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Colby Smith / New York Times:
Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From Fed — Although Jerome H. Powell's term as Fed chair officially ends on May 15, he can stay on as a governor until 2028 and said he would not leave until a criminal investigation was over. — President Trump on Wednesday vowed …
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Associated Press:
Trump threatens to fire Powell if the Fed Chair remains with central bank after his term ends — President Donald Trump has again threatened to fire Jerome Powell if the Federal Reserve Chair decides to stay on the central bank's governing board after his term as chair expires next month.
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NBC News:
DOJ officials attempt to ‘tour’ the Fed's renovations as probe stalls — The unannounced “check on progress” visit could further gum up the Senate confirmation of Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee to chair the Fed. — Prosecutors working for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran — The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran. — Summary — The Pentagon is sending thousands …
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Bart Jansen / USA Today:
‘Be careful.’ Vance issues warning to Pope Leo when discussing theology — Vance said it was wrong for Pope Leo to criticize those who wield the sword because Europe would never have been liberated during WWII without the U.S. military. — After President Donald Trump clashed with Pope Leo XIV …
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology — The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV's statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”
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Daniel J. Wakin / New York Times:
Pope Leo to Trump: ‘I Have No Fear’
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump's Blasphemy Is a Warning
Trump's Blasphemy Is a Warning
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Associated Press:
As Vance rallies with Turning Point, some supporters bristle at Trump's war, memes and feuds
As Vance rallies with Turning Point, some supporters bristle at Trump's war, memes and feuds
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Vance Heckled in Antiwar Protest at Turning Point USA Event
Vance Heckled in Antiwar Protest at Turning Point USA Event
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems file 5 impeachment articles against Hegseth — House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing. … - Democrats previously pushed …
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Pete Hit With Impeachment Effort as Scandals Mount — WAR CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS — House Democrats are filing no less than five articles against the self-declared “Secretary of War.” — Democrats in Congress are bringing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth over a slew …
New Republic:
Trump Spirals into Fury at Bad Iran News as Polls Hit Shocking New Low — Donald Trump is now raging at a staunch ally, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni. After she sided with the Pope's criticism of the Iran war, which had infuriated Trump, he unloaded again, ripping her as “unacceptable” …
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Gaige Davila / The Texas Observer:
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport … Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case. She's been a court interpreter for over 20 years …
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
How Eric Swalwell rose to the top of Democratic politics as rumors followed him — Allies like Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Ruben Gallego say they knew nothing about the misconduct allegations, with Gallego saying the congressman led a “double life.” — Summary
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Washington Free / The Washington Free Beacon:
On Ruben Gallego, We Told You So
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Miller on Swalwell: Dems have ‘blackmail files’ for when it suits them
Miller on Swalwell: Dems have ‘blackmail files’ for when it suits them
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
It's Tax Day. Ahead of the deadline, 53 million filers used new Trump tax exemptions, Treasury says — It's Tax Day on Wednesday, the deadline for most Americans to file taxes, and the Trump administration says millions of people have already used new breaks such as no tax on tips and overtime …
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Bernie Becker / Politico:
Tax Day arrives with Republicans struggling to sell their cuts
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 14, 2026 — There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's leadership on Sunday, April 12. His party's loss of control of the government to a supermajority of its opponents undermined the belief …
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Christopher Fonzone / Just Security:
The Presidential Records Act is Constitutional — On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's constitutional powers and aggrandizes …
Paul Krugman:
Autocracy = Corruption — What the U.S. resistance can learn from Hungary — There will be many post-mortems on the demise of the Orbán regime. The stunning victory of Hungary's opposition was delivered by an electoral surge so large that it swamped the anti-democratic breakwaters …
Politico:
Why House Republicans are protecting Cory Mills … But key leaders and several rank-and-file members from both parties signaled this week they will wait for the conclusion of an active House Ethics Committee investigation into Mills before moving to punish him.
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Isabel Van Brugen / The Daily Beast:
Wounded Trump, 79, Scrambles to Downplay Stinging Defeat — 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ — The president insisted he wasn't actively campaigning for his ally. — Donald Trump awkwardly brushed off his ally Viktor Orban's crushing defeat …
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Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Regime Has Changed—for the Worse — The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace — On March 13, a massive billboard appeared in Tehran's Enqelab Square. It showed Iran's newly selected …
Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
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David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
DHS employee killed by naturalized citizen in Georgia, Mullin says — A federal employee for the Department of Homeland Security was killed in Georgia this week by a naturalized U.S. citizen from the United Kingdom, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Wednesday.
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
New CBS Boss to Host Fancy Dinner ‘Honoring’ Trump — TAKES THE CAKE — David Ellison's friendly ties with the president have horrified staffers. — Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is hosting an intimate event to honor Donald Trump's White House, along with correspondents from the now-MAGA-friendly CBS News.
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump's litigation extortion machine — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 📖 Subscribe to PN 📖 — Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust. — This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal …
Cindy Corrie / The Nation:
Let's Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter — Bernie Sanders is trying to end the shipment of US bulldozers to Israel—like the one that crushed my daughter, Rachel Corrie, to death 13 years ago. — Pocket — Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza …
Alec Hernandez / Politico:
Rick Jackson cannonballed into the governor race. It's having ripple effects across Georgia. … HOMER, Georgia — The last few players of the day were finishing their rounds at the Chimney Oaks Golf Club when a steady wind picked up by the practice putting green. Pin flags bent to a near snap.
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Washington Post:
Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka seeks top counterterrorism job — The maneuvering comes a month after Joe Kent, the National Counterterrorism Center's previous director, resigned in protest over the Iran war. — Summary — Sebastian Gorka, a national security aide to President Donald Trump …
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Financial Times:
Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases — Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March
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Vox:
A cautionary tale about tax cuts — Americans are getting crankier about paying taxes. — Most people don't enjoy paying Uncle Sam, but for much of the 2000s and 2010s, a sizable percentage of Americans thought that the amount of federal taxes they paid was “about right,” according to Gallup.
New York Times:
A Progressive Group Rolls Out a Campus Competitor to Turning Point — More Perfect Union, a left-wing media organization, hopes to win back young voters and build a new generation of college influencers with its More Perfect University program. — Democrats desperate to win back young voters …
Associated Press:
Trump promised peace in the Middle East. In Dearborn, Michigan, it feels farther away — Eighteen months after the nation's largest Arab American community helped propel Donald Trump to a second term as president, the prayers have not stopped. In Dearborn, just outside of Detroit …
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds — Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026 — The world's top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour …
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Associated Press:
Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms …
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