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1:50 AM ET, May 12, 2025

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New York Times:
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One  —  The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Mr. Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office.  —  The Trump administration plans …
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Associated Press:
Trump administration poised to accept ‘palace in the sky’ as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources  —  The luxury jumbo jet is to be used as Air Force One, sources told ABC News.  —  In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government …
Associated Press:
Qatar says no final decision made on gifting Trump a jet to use as Air Force One  —  President Donald Trump reportedly is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and U.S. officials …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump to accept luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One  —  The Trump administration is set to accept a luxury plane from the Qatari royal family that will be retrofitted and used as Air Force One during the president's second term, two people familiar with the agreement told CNN.
Discussion: The Hill, Jewish Insider and DNyuz
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Qatari Royals Give Trump a Plane … Fascinating details emerging with the Qatari royal family giving Donald Trump the personal gift of a fully blinged out 747.  Yes, they're giving him a plane.  —  When I first heard this story a few days ago it at least sounded like Trump had finally lost patience …
Discussion: DNyuz
Lowkell / Blue Virginia:   UVA Prof. Larry Sabato on Qatar “Gifting” Trump a Luxury Jet: “The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption-and few Americans seem to care.
Politico:   Qatar calls reports of pending jet gift to Trump ‘inaccurate’
Washington Post:
U.S. officials say ‘substantial progress’ made in China trade talks  —  The White House said it was announcing a trade deal without providing any details.  Representatives from the U.S. and China had been meeting in Switzerland.  —  Bessent: ‘Substantial progress’ in US-China trade talks
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Associated Press:
US touts ‘substantial progress’ in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Trump and China close in on trade deal after productive talks, Bessent says
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices  —  President wants to tie drug prices U.S. pays to those paid by other countries  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump on Sunday said he would sign an executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs …
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Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80%  —  Trump calls out Democrats and announces plans to drop prices of prescription drugs ‘almost immediately’  —  President Donald Trump announced he plans to sign an executive order on Monday that will reduce the cost …
Wall Street Journal:
Proposal Cutting Medicaid Aims for GOP Middle Ground  —  House bill is set to include work requirements but not deeper reductions some fiscal hawks demanded  —  WASHINGTON—House Republicans are releasing their plan to cut Medicaid spending, with the program's defenders in the GOP appearing …
Discussion: Fox News, NOTUS and The Hill
Walter Olson:
Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?  —  I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, Va. courthouse.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal:
How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: ‘Nobody in Power Seems to Care’  —  Owners are laying off staff and tapping personal savings, hoping to hold out until a trade deal with China; an $8,752 fee on a $5,649 order  —  The owner of a San Francisco card-game company cashed in his money-market funds.
Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress  —  The Trump administration has fired the nation's top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Dem Crypto Ally Defends Fundraiser With Trump Crypto Donor  —  Democrats have gotten too “pure,” Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego argued at a Pennsylvania town hall to explain his ties to crypto investor Marc Andreessen  —  Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) traveled to Pennsylvania for a town hall …
Discussion: CBS News
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk's regulatory troubles have begun to melt away in Trump's second term  —  The Trump administration has halted some regulatory matters involving Musk's companies and fired people from agencies investigating Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink.  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk's regulatory problems have started to fade into the past.
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Associated Press:
Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine and Gaza in symbolically rich blessing on Mother's Day  —  Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church.
Politico:
RFK Jr., DOGE gutted legally required offices.  Courts may undo it all.  —  Federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only - with minimal or no staff - is an unconstitutional power grab.
Rachel Scully / The Hill:
Barrasso: 'I don't believe' suggested habeas corpus suspension will ‘come to Congress’  —  Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said he doesn't believe that the White House's suggested habeas corpus suspension will reach Congress.  —  During an appearance on NBC's “Meet The Press” …
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Emma Colton / Fox News:
Congressman reveals hidden secret passageway from America's founding under Capitol floorboards
Discussion: DNyuz and RedState
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
This Obscure New York Court Is Set to Decide Fate of Trump's Tariffs
Discussion: Raw Story
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Discussion: Raw Story
Mahmoud Khalil / The Guardian:
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Discussion: WWL-TV
Washington Post:
In Mideast, Trump plans to focus on business deals, not geopolitics
Discussion: DNyuz and Daily Mail
Brink Lindsey / The UnPopulist:
The Postliberal Delusion that Trump will Restore Gods Allegedly Destroyed by the Open Society
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
A probation officer in Oregon was fired for using a Nazi salute at work. An arbitrator restored his job
Washington Post:
Even as pope, Leo XIV might have to deal with U.S. tax returns
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Being a mom in the federal government wasn't easy. Trump made it “impossible.”
Reuters:
FEMA cuts emergency training under Trump as hurricane season looms
 

 
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