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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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Greg Norman / Fox News:
Chaotic video shows Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by ‘unruly’ crowd, leading to 2 arrests — Mayor of Worcester says the ‘fear of ICE tearing a family apart is the worst nightmare’ — A tense video emerged of a Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by a crowd of about 25 people …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility
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.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on Diversity Policies With Fresh Order for Review of Library Books — The move is the latest denunciation by the Trump administration against anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion. — The Pentagon continued its purge of anything related to diversity …
Sena Chang / The Princetonian:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth '03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it? — “After Card's whisper, Bush looked distracted and somber but continued to listen to the second-graders, joking that they ‘read like sixth-graders,’” …
NBC News:
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 …
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.
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
House Republicans release tax plan for Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone:
AOC Warns Republicans Are ‘Robbing People’ to Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts
AOC Warns Republicans Are ‘Robbing People’ to Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts
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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 …
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Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Trump signs EO offering illegal migrants ‘exit bonus’ in first-ever self-deportation program
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Establishing Project Homecoming
Establishing Project Homecoming
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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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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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Does Trump Have the Power to Install Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney?
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump's administration fills with Fox News personalities
Trump's administration fills with Fox News personalities
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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.
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The Moscow Times:
Putin Proposes Direct Russia-Ukraine Talks in Istanbul on May 15 — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed holding direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, hours after Kyiv and European leaders called for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire to start Monday.
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emptywheel:
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 …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
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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.
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Ben Goggin / NBC News:
Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it — Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.
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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.
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse? — CRAZY TALK — It takes a degree of insanity to think sharing a picture of yourself as Pope or as Luke Skywalker is somehow helping raise your plummeting poll numbers. — OPINION — It was the cringiest of times. It was the craziest of times.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democratic senator says GOP is trying to woo Fetterman — Ruben Gallego said Democrats should keep Fetterman in their tent. — BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego said Republicans are trying to pull John Fetterman to the right and argued Democrats should keep …
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say — The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday. — The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter …
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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 …
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