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Punchbowl News:
Ed Martin confirmation in doubt even after Trump weighs in … Late Monday night, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans noticed an executive business meeting for Thursday that didn't include Martin's nomination.  Time is running out for Martin, who can only serve 120 days as the interim U.S. attorney …
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NBC News:
Key GOP senator won't support Trump loyalist Ed Martin to be D.C.'s top prosecutor  —  North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' decision likely derails Martin's nomination as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he wouldn't support Ed Martin …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader: Trump pick to serve as US attorney for DC won't reach floor  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Ed Martin, President Trump's controversial pick to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, will “probably” stay stuck in the Senate Judiciary Committee given …
Politico:
Tillis says he'll oppose Ed Martin, dealing grave blow to Trump's DC prosecutor pick
Reuters:
Exclusive: Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard  —  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware …
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Exclusive: Democrats target Trump family's crypto empire  —  Senate Democrats are unveiling a sweeping new proposal to ban presidents, lawmakers and their families from issuing, endorsing or sponsoring crypto assets, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Concerns over the Trump family's crypto ventures …
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
US trade deficit surges to record high in March  —  The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record high in March as businesses boosted imports of goods ahead of tariffs, which dragged gross domestic product into negative terrain in the first quarter for the first time in three years.
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Bloomberg:
One Ship, $417 Million in New Tariffs: The Cost of Trump's Trade War  —  On April 24, against the backdrop of towering cranes, dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach began unloading the OOCL Violet, a hulking shipping vessel carrying thousands of containers full of goods bound for the US.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Brags About Gold-Plated Office While Telling Americans to Cut Expenses  —  The president gloated about his “24-karat gold” White House renovation as his nonsensical tariff agenda drives up prices for consumers  —  Austerity for thee but not for me.  As Donald Trump advises …
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Alan Rappeport / Reuters:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Canada Is ‘Not for Sale,’ Its Leader Says. Trump Replies, ‘Never Say Never’
Jack Detsch / Politico:
Trump announces US will stop bombing Houthis
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban  —  The blanket ban, expanding on a similar policy Trump proposed in his first term, has been blocked nationwide by lower courts.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows Trump to ban transgender troops while case continues  —  President Donald Trump issued an executive order to remove transgender troops from the military soon after taking office in January.  —  A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily cleared the way for President …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will ‘Remove Her Clothes’ In Public, On X  —  Elon Musk's Grok, an AI chatbot that people can interact with via X, is being used to undress photos women are posting to the social media platform, as first flagged t0 404 Media by Kolina Koltai, a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat.
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ohio governor moves to keep the state GOP from endorsing Trump-backed Vivek Ramaswamy to succeed him  —  The Ohio Republican Party is slated to take a Friday vote on whether to give Ramaswamy its endorsement in the 2026 race for governor.  —  CLEVELAND — President Donald Trump endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Reese Gorman / NOTUS:   Ohio Governor Candidate Wanted to Save Face With a Trump Appointment. Then He Turned It Down.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
What do disengaged voters think about Trump now?  —  In the 2024 election, Donald Trump gained a surprising edge from an unlikely group: Americans who typically don't vote.  According to a New York Times analysis, these low-turnout voters backed Trump by a double-digit margin …
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer … The Trump Administration resumed collection efforts on defaulted student loans Monday after a roughly five-year hiatus — and affected borrowers could begin feeling the financial consequences sooner than experts expected.
New York Times:
Declassified Spy Memo Contradicts Trump on Venezuela Gang Ties  —  The release of the memo further undercuts the Trump administration's rationale for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.  —  A newly declassified memo released on Monday confirms …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump-appointed judge reaffirms order that admin seek return of 2nd wrongly deported man from El Salvador  —  The Trump administration expelled the 20-year-old Venezuelan from the U.S. in March despite a legal settlement barring his deportation.  —  BALTIMORE — A federal judge on Tuesday refused …
Discussion: Fox News and The Guardian
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
DOJ Won't Appeal Judge's Order Against Trump's Anti-Voting Decree  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) does not plan to appeal a judge's order blocking President Donald Trump from adding a proof of citizenship requirement on a federal registration form, according to a court filing made Monday by plaintiffs in the case.
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Wall Street Journal:
America's Air Traffic Fiasco  —  Here's why you're waiting hours to land at Newark airport.  —  Thousands of flights in and out of Newark airport in recent days have been delayed, diverted or canceled owing to a long runway of air traffic control failures.
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
ICE Agents Are Targeting DC Restaurants  —  Millie's and Pupatella were among the restaurants to get a visit today.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are targeting DC restaurants today in what is shaping up to be one of the city's most high-profile examples yet of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
Discussion: We Are Casa and Migrant Insider
Elise A. Spenner / The Harvard Crimson:
Far-Right Thinker Curtis Yarvin Argues for Remaking of Harvard at Faculty Club Debate  —  The far-right thinker Curtis Yarvin joined University Professor Danielle Allen for a debate Monday evening, where Yarvin in turn derided Harvard as “an essentially oligarchic institution” …
Angry White Men:
Matt Walsh Defends White People Using The N-Word  —  On Monday, Daily Wire contributor Matt Walsh used his show to defend Shiloh Hendrix, a racist woman accused of calling a Black child the N-word.  After lauding the people who contributed to her online fundraiser, Walsh complained that it's …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
She Called a 5-Year-Old the N-Word  —  N-word-slinging woman becomes right-wing hero  —  OVER THE PAST WEEK, portions of the American right have embraced a Minnesota woman whose claim to fame is that she allegedly called a 5-year-old boy the n-word, going so far as to help her raise hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Naomi LaChance / Rolling Stone:
‘What Are They Doing Illegal?’  Officer Says Before Arresting Pro-Palestine Students  —  Audio reveals an officer admitting UT Austin students weren't breaking the law before they were arrested.  The students are now suing Greg Abbott  —  A police officer questioned the legality …
Discussion: ADC and New Jersey Globe
ABC News:
Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources  —  A federal inmate was questioned about possible connections, sources said.  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant in this handout image obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025.  —  Abrego Garcia Family via Reuters
Jocelyn Kaiser / Science:
'It's been a tough period': NIH's new director speaks with Science  —  Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”  —  When Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya took the helm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on 1 April, the agency was in turmoil.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and CBS News
Reuters:
Merz fails to be elected chancellor by German parliament  —  Germany's parliament will hold a second vote on Tuesday on backing Friedrich Merz as chancellor after the veteran conservative failed to secure enough support in a first round, throwing politics in Europe's largest economy into disarray.
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
President Trump's Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories  —  Less than two minutes into the movie, the narrator makes a shocking claim.  —  “The evidence we are about to present to you has the potential to rewrite thousands of years of human history.
Rebecca Hersher / NPR:
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds  —  Most people in the United States rely on federal science in their daily lives but don't realize it, a new nationwide poll of U.S. adults shows.  —  The poll was conducted in early April by the Association …
Ross Andersen / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk's Most Alarming Power Grab  —  Can anyone stop his space-based internet?  —  When Elon Musk's engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket's nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth's orbit.
Brandon Truitt / CBS News:
Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender  —  A couple said they were embarrassed and offended after they were ordered to leave a high-end hotel in Boston over the weekend.  The women said a security guard at The Liberty Hotel challenged their use of a bathroom.
Discussion: The Guardian
Sara Tenenbaum / CBS News:
President Trump calls Chicago's Obama Presidential Center “a disaster,” blames “woke” construction  —  President Trump took shots at former President Barack Obama's Presidential Center in Chicago while meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Tuesday, calling it “a disaster” and blaming “woke” construction workers.
Discussion: UPI
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
A Clue From the Supreme Court on How It Will Handle Trump  —  Federal judges throughout the country are losing patience with the administration.  Will it be an issue for the Supreme Court?  —  It is generally a bad idea to get in the government's crosshairs.
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon:
Marco Rubio To Close State Department's De Facto Palestinian Embassy  —  The Office of Palestinian Affairs, a Joe Biden creation, urged Israel not to respond to Hamas's October 7 attack  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio will dissolve the State Department's Office of Palestinian Affairs …
Discussion: Reuters and New York Times
 
 
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Trump tariffs set off doubts — even in Rust Belt area he pledged to restore
Ariel Wittenberg / Politico:
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CNN:
Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon, sources say
Discussion: Washington Post
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Michael Rothstein / ESPN:
White House seeks to cut funding for brain injury research
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Sarah Polus / The Hill:
Federal judge rules North Carolina must certify state Supreme Court victory
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The Hope Florida scandal, explained
Discussion: Florida Politics
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Elon Musk's painful departure
Discussion: The Guardian
Anna Clark / ProPublica:
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes' Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
ProPublica:
Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans' Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials”
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's new nationalism  —  President Trump's grand economic vision relies on a simple tradeoff …
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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