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Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron

Navy Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were both fired on Friday. Jeff Schogol Apr 11, 2025 5:33 PM EDT Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced. Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says. ...

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'It's already in the cards': Trump impeachment urged by WSJ editorial board member

April 12, 2025 8:17AM ET In a column published late Friday, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed it would be "desirable" to subject Donald Trump to a third impeachment to make up for the damage he has done to the U.S. economy with his "ill-founded" trade war. According to longtime columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Trump's on-again, off-again tariff threats almost makes it appear he wants to be impeached, with Jenkins writing, "A future Trump impe ...

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Crockett: 'Beyond wild' no one is questioning Trump mental acuity

04/12/25 11:43 AM ET Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) railed against President Trump late Thursday, questioning his mental fitness amid economic turmoil kickstarted by his aggressive tariff agenda. “The fact that no one is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in an interview, referencing the president’s attacks on former President Biden during the 2024 presidential campaign. “Like the fact that they sat around, called Joe Biden ...

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Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said. Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputatin ...

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Trump teases 'exceptions' to 10% baseline tariffs

Apr 12, 2025, 9:07 AM ET President Donald Trump on Friday teased that his sweeping baseline 10% tariff on most trading partners could have "a couple of exceptions." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One as he made his way to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump said 10% was "pretty close" to a floor for those looking to make a deal. "There could be a couple of exceptions for, you know, obvious reasons, but I would say 10% is a floor," he told reporters ...

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Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead

WP Exclusive Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead Story by Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein, Meryl Kornfield 1h Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency's Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters. Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of technology experts, had pushed back on the Trump administratio ...

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Trump Denies FEMA Aid Extension in State He Won Three Times

Published Apr 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM EDT Updated Apr 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM EDT Democratic Gov. Josh Stein announced Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has denied North Carolina's request to extend the full reimbursement period for Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. Why It Matters In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which struck in September 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump voiced sharp criticism of FEMA's response in the swing state of North Carolina, accu ...

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'It's a mess': Trump's tariffs 'not being collected' after major glitch hits ports

April 11, 2025 9:00PM ET Trump's draconian new tariffs regime is now being delayed due to a "glitch" that has arisen at U.S. ports, CNBC reported on Friday, in the latest blow that threw even more uncertainty into how markets and international trade are functioning. An alert sent out to shippers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection "notified users of a glitch in the system that is used to exempt freight from tariffs, including shipments from China that were already on the wa ...

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'I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality,' VA therapists ordered to tell veterans

April 11, 2025 4:58 PM ET Panic, fear, uncertainty, and anger. Those are the emotions mental health clinicians who work for the US Department of Veterans Affairs describe as they prepare for the VA's mandatory return-to-office directive. Some are being summoned to offices as soon as Monday, April 14. Representatives from the VA say they are planning to have the back-to-office effort completed by May 5. For this story, NPR interviewed ten clinicians in VA locations around the country, the maj ...

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DOJ violating FOIA by refusing to release Jeffrey Epstein files, conservative watchdog says

Apr 11th, 2025, 5:26 pm The Trump administration is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a lawsuit filed this week in Washington, D.C., alleges. And the allegations are coming from a perhaps unlikely source. In a 6-page filing, conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch accuses the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi of violating FOIA law on a number of occasions over the past few mont ...

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses AI with A1, sauce brand capitalizes on blunder

7 min ago - Published 1:48 p.m. ET April 12, 2025 | Updated 7:58 p.m. ET April 12, 2025 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon may have had a juicy steak in mind while speaking at a panel earlier this week because she confused artificial intelligence, also known a ... (USA Today)

US Citizen Told by Trump Admin to Self-Deport Amid Crackdown

44 min ago - Published Apr 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM EDT | Updated Apr 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM EDT A United States citizen who is an immigration attorney received an email on Friday morning that told her to self-deport—one of seemingly dozens of recipients. "It is tim ... (Newsweek)

America's news TV channel for the Mideast fires its staff and goes off the air after funding cuts

1 hr ago - Updated 5:55 PM EDT, April 12, 2025 CAIRO (AP) — The head of a U.S.-funded Arabic-language television and online news outlet that claims a 30 million-strong audience in the Middle East and North Africa terminated most staff and curtailed TV prog ... (AP)

'They won't call me back': Rudy Giuliani being frozen out after 'dramatic U-turn' on Trump

1 hr ago - April 12, 2025 4:33PM ET Donald Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani says he can't get a call back from the White House after he started criticizing the President's top Cabinet officials. Giuliani "made a dramatic U-turn over President Donald Trump's 'cro ... (Raw Story)

Democrats rail against Apple after Trump unveils electronic tariff exemption

2 hrs ago - 04/12/25 3:39 PM ET Democrats slammed the Trump administration for allegedly favoring sector-specific companies by giving them the ability to bypass the fallout from new trade policy with a Saturday exemption of electronics from “reciprocal? ... (The Hill)

'The Alien's To Blame': Border Czar Tom Homan Defends Trump Admin After Deporting Migrant By Mistake

3 hrs ago - Apr 12, 2025, 03:32 PM EDT Border czar Tom Homan is defending the Trump administration’s decision to deport 29-year-old Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a brutal prison camp in El Salvador, even though the administration admitted his remo ... (Huff Post)

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador 'alive and secure', US says

7 hrs ago - A man who was mistakenly deported from the state of Maryland to a mega-jail in El Salvador is "alive and secure", a US official has told a judge. The update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's whereabouts came days after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump ... (BBC)

USDA's $1B bird flu plan uses money intended for schools, food banks

10 hrs ago - 04/12/2025 12:00 PM EDT Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu will rely on money cut from programs meant to help schools and food banks support local farmers, according to two people familiar with the discus ... (Politico)

Dozens of DHS staffers, including top FEMA officials, given lie detector tests over alleged leaks

10 hrs ago - Updated 12:23 PM EDT, Sat April 12, 2025 CNN — The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA’s acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disast ... (CNN Politics)

Trump DOJ lawyers face contempt charges as they give 'contemptuous response' to judge

10 hrs ago - April 12, 2025 6:54PM ET Donald Trump's Justice Department lawyers are reportedly facing potential contempt charges, at the same time as they are offering a "contemptuous response" to a judge. The Supreme Court recently issued a tepid ruling in a ca ... (Raw Story)

Trump administration ordered to unfreeze funding in dispute with Maine over transgender students

11 hrs ago - Updated 1:28 PM EDT, April 12, 2025 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program that were suspended amid a disagreement between the state and the pres ... (AP)

Harvard professors sue over Trump's review of $9 billion in funding

11 hrs ago - April 12, 2025 4:45 PM EDT Updated 2 hours ago BOSTON, April 12 (Reuters) - Harvard University professors are suing to block the Trump administration's review of nearly $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to the Ivy League school as pa ... (Reuters)

Trump officials have private goal to deport at least 1 million immigrants in 2025

11 hrs ago - WP EXCLUSIVE Trump officials have private goal to deport at least 1 million immigrants in 2025 Officials and analysts are increasingly skeptical about the administration's ability to deport that many immigrants in a single year. By Maria Sacchetti an ... (Washington Post)

Colorado Department of Education will not sign order showing compliance with Trump DEI order

12 hrs ago - Posted 9:14 AM, Apr 12, 2025 During a board meeting on Thursday, Colorado's Department of Education Commissioner Susana Córdova announced that her department would not sign a letter from the federal government certifying that the state's K-12 ... (Scripps News)

Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron

13 hrs ago - Navy Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were both fired on Friday. Jeff Schogol Apr 11, 2025 5:33 PM EDT Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia ... (taskandpurpose.com)

Trump teases 'exceptions' to 10% baseline tariffs

13 hrs ago - Apr 12, 2025, 9:07 AM ET President Donald Trump on Friday teased that his sweeping baseline 10% tariff on most trading partners could have "a couple of exceptions." Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One as he made his way to his Mar-a-Lago re ... (Business Insider)

Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

13 hrs ago - An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said. Victor Perez, 17, who also had cer ... (Associated Press)

'It's already in the cards': Trump impeachment urged by WSJ editorial board member

13 hrs ago - April 12, 2025 8:17AM ET In a column published late Friday, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed it would be "desirable" to subject Donald Trump to a third impeachment to make up for the damage he has done to the U.S. economy w ... (Raw Story)

Crockett: 'Beyond wild' no one is questioning Trump mental acuity

14 hrs ago - 04/12/25 11:43 AM ET Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) railed against President Trump late Thursday, questioning his mental fitness amid economic turmoil kickstarted by his aggressive tariff agenda. “The fact that no one is questioning his mental ... (The Hill)

Panama opposition party accuses US of 'camouflaged invasion'

15 hrs ago - Sat 12 Apr 2025 05.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 12 Apr 2025 05.32 EDT Panamanian opposition politicians have accused the US of launching a “camouflaged invasion” of the country, amid simmering discontent over the government’s handling o ... (The Guardian)

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