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1:35 PM ET, April 26, 2025

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Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’  —  The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father's efforts to keep her in the United States.  —  A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported …
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer  —  Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under “troubling circumstances,” says the ACLU … One of the children was undergoing cancer treatment and one of the mothers is pregnant.
ACLU:
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation  —  Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well  —  New Orleans, LA - Today, in the early hours of the morning …
Discussion: USA Today and Mother Jones
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects  —  A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Today's major stories must be seen in the context of President Donald Trump's dramatic losses in court and his plummeting poll numbers.  —  Yesterday, Trump told the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday  —  Over the course of the past three days, the Trump administration took a two-year-old U.S. citizen into custody, along with her mother and sister, and deported the child to Honduras with little to no individualized process …
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Associated Press:
Trump expresses doubts Putin is willing to end the Ukraine war, a day after saying a deal was close  —  Trump earlier on Saturday met briefly at the Vatican with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the pope's funeral.  —  / Source: The Associated Press
Adam Wren / Politico:
Playbook: Trump and Zelenskyy's Vatican diplomacy  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Saturday.  It's Adam Wren in the air to Washington.  Get in touch.  —  WHCD TEASER: The White House Correspondents' Dinner festivities unfolded at a fever pitch across Washington ahead of tonight's main event.
Discussion: The Independent
The Hill:
White House says Trump, Zelensky had ‘productive’ meeting ahead of Francis funeral
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Meets With Zelensky in Vatican City, White House Says
Andrew Weissmann / Behind The Headlines:
The Arrest Of A Milwaukee Judge: A Troubling Assault On The Judiciary  —  The recent arrest of a Milwaukee state court judge has raised serious legal and constitutional concerns.  In this commentary, I break down the core allegations, explain why the criminal case appears tenuous both factually and legally …
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Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA maximalism: Trump's base loves Wisconsin judge arrest  —  The FBI's arrest of a Wisconsin judge shocked the establishment.  But it's exactly the kind of escalation the MAGA base has been agitating for.  — “This is not the time for summer soldiers or sunshine patriots,” …
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump's Attorney General Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning
NBC News:
Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide  —  Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.  —  Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide, her family said Friday.
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Benita Kolovos / The Guardian:
Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died aged 41
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Four Perspectives on Trump's Weak Poll Numbers  —  It's not easy to burn this much good will so fast, and it doesn't usually get any easier from here.  —  We have the first New York Times/Siena College poll since the election, and almost everyone will probably agree on this much: The findings are not good for President Trump.
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Why the New NYT Poll is Very Bad News for Trump
Washington Post:
Public isn't buying Trump's message about Kilmar Abrego García, polls show
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Trump Pardons Executive Whose Family Sought to Publicize Ashley Biden's Diary  —  The pardon of Paul Walczak, who had been convicted of tax crimes, comes as the president uses clemency to reward allies and swipe at perceived enemies.  —  President Trump on Wednesday pardoned …
Washington Post:
Among the meek and the mighty, Catholics bury their 'people's pope'  —  The pope's unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of “simplicity and essential things.”  —  VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church bid farewell …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts  —  Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support - the opposite of what the site was set up for.  —  WASHINGTON - A few years ago …
Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal  —  The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure.  Other journals have also received the letter.  —  A federal prosecutor in Washington …
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Evan Bush / NBC News:
Medical journals complain of ‘harassment’ from Justice Department
Discussion: Alternet.org
Reuters:
In reversal, US Justice Department says media records can be seized in leak probes  —  The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump made it easier for prosecutors investigating leaks to the news media to subpoena records and testimony from journalists, according to a memo seen …
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Financial Times:
Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk's X ahead of election  —  FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney  —  As Canadians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, they are being bombarded with misleading rightwing content …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
US to miss out on billions as Trump's policies deter overseas tourists  —  Number of visitors sinks 11.6% in March as deportations and tariffs make US a less appealing destination  —  Every summer, Cheryl travels to Iowa, from her home in St Kitts.  She rents a three-bedroom house for her and her US-based adult children.
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We've Become?  —  At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity. … This extended quotation comes from the Greek historian Appian's account of the Punic Wars …
Washington Post:
Wikipedia's nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney  —  Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the online encyclopedia of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.”  —  The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent …
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