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The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says

Updated 3:46 PM EDT, April 4, 2025 GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, while a U.S. government attorney was at a loss to explain what happened. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expelled Kilmar Abrego Garcia last month despite an immigration judge's 2019 ruling that shielded him from deportation to his native ...

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'There's a movement bubbling up': Anti-Trump protests planned nationwide Saturday

Published 6:02 a.m. ET April 4, 2025 | Updated 11:52 a.m. ET April 4, 2025 For weeks, people have gathered on small town street corners, in major cities, state capitols and the nation's capital to express displeasure and disbelief at the way President Donald Trump is running the country. The largest protest by far is expected on Saturday, at hundreds of locations around the country. Nationwide more than 500,000 people have RSVP'd to attend one of 1,000 rallies marches or protests organized by ...

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Dow plunges 2,000 as sell-off for markets slams into a scarier gear following Trump's tariffs

By STAN CHOE Updated 2:20 PM CDT, April 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The sell-off for financial markets worldwide is slamming into a higher, scarier gear on Friday. The S&P 500 tumbled 5.7% as Wall Street’s worst crisis since the COVID crash deepened after China matched President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs announced earlier this week. The move increases the stakes in a trade war that could end with a recession that hurts everyone. Not even a better-than-expected report on the U.S. j ...

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GOP senators express alarm over scale of Trump tariffs

04/04/25 6:00 AM ET Republican senators are expressing varying degrees of shock and alarm at the scale of President Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs against trading partners and allies, which sent stock markets into a tailspin Thursday and fueled predictions the country is heading for a recession. Republicans knew Trump’s announcement on a new round of tariffs — dubbed “Liberation Day” — was coming, but the sweeping nature of Trump’s bold action is sparking a panic among constituents at home. Rep ...

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FEMA chief given lie detector test after leak of private meeting

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was given a lie detector test by the Department of Homeland Security to determine if he leaked information about a recent private meeting concerning FEMA, two former senior FEMA officials told POLITICO’s E&E News. The test was given to FEMA acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton after he met March 25 with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, an adviser to President Donald Trump, those people said. The test was given wi ...

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Trump says things are 'going very well' after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs

President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment after the stock market dropped sharply Thursday over his tariffs, saying, "I think it's going very well." "The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom," he said when asked about the market as he left the White House to fly to one of his Florida golf clubs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,600 points on Thursday as U.S. stocks led a worldwide selloff after the Rep ...

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Trump administration is months away from direct payments to farmers, agriculture secretary says

April 3, 2025 12:24 PM EDT Updated 5 hours ago April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Fox News on Thursday the Trump administration is "months away" from making a decision about whether to make payments to farmers to offset any impact from tariffs. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced sweeping tariffs that were mostly criticized by farm and food groups for their potential to shrink markets for farmers and raise prices for consumers. Rollins h ...

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Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to lead Medicaid and Medicare

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television personality and failed U.S. Senate candidate, was confirmed Thursday as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a largely bipartisan vote. The Senate confirmed Oz in a party line vote of 53-45. At least one Republican changed their mind on Oz this week. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who had publicly opposed Oz’s nomination, said Monday that he would back the doctor after being reassured that Oz “now disavows his previous support for trans ...

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'We're All Dead': GOP Senator Reacts To Trump Tariffs

Apr 3, 2025, 02:55 PM EDT Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday — like some of his GOP colleagues — but did scold staunch supporters of the policy with a dire warning to multiple outlets. “In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be ...

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Judge Boasberg says he's contemplating 'contempt proceedings' over Trump deportations

Nearly three weeks after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to remove more than 200 alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador with little-to-no due process, a federal judge on Thursday is considering whether the Trump administration defied his court order by deporting the men. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said at a hearing Thursday that he is contemplating initiating "contempt proceedings" against the government in the event he finds probable cause they delib ...

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Senate parliamentarian says lawmakers can't overturn California car rules -- but Republicans may try anyway

15 min ago - Fri, April 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM EDT The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that lawmakers cannot use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn California’s electric vehicle mandate — but Republicans may defy the arbiter of the Senate’ ... (Aol/The Hill)

U.S. Senate confirms election denier, Trump defense lawyer for Justice Department

28 min ago - By: Ashley Murray - April 4, 2025 7:36 pm WASHINGTON — The Senate cleared two more of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice nominees Thursday, installing another attorney who defended Trump last year and a new lead on civil rights ... (Nebraska Examiner)

Chevron ordered to pay more than $740 million to restore Louisiana coast in landmark trial

49 min ago - Updated 6:32 PM EDT, April 4, 2025 POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday following a landmark trial mor ... (AP)

Energy Department considers more than 40 percent of its staff nonessential as layoffs loom

1 hr ago - 04/04/25 6:06 PM ET The Energy Department (DOE) considers more than 40 percent of its staffers to be nonessential — meaning these people could be on the chopping block — as mass layoffs loom at the agency and across the federal government. ... (The Hill)

Barack Obama, Kamala Harris criticize Trump, White House over moves they say are against America's values

1 hr ago - April 4, 2025, 5:12 PM Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, in separate remarks on Thursday, criticized President Donald Trump and the White House for moves that they called unconstitutional or contributing to an ero ... (ABC News)

Interior secretary orders national parks to be open and accessible as workforce is cut

2 hrs ago - Updated 4:51 PM EDT, April 4, 2025 Under criticism for staff cuts across the country, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is directing national parks to “remain open and accessible” and says officials will ensure proper staffing to do so. The or ... (AP)

Senate GOP adopts budget blueprint to advance Trump agenda as spending fight consumes Capitol Hill

2 hrs ago - Updated 2:58 AM EDT, Sat April 5, 2025 CNN — Senate GOP leaders took a key step toward advancing President Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar agenda in Congress — simultaneously setting off an intraparty war over how to pay for it. ... (CNN Politics)

Nasdaq 100 Sinks Into Bear Market as Trump Tariffs Spark Rout

3 hrs ago - April 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM EDT Updated on April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM EDT The Nasdaq 100 plunged into a bear market with its losses from a February high surging past 20% as investors ditch once high-flying tech shares in a broad market rout. The six-week ... (Bloomberg)

Trump admin won't let Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs

3 hrs ago - 11 hours ago The Trump administration on Friday scrapped a Biden administration proposal to have Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs, including GLP-1s. Why it matters: The decision sidelines a politically popular idea that had big implications for the ... (Axios)

Trump tariffs live updates: 'Only the weak will fail,' Trump says as markets fall

6 hrs ago - The Dow plummeted 2,230 points, or 5.5%, while the S&P 500 plunged 6% on Friday. Last Updated: April 4, 2025, 7:03 PM CDT .................. Thursday was the worst day for U.S. stock markets since June 2020. China struck back on Friday, announcin ... (abc)

Justice Department seeks 7 year sentence for George Santos

9 hrs ago - The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing seeking a 7 year sentence for former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) according to a Friday filing. Prosecutors said the length of the requested sentence reflects the serious nature of Santos’s “unpa ... (The Hill)

IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say

10 hrs ago - The IRS plans to cut as many as 20,000 staffers — up to 25% of the workforce — as part of layoffs that began Friday, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The job cuts will begin with the IRS Office of Civil Righ ... (AP via Yahoo Finance)

Bird flu could be heading north this spring with fewer federal health officials working to stop it

10 hrs ago - April 4, 2025, 2:44 PM EDT The outbreak of bird flu that has been ravaging farms nationwide had started to slow over the past few weeks — but as wild birds migrate north, scientists say the virus may follow. At the same time, the United States ... (NBC News)

Thune faces GOP divisions on critical budget resolution

11 hrs ago - 04/04/25 1:30 PM ET Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a number of divisions among Senate Republicans that could derail the Senate budget resolution, a measure that will be critical to passing President Trump’s legislative agenda l ... (The Hill)

More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump

11 hrs ago - More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law firm industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to t ... (NYT)

DOGE arrives at Peace Corps, is set to gain access to internal systems: Sources

11 hrs ago - Members of billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday to begin a review of the independent agency's internal systems as part of their governmental cost-cutting ef ... (ABC News)

Trump Shares Video About How He Is 'Purposely Crashing the Stock Market'

11 hrs ago - April 4, 2025 Financial markets are taking a nosedive for the second straight day amid global panic and investor anxiety over Donald Trump’s implementation of broad tariffs on foreign imports. Economists are warning that the president’s a ... (Rolling Stone)

Trump Voter's Wife to Be Released Weeks After ICE Arrest

12 hrs ago - Published Apr 04, 2025 at 11:45 AM EDT | Updated Apr 04, 2025 at 12:28 PM EDT The wife of a Trump voter who made national headlines for reiterating his support for the president even after immigration authorities detained her can be released from det ... (Newsweek)

16 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over NIH grant terminations

12 hrs ago - April 4, 2025, 12:44 PM Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for t ... (ABC News)

Berkshire says posts claiming Warren Buffett endorses Trump's economic policies are false

13 hrs ago - Erin Bamer Apr 4, 2025 Updated 1 hr ago Berkshire Hathaway is denying claims made in a social media video that Warren Buffett endorses President Donald Trump's economic policies. The statement from the Omaha-based conglomerate Buffett chairs was in ... (Omaha World Herald)