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Politico reports: Musk catapulted the state Supreme Court election into national view, vocally backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel — who also clinched President Donald Trump’s endorsement — and pouring millions into the efforts to get him elected. The Wisconsin election, Musk claimed, would decide the trajectory of not only the whole country, but perhaps all of “Western civilization” and “the …

ABC News reports: Donald Trump’s social media company on Monday filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange commission that could allow the president’s trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares. Trump Media and Technology Group filed a registration with the SEC that would open the door for the president’s trust to sell up to nearly 115 million shares, …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Democrats solidified their 4-3 progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the ramifications are nationwide. The comfortable win by Democratic Judge Susan Crawford is the second sign in two weeks of a political backlash against the Trump Presidency. That’s a warning to the GOP that the Trump-Musk governing style is …

Bloomberg News reports: Tesla Inc.’s vehicle sales fell 13% last quarter to an almost three-year low, as the carmaker made over its most important model and dealt with international backlash against Elon Musk. The company said Wednesday that it delivered 336,681 vehicles in the first three months of the year, its worst showing since the second quarter of 2022. Analysts …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s claims that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term are not being taken lightly by the electorate. A majority of Americans believe the president will ultimately try for a third term in office, according to a new poll by YouGov. In all, 56 percent of respondents think Trump will either …

THOM TILLIS: “Anyone who says there may be a little bit of pain before we get things right, need to talk to my farmers who are one crop away from bankruptcy. They don’t have time. So we’ve got to be crisp on this implementation. Otherwise, we could do damage that is irreparable to farmers.” RON JOHNSON: “As the president has …

“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly …

Reuters reports: Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.” Arias, 84, was president between 1986 and 1990 and again between 2006 and 2010. A …

The New York Times reports: Ed Martin, the ardent Trump loyalist serving as interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is pursuing an inquiry into whether former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was competent to pardon his family members and others during his final days in office. The inquiry, which includes previously unreported letters to Mr. Biden’s family and former White House …

The Washington Post reports: The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable policy. While Trump’s demands elicited international outrage and …

“My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here. My further comment is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize.” – JD Vance, publicly lying to a podcaster who asked for his …

Axios reports: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent letters on Tuesday to members of the Trump administration’s Houthi air strike Signal group chat, requesting they sit for transcribed interviews about the national security breach. The White House has remained defiant despite the bipartisan backlash and growing calls from members of both parties to investigate the breach. Ranking member Gerry …

The Washington Post reports: Some government health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder with discrimination complaints. But Pinder, who was the director at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, died last year. The inclusion of Pinder’s name in reduction-in-force notices reflects the chaos of …

The New York Times reports: In a state where campaign season can feel year-round, voters in Wisconsin returned to the polls once again on Tuesday, casting their ballots in a nearly $100 million race for control of the State Supreme Court. Election officials said that early voting turnout had surpassed 600,000 votes, suggesting total turnout could surpass two million. About …

“If you just saw the headline from the insane, failing Atlantic magazine this morning, you would think this individual was ‘Father of the Year,’ living in Maryland, living a peaceful life, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. They didn’t even mention in the title of that article, or even in the first paragraph, that this individual is an …

“Senator Tim Kaine, who ran against me with Crooked Hillary in 2016, is trying to halt our critical Tariffs on deadly Fentanyl coming in from Canada. We are making progress to end this terrible Fentanyl Crisis, but Republicans in the Senate MUST vote to keep the National Emergency in place, so we can finish the job, and end the scourge. …

The New York Times reports: The law firm that employs Doug Emhoff, former Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, has learned that it is among the next firms that Mr. Trump plans to use his power to punish. The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump’s pick to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused to lie for the president and instead threw his prospective boss under the bus at a confirmation hearing. Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine told a Senate committee on Tuesday morning that he was not wearing a red MAGA hat when he first met …

“Before briefings, it’s a little bit chaotic and overwhelming because there’s so much news to consume, and so all morning long, my team and I are prepping. That team prayer before is just a moment to be silent and still and ask God for confidence and the ability to articulate my words, knowledge, prayer, protection, and it is a nice …

NBC News reports: Widespread anger over the Trump administration’s push for U.S. ownership of Greenland is prompting shoppers in Denmark to boycott American products and services such as Tesla, Netflix and Coca-Cola. Supermarkets are making homegrown products more visible, cellphone apps are helping consumers work out where their purchases originate from, and Facebook groups have been set up offering tips …