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Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying  —  You should know that the question to Stephen Miller about habeas corpus was a set up.  —  The male “journalist” who asked it after Miller called on him for the first question at a staged press event posed it in terms of …
Discussion: Associated Press and CNN
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CNN:
Trump involved in discussions over suspending habeas corpus, sources say
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
Discussion: Adam Kinzinger
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Announces Truce Between India and Pakistan  —  Officials in both countries acknowledged a halt after several days of their most expansive fighting in decades.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire …
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A New Kind of Battle for Two Old Enemies  —  Pakistan accused India of launching air-to-surface missiles that targeted at least three bases.  Soon after, Pakistani officials said retaliatory action against Indian bases had begun.  —  The military conflict between India and Pakistan hit …
Reuters:
World reacts after India, Pakistan agree to stop firing
G7 2025 - Kananaskis:
G7 Foreign Ministers' statement on India and Pakistan
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incident  —  Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
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New York Times:
Newark's Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
NBC News:
Newark mayor arrested at ICE detention facility in New Jersey for alleged trespassing
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Promised to End Two Wars Quickly.  In Private, He Admits He's Frustrated.  —  The president has told donors resolving the conflicts has been more difficult than he thought  —  When President Trump spoke to a room of top donors at his Florida club last week, he described ending Russia's war …
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Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine  —  Using the Kremlin's interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.  —  MOSCOW — President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Foreign Affairs
Amy Mackinnon / Politico:
Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures  —  An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration's overhaul of the federal government.  —  A federal judge on Friday called for a two-week pause …
Discussion: Reuters, DNyuz, Raw Story, Townhall and Politico
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Andrew Pridgen / SFGATE:
ICE raids have ‘overwhelmed’ coastal California communities ‘We continue to allow double punishment for noncitizens’  —  After a lull in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on California's Central Coast, a rash of raids has reportedly swept through San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties over the past week.
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts  —  The order, which would use state and local officers, among others, would represent an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement.  But it is unclear how it would be paid for.  —  President Trump ordered the Department …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports.  Officials haven't seen that since the pandemic  —  On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill  —  Republicans have created impossible restraints on their tax-and-budget package.  —  You might have heard the riddle about the man who must row a fox, a chicken and a sack of corn across a river one at a time.
Discussion: Florida Politics
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Media Warns Of ‘Material Weakness’ In Financial Controls  —  Topline  —  Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, disclosed “material weaknesses” in its financial reporting controls—acknowledging the risk of errors in its financial statements …
Wall Street Journal:
America's Richest Foundations Team Up Against Feared Trump Assault  —  Grantmakers are discussing legal and other strategies to help them avoid the recent fates of law firms and universities  —  Some of America's wealthiest and most powerful private foundations are informally banding together …
Discussion: Politico and IJR
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to become U.S. attorney in Washington D.C., the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.  A Missouri political operative with no experience as a prosecutor, Martin defended …
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NBC Boston:
Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters  —  Rumeysa Ozturk has been in Louisiana for over six weeks following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school's response to Israel's war in Gaza  —  Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms  —  Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP's majorities in Congress.  —  Early in Donald Trump's first term, the president received what he now views as bad advice: Don't worry about the midterms, some advisers whispered back then.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone:
AOC Warns Republicans Are ‘Robbing People’ to Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts  —  The congresswoman tells Rolling Stone Trump and Republicans are gutting “what is left of the health care and social safety net in the United States”  —  As Republicans and Democrats prepare to face off …
Discussion: New York Times and NPR
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake  —  Speaking at a Black church in Brooklyn last September, Andrew Cuomo tested the message that would quickly become the centerpiece of his campaign to be mayor of the country's largest city.  “We're on the decline,” the former New York governor said.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters  —  The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title.  Naturally, this caught his attention.
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues  —  The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Lawmakers did not seek Hayden's firing as Librarian of Congress
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won't run for U.S. Senate  —  Republicans, who are wary of Greene, have been looking for an alternative candidate after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he wouldn't enter the Senate race.  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said definitively on Friday …
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