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Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs

Mon 7 Apr 2025 16.46 EDT Last modified on Mon 7 Apr 2025 19.05 EDT A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s tariff regime, in a sign of spreading rightwing opposition to a policy that has sent international markets plummeting. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a suit against Trump’s imposition of import tariffs on exports from China, arguing that doing so under the International Emergency Economic Powers ...

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RFK Jr. MMR vaccine support spurs backlash: 'So much for MAHA'

Published 10:22 a.m. ET April 7, 2025 | Updated 4:59 p.m. ET April 7, 2025 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been widely maligned – and celebrated, depending who you ask – as a vaccine skeptic. So when he wrote in a post on X on Sunday that "the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine" – after visiting West Texas shortly after a second unvaccinated child there died of the measles – public opinion flipped as social media users ...

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Republican Megadonor Rips 'Bullsht' Trump Tariffs: 'I Don't Understand the Goddmn Formula'

Apr 7th, 2025, 8:36 pm Home Depot founder Ken Langone said he does not see the logic of the tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump last week. In an interview with The Financial Times published on Monday, Langone let fly on the measures, which impose a minimum 10% tariff on virtually all imports. However, the president singled out dozens of countries for much higher tariffs, which are paid by companies that import the goods. Those higher costs are subsequently passed on to consumers. M ...

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Colleges around the US say some international students' visas are being revoked

By ANNIE MA Updated 4:49 PM CDT, April 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Colleges around the country are reporting some of their international students’ visas are being revoked unexpectedly, expressing alarm over what appears to be a new level of government scrutiny. Visas can be canceled for a number of reasons, but college leaders say the government has been quietly terminating students’ legal residency status with little notice to students or schools. That marks a shift from past practice and ...

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Republicans Ted Cruz, Rand Paul speak out on risks of Trump tariff policy

April 7, 2025, 4:35 PM As fallout continues from President Donald Trump's destabilizing tariff policy on virtually all U.S. trading partners, some Republican senators are warning about the risks for American families. But so far, there are limited signs of any widespread cracks in overall GOP support for Trump or prospects for any congressional attempt to rein him in. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and ardent Trump supporter, made headlines when he spoke out -- first on Fox News last week ...

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Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

Updated 4:08 PM EDT, April 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States. The administration has conce ...

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Interior Department staff's unusual demands -- like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies -- have 'alarmed' officials

Monday 07 April 2025 19:06 BST Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and his staff have reportedly used his position leading the agency to make a series of bizarre demands from his staff — including that they bake fresh chocolate-chip cookies, according to a report. Burgum and his senior staff have asked his aides to use the agency’s industrial ovens to cook him chocolate chip cookies, instructed political appointees to work as servers for a multi-course meal and ordered a U.S. Park Police helicopte ...

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Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close

For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction. Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.” In 2021, a separate team of scientists managed to retrieve DNA from the fossils of dire wolves, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago. With the discovery of additional DNA, the Co ...

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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. CoreCivic signed a five-year, $246 million contract to reopen a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, seen in 2015. The company is one of several private detention operators to have already signed new contracts since President Trump took office. Ilana ...

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Supreme Court lifts order blocking deportations under 18th century wartime law

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a court order blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under an 18th century wartime law. In a bitterly divided 5-4 decision, the court said the migrants still must get a chance to challenge their deportation before they are taken out of the country and said the Trump administration must give them “reasonable time” to go to court. But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washing ...

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Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs

2 hrs ago - Mon 7 Apr 2025 16.46 EDT Last modified on Mon 7 Apr 2025 19.05 EDT A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s tariff regime, in a sign of spreading rightwing oppo ... (The Guardian)

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RFK Jr. MMR vaccine support spurs backlash: 'So much for MAHA'

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Republicans Ted Cruz, Rand Paul speak out on risks of Trump tariff policy

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