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President Trump’s immigration crackdown is starting to show up in and around the parking lots of Home Depot stores across the country www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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Walmart Plans to Raise Prices Because of Tariffs www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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“This is a tragedy, but it’s also our new reality.” youtu.be/hQyj_Js7LWk?...

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“Basically, what we’re doing is eating our inventory and hoping that it will last us until this gets settled,” Chief Executive Jay Foreman said. “If it doesn’t, we’ll be out of business.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed almost 1,000 points on Monday and is headed for its worst April performance since 1932. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were able to convince President Trump to hit pause on the some of the tariffs while trade adviser Peter Navarro was at a meeting in a different part of the White House www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: Republican Sen. Kennedy to WSJ on Trump: ‘I Just Don’t Know What His Goal Is Right Now’ youtube.com/watch?v=gC4b...

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If President Trump’s trade war has a physical battleground, it is Michigan, where companies and workers are already feeling the beginning of an onslaught that could blow a hole in the state’s economy. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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“The American economy and Americans, whether businesses or citizens, will emerge weaker and poorer,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at the beginning of an emergency meeting with ministers and business leaders. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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The regime commands more than 8,000 hackers as though they were in a military unit, with the country’s brightest minds. www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...

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Federal drug regulators have missed the deadline for making a key decision regarding a Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax, days after the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief was pushed out -WSJ www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

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This is a must-watch, from WSJ. youtu.be/e9hvhfFanWQ?...

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Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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The WSJ spoke with the families of seven deported Venezuelan migrants. Some families said accusations of gang membership weren’t true. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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Over the 12 months ending in October 2024, the country saw a 25% decline in overdose deaths compared with the same period the year prior www.wsj.com/health/drug-...

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Leavitt: "Canada saw if you want to step up into the big leagues with President Trump, you be prepared to play. It looks like they are not because the Ontario premier already dropped his 25% tariff on electricity."

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Lutnick met last week, talks Mexican officials deemed as fruitless because the U.S. didn’t appear to know what it wanted, said one person close to the discussions. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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President Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at abolishing the Education Department -WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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“What he wants is to see the total collapse of the Canadian economy, so that will make it easier for him to annex us...He can do damage to the Canadian economy, but he is going to rapidly find out…that it’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.” www.wsj.com/video/canada...

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Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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The Michael Shannon-Jason Narducy Fables Tribute Tour included some special “and Friends” last night in Athens at the 40 Watt: Berry Buck Mills & Stipe plus Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group. Photos by Karen Ryan 🙏

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Mystery Disease Linked to Bats Kills Scores in Congo www.wsj.com/world/africa...

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Sassoon and Scotten, both registered Republicans, came to the U.S. attorney’s office after serving as law clerks for prominent conservative Supreme Court judges. www.wsj.com/us-news/anot...

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Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now

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“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” Scotten wrote. “But it was never going to be me.” www.wsj.com/us-news/anot...

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NEW: A WSJ analysis of aircraft and flight tracking data found that Trump’s military deportation flights are carrying fewer migrants and costing far more money than ICE’s civilian deportation flights. www.wsj.com/video/analys...

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There was a time in America when a Super Bowl ad from a self-declared Nazi touting a website that sells swastika t-shirts would have prompted widespread outrage and apologies from all involved. That time, however, is not February 2025. My newsletter today: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I cannot emphasize enough how much tariffs, nuking state capacity for dealing with catastrophes of every kind -- including bird flu -- and a generalized unease among consumers who rightly perceive that our leadership is in chaos is likely to tank the economy and crash the stock market.

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Feb 5. Feb 12.

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“The fact that this decision was expressly not made based on a review of the merits of the case makes it even more unusual,” said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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President Trump said Palestinians wouldn’t have the right to return to Gaza under his new plan to rebuild the territory, adding that they would get “much better housing” in neighboring countries www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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There's a 3rd use of tariffs potentially on the way, senior officials say. Trump has floated across-the-board tariffs of 10%-20% on virtually all imports as a tool to raise revenue, in theory helping offset tax cuts Republicans are hoping to push through www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

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BANNON to WSJ: "My strongest recommendation to Elon, as an act of good faith, is to start with the defense budget. We have to. You're not going to have cuts anywhere else unless you start with defense." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Ron Johnson: "Tariffs are a tax. When you tax something, you get less of it, so we'll probably get fewer imports, but then with retaliation, fewer experts. Smoot-Hawley was not particularly successful and helped sparked the Depression, so I share the markets' concern."

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The attack on USAID, an independent organization codified into law, at the encouragement of the world’s richest man, raises questions about whether DOGE will follow a similar blueprint to close other agencies. “It’s a coup,” said a current USAID official. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Elon Musk on USAID

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On Sunday ICE reported taking in 613 people with criminal histories and 566 people with no criminal histories. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Vice President JD Vance said days ago that people who committed violence that day “obviously” shouldn’t be pardoned. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: “I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates said. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.” wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

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In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson. As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...

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Today, defending Musk, Trump claimed he "always" has supported H1B Visas. But on June 22, 2020, Trump issued an executive action suspending H1B Visas because he said the program was taking jobs from American workers trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...

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Trump, DECEMBER 28, 2024: "I have always been in favor of the visas... I’ve been a believer in H-1B... It’s a great program" Trump, MARCH 15, 2016: "I know the H1B very well... We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers... it’s unfair for our workers. And we should end it."

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