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President Donald Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until Iranian-backed Houthi rebels cease their attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.

"The FCC is conducting an unseemly and unconstitutional spectacle, ostensibly to determine whether CBS violated its policy against 'news distortion' by editing a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Its real purpose is to exercise raw partisan power."

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President Donald Trump: "And I believe that CNN and [MSNBC] who literally write 97.6% bad about me are political arms of the [Democratic] Party, and in my opinion they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal."

RCP Approval Tracker: Trump negative for first time in 2nd term

"I haven't had a single business person or individual in my state come up to me and say the tariffs are a good idea," says Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).

"Trump's tariff policies are threatening to drive the economy into a ditch—and Congress just made it harder to take away the keys. In a near party-line vote on Tuesday, congress blocked a pathway for lawmakers to revoke powers Trump used to impose tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China."

In a stunning interview with DHS deputy secretary, Troy Edgar conflates protest with terrorism in a broad defense of the Trump Administration's deportations of protestors with student visas

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to vote against GOP Spending Bill, Raising Shutdown Odds: "These spending levels exceed revenue by 2 trillion ... no fiscal conservative should support this."

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Donald J. Trump promised an economic “boom like no other.” But eight weeks into his presidency, Mr. Trump is refusing to rule out a recession — a striking change in tone and message for a man who rode economic dissatisfaction to the White House by promising to “make America affordable again.”

EU retaliates against Trump’s trade moves and hits beef, whiskey, motorcycles with targeted tariffs: “We deeply regret this measure. Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers. These tariffs are disrupting supply chains. They bring uncertainty for the economy,”

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people." AP Reporter: "I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? …They get charged on the importers."

A White House official told The Free Press that Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a “threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States,” said the official, “The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law"

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BREAKING: U.S. Department of Education sends letter to 60 universities warning they could be next to have federal funding stripped away over their handling of campus antisemitism

"The McKinley Tariff was enacted by the Republican Congress in 1890. The resulting increase in the cost of living led to instant political catastrophe, Republicans lost 93 of their 179 seats in the House, Democrats won the national popular vote by eight points. McKinley even lost his own seat."

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests: “When Khalil’s attorney requested that a copy of the warrant be emailed to her, the agent hung up the call.”

“It’s striking but it’s true. Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years." - President of Poland, Donald Tusk

Trump Is Targeting Media and Chilling Free Speech: The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.

The chorus of businesses saying they are worried about the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade policies is growing louder and broader by the day. Mentions of the word “tariff” doubled and those for “uncertainty” nearly tripled in the Fed’s latest Beige Book

Justice Department Opens Probe of Sharp Surge in Egg Prices: Antitrust enforcers are investigating whether large producers have engaged in anticompetitive conduct

Justice Department Opens Probe of Sharp Surge in Egg Prices: Antitrust enforcers are investigating whether large producers have engaged in anticompetitive conduct