios has learned.  — The announcement is expected to be made with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell …
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” …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Democrats Denounce Rubio Holding Four Roles in Trump Administration  —  “There's no way he can carry all that entire load on his own,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said of Rubio occupying multiple jobs in the executive branch  —  Secretary of state, acting administrator for USAID, acting lead archivist, acting national security adviser.
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Axios:
MAGA media muscles up  —  MAGA media is seizing on its new influence in Washington — staffing up, enjoying unprecedented access to power, and making market splashes.  —  Why it matters: Corporate America has typically shunned right-wing media.  But expanded exposure to Washington's powerbrokers …
Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump  —  In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished.  Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact.  —  The Trump factor is shaping global politics, one election at a time …
Discussion: Semafor and Bloomberg
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He Asked Mexico to Let U.S. Military In to Fight Cartels  —  President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had raised the idea with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, who rejected it.  —  President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had pressed Mexico's president …
Max Griera / Politico:
European Parliament cracks down on lobbyists in effort to stop corruption  —  BRUSSELS ― The European Parliament has toughened its rules on lobbying more than two years after a cash-for-influence scandal that triggered one of the largest corruption investigations to hit the EU.
 
 
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
In New York, a GOP congressman is shelled with questions about Trump during raucous town hall
Bloomberg:
Adani Camp Meets Trump Officials in Push to End US Bribery Cases
Discussion: Reuters
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Who will stop them?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The White House's Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis
 Earlier Items: 
Damon Linker / New York Times:
These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Are Already Straining This Oklahoma Used Car Business
Fox News:
Trump says he could ‘walk away’ from Russia-Ukraine talks, cites ‘tremendous hatred’ on both sides
Discussion: New York Post
Nelson Rauda Zablah / New York Times:
The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous Bukele Really Is
Joe Hernandez / NPR:
Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison
 
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