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Murderers Whose Death Sentences Were Commuted by Biden Sue Over Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Plan To Send Them to Notorious Supermax
ADX Florence once housed the Unabomber — and now is home to El Chapo.
Trump Administration Is Building Case of the ‘Maryland Man’ Mistakenly Deported to El Salvador Publicly — and in Real Time
The new public campaign against Kilmar Abrego Garcia now includes extensive details about an arrest in 2019 and a restraining order for beating his wife.
CBS News in Crisis as Its Hollywood Owners Prepare To Do ‘Whatever They Have To Do’ To Settle Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, Including Apology: Report
Meanwhile, CBS News’s CEO, Wendy McMahon, has made a major error involving ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ further endangering her already precarious position, according to another report.
An Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Give Trump Standing To Make Good on His Threat To Oust Fed Chairman
Schumer Wants DOJ To Consider Hate Crime Charges in Passover Arson Targeting Pennsylvania’s Jewish Governor
Columnists
Editorials
Opinion
Italy’s Meloni, an Admirer of Trump, Is Due at Washington To Press the Principles of Free Trade
Father Pushes Back After Getting Hassled by Police for Playing Catch With Son in Park Reserved for Tots
Who Really Started a So-Called ‘Trade War,’ and Other Tariff Questions Never Asked in the Press
Trump’s Tariffs Make Tax Cuts and Deregulation All the More Imperative
National
Mom of Teen Charged in Stabbing Murder of Student Athlete Denies Spending Donations on House: Family Feud Intensifies as Victim’s Father Escorted from Presser by Police
A spokesperson for the family of the accused murderer, Karmelo Anthony, also suggests that damaging information could be released about the victim, Austin Metcalf.
New York City’s Most Prolific Speeder Racks Up 563 Tickets in One Year
Safety groups say fines are not enough to deter some speeders and want them to have speed limiters on their cars.
New York City Formally Gives Jaywalkers the Green Light
The Department of Transportation is amending the law that has been in effect since 1958.
Texas Considers Bill That Would Block Weapons Bans on Publicly-Leased Land
The legislation would allow people with gun permits to carry their weapons at the Texas State Fair.
DOGE Spreading Like Wildfire as States Create Replicas Aimed at Rooting Out Government Waste
‘We were DOGE before DOGE was cool,’ one Florida lawmaker says.
After Claiming He Would Find the Cause of Autism by September, Kennedy Now Admits There Will Only Be ‘Some’ Answers
Robert F. Kennedy walked back his timeline during a rambling press conference about autism Wednesday morning.
Foreign
Amid Trade Tensions With America, Communist China’s President Boosts Ties With Cambodia
Xi Jinping also takes a none-too-subtle swipe at America for jacking up interest rates in a tariff and trade war that has stoked tensions with Washington.
South American Cartels Now Make More Money Off Gold Than Cocaine
A bipartisan bill in the Senate requires the State Department to come up with a plan to stop illicit mining.
Trump Rejected a Plan To Launch a Joint Israeli-American Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program in Meeting With Netanyahu
Netanyahu reportedly pushed for an attack on Iran as early as May, which would see the two allies launch an extensive bombing campaign.
New Jersey Resident Who Was Held Hostage in Iran Denounces Booker for Effort To Free Maryland Man Held in El Salvador
Xiyue Wang tells the Sun two U.S. representatives ‘closely engaged with my family’ while he was in captivity, ‘but Booker, as my senator, could certainly have done much more.’
The Demand for Exotic Ant Farm Colonies Is Driving a New Smuggling Trend
Authorities intercept more than 5,000 live ants concealed in specially modified test tubes and syringes.
Trump Now Saying China Faces Tariffs of Up to 245 Percent Even as Xi Speaks of Value of ‘Free Trade’
Xi also denounces ‘unilateralism and protectionism’ — without, of course, hinting at what China’s been doing for years to protect its markets against foreign competition.
Politics
Details Emerge About Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Violent History as Salvadoran Government Blocks Maryland Senator From Meeting With Him
Meanwhile, the White House hosted the mother of a murdered Maryland woman to discuss the recent conviction of her daughter’s killer, an illegal immigrant.
Trump Administration Says It Plans To Sue Maine Over Transgender Ban
Maine’s Democratic governor made headlines in February when she expressed her intentions to defy that order.
Elise Stefanik Considers Run for New York Governor After Having U.N. Nomination Pulled
‘No one knows if it’s serious,’ one top New York GOP official tells the Sun.
Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Suggests Shapiro Invited Arson at Governor’s Mansion Because He’s Too Anti-Trump
The man accused of lighting fire to Shapiro’s official residence on the first night of Passover did so because of the governor’s support of Israel, police have claimed.
Trump Sidesteps Judge’s Ruling by Axing All Wire Services From the White House Press Pool
The move is the latest in Mr. Trump’s war with the Associated Press, which refuses to use the term ‘Gulf of America.’
Editorials
Opinion
Italy’s Meloni, an Admirer of Trump, Is Due at Washington To Press the Principles of Free Trade
Father Pushes Back After Getting Hassled by Police for Playing Catch With Son in Park Reserved for Tots
Who Really Started a So-Called ‘Trade War,’ and Other Tariff Questions Never Asked in the Press
Trump’s Tariffs Make Tax Cuts and Deregulation All the More Imperative
Popular
An Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Give Trump Standing To Make Good on His Threat To Oust Fed Chairman
Murderers Whose Death Sentences Were Commuted by Biden Sue Over Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Plan To Send Them to Notorious Supermax
CBS News in Crisis as Its Hollywood Owners Prepare To Do ‘Whatever They Have To Do’ To Settle Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, Including Apology: Report
New York City’s Most Prolific Speeder Racks Up 563 Tickets in One Year
Trump Could Have Cause To Fire Powell
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