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9:50 AM ET, April 29, 2025

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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says  —  A majority of Americans say President Trump is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he's overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees, a new survey says.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The thermostat comes for Trumpism
Discussion: NBC News and IJR
CBC News:
Canada election: Liberals will form next government, CBC News projects  —  Too soon to say whether it will be a minority or majority  —  Canada Votes 2025: Election night results and analysis  —  Canadians will vote on April 28 in an election that will determine the next prime minister.
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
How Trump lost Canada
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Canadians keep Liberal Party and Mark Carney in power as country digs in on Trump's trade war
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will lose his own seat in Parliament
Laura Dhillon Kane / Bloomberg:
Canada Conservative Leader Poilievre Loses His Own Seat in Election, CBC Projects
Discussion: Global News and Conservative Home
Wall Street Journal:
At 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Is in Trouble  —  The tariff shock he's unleashed could sink his second term.  —  Click for Sound  —  Presidential second terms are rarely successful, and on the evidence of his first 100 days Donald Trump's won't be different.  The President needs a major reset …
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Punchbowl News:
Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers  —  Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war.  —  So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan.
Discussion: NOTUS and New York Times
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’ … WATCH NOW  —  The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trump's tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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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.
Steven Sparks / Reuters:
Most Americans oppose Trump 3rd term, taking control of Greenland and Canada: POLL  —  A majority take Trump at his word when he talks about his potential actions.  —  President Donald Trump walks down the colonnade to the Oval Office after arriving on Marine One at the White House in Washington, April 27, 2025.
Discussion: ABC News
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Mark Carney: democracy's unTrump  —  America's 47th president plays unwitting ally to non-populists everywhere except at home  —  “I would like to thank Donald Trump without whom this would not have been possible.”  Mark Carney, Canada's 24th prime minister, was too tactful on Monday …
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada's Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform
Punchbowl News:
4/29/25 ☀️ AM:  —  Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers  —  Schatz moves quickly to lock up whip race  —  Gaming out reconciliation … President Donald Trump will travel to Michigan today to mark his 100th day in office. … Appropriations Democrats have created a …
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Shawn Donnan / Bloomberg:
The US Factory Where Trump Previewed His Tariffs in 2017 Is Now in China  —  The president celebrated the first 100 days of his first term at a Pennsylvania factory that's since closed.  —  When Donald Trump set out to mark the 100th day of his first term in 2017, he headed for a wheelbarrow factory …
New York Times:
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm … The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump's presidential inauguration.  —  “ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran …
Discussion: The Dispatch
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New York Times:   Shadowy Crypto Companies Make Inroads in U.S. Under Trump
New York Times:
National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration  —  The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles.  It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.  —  The Trump administration has dismissed …
Discussion: Reuters and E&E News
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 …
Discussion: Civil Discourse …
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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.
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.
Politico:
Capitol agenda: Medicaid mucks up the megabill  —  Republicans are hitting a major roadblock in drafting their “big, beautiful” megabill: Divisions over how deeply to cut Medicaid are threatening to upend the timeline for advancing President Donald Trump's tax agenda.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Popular Information:
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family  —  On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.  The family's father, who is undocumented …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
I Can't Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism  —  About a decade ago, conservatives would often denounce Muslim immigration on the grounds that it threatened Western progress on gay rights.  This posture, sometimes called homonationalism, got its start in Europe …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Yonat Shimron / RNS:
550 US rabbis sign letter condemning Trump's antisemitism policy
Discussion: The Forward
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Congressional watchdog agency will investigate Trump's hollowing out of CFPB  —  A congressional watchdog agency is investigating President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CNN has learned, responding to Senate Democrats who are also demanding …
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.
Emily Anthes / New York Times:
Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research  —  Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research.  But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.  —  On April 1, the Trump administration's effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Boston Globe
 
 
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 Earlier Items: 
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FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Jack Jenkins / RNS:
Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
Discussion: The Independent
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials
Discussion: Global News and The Irish Times