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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now … WATCH NOW  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump's tariffs.  —  The Trump administration had earlier told …
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Second federal court rules against Trump's tariffs  —  The decision comes less than 24 hours after another court ruled against the president's use of an emergency law to justify tariffs on dozens of the United States' largest trading partners.  —  A second federal court has ruled …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Appeals court halts ruling that blocked Trump's tariffs  —  A federal appellate court on Thursday temporarily stayed a ruling that effectively wiped out most of President Trump's tariffs.  —  Why it matters: The intervention will deepen the chaos around the Court of International Trade's Wednesday order …
Reuters:
US ruling that Trump tariffs are unlawful stirs relief and uncertainty  —  A U.S. trade court ruling that blocked most of President Donald Trump's tariffs and found he had overstepped his authority triggered some relief on financial markets on Thursday, while adding to the uncertainties weighing on the global economy.
Reuters:
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority  —  A U.S. trade court blocked most of President Donald Trump's tariffs in a sweeping ruling on Wednesday that found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from U.S. trading partners.
Axios:
Leavitt says Supreme Court “must put an end” to tariff saga
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Trump's Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts
Discussion: New Jersey Online and USA Today
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Judge Contreras Rules Trump-Era Tariffs Unlawful, Opening Door to New Legal Challenges
CNBC:
Four tools at the Trump administration's disposal after a U.S. court blocks tariffs
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
US weekly jobless claims rise; corporate profits fall in first quarter
Discussion: Fox Business, Florida Politics and UPI
NOTUS:
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist  —  The Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don't exist, according to the listed authors.  — Copy  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The Trump administration's ‘MAHA Report’ cites nonexistent scientific studies  —  There's new evidence that the White House's “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” relied in part on scientific research that doesn't exist.  —  After Donald Trump and his White House team unveiled …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion  —  Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion …
Discussion: Raw Story and Reason
Christopher Robbins / Hell Gate:
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants  —  On Wednesday night in Lower Manhattan, the NYPD arrested dozens of protesters who were attempting to block the path of two vans that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were using to transport people they had recently detained.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations office forced to retire
Discussion: Newsweek and The Gateway Pundit
Ted Hesson / Reuters:
Trump administration ousts top ICE officials amid migrant arrest push
Discussion: Fox News
Axios:
ICE officials ousted amid demands for more immigrant arrests
Discussion: CBS News
Jonathan Cowan / Politico:
The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats.  Here's How to Neutralize It.  —  It's time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled.  —  It will go down as one of the most infamous taglines in modern campaign history: “Kamala is for they/them — President Trump is for you.”
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Gallego says concerns about trans athletes are ‘legitimate’
Discussion: The Hill, MSNBC and NewsMax.com
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Live Updates: Judge Intends to Block Trump Effort to Stop Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students  —  Students and faculty waged small acts of protest at Harvard's graduation ceremonies as the university's lawyers temporarily beat back the Trump administration's attacks in court.
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Congressman Steube:
Rep. Steube Introduces Make Autorail Great Again Act to Rebrand DC Metrorail as WMAGA and Trump Train  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Make Autorail Great Again Act to block all federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the “Trump Train”
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build  —  The Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Thursday that reads like it was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of an influential book arguing that excessive regulation of land use and development has made it too difficult …
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’  —  The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe. … Secretary Marco Rubio's State Department published a reorganization chart Thursday morning showing massive cuts to diplomatic offices and functions, plus a few new additions.
Wall Street Journal:
Big Law Firms 3, Trump 0  —  Three judges across the political spectrum have now said the President's punitive executive orders are unconstitutional.  —  Click for Sound  —  President Trump dismisses court rulings against him as judicial overreach, and sometimes he's right.
Discussion: New Republic, JURISTnews and HuffPost
Politico:
‘DOGE is still hungry’: Musk is gone but DOGE continues  —  ‘DOGE is still hungry’: Elon Musk's staff quietly burrows in with eyes on deeper cuts  —  Elon Musk is stepping back from the federal government but his so-called Department of Government Efficiency isn't going anywhere.
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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:   What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us  —  The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science …
Wall Street Journal:
The Punch That Launched Trump's War on American Universities  —  Threats to withhold billions in federal research funds to punish campuses grew heated after a 2019 altercation left a man with a black eye
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump finds more convicted congressional Republicans to reward with pardons  —  Thanks to the president's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.  —  It's been a challenge keeping up with the flurry …
Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:
The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls  —  There were many terrible moments in Donald Trump's nakedly fascist 2024 campaign, but I will personally never forget taking the time, in May, to read Radley Balko's extensive discussion of how mass deportation might work in practice.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
This Swiss Village Was Buried by a Glacier.  Climate Change Deniers Should Take Notice.  —  We are now yodeling our way to disaster.  —  Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor.  We may earn a commission from these links.  Here's how we test products and why you should trust us.
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it  —  Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat.  Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests.  —  Earlier this month, Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company's shot.  —  The Trump administration has delivered its latest blow to vaccines …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Nellie Ohr made false statements to Congress about Trump-Russia investigation, FBI memo shows  —  A newly declassified FBI memo on Wednesday revealed that Nellie Ohr, a researcher for opposition research firm Fusion GPS, gave false testimony to Congress in 2018 about her involvement …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Sen. Lindsey Graham gets a 2026 challenge from Democrat Annie Andrews, who ran against Nancy Mace  —  Dr. Annie Andrews, the South Carolina Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022, says she's running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026 …
CNN:
China thought it had a truce with the US.  Then Trump dropped two bombshells  —  A one-two punch from the United States risks shattering the already fragile trade war truce between Washington and Beijing, with Chinese tech companies and students both dealt shock blows by the Trump administration Wednesday night.
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling  —  Republican support has dropped 14 points since 2022  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decade after the Supreme Court's milestone Obergefell v. Hodges ruling declared same-sex marriage a national right in the U.S., a steady 68% of Americans support it.
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
The US Is Storing Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database  —  Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Rep. Steny Hoyer draws a challenger who makes the age argument explicit  —  A 35-year-old volunteer firefighter said longtime incumbent is “still operating in this 1980s information environment.”  —  Rep. Steny Hoyer has drawn a primary challenger with a pointed message about the 85-year-old …
 
 
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Brett Kelman / NPR:
American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration
Discussion: Breitbart
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Senate Republicans plan hearing on Biden's alleged cognitive decline cover-up
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Expect Trump's Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says
Discussion: USA Today, New Republic and Reuters
New York Times:
He Took a Wrong Turn Into Canada. The Price? 3 Weeks in ICE Custody.
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Emily Peck / Axios:
Exclusive: White House rolling out new “merit-based” federal hiring plans
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump hails ruling allowing case against Pulitzer Board to proceed
Brian Karem / Salon:
Trump 2.0 falls apart before our eyes
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Mann / The Guardian:
Trump's new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
Discussion: New Republic
Louise Aronson / The Atlantic:
The Conversations Trump's Doctors Should Be Having With Him
New York Times:
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