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8:35 PM ET, April 28, 2025

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CNN:
US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier  —  A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.
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Reuters:
F-18 falls overboard from U.S. aircraft carrier in Red Sea
Discussion: New York Post
Washington Post:
Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts  —  Civil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”  —  The new head of the Justice Department's civil rights division …
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump's justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit  —  Donald Trump's appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department's voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active cases …
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’  —  Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape to enact President Trump's agenda.
NPR:
DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets  —  Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR.
The Atlantic:
‘I Run the Country and the World’ … b  —  efore we begin, a primer on the science of arranging an interview with a sitting American president:  —  In ordinary times, reporters seeking an on-the-record encounter with the commander in chief first write an elaborate proposal.
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New York Times:
A Road Map of Trump's Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars  —  In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution.  He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children …
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U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar:
Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors  —  Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) introduced articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump, President of the United States …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat unveils articles of impeachment against Trump
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Federal supremacy with respect to immigration, national security, and foreign policy is axiomatic.
Discussion: Axios and Tampa Free Press
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Floats Improbable Income-Tax Cut Tied to Tariffs  —  President suggests eliminating income taxes on most households, but math doesn't add up  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump keeps suggesting that tariffs can replace income taxes for most Americans.  One big problem: The math doesn't work.
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Erich Wagner / GovExec.com:   Republicans tee up federal worker benefit cuts to pay for tax cuts
Politico:
Connolly to step down as top Dem on Oversight, paving the way for generational change  —  Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel and not run for reelection.
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Karl Rove Guts Donald Trump in Scathing Fox News Interview: ‘In Very Bad Shape’  —  RAPID FAIL  —  The former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney said Americans no longer trust the president on the economy.  —  Fox News analyst Karl Rove tore into President Donald Trump …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump lashes out against “fake polls” as his approval ratings sink  —  President Trump, in an early morning Truth Social post Monday, slammed “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS” that he said should be “investigated for ELECTION FRAUD.”  —  The big picture: As Trump nears the first 100 days …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Karoline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges … The Trump administration is open to arresting Supreme Court judges, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told it on Monday morning.  —  “You guys arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge …
CNN:
‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee's disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer  —  Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation  —  🏛️ ⚖️ 👩‍⚖️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. … 🏛️ ⚖️ 👩‍⚖️
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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Coming for the Judges  —  On Friday, federal agents arrested Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
Discussion: Breitbart
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials  —  Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years ago  —  An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials …
Discussion: Global News and The Irish Times
U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Finds the University of Pennsylvania Has Violated Title IX  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its finding that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans  —  When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don't quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the party that “brought free speech back.")
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
Agriculture isn't nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say … The clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what Trump's Treasury Secretary has described as an “unsustainable” tariffs war.
Discussion: New York Post, Daily Kos and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Soften Blow of Automotive Tariffs  —  Companies paying Trump's car tariffs won't also be charged for other levies  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, preventing duties on foreign-made cars from stacking on top of other tariffs …
Discussion: New York Times
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Dem Says ICE Took Florida Mom From Baby, Unlawfully Deported Her To Cuba  —  “The separation of mother and daughter was so sudden and traumatic that their infant daughter was taken to the hospital,” Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) told Trump.  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) …
Discussion: Hartford Courant
New York Times:
Pritzker Thunders Against ‘Do Nothing’ Democrats as He Stokes 2028 Talk  —  In a fiery speech in New Hampshire, the Illinois governor railed against both President Trump and what he called the “simpering timidity” among some Democrats.  —  Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois strode into a ballroom filled …
Matt Stoller / BIG:
House GOP Proposes Eliminating Key Antitrust Law  —  News just broke that House Republican Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who has always disliked antitrust law, is proposing to use the budget process to roll back a key law in this area.  The specific provision at issue is Section 5 of the FTC Act …
Discussion: Reuters
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Judge questions US Defense Department role in Venezuelans' deportations  —  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to turn over the names of any migrants flown recently from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay to El Salvador so he could determine whether they were deported in violation of a court order he issued.
Ben Makuch / The Guardian:
Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys  —  Using fitness and sports as an entry points to their neo-Nazi ideologies, ‘youth club’ chapters are proliferating across US  —  A national network of American neofascist fight clubs is endorsing youth-oriented offshoots aimed …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS ‘60 Minutes’ news distortion review  —  The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Monday “all options remain on the table” in the agency's ongoing investigation into a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
Oriana González / NOTUS:
FDA Leaves the Door Open to Reimposing Restrictions on Abortion Pills  —  “If the data suggests something or tells us that there's a real signal, we can't promise we're not going to act on that data,” Marty Makary, the FDA's commissioner, said recently.  — Copy
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump staff puts immigrants' mug shots on White House lawn  —  Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway.  — It's a provocative, sure-to-be-controversial move aimed …
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Trump admin launches race-based discrimination probe into Harvard Law Review  —  The Trump administration is ramping up its fight against Harvard, launching investigations Monday into the university and the Harvard Law Review for alleged race-based discrimination.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here  —  “At least now I saw you're way more gorgeous and more beautiful than you were in the photo you sent me,” an older white man with a greying beard says during a Skype video call.  He is talking to an elderly woman who appears to be in her car, staring into her phone's front-facing camera.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Why Trump's Economic Disruption Will Be Hard to Reverse  —  The president's turnover of the economic order has unleashed changes that could prove lasting, because other countries will adjust.  —  President Trump has made clear his intent to smash the reigning global economic order.
Discussion: Democrats
 
 
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jordain Carney / Politico:
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Discussion: Fox News
The Guardian:
Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
Discussion: Axios
Jason Lalljee / Axios:
Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts to skip Eagles' White House visit with Trump
Andrew Hay / Reuters:
Memphis church key to Martin Luther King's last campaign destroyed by fire
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 Earlier Items: 
Ahmad Austin Jr / Mediaite:
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Discussion: HuffPost, Blaze Media and Breitbart
Vivekanand Jayakumar / The Hill:
Dollar collapse: The crisis is no longer just theoretical
Discussion: Jacobin
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Discussion: The Independent
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Trump to Sign Order Ensuring Truckers Speak English
Paul Krugman:
Did Peter Navarro Save Democracy?
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The bubble that created Trump is the reason he's stumbling