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Today's Top News Compilation - Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2020

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Senate Democrats demand more details on Kennedy's finances

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The demands came in letter released Monday by Sens. Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren.
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Trump 2nd term live updates: Musk 'in the process' of 'shutting down' USAID, he says

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
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Musk says administration is on verge of shutting USAID

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who's been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days.

Early Monday, Musk held a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said he'd spoken in detail about USAID with the president. "He agreed we should shut it down," Musk said.

"It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in," Musk said. "What we have is just a ball of worms...
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Car bomb blast in northern Syria kills 15 agricultural workers

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Fourteen women were among those killed in the attack outside Manbij, the Syria Civil Defence says.
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Trump threatens to cut funding for South Africa over land policy

  • News source: BBC News - World
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President Cyril Ramaphosa last month signed into law a bill aimed at speeding up land reform.
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Bill Gates has given away billions, but 'still has more to give'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Microsoft co-founder says he enjoys giving away his fortune and it won't leave his kids poor.
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Record-breaking Beyoncé given Grammy by Taylor Swift

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Beyoncé took home three Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, including best album.
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Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID

  • News source: David Ingram | NBC News
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent.

Musk, the head of Trump’s government efficiency initiative, announced the shutdown in the middle of the night in an audio-only appearance on his social media site X.

“We’re shutting it down,” he said. At another point, he said "we’re in the process” of “shutting...
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China renews threat to retaliate against US tariffs

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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China has reiterated it could take “necessary countermeasures" after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to impose a 10% tariff on China for allegedly doing too little to stem the production of precursor chemicals for the drug fentanyl
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Chinese fashion giant Shein re-enters India five years after ban

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Shein's re-entry to the Indian market comes with strict terms, which include saving all data within the country.
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Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu of Meteor Garden fame dies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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She died from pneumonia after contracting influenza while on a vacation in Japan, Taiwanese media report.
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FBI agents asked to answer survey on Jan. 6 case involvement

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) sent a message to its members on Sunday about the survey asking agents about their work related to investigating Jan. 6 cases.
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Treasury Dept. gives Elon Musk's team access to federal payment system: Sources

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.
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Musk's DOGE takes aim at 'viper's nest' federal agency with global footprint

  • News source: FOX News
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is taking aim at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and, according to senior congressional sources, moved to seize control of the independent agency over the weekend.

The senior congressional sources told Fox News that more than 50 senior USAID staff members were placed on administrative leave and subjected to a gag order, meaning they were not allowed to communicate with anyone outside the agency without approval.

Signs were also removed...
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Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being 'very abusive of the United States': video

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump defended his recent tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China while speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night – and hinted that the European Union may suffer a similar fate.

The tariffs, which were authorized in an executive order on Saturday, will go into effect Tuesday. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 25% additional tariff will be levied on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on imports from China.

In the executive order, Trump said that the tariffs stem from an...
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