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Trump announces 10 percent tariffs on all imports, additional taxes for some 60 countries

Updated April 2, 2025 at 4:44 p.m. EDT President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with an additional punitive import tax tailored for each of about 60 countries that his advisers say maintain the most unfair barriers against U.S. products. The president's long-awaited tariff plan is designed to spur a renaissance in domestic manufacturing and to fill government coffers with tax revenue, even as many economists warn that he is ...

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Democrats Go After Humiliated Musk With Salute Attack Ad

Published Apr. 2 2025 11:45AM EDT Democrats are doubling down on attacks targeting Elon Musk by resurrecting his evocative straight-arm salute in an ad set for release in battleground states across the U.S. The move comes after Musk’s humiliating attempt to win over voters in Wisconsin ended with a damning state Supreme Court defeat for conservative Brad Schimel. The ad zeroes in on Musk’s feud with Senator Mark Kelly. The DOGE billionaire branded the retired astronaut and Navy vet a “trait ...

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US stocks dip sharply after Trump announces tariffs of at least 10%

MARKETS US stocks dip sharply after Trump announces tariffs of at least 10% Andrea Riquier USA TODAY Published 6:30 a.m. ET April 2, 2025 * Updated 5:03 p.m. ET April 2, 2025 U.S. stocks turned sharply lower in after-hours trading after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from all trading partners. The broad S&P was down 1.8%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.6% lower, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq slid more than 2.4%. Stocks gained during the t ...

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Trump Administration Explores Costly Option For Greenland Takeover: Report

Apr 2, 2025, 09:58 AM EDT The Trump administration is exploring a can-you-top-this financial maneuver if it were to obtain Greenland, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The newspaper wrote that one option in a White House cost analysis of a takeover is to essentially “offer a sweeter deal” to the semi-autonomous Danish territory’s government than Denmark does. The Danes allocate about $600 million a year to services for the island, WaPo estimated. The U.S. offer under White House consi ...

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Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country

(Politico) Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections on shaky footing. Over the past 10 weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have worked to hobble the federal government, pummel into submission the country’s most powerful independent institutions and enact a sweeping nationalist agenda with little regard — and often disdain — for political norms and the Constitution itself. And they’ve done so with near-universal support from the GOP in Washington. Then the voters got the chance to speak.

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Tesla EV sales plunged 13% in Elon Musk backlash

(Axios) Tesla's vehicle deliveries plunged 13% in the first quarter, compared with a year earlier, as the company faces a backlash over CEO Elon Musk's political actions. The datapoint marks one of the first significant indicators that Tesla's brand reputation is suffering from Musk's chainsaw-wielding leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration. The company delivered 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter, down from 386,810 in the same period a year earlier.

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'Fasted for days': Cory Booker didn't eat or drink ahead of record breaking speech

(Raw Story) New details about Democratic Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking marathon speech are beginning to emerge and reveal how the New Jersey lawmaker was physically able to accomplish the longest floor speech in the history of the United States Senate. Booker ended his record 25-hour floor speech Tuesday evening after spending a continuous day railing against actions ushered in by President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk.

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Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney

(CBS News) President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination. Martin, a "Stop the Steal" advocate and former defense attorney who represented U.S. Capitol riot defendants, is Mr. Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Sen. Adam Schiff, a first-term Democrat from California, plans to hold his nomination amid a growing number of controversial statements and decisions by Martin.

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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

(Washington Post) 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, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials. The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under fire for the mistaken inclusion of a journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for military operations in Yemen.

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I Study Measles. I'm Terrified We're Headed for an Epidemic.

(New York Times) We used to think of measles outbreaks in the United States as isolated events: short-lived and confined to close-knit communities with low vaccination rates. A flare here, a bubble there. But as those bubbles grow and converge, the United States could be at risk for tens of thousands of cases. Measles was declared eliminated in this country in 2000. That didn’t mean the virus disappeared. It meant we stopped it from spreading freely. It was a hard-won public health triumph made possible by decades of vaccination. But that protection is now unraveling.

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