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The days ahead hold 'critical' steps toward Ukraine peace, Rubio says
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, that a Trump Administration-brokered deal between Ukraine and Russia to end the war is “closer in general” than it’s ever been, but that diplomatic work continues.
“And as I said, and he has said and others have said, [...Read more

Trump floats new income tax cut in bid to ease tariffs bite
President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, as public anxiety rises over his economic agenda.
Trump has previously argued that tariff revenue could replace income taxes, though economists have questioned those claims.
“When Tariffs cut in, ...Read more

Massachusetts delegation slammed for 'baseless' comments after trip to Louisiana ICE center
Federal immigration officials are blasting members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation who visited college students at a Louisiana detention facility for spreading “baseless” accusations.
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern argue that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk’s human rights are being ...Read more

As Minnesota AG fights Trump in court, he says executive branch 'belligerence' is growing
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he’s “trying to stop a dictatorship.” Less than 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, Ellison and fellow attorneys are litigating against him on more than a dozen fronts — and the list of lawsuits is growing.
Since taking office in January, Trump has issued a deluge of ...Read more

Trump floats new income tax cut in bid to ease tariffs bite
President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, as public anxiety rises over his economic agenda.
Trump has previously argued that tariff revenue could replace income taxes, though economists have questioned those claims.
“When Tariffs cut in, ...Read more

Trump floats new income tax cut in bid to ease bite of tariffs
President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, as public anxiety rises over his economic agenda.
Trump has previously argued that tariff revenue could replace income taxes, though economists have questioned those claims.
“When Tariffs cut in, ...Read more

Maryland's 'Trumpiest' precinct stands by its man as he nears 100 days in office
CRISFIELD, Md. — Jan Sterling didn’t answer right away, squinting as she concentrated on a response.
“Is there anything President Donald Trump could do to lose your support?”
It’s a complicated question in Somerset County Precinct 08-002 as Trump approaches his 100th day in office this week. The precinct, arguably the Trumpiest in ...Read more

Trump's polls decline near 100-day mark, raising tax-plan stakes
Voter discontent with President Donald Trump’s economic stewardship is sinking his popularity as he approaches the symbolic 100-day mark of his second term, ratcheting up pressure on congressional Republicans to pass his tax plan.
A flurry of polls in recent days from NBC, CNN, New York Times/Siena, ABC News and Fox News, among others, each...Read more

Trump Jr. tells East Europe to pick US over China for deals
Donald Trump Jr. told a business forum in Budapest that Hungary and the region should pick the U.S. over China as its economic partner, according to the Portfolio news website.
Trump Jr., who’s holding a roadshow headlined “Trump Business Vision 2025,” said China posed a bigger threat than Russia to the region, according to the business ...Read more

Trump says US ships need free travel through Panama, Suez canals
President Donald Trump called for “free of charge” passage of American ships through the Panama and Suez canals, renewing his focus of expanding U.S. influence over critical commercial and naval waterways.
While Trump began pushing for an exit of Chinese port operators around the Panama Canal soon after returning to the White House in ...Read more

Trump is aiming for big concessions on trade, Carney warns Canada voters
Mark Carney said he expects U.S. President Donald Trump will try to extract “major concessions” from Canada in negotiations, and that he takes seriously the president’s stated desire to turn the country into a U.S. state.
“Take what the president says literally. I take it literally. I always have,” the Canadian prime minister told ...Read more
Trump held court at pope funeral as politics, ritual mixed
St. Peter’s Square erupted in applause for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Inside the Basilica, he and Donald Trump huddled with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer. The occasion was the funeral of Pope Francis — but the optics were all about the geopolitics of the moment.
Even the homily, delivered by one of the most ...Read more

US-Iran nuclear talks signal progress, next round in Europe
The U.S. and Iran reported signs of progress in talks on a deal over Iran’s nuclear program after what the Iranian foreign minister described as increasingly detailed discussions.
A senior U.S. administration official said the third round of talks since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House was positive and productive, and the ...Read more

Polling poorly: Trump's immigration abuses are tanking his popular approval
In his 10 years as a presidential contender Donald Trump has always benefited politically by attacking immigrants, winning support for his promises of a hardline border crackdown. Yet now that’s he’s actually doing it — and in such a cruel fashion — the president is, for the first time, getting poor marks from voters, with a YouGov poll ...Read more

Who is behind the resistance to Trump in Minnesota?
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Dallas Reding was never one to protest. But after hearing about the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others to notorious prisons abroad, he scrawled “No Foreign Gulags” on some cardboard and then taped the sign to a mop handle.
And there he was last Saturday, hoisting his makeshift placard...Read more

Trump says he would veto cuts to Medicaid, Social Security
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would not sign legislation that calls for cuts to Social Security or federal health coverage for older and low-income Americans.
“If it cuts it, I would not approve,” the president said in an interview with TIME magazine published Friday, where he was repeatedly asked about cuts to Medicare, ...Read more

First Harvard, now UC Berkeley: Trump administration to probe foreign funds
The Trump administration accused the University of California, Berkeley of failing to disclose millions of dollars in foreign funding on Friday, touting muscular new enforcement of an obscure federal rule amid ongoing efforts to bridle America’s top research institutions.
The University of California flagship is the second top school to come ...Read more

States sue to block Trump freezing school funding over DEI
A group of 19 states sued to block the Trump administration from freezing federal funds for states that refuse to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in K-12 public schools, intensifying a legal battle over billions of dollars in assistance.
The lawsuit filed Friday in Boston federal court follows a warning this month from the U....Read more

Trump doubtful on another tariff pause, wants China concessions
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested another delay to his higher so-called “reciprocal” tariffs was unlikely, raising pressure on nations to negotiate trade deals with his administration.
Asked about the possibility of granting another 90-day pause, Trump cast that scenario as “unlikely,” while speaking to reporters aboard ...Read more

Bill Maher: Larry David satire of Trump dinner is 'insulting to 6 million dead Jews'
Bill Maher has opened up about Larry David’s satirical essay comparing his dinner with Donald Trump to breaking bread with Adolf Hitler.
The “Real Time” host, a vocal critic of the MAGA leader in the past, gave a glowing account of attending a March 31 dinner with the president alongside high profile supporters like Kid Rock.
He ...Read more
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