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Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk

(Washington Post) A liberal candidate for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court glided to victory Tuesday, overcoming a flood of political cash from tech billionaire Elon Musk in a race seen as a referendum on him and President Donald Trump. Musk and groups affiliated with him invested more than $20 million in the race. The top Trump adviser and leader of Tesla and SpaceX handed out cash prizes to generate interest in the race. At a rally Sunday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, he cast the election as one that could chart the course of Western civilization because of what it could mean for Trump’s agenda. But Musk’s spending and hyperbolic framing weren’t enough to win the most expensive court race in U.S. history.

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Cory Booker breaks record for longest known Senate speech, beating Strom Thurmond

(USA Today) Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on the Senate floor at 7 p.m. Monday evening to protest President Donald Trump's policies. At 7:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Booker broke Thurmond's record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, which he made while speaking against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights bill since Reconstruction.

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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

Members of President Donald Trump's National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials. The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under ...

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House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor rebellion

04/01/25 3:33 PM ET House Republicans leaders on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after a band of GOP lawmakers staged a rebellion on the floor, bringing legislative action to a screeching halt. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) informed lawmakers that the next vote in the House would be Monday evening. The announcement came minutes after nine Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have killed a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting f ...

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Steve Kornacki Out at MSNBC, Inks New Deal With NBC News and Sports Teams

Apr 1st, 2025, 12:58 pm MSNBC data guru Steve Kornacki is exiting the cable news network after inking a new deal with NBC News and NBC Sports as parent company Comcast preps a spin-off of its cable networks. Kornacki, a staple of election coverage along with his big board of data, will assume the title of chief data analyst at NBC News and NBC Sports, according to the LA Times. Kornacki has long been a national political correspondent for NBC News, while pulling double duty on MSNBC as well. ...

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Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech stretches overnight in protest over Trump actions

(CNN) New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s marathon speech on the Senate floor has stretched overnight into Tuesday morning as he protests actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep going “as long as I am physically able.” The Democratic senator has spoken for more than 12 hours, beginning his remarks at 7 p.m. ET Monday evening, and is undertaking this effort at a time when Democratic leaders in Washington are under pressure from their base to do more to stand up to Trump. Booker is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team.

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Trump hints that Musk and DOGE may be coming to the end of the road

(Politico) Elon Musk’s days as a senior White House adviser may be coming to an end — along with his government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency. President Donald Trump hinted Monday that his close ally Musk may have to go back to running his companies full time and that the tumultuous mission of DOGE will have been accomplished after firing tens of thousands of government employees. "I think he's amazing but I also think he's got a big company to run and so at some point he's going to be going back,” Trump said of the Tesla CEO. “He wants to. I'd keep him as long as I could keep him.”

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ICE admits to an 'administrative error' after Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison

(ABC News) A Maryland man with protected legal status was sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador following an "administrative error," a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official admitted in a sworn declaration on Monday. Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia who has a U.S. citizen wife and 5-year-old child is currently at CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador. The filing is part of a new lawsuit filed by Abrego-Garcia's attorneys who are requesting that the government of El Salvador return him to the U.S. after being sent there "because of an administrative error."

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The Most Important Judge in America

(NY Intelligencer) How Boasberg rules there, and how the administration responds, will be the first true test of whether the constitutional order that Trump has spent every day of his second term attacking will hold. At a moment when people the nation over are being abducted off the streets or receiving notice that their days here are numbered, without a semblance of even an opportunity to be heard, how Boasberg holds the government to our most basic shared commitments may yet set the tone for the next four years.

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'Not seen more wrongheaded policy': Expert says Trump move was discredited 200 years ago

(Raw Story) The Washington Post is reporting that President Donald Trump's aides "have drafted a proposal to impose tariffs of around 20 percent on most imports to the United States," which many prominent economists have argued would almost certainly push the United States into a recession. Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard University and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said that the tariff proposal being floated by the president indicated a deep-seated ignorance of how economies actually operate.

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Republicans win special elections for two deep-red House seats in Florida

1 min ago - The Republican candidates prevailed in a pair of special congressional elections in Florida on Tuesday, NBC News projects, giving Republicans some more breathing room as they navigate a narrow House majority. NBC News projects that Florida Chief Fin ... (NBC News)

Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk

21 min ago - MADISON, Wis. — A liberal candidate for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court glided to victory Tuesday, overcoming a flood of political cash from tech billionaire Elon Musk in a race seen as a referendum on him and President Donald Trump. Musk and gro ... (Washington Post)

Judge extends block on probationary employee firings, but only in some states

1 hr ago - A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from terminating thousands of probationary employees, but he declined to extend his order nationwide. U.S. District Judge James Bredar previously ordered officials to temporarily r ... (The Hill)

White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights

1 hr ago - 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 desi ... (Washington Post)

Republicans and Democrats team up to defy House leadership on voting for new parents

1 hr ago - The House voted on Tuesday to stop Republican leaders from blocking an impending vote on proxy voting for new parents -- now leaving the House paralyzed after several Republicans joined Democrats to torpedo a procedural rule to advance the petition i ... (ABC News)

Several federal agencies launch a 'deferred resignation' effort to encourage workers to leave their jobs

2 hrs ago - April 1, 2025, 1:15 PM EDT WASHINGTON — At least six federal agencies are offering workers a new "deferred resignation" opportunity in the latest attempt by the Trump administration to slash the size of the U.S. government. Employees at the Depa ... (NBC News)

Randy Fine will win FL-6 congressional seat, CNN projects, helping with GOP's narrow House majority

2 hrs ago - Randy Fine will win FL-6 congressional seat, CNN projects, helping with GOP's narrow House majority By Steve Contorno, CNN 2 minute read Updated 7:34 PM EDT, Tue April 1, 2025 Florida Sen. Randy Fine stands for the pledge of allegiance during opening ... (CNN)

Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney

2 hrs ago - Updated on: April 1, 2025 / 6:32 PM EDT President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination. Martin, ... (CBS News)

Bankruptcy judge denies J&J settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc

3 hrs ago - April 1, 2025, 8:26 AM A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has denied Johnson & Johnson's settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc, providing another setback in the company's efforts to resolve the matter. This is the third bankruptcy ca ... (ABC News/AP)

Cory Booker breaks record for longest known Senate speech, beating Strom Thurmond

3 hrs ago - Published 7:18 p.m. ET April 1, 2025 WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on the Sena ... (USA Today)

House Republicans Say Elon Musk Is Dragging Down Party: Rooting for Special Election 'Massacre' So GOP Will Bench Him

3 hrs ago - Apr 1st, 2025, 10:19 am House Republicans are pointing the finger at Elon Musk for their struggles in special elections ahead of voters’ trip to the ballot box on Tuesday. According to Politico’s Jonathan Martin, while President Donald Tru ... (MEDIAite)

U.S. imports surged to record heights as consumers stocked up ahead of tariffs

4 hrs ago - Published 5:04 a.m. ET April 1, 2025 | Updated 11:10 a.m. ET April 1, 2025 The U.S. imported more goods in January than in any other month since the government started tracking the data as people raced to stock up ahead of President Donald Trump? ... (USA Today)

Senate GOP embraces controversial tax cut strategy

4 hrs ago - 3 hours ago Senate Republicans are fully embracing the strategy of plowing ahead on President Trump's "one, big beautiful bill" by bypassing the parliamentarian on a crucial accounting matter. Why it matters: Senate leadership and Trump want to make ... (Axios)

Judge refuses Trump admin's request to move Mahmoud Khalil case to Louisiana

4 hrs ago - 04/01/25 5:42 PM ET A New Jersey-based federal judge on Tuesday declined the Trump administration’s request to transfer pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s immigration detention challenge to Louisiana, where is he is being held. U.S. ... (The Hill)

Judge blocks firing of intelligence agency employees who worked on DEI programs

4 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia blocked the Trump administration’s move to fire more than a dozen intelligence agency employees who worked on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga gran ... (Associated Press)

California lawmakers reject bills aimed to ban trans athletes' participation in girls sports

5 hrs ago - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The battle over transgender athletes’ participation in youth sports came to California on Tuesday as state lawmakers rejected two bills aimed at keeping trans kids and teens off sports teams consistent with their g ... (Associated Press)

Law firms hire former Tesla lawyer and top conservative litigator for Trump fight

5 hrs ago - April 1, 2025 6:17 AM EDT Updated 11 hours ago April 1 (Reuters) - As the Trump administration strikes at U.S. law firms with a wave of executive orders, three firms challenging those orders have retained a former Tesla general counsel, a longtime co ... (Reuters)

Trump Strikes Deal With Willkie, Law Firm of Doug Emhoff

5 hrs ago - Willkie Farr & Gallagher is committing at least $100 million in pro bono work to causes aligned to “conservative ideals,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday. Willkie is the third major law firm to strike a deal with Trump, following si ... (Bloomberg)

Fourth missing US Army soldier found dead in Lithuania

5 hrs ago - COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead, U.S. and Lithuanian officials said on Tuesday. The three other ... (Reuters)

Democrats renew push to expand IVF access for military service members

5 hrs ago - April 1, 2025, 6:00 AM Congressional Democrats are renewing their push to expand in vitro fertilization access for military service members by introducing legislation that would require the Department of Defense's health care program to fund access t ... (ABC News)

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