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The Washington Post reports: “This individual is a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years,” Noem said in statement provided to The Washington Post through a spokeswoman. “Unfortunately, so many families in this country have been made victims by crime, and that’s why President Trump is working every single day to make America safe and get …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS, Covid and autism. Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is vowing such success with his widely-derided tariff plan that income taxes could be “completely eliminated” for many American workers. In a Sunday morning post on Truth Social, the president made a bold pledge about the degree to which he believes his tariffs will work. New polling shows Americans are highly skeptical the tariffs will …

The Hill reports: USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at $6.23 per …

“They’ll have their elections this week. They’re going to have a new leader and we’ll deal with a new leadership of Canada. There are many things we work cooperatively with on Canada on, but we actually don’t like the way they treated us when it comes to trade. “The president has made that point when he responded to the previous …

ABC News reports: Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll said they approve of …

Axios reports: American retailers are growing worried that President Trump’s trade war and increased volatility will lead to empty shelves, higher prices and store closures as Chinese imports screech to a halt. Many retailers stocked up on inventory in the first months of 2025, realizing that a storm was coming — but their inventories are poised to dwindle quickly. The …

Politico reports: A new club is coming to Washington — and you probably can’t get in. Donald Trump Jr., megadonor Omeed Malik and several other investors are launching an invite-only club that costs more than half a million to join with an exclusive post-White House Correspondents’ Dinner gathering. The “Executive Branch” is the brainchild of Malik and the president’s eldest …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings. Isaacman is a billionaire pilot and astronaut who founded the Shift4 Payments company as a teenager and commanded the first …

“American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America. I’ve asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of, and memorialize, this situation!” – Trump, posting to Truth  Social. The Guardian reports: The Panamanian president, Jose …

Via press release from the White House: Today, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the New York Department of Education, Board of Regents for a reported violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will assess whether New York’s threat to withhold funding if the Massapequa School District does not …

Fox News reports: As President Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, a Fox News survey finds voters pleased with the job he is doing on border security, but displeased on most other issues — including inflation. Trump receives his best marks on border security, as a 55% majority approves. That’s the only issue where his ratings …

CBS News reports: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says it has saved $160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at a cost for taxpayers, with a new analysis from a nonpartisan research and advocacy group estimating that DOGE’s actions will cost $135 billion this …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “very close to a deal.” Trump said in a social media post as he flew back …

Politico reports: Three quarters of Canadians dislike President Donald Trump — and Conservatives appear likely to pay a painful price for it in the country’s Monday election, according to a POLITICO/Focaldata poll of Canadian voters. About two in five voters (39 percent) told Focaldata, a U.K. pollster, that Trump was a top concern in the election, second only to cost …

Politico reports: The lawsuit, led by California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota and New York, argues that an ultimatum delivered by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month to comply with the Trump administration’s interpretation of federal anti-discrimination law was unconstitutional and unlawful. Under the directive, states are required to certify their schools will adhere to a 2023 Supreme Court ruling …

REPORTER: Mr. President, any update on Secretary Hegseth? Your confidence in him? TRUMP: About what? REPORTER: About Signal – having Signal on his – TRUMP: I don’t view Signal as important. I think that’s fake news. So, I don’t view it as important. From yesterday’s Washington Post reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal, a commercially available …

CNN reports: A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating the collective bargaining rights for a sizeable share of the federal workforce. The preliminary injunction issued by US District Court Judge Paul Friedman in the District of Columbia also found that a key section of President Donald Trump’s executive order allowing more than a dozen federal agencies …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump, wearing a blue suit in a sea of black, was seated in a prized front-row seat for the funeral of Pope Francis. The seating location will likely be a source of great satisfaction for the famously thin-skinned president, who mercilessly mocked Joe Biden after he was seated in the 14th row at Queen …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump and his allies have raked in over $1 million in trading fees over the past two days from the president’s $TRUMP cryptocurrency token, according to Chainalysis, a blockchain data company. The surge came after a Wednesday announcement in which the top 220 holders of the token were promised dinner with the president. The $TRUMP …