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RecsSenator Chris Murphy, "The crisis is here now." This is his Bluesky thread explaining Trump's plan and how to stop it.
'I'm in ruins': MAGA MyPillow CEO insists he 'doesn't have 5 cents' to pay court tab
April 16, 2025 6:35PM ET MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a court this week he's broke and won't be able to write a check for all of the sanctions he's been ordered to pay. Lindell claimed in court Wednesday that he and his company had "a combined $70 million in debt." He said the IRS is also garnishing him. “Nobody will borrow me anymore. Not one dime,” Lindell said. “I’m in ruins.” "Last month, the voting systems company Smartmatic asked a federal judge in D.C. to hold Lindell ...
Temu and Shein will raise prices for US customers due to Trump's tariffs
Updated 7:18 PM EDT, April 16, 2025 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — China-founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they plan to raise prices for U.S. customers starting next week, a ripple effect from President Donald Trump’s attempts to correct the trade imbalance between the world’s two largest economies by imposing a sky-high tariff on goods shipped from China. Temu, which is owned by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings, and Shein, which is now based in Singapore, said in separate but n ...
Republicans consider increasing taxes on the rich in break from party orthodoxy
04/17/25 6:00 AM ET Republicans in Congress are considering increasing taxes on the rich as a part of President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” of ambitious legislative priorities, a striking development that breaks with decades of party orthodoxy and is spurring alarm bells from traditional conservatives. The discussions are in the early stages, and lawmakers say it is possible that no tax hike makes it in the final legislation. But the once-inconceivable consideration of tax increases undersco ...
US Army engineers decide to fast-track Great Lakes tunnel permits under Trump energy emergency order
Updated 5:20 PM EDT, April 16, 2025 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists’ fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel use. The move comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January declaring that the U.S. has become too dependent on fo ...
The Chamber decides against a lawsuit on Trump tariffs
04/16/2025 04:16 PM EDT The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no immediate plans to join the growing number of lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs, two people with direct knowledge of discussions confirmed to POLITICO. The business group, one of the most influential trade associations in Washington, will instead focus on lobbying the Trump administration on the tariffs directly, said the people, who were granted anonymity to divulge sensitive and develop ...
US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Abrego Garca
Wed 16 Apr 2025 15.17 EDT Last modified on Wed 16 Apr 2025 15.22 EDT Maryland’s Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the intention of meeting Ábrego García at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where US authorities have said that the Maryland resident is being held ...
Trump admin releases docs allegedly linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia to MS-13 gang
Posted 1 hour and 34 minutes ago and last updated 1 hour and 30 minutes ago The Trump administration has released numerous documents allegedly linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- a Maryland man who was recently deported to El Salvador -- to the notorious MS-13 gang. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared arrest records to social media Wednesday, which claim Abrego Garcia was identified as an active member of MS-13 after being arrested in 2019 in connection to a murder investigation. One of the docum ...
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status
April 16, 2025 at 5:27 p.m. EDT The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service's top attorney to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with the situation, amid President Donald Trump's row with the institution over its handling of antisemitism and diversity practices. The directive is a significant escalation of the president's feud with Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as "woke," ...
United flight makes emergency landing after apparent rabbit strike, video shows engine fire
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 10:22AM An unusual animal encounter causing a scare in for passengers on a United Airlines flight. A rabbit somehow made it into the right engine of flight UA2325 from Denver to Edmonton on Sunday. The possible wildlife strike happened as the Boeing 737 with 159 people on board was taking off. "There was a loud bang and a significant vibration in the plane we proceeded to still climb," passenger Scott Wolff said. ...
GOP's legal threats sink Democrats' billboard attacks over Medicaid
04/16/25 12:19 PM ET The House GOP’s campaign arm in recent weeks has successfully pressed three advertising companies to pull down Democratic billboard displays bashing vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid — a setback to Democratic campaigners hoping to make health care a liability for battleground Republicans around the country. In a series of cease and desist letters, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) said the imposing roadside ads — sponsored by a splinter group of the top ...
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Recs4th Circuit shoots down Trump's efforts to appeal order to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia - 44
RecsSenator Chris Murphy, "The crisis is here now." This is his Bluesky thread explaining Trump's plan and how to stop it.
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
17 min ago - A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an "illegal alien" who il ... (NBC News)
Trump fumes to Fox News that he 'can't even go after' January 6 investigators pardoned by Biden
20 min ago - Thursday 17 April 2025 19:49 BST Donald Trump grumbled that he’s unable to “go after” the members of the House select committee that investigated the events surrounding the January 6 riots because of Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon, ... (The Independent)
Wall Street's Uneasy Calm
24 min ago - Yet all across Wall Street, from bond-trading desks and corporate C-suites, to hedge funds and independent research firms, there’s a deep-seated sense of foreboding that it can’t possibly last — and that with a single social-media post ... (Yahoo Finance)
White House critics seize on key detail of red dress worn by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
35 min ago - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was trolled by the a Chinese diplomat for wearing a dress allegedly made in China while her boss blasts the country. Leavitt, 27, wore the red and black trim dress in January, but the Chinese official did ... (Daily Mail)
Trump's pick to be DC's top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate
40 min ago - Ed Martin, the Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he’s made in the past few years, including many on far-right outlets and Russian-state media, when he f ... (CNN)
Schumer Urges Feds To Open Hate Crime Investigation Into Arson Attack On Shapiro
42 min ago - Apr 17, 2025, 01:45 PM EDT Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday to open a federal hate crime investigation into the arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home earlier this week. The Democratic gover ... (Huff Post)
Judges warn Trump risks public perception of lawlessness in his fight with courts
1 hr ago - April 17, 2025 4:28 PM EDT Updated 9 min ago NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court urged the Trump administration on Thursday to back off from its escalating confrontation with the judiciary, warning that both the executive and judicial ... (Reuters)
Justice Department wants to step in for Trump in E. Jean Carroll appeal
1 hr ago - April 17, 2025 / 1:08 PM EDT The Department of Justice wants to stand in for President Trump in his ongoing appeal of a defamation case that could cost him tens of millions of dollars. Lawyers for the taxpayer-funded agency and Mr. Trump's personal ... (CBS News)
NYC beer deliveries get back on track after workers for distributors end strike
2 hrs ago - Thursday, April 17, 2025 9:37AM BRONX (WABC) -- The beer strike is over! Six hundred unionized delivery workers for Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors had been on strike for two days in an ongoing dispute over pensions and other labor practic ... (ABC7NY)
Five Million Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Republican Proposals
2 hrs ago - Published Apr 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM EDT Up to 5 million Americans stand to lose their public health care coverage should federal work requirements proposed by Republicans be enacted nationwide. A joint analysis from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation a ... (Newsweek)
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
2 hrs ago - The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The proficiency testi ... (Reuters)
Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in tented area for displaced in Gaza
2 hrs ago - At least 37 people have been killed in a series of Israeli strikes, most in areas where displaced civilians have set up tents, Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC that tents were engulfed in flames followin ... (BBC)
Target CEO Cornell to meet with Sharpton to discuss DEI rollback as civil rights leader considers boycott
2 hrs ago - April 17, 2025, 11:58 AM EDT Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with the Rev. Al Sharpton this week in New York as the retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slowdown in foot traffic that began after it walked back key diversity, equity and inclusi ... (NBC News/CNBC)
New Jersey sues Discord, a popular chat app, claiming it is 'not safe for children'
3 hrs ago - Published April 17, 2025, 11:57 a.m. ET New Jersey is cracking down on the popular chat app Discord after a string of incidents involving children across the state. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced a lawsuit against Discord on Thursday, ... (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
3 hrs ago - Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US Chris Stein in Washington Thu 17 Apr 2025 11.29 EDT Cory Booker plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with the New Jersey senator’s itinerary said, as De ... (The Guardian)
Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments
4 hrs ago - Updated 2:23 PM EDT, April 17, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday kept on hold President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but agreed to hear arguments on the issue in May. Trump’s executive order ... (AP)
Summers: 'Any self-respecting Treasury secretary would resign' over Trump Harvard IRS directive
4 hrs ago - 04/17/25 1:22 PM ET Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent should resign before he complies with President Trump’s directive for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard Univers ... (The Hill)
Trump includes US troop costs in tariff talks with Asian allies
4 hrs ago - April 17, 2025 5:12 AM EDT Updated 8 hours ago SEOUL/TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - The tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea and Japan appear set to be part of President Donald Trump's tariff negotiations, despite efforts by both co ... (Reuters)
Former OneRepublic Bassist Launches Campaign Challenging California GOP House Incumbent
5 hrs ago - Former OneRepublic member Tim Myers is running for Congress. The musician launched his campaign to challenge GOP House of Representatives incumbent Ken Calvert in the 41st District of Riverside County, which includes Los Angeles suburbs and Palm Spri ... (Rolling Stone)
'Active shooter' reported at FSU, university sends out shelter in place alert
5 hrs ago - April 17, 2025 12:43 pm There is an active shooter on Florida State University's Tallahassee campus, according to an alert sent from the university, with multiple social media reports of gunshots being heard. Four people hospitalized 12:42 p.m. ... (Tallahassee Democrat)
