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The IRS has agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show, a fundamental change in how the tax collector uses its tightly regulated records. nyti.ms/3XQ9vWk

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Trump: "We should've all been gone bc they gave us only a few years left on earth, right? The environment. No. What they have to worry about is the nuclear heat ... you don't have to worry about the ocean rising 1/4 of an inch within the next 600 years giving you a little more waterfront property"

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apnews.com/article/weat... Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

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Hostage soldiers’ families scold Katz: ‘You returned to fighting to get Ben Gvir back’ www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-sold...

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Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."

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The group says it’s losing nearly $2.3 million in emergency food resources due to reductions in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding.

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@60minutes.bsky.social finds no evidence of criminal records in US or any other country for 75% of Venezuelans kidnapped and rendered to El Salvador. Of the rest, 22% had non-violent arrests for things like traffic violations.

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IDF okayed Nova music festival, but didn’t inform troops deployed at border, probe finds www.timesofisrael.com/idf-okayed-n...

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Shin Bet chief says PM urged him to tell trial judges it wasn’t safe for him to testify www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-chi...

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Berkshire Hathaway said Friday that all reports circulating on social media sites including X, TikTok and Facebook “regarding comments allegedly made” by Warren Buffett are false

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April 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHcP...

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It will cost an extra $714 billion in tariffs to bring shoes, TVs and all other imports into the U.S. under President Trump's tariffs, a new analysis of trade data shows. nyti.ms/4j5bD4U

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The US Naval Academy has returned photos and memorabilia of Jewish women after they were “mistakenly removed” from a display to apparently comply with DEI directives from the Pentagon.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada had introduced a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks made in the U.S. in retaliation for the tariffs that went into effect Thursday morning on Canadian vehicles.

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Breaking News: President Trump’s sweeping tariffs fueled the steepest stock market sell-off since 2020, with the S&P 500 plunging nearly 5%.

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New: The S&P 500 sank 4.8%, the biggest one-day drop since 2020, after Trump's tariff announcement

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Decimation of HHS comms, FOIA offices will leave Americans in the dark about urgent health matters www.statnews.com/2025/04/02/h... via @statnews.com

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Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), is not currently leading the museum and has been on personal leave as of March 14, according to an internal email obtained by The Post.

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Tariff pain is not shared equally: The less money you make, the more Trump's proposed higher taxes on imports will hurt. That does not mean middle-class or wealthy Americans are going to escape unscathed.

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U.S. House Republican leaders on Tuesday were unable to use a procedural maneuver to block a Florida Republican and a Colorado Democrat from bringing a resolution to the floor that would allow lawmakers who are expecting mothers and new parents to vote by proxy.

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🔺 UPDATE: US has confirmed levies will go into effect immediately. Meanwhile, Britain waits to learn scale of economic shock as the US is set to announce a global trade war tomorrow. Follow the latest updates below ⬇️

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NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary. Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."

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SCOOP: Rep. Mikie Sherrill is introducing a bill that would require special government employees to undergo routine drug testing. That would apply to a fair number of DOGE staffers — and to Elon Musk. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/01/e...

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NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

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Exclusive: Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts.

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👀 Senate HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R) and Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I) just sent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a joint letter asking him to testify at an April 10 hearing to explain his "proposed reorganization" of HHS.

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Qatargate actors suspected of portraying Egypt’s role in hostage talks negatively, boosting Qatar’s image, in exchange for money — judge www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student. Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others. http://dlvr.it/TJtKS4

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I’m sick of my colleagues with their flashy watches and cars and PPP loans and subsidies saying they can’t give their hourly workers one day off when they’re sick. Pathetic. Wasting all our time. I get paid by taxpayers to say obvious basic stuff like this and it’s a shame lol

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DOUBLE MIDDLE FINGER RED CARD 🟥😂 Over in the Faroe Island Premier League, Streymur manager Sigfriour Clementsen was sent off for flipping the ref not one, but TWO birds 🤣

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Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

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Homan on a judge blocking Trump's rendition flights to a slave prison in El Salvador: "I don't care what that judge thinks as far as this case. We're gonna continue to arrest public safety threats, national security threats. We're gonna continue to deport them."

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If I were Josh Shapiro I'd be sprinting to the microphones... www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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apnews.com/article/soci... Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients

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The National Archives was born from disaster that proved the fragility of government records. Now, after Trump fired the head archivist in Feb 2025 and top staff left, it faces a new era of uncertainty. An archivist explains: buff.ly/Zk7cleH Elizabeth Call @rittigers.bsky.social

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The Trump administration on Monday quietly rescinded an order that had blocked a major Dominican sugar producer with political ties to President Trump from shipping sugar to the U.S. because of allegations of forced labor at the company.

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INGRAHAM: Are there circumstances where you would defy a court order? TRUMP: I never did defy a court order. You can't do that, however, we have bad judges. These are judges that shouldn't be allowed.

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JUST IN: A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump's ban on transgender military service members, dealing a major defeat to a controversial policy the president resurrected from his first term.

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Trump on selling immigration "gold cards" -- "It'd be nice to get a piece."

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New Canadian Prime Minister Targeted with Jeffrey Epstein Deepfake www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/new-canadi...

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