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

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 'crooked' choices after years of working as his fixer," according to the Daily Mail. It cites Giuliani's recent interview with conservative pundit Eric Bolling. "The 80-year-old, who is currently facing mounting legal woes, told Bolling ...

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

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 as AI, with A1, the same name as the popular sauce brand. McMahon, 76, made the mix-up on April 8 while speaking at the ASU+GSV Summit, an event focusing on educational innovation. The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) initially ref ...

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

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 removal was due to an “administrative error.” “The alien’s to blame. The aliens are to blame when they enter this country illegally,” Homan told Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo on Saturday, claiming that if Abrego Garcia had not unlawfully entered the U.S in the f ...

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Visas revoked for students at universities in Southern states amid crackdown

April 12, 2025, 9:34 PM EDT / Updated April 13, 2025, 12:42 AM EDT The Trump administration's revocation of student visas and, in separate action, termination of students from a tracking system for foreign scholars, has spread to the South. Public and private colleges and universities across the Sun Belt have reported that at least a few of their students have had their status as welcome scholars revoked or otherwise changed. Some university representatives said the institutions found out som ...

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Student Loan Update: Married Borrowers' Payments May Rise Under Trump Plan

Published Apr 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM EDT | Updated Apr 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM EDT Student loan payments could rise for some married borrowers as early as next month, after the Trump administration indicated in a recent court filing that it may revert to earlier rules requiring spousal income to be counted in income-driven repayment (IDR) plans. Newsweek has reached out to the Department of Education's (ED) press team for comment via email on Saturday. Why It Matters Currently, married borrowers wh ...

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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 contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US

9 min ago - The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the United States, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into th ... (Politico)

Michigan autoworkers wary of Trump's tariffs: 'Playing poker with people's lives'

14 min ago - Sun 13 Apr 2025 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 13 Apr 2025 07.01 EDT The General Motors Flint Assembly plant is a hulking symbol of American auto industry might, a 5m-sq-ft factory stretching as far as the eye can see down Van Slyke Road, and it hums ... (The Guardian)

Police Say Person Is In Custody After Suspected Arson At Pennsylvania Governor's Mansion

35 min ago - Police say a man has been arrested and will face charges including attempted murder, terrorism and attempted arson in the early morning fire that badly damaged the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion and forced Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family to qu ... (AP via HuffPost)

Trump's tariff policy is 'all chaos and corruption': Sen. Elizabeth Warren

39 min ago - April 13, 2025, 11:22 AM After the White House announced late Friday it was exempting smartphones, computers and chips from sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump issued against most trading partners, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Sunday that ... (ABC News)

'We are flying blind': RFK Jr.'s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more

1 hr ago - 04/13/2025 10:00 AM EDT The federal teams that count public health problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has h ... (Politico)

Trump says looking at tariffs on chips, electronics supply chain; denies 'exception'

1 hr ago - Sun, April 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM EDT 1 min read (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump denies that there was a tariff “exception” for certain electronics announced Friday, saying in a post on Truth Social that these products are still subj ... (Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg)

Mistakenly deported man's attorneys demand his return using Trump's own words

2 hrs ago - 7 hours ago Attorneys arguing for the return of a Maryland resident whom the Trump administration erroneously deported to El Salvador highlighted in a Saturday court filing President Trump's comments that he would "bring somebody back" if directed t ... (Axios)

Former top health official criticizes RFK Jr. for downplaying measles deaths

2 hrs ago - Updated on: April 13, 2025 / 2:36 PM EDT The former top vaccines official at the Food and Drug Administration criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for downplaying the deaths of unvaccinated children from measles, amid ... (CBS News)

China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies

2 hrs ago - China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. Shipments ... (NYT)

Billionaire hedge fund leader warns US facing something 'worse than a recession'

3 hrs ago - Sunday 13 April 2025 18:33 BST The U.S. is perilously close to entering a formal economic recession and could well be facing something much worse on the horizon, a billionaire investing expert warned Sunday. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associat ... (The Independent)

Trump's order could force states to buy costly new voting machines

3 hrs ago - Trump's order could force states to buy costly new voting machines Story by Patrick Marley, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez 8h {snip picture} President Donald Trump's plan to overhaul elections could hurl 2026 into turmoil by forcing states to hand-count b ... (Washington Post)

'Bureaucratic cruelty': 9/11 responders and survivors shaken by US health cuts

4 hrs ago - Sun 13 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 13 Apr 2025 13.31 EDT A program that provides free healthcare to first responders and survivors of the World Trade Center terror attacks has been in turmoil for months, with services cut, restored and cu ... (The Guardian)

A retrial of Sarah Palin's case against 'New York Times' begins Monday

4 hrs ago - April 13, 2025 5:02 AM ET As another New York City institution once said, it's deja vu all over again for The New York Times and former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin has the rare opportunity to retry her defamation case against the Times ... (NPR)

Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary

5 hrs ago - April 13, 2025, 11:17 AM Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the administration's decision Friday night to exempt a range of electronic devices from tariffs implemented earlier this month was only a temporary reprieve, with the secreta ... (ABC News)

Six presumed dead after private plane crashes in muddy field in upstate New York

5 hrs ago - By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Updated 9:39 AM CDT, April 13, 2025 A twin-engine plane that crashed into a muddy field in upstate New York has left all six passengers aboard presumed dead. The plane, a Mitsubishi MU-2B, was reported down at noon on Saturday in C ... (AP)

Looser food standards off the menu in any US-UK trade deal, UK says

6 hrs ago - Britain will not relax its food safety standards as part of any deal to secure lower tariffs on its exports to the United States, business minister Jonathan Reynolds said on Sunday. -snip- Reynolds said on Sunday that looser food standards remained o ... (Reuters)

'Depraved act': Arsonist set fire to Pa. governor's mansion during Passover causing 'significant damage'

6 hrs ago - Updated April 13, 2025, 1:17 p.m. ET Published April 13, 2025, 11:13 a.m. ET An arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion in Harrisburg early Sunday morning causing "a significant amount of damage," according to state police. Gov. Jo ... (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Russia ballistic missile strike kills dozens in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say

7 hrs ago - People were celebrating Palm Sunday when the strike occurred, officials said. By David Brennan April 13, 2025, 8:29 AM LONDON -- A Russian ballistic missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 32 people on Sunday mor ... (abc news)

Republicans fear Trump's trade war could lead to political wipeout

7 hrs ago - 04/13/25 6:00 AM Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP. Republi ... (The Hill)

Bernie Sanders Crashes Coachella Music Festival

8 hrs ago - Apr 13, 2025, 02:17 AM EDT Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) played the political equivalent of his greatest hits during a surprise appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday. The 83-year-old progressive icon took the stage ahe ... (Huff Post)

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