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To Up Pressure, Administration Lists 6K Migrants as Dead

Putting names in Social Security's death file could cut 'terminate' immigrants' financial existence

(Newser) - The Trump administration has turned up the pressure on people in the US legally on work permits to leave by adding more than 6,000 of them to Social Security's "death master file." The idea of listing the immigrants with the dead is to keep them from...

Supreme Court: Bring Back Man Mistakenly Deported

Administration concedes Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to Salvadoran prison by mistake

(Newser) - The Supreme Court agreed with a lower court judge on Thursday that the Trump administration should bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man sent by mistake to a prison in El Salvador, the Washington Post reports. The Justice Department had filed an emergency appeal after US District Judge Paula...

Schiff: Trump Should Be Investigated for Insider Trading

Tariff pause seems suspicious to some Democrats

(Newser) - Some Democrats are calling foul on President Trump's abrupt tariff pause, which caused stock prices to soar —days after the announcement of the tariffs led to the worst market plunge in years . Sen. Adam Schiff of California called on Congress to investigate whether the president engaged in market...

Kash Patel to Run ATF, Too
Kash Patel Is Out at ATF
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Apr 9, 2025 7:06 PM CDT

Kash Patel Is Out at ATF

FBI director was doing double duty

(Newser) - The unusual assignment that had the FBI director also running the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has ended. Now the secretary of the Army will direct the ATF on the side, an equally unusual plan. USA Today reports that Daniel Driscoll replaced Kash Patel atop the ATF. No...

Trump's Tariffs Prod Delta to Yank Its 2025 Guidance

The airline had originally expected best financial year ever

(Newser) - As trade tensions ripple through the economy, Delta Air Lines yanked its full-year guidance on Wednesday. CNBC sees it as a big "shift" for the country's most profitable airline, which had initially expected the "best financial year in our history." In March it trimmed its...

Trump's Advice to Americans on Tariffs: 'Be Cool'

Also, buy stocks and reshore your company

(Newser) - Consumer confidence is sinking , China and the EU have introduced retaliatory tariffs within the last few hours, and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says we're likely spiraling toward a recession . The president's response? "Be cool." President Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday morning to share the following:...

Dimon: Yeah, We're 'Likely' Spiraling Toward Recession

JPMorgan Chase chief had warned earlier this week that Trump's tariff war might be problematic

(Newser) - Earlier this week, Jamie Dimon sent up a red flag on the tit-for-tat trade war spurred by the Trump administration, which has sent markets into a tailspin , warning that the resulting tariffs will likely bring about "inflationary outcomes" and "slow down growth." He hedged at the time...

Trump Halts $1.8B in Funding for Cornell, Northwestern

Administration says alleged civil rights violations are being investigated at the schools

(Newser) - More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both schools, the White House says. It's part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic...

Elon Musk: Peter Navarro Is a 'Moron'

Feud between DOGE mastermind and Trump's top trade adviser heats up

(Newser) - Elon Musk continued ramping up the rhetoric in his ongoing tariff-related feud with President Trump's top trade adviser, calling Peter Navarro a "moron" who is "dumber than a sack of bricks." The insults came in response to Navarro referring to Musk as a "car assembler"...

After Edits to Underground Railroad Page, NPS Reverts

Harriet Tubman pic, slavery mentions were deleted; NPS rep says edits were made 'without approval'

(Newser) - The National Park Service has restored a webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad after Tubman's photo was removed, along with numerous mentions of slavery. The Washington Post described various website changes on Sunday, attributing these to strict interpretations of President Trump's executive orders to eliminate "...

You Don't Want to Know How Much an iPhone May Soon Cost

If tariff talks don't work and Apple doesn't absorb the hit, an iPhone 16 Pro Max could be $2.3K

(Newser) - As the stock market rides another rough day on Monday, Americans are nervously waiting to see what the Trump administration's tariffs war will do to their shopping bills. It doesn't look good when it comes to picking up a new iPhone: Analysts on Thursday said that iPhone prices...

Report: Trump Wants to Fine Migrants $998 a Day

'It's to project fear in communities,' a former ICE official tells Reuters

(Newser) - The Trump administration is continuing its push to deport or otherwise vacate immigrants from the United States, and it's now come up with a plan for those who won't leave on their own: Deplete their bank accounts. Reuters has seen documents that suggest President Trump plans to fine...

Navarro Ramps Up Tariffs Fight With Musk
Navarro
Ramps Up
Tariffs Fight
With Musk
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Apr 8, 2025 7:11 AM CDT

Navarro Ramps Up Tariffs Fight With Musk

Their feuding illustrates a growing split in Trump world

(Newser) - Two of President Trump's top advisers are having a nasty war of words about tariffs. The spat involves Elon Musk and Peter Navarro, the latter being Trump's top trade adviser and a lead architect of the tariffs. Musk has spoken out against them, and Navarro again suggested on...

How Fake News Caused a Market Surge
How an Errant Headline
Caused Markets to Surge
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Apr 8, 2025 5:21 AM CDT

How an Errant Headline Caused Markets to Surge

News outlets trace false information, though origin is still vague

(Newser) - Markets see-sawed wildly Monday before ultimately ending slightly lower , thanks in part to what the Trump administration referred to as "fake news" regarding tariffs. What happened, per CNN and NBC News :
  • At around 8:30am Eastern time, Fox News interviewed National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who was asked
...

Soldiers Discharged Over Vaccine Mandate Are Reenlisted

Trump ordered the move early in his 2nd term

(Newser) - The US Army has reenlisted more than 23 soldiers who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine after the Pentagon mandated the vaccine in 2021. The action follows an order by President Trump to rehire affected troops and provide back pay; the vaccine mandate was dropped in 2023 and...

Female Admiral at NATO Who Was on 'Woke' List Gets Fired

Diversity support linked to removal, which marks third top female firing

(Newser) - The Trump administration has, for the third time, fired a top female military officer. US Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the sole woman on NATO's military committee, was ousted over the weekend, reportedly due to her support for diversity in the military, the AP reports. Sources say Adm....

Amid DOGE Cuts, 'Utter Chaos' for Social Security

Frequent website crashes seen as an 'attack on the legitimacy of Social Security itself'

(Newser) - The Trump administration has run into trouble in cutting Social Security phone services while directing Americans to the agency's website, which has repeatedly crashed under high traffic. Users "are facing chronic website outages" when trying to log in to their accounts, the Washington Post reports, noting the website...

US Shrimp Industry 'Grateful' for Trump Tariffs

Shrimp farmers are hoping to gain ground lost to cheaper imports, disasters, higher fuel costs

(Newser) - "We are grateful for the Trump administration's actions today, which will preserve American jobs, food security, and our commitment to ethical production." So says a somewhat uncommon statement of support for the White House's recent tariffs from John Williams of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, which represents...

Bondi: Trump 'Probably' Will Leave Presidency at End of Term

Attorney general says 'it would be a heavy lift' to figure out a path toward third term

(Newser) - President Trump's attorney general didn't exactly ease concerns that her boss might be seriously considering how he could serve a third presidential term . Asked about the issue on Fox News Sunday , Pam Bondi replied, "President Trump has served one full term. He's on his second full...

New York Schools Answer DEI Ultimatum With a 'No'

State education officials point out that Betsy DeVos had praised diversity and inclusion efforts

(Newser) - State education officials in New York have rejected the Trump administration's demand that they end certain diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public schools or risk losing federal funding. A letter sent Friday to the federal Department of Education in response to the ultimatum says that the administration has...

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