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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an "illegal alien" who illegally entered Florida. Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month. Details of Gomez-Lopez's arre ...

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Judges warn Trump risks public perception of lawlessness in his fight with courts

April 17, 2025 4:28 PM EDT Updated 9 min ago NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court urged the Trump administration on Thursday to back off from its escalating confrontation with the judiciary, warning that both the executive and judicial branches risk losing public confidence. In a strongly worded unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel rejected President Donald Trump's administration's request to stop a judge from probing what the government had done to secure the return of Kilmar ...

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Justice Department wants to step in for Trump in E. Jean Carroll appeal

April 17, 2025 / 1:08 PM EDT The Department of Justice wants to stand in for President Trump in his ongoing appeal of a defamation case that could cost him tens of millions of dollars. Lawyers for the taxpayer-funded agency and Mr. Trump's personal attorneys said in a filing on April 11 that the Justice Department believes the federal Westfall Act shields Mr. Trump in the case, which has pitted him against the writer E. Jean Carroll. A federal jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in January 2 ...

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Target CEO Cornell to meet with Sharpton to discuss DEI rollback as civil rights leader considers boycott

April 17, 2025, 11:58 AM EDT Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with the Rev. Al Sharpton this week in New York as the retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slowdown in foot traffic that began after it walked back key diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the civil rights leader told CNBC Wednesday. The meeting, which Target asked for, comes after some civil rights groups urged consumers not to shop at Target in response to the retailer’s decision to cut back on DEI. While Sharpton has ...

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Wall Street's Uneasy Calm

Yet all across Wall Street, from bond-trading desks and corporate C-suites, to hedge funds and independent research firms, there’s a deep-seated sense of foreboding that it can’t possibly last — and that with a single social-media post by the US president it could all rapidly go awry. ...

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'I'm in ruins': MAGA MyPillow CEO insists he 'doesn't have 5 cents' to pay court tab

April 16, 2025 6:35PM ET MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a court this week he's broke and won't be able to write a check for all of the sanctions he's been ordered to pay. Lindell claimed in court Wednesday that he and his company had "a combined $70 million in debt." He said the IRS is also garnishing him. “Nobody will borrow me anymore. Not one dime,” Lindell said. “I’m in ruins.” "Last month, the voting systems company Smartmatic asked a federal judge in D.C. to hold Lindell ...

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Temu and Shein will raise prices for US customers due to Trump's tariffs

Updated 7:18 PM EDT, April 16, 2025 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — China-founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they plan to raise prices for U.S. customers starting next week, a ripple effect from President Donald Trump’s attempts to correct the trade imbalance between the world’s two largest economies by imposing a sky-high tariff on goods shipped from China. Temu, which is owned by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings, and Shein, which is now based in Singapore, said in separate but n ...

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Republicans consider increasing taxes on the rich in break from party orthodoxy

04/17/25 6:00 AM ET Republicans in Congress are considering increasing taxes on the rich as a part of President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” of ambitious legislative priorities, a striking development that breaks with decades of party orthodoxy and is spurring alarm bells from traditional conservatives. The discussions are in the early stages, and lawmakers say it is possible that no tax hike makes it in the final legislation. But the once-inconceivable consideration of tax increases undersco ...

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US Army engineers decide to fast-track Great Lakes tunnel permits under Trump energy emergency order

Updated 5:20 PM EDT, April 16, 2025 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists’ fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel use. The move comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January declaring that the U.S. has become too dependent on fo ...

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The Chamber decides against a lawsuit on Trump tariffs

04/16/2025 04:16 PM EDT The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no immediate plans to join the growing number of lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs, two people with direct knowledge of discussions confirmed to POLITICO. The business group, one of the most influential trade associations in Washington, will instead focus on lobbying the Trump administration on the tariffs directly, said the people, who were granted anonymity to divulge sensitive and develop ...

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Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data

21 min ago - A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans. U.S. District Judge Ellen Holla ... (AP)

IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status

1 hr ago - Probably illegal move against US’s richest university is latest in Trump’s attack on independence of higher education Thu 17 Apr 2025 11.26 EDT The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt st ... (The Guardian)

U.S. citizen released from jail after arrest under Florida's new anti-immigration law

1 hr ago - Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an "unauthorized alien." An offic ... (Florida Phoenix)

Dangerous nocturnal tornado approaching Essex Iowa

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White House extends federal hiring freeze until July for most

2 hrs ago - President Donald Trump extended his administration’s hiring freeze of all federal civilian positions for another 89 days in a memo released Thursday evening. The freeze, which the president initially ordered on Jan. 20, prevents the hiring of c ... (Government Executive)

Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

2 hrs ago - Updated 9:32 PM EDT, April 17, 2025 SAN SALVADOR (AP) -- Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing ... (AP)

Fourth Circuit OKs inquiry into Trump's efforts to return wrongfully deported Maryland man

3 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (CN) — In a sharp rebuke on Thursday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to further delay an inquiry into the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father. The unanimous three-judge pane ... (Courthouse News Service)

Exclusive: FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say

3 hrs ago - April 17, 2025 6:02 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago LONDON/WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that ... (Reuters)

Luigi Mangione indicted on death penalty-eligible charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

3 hrs ago - Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also ... (NBC NY)

The CFPB says it will 'deprioritize' protecting student borrowers, people with medical debt

4 hrs ago - Updated Thu, April 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM EDT The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will “deprioritize” efforts to protect student borrowers and people with medical debt, as well as oversight of popular digital payment platforms such as Ve ... (Yahoo! Finance)

NOAA workers report 'intentional chaos' during personnel cuts

4 hrs ago - April 17, 2025, 1:07 PM EDT Some workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who were fired in February, rehired in March and then fired for a second time in April, say the agency has missed some salary payments during that period, ... (NBC News)

DHS demands 'detailed records' of student visa holders at Harvard

4 hrs ago - It comes as the Trump administration has pulled federal funding for the school. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-demands-detailed-records-student-visa-holders-harvard/story?id=120901906 Luke Barr April 17, 2025, 9:47 AM The Department of Homeland ... (abc news)

Florida State gunman used deputy mom's former service weapon to kill 2 and wound 6, authorities say

4 hrs ago - By KATE PAYNE and DAVID FISCHER Updated 6:01 PM CDT, April 17, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy opened fire Thursday at Florida State University with his mother’s former service weapon, killing tw ... (AP)

Pentagon official at the center of Jackie Robinson scandal suddenly resigns

5 hrs ago - Thursday 17 April 2025 12:05 BST John Ullyot, the Pentagon’s top spokesman for the first two months of Donald Trump’s administration, has resigned his position. Ullyot had been at the center of the scandal surrounding the removal of baseba ... (The Independent)

Judge strikes down Ohio law limiting kids' use of social media as unconstitutional

5 hrs ago - April 17, 2025, 11:10 AM COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal judge permanently struck down an Ohio law on Thursday that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marble ... (ABC News/AP)

More than 1000 foreign students had their Visas revoked

5 hrs ago - The complaint alleges that ICE has abruptly and unlawfully terminated the students’ legal status in the United States “(…) stripping them of their ability to pursue their studies and maintain employment in the United States and risking ... (CNN)

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

5 hrs ago - A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an "illegal alien" who il ... (NBC News)

Trump fumes to Fox News that he 'can't even go after' January 6 investigators pardoned by Biden

5 hrs ago - Thursday 17 April 2025 19:49 BST Donald Trump grumbled that he’s unable to “go after” the members of the House select committee that investigated the events surrounding the January 6 riots because of Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon, ... (The Independent)

Wall Street's Uneasy Calm

6 hrs ago - Yet all across Wall Street, from bond-trading desks and corporate C-suites, to hedge funds and independent research firms, there’s a deep-seated sense of foreboding that it can’t possibly last — and that with a single social-media post ... (Yahoo Finance)

White House critics seize on key detail of red dress worn by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

6 hrs ago - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was trolled by the a Chinese diplomat for wearing a dress allegedly made in China while her boss blasts the country. Leavitt, 27, wore the red and black trim dress in January, but the Chinese official did ... (Daily Mail)