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Inside the battles that shattered Trump and Musk's alliance  —  Trump called Musk “a big-time drug addict” in a phone call shortly after their public feud.  —  President Donald Trump was dejected, processing his very public split with the world's richest man.
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
NASA, Pentagon push for SpaceX alternatives amid Trump's feud with Musk  —  The fight between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk highlights the government's outsized dependence on a single company for missions.  —  NASA and Pentagon officials moved swiftly this week to urge competitors …
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Musk Deletes Post Saying He'll Apologize to Trump if the President Does a ‘Full Dump’ of Epstein Files  —  Elon Musk said an apology from him to President Donald Trump hinges on a “full dump.”  —  Many conservatives have been disappointed that the Trump administration has yet to release …
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump advised Vance to take a diplomatic approach after Musk's blowup  —  Trump declined to go all-out in his attacks on Musk and counseled the vice president to show restraint in his comments about Musk, preserving a possible bridge.  —  While Elon Musk fired off social media posts excoriating …
Rebecca Schneid / Time:
Musk's Major Allegation Against Trump Disappears From Social Media: ‘That Post Has Been Deleted’
New York Times:
Buildup to a Meltdown: How the Trump-Musk Alliance Collapsed
New York Times:
Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other - united in their ability to trash their own brands
Eric Garcia / The Independent:   AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned
Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage.  ‘Our community is under attack’  —  A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce pushback from elected officials and protesters, who decried the enforcement actions as …
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NPR:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man at the center of a bitter, months-long political and legal fight after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, has been returned …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Return of Wrongly Deported Man Raises Questions About Trump's Views of Justice  —  For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.
CNN:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges
Politico:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in US custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
White House security staff warned Musk's Starlink is a security risk  —  Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.  —  Elon Musk's team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Proud Boys Freed by Trump Sue the Government for $100 Million  —  Once convicted of serious felonies, members of the extremist group now paint themselves as “patriotic” victims of political warfare  —  In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned …
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Chris Palmer / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Five Proud Boys leaders, including Philly resident Zach Rehl, want the government to pay them $100 million in restitution for Jan. 6 convictions  —  Zach Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in helping incite the Jan. 6 …
Discussion: WHEC.com, Reuters and Washington Post
ABC News:
Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources  —  The decision to pursue the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News.
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Reuters:
Trump can bar The Associated Press from some White House events for now, appeals court rules
Alfred Lubrano / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Sikh man from Vineland criticized for leading Congress in prayer  —  After leading the U.S. House in a prayer with an entreaty to God to help people “remember that we belong to one family” on Friday, a Sikh man from South Jersey was the target of a highly critical social media post by U.S. Rep. Mary Miller …
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
The great poaching: America's brain drain begins  —  The Trump administration's spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking.  —  Why it matters: U.S. researchers' fears are coming true.
Adam Wren / Politico:
The Great Un-Awokening  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Saturday.  This is Adam Wren.  Get in touch.  —  President Donald Trump attends UFC-316 featuring Merab Dvalishvili vs. Sean O'Malley at 9:30 p.m.  —  DRIVING THE DAY
Ben Makuch / The Guardian:
Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event  —  The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right  —  An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US …
New York Times:
After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out.  But DOGE Is Just Getting Started.  —  With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team's approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.  —  With members embedded in multiple agencies …
P.J. Huffstutter / Reuters:
Ohio food banks strain as Trump slashes federal aid programs  —  On a warm spring morning, volunteers at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective plucked cucumbers from a greenhouse where a state psychiatric hospital once stood and the land lay fallow.  Now the state's largest food bank is working that ground again …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
There are only two commissioners left at the FCC  —  After two departures on Friday, parts of Brendan Carr's agenda are in limbo. … After the departure of one Republican and one Democratic commissioner on Friday, the Federal Communications Commission is down to two members …
 
 
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