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Detained Tufts student suffering serious health issues and denied medication while in DHS custody

Detained Tufts student suffering serious health issues and denied medication while in DHS custody

The New Republic reports: Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student brazenly abducted by masked immigration agents on a public street in Massachusetts, is suffering serious health issues in Homeland Security custody. Representative Ayanna Pressley, whose district includes the university, posted on Bluesky Thursday night that Öztürk has had three separate asthma attacks in custody while being denied access to her required medications, “a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.” “This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is…

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In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

A Palestinian woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli strike on March 18, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images By Tamir Sorek, Penn State Thirty years ago in Israel, advocating for genocide could land you in prison. In April 1994, an Israeli rabbi named Ido Alba published an article that read, in part, “In war, as long as the war has not been decided, it is a commandment to kill every…

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Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Afrah Nasser writes: “Keep Yemen weak,” King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, is said to have told his sons on his deathbed. Whether those words were apocryphal or not, the sentiment behind them aligns with Saudi Arabia’s long-standing geopolitical strategy toward its southern neighbor. Historically, Saudi policy has sought to maintain a balance of power in Yemen—strong enough to prevent total collapse and regional instability, but weak enough to prevent it from becoming a powerful, independent…

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As Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda, protests sweep the nation

As Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda, protests sweep the nation

  Greg Sargent writes: For months now, Democrats have been eating themselves alive with an internal argument over how aggressively to criticize Trump’s destruction of the rule of law and constitutional order. Some Democrats think raising this is mostly a waste of time, and if raised, it must feature a quick pivot to prices. By this account, Democrats face a choice: Either attack Trump’s lawlessness or indict his degradation of people’s everyday material conditions. Do the former, and you’re distracting…

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Trump’s tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan

Trump’s tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan

The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump’s tariffs will tip the world’s largest economy into recession, America’s biggest investment bank has warned. Investment bank JP Morgan has torn up its growth forecasts for the US, after global stocks tumbled and wiped more than $5 trillion (£3.8 trillion) off America’s most valuable companies in only two days. The investment bank downgraded US growth by 1.6 percentage points for this year, while predicting far higher unemployment that could leave nearly 2m additional Americans jobless….

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More than 500 law firms back Perkins Coie in fight with Trump

More than 500 law firms back Perkins Coie in fight with Trump

The New York Times reports: 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 the rule of law itself.” The firms, 504 in all, signed a so-called friend of the court brief that was filed on behalf of Perkins Coie, the first firm to receive an executive order restricting its…

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Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately

Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately

CBS News reports: The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainian refugees they needed to leave the U.S. immediately because their legal status was being revoked, telling CBS News the message was sent by mistake. Some Ukrainians who had entered the U.S. under the Biden administration following Russia’s invasion of their homeland received emails this week telling them that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be terminating their legal protections, according to advocates and a notice…

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Americans were souring on Trump’s economic plans even before tariff bloodbath

Americans were souring on Trump’s economic plans even before tariff bloodbath

The Wall Street Journal reports: Americans elected Donald Trump with a favorable opinion of his economic plans. But his expansive push for tariffs has helped turn that confidence into skepticism, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds. Tepid support for tariffs through the past year has become disapproval, with 54% of voters opposing Trump’s levies on imported goods, 12 points more than those who support his plans. Three quarters of voters say that tariffs will raise prices on the things…

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As financial meltdown plays out, the Trump family’s cash registers ring

As financial meltdown plays out, the Trump family’s cash registers ring

The New York Times reports: The financial market meltdown was underway when President Trump boarded Air Force One on his way to Florida on Thursday for a doubleheader of sorts: a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his family’s Miami resort and a weekend of fund-raisers attracting hundreds of donors to his Palm Beach club. It was a fresh reminder that in his second term, Mr. Trump has continued to find ways to drive business to his family-owned real-estate ventures, a practice…

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Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Jagan Chapagain writes: Which was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed? Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests….

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Listening to no one else, Trump is ‘at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore,’ says White House official

Listening to no one else, Trump is ‘at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore,’ says White House official

The Washington Post reports: After deliberations [on determining tariff rates] that went late into Tuesday, Trump didn’t decide on the final plan until about 1 p.m. Wednesday — less than three hours ahead of his Rose Garden announcement. Inside and outside the White House, advisers say Trump is unbowed even as the world reels from the biggest increase in trade hostilities in a century. They say Trump is unperturbed by negative headlines or criticism from foreign leaders. He is determined…

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How Trump’s tariffs can be reversed by Congress

How Trump’s tariffs can be reversed by Congress

Greg Sargent talks to Norm Ornstein: Greg Sargent: I think we can expect Democratic senators to push something in the next day or so that would effectively cancel the national emergency that Trump used to impose the tariffs. That would end them. You’d need a few GOP senators to support this, but a few already supported a narrower anti-tariff measure that just passed the other day. Then after that, you’d need a discharge petition in the House moving the same thing,…

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House Republican, Rep. Don Bacon, moves to rein in tariff powers

House Republican, Rep. Don Bacon, moves to rein in tariff powers

Politico reports: Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs, becoming the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers President Donald Trump is using to launch a massive global trade war. Bacon confirmed his plans to POLITICO on Friday as market losses continued to pile up and rattle Republicans on Capitol Hill. The Senate bill introduced Thursday by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and…

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Sen. Ted Cruz warns Trump tariffs could be ‘terrible for America’

Sen. Ted Cruz warns Trump tariffs could be ‘terrible for America’

Politico reports: Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz is warning about major risks for the American economy and its automotive industry thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war, saying it could result in the biggest tax hike in a “long, long time.” “I’m seeing a lot of Republican cheerleaders reflexively defending what the White House is doing,” Cruz said on his podcast Friday, but cautioned the administration’s latest actions could “hurt jobs and hurt America.” Cruz added he is “not a…

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Laura Loomer directed Trump to fire NSA chief

Laura Loomer directed Trump to fire NSA chief

The Washington Post reports: The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyberespionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials. Like others in this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel moves. Far-right activist Laura Loomer advocated for the firings…

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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs as EV and battery factories are being canceled

‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs as EV and battery factories are being canceled

The Guardian reports: The sweeping package of tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump on Wednesday includes an exemption for the energy sector, which is a clear sign of the president’s fealty to his big oil donors over the American people, advocates say. Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs – which are higher for many major economies – are wreaking havoc on the global economy and are expected to increase consumer prices in the US. But the levies will not apply to many…

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