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Today's Top News Compilation - Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2020

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IRS acting head resigning over deal to send immigrant tax data to ICE

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is expected to resign after the agency disclosed that it has agreed to share immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help identify and deport undocumented immigrants.

According to a source familiar with the situation and a statement from the Treasury Department, Melanie Krause is leaving the agency due to disagreement over the Treasury Department's decision to share IRS taxpayer data with the Department of Homeland Security.

"Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS...
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Underfunding threatens suicide prevention lifeline's mission

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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It has been nearly three years since the launch of the 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and since then, millions seeking help have used the call center as a life-saving resource. But understaffing and underfunding threaten to upend the hotline's mission.

The nation's 988 hotline works like 911, bringing critical access to care for those battling mental health emergencies. Counselor Alejandra takes calls at the nation's largest suicide prevention center — Los Angeles' Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. That one center receives 20,000 calls...
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China vows to fight Trump's tariff trade war "to the end"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Beijing — China said Tuesday it would "fight to the end" and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S.'s imposition of "so-called 'reciprocal tariffs'" on China was "completely groundless and is a typical unilateral bullying practice."

China, the world's second-largest economy, has imposed retaliatory tariffs and the ministry hinted in its latest statement that more may be coming.

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Blue city proposes bill to place menstrual products in men's bathrooms

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas AG Ken Paxton announces run for US Senate

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle Tuesday night that he will run for U.S. Senate.

The announcement comes as Paxton no longer faces the cloud of a federal corruption investigation that loomed over him as he rose up the ranks in the Republican Party.

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Judge tells government to provide evidence, or case against Mahmoud Khalil is over

  • News source: Sara Cline | The Associated Press and Jake
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An immigration judge in Louisiana said she would terminate the case against Mahmoud Khalil if the government does not provide evidence this week justifying their attempted deportation of the Columbia University student activist.

At a hearing Tuesday in Louisiana, Judge Jamee Comans gave the government 24 hours to provide evidence showing that Khalil, a 30-year-old legal permanent resident, should be expelled from the country for his role in campus protests against Israel and the war in Gaza. If the evidence does not support his removal, she said...
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US bank regulator tells Congress it suffered 'major' hack that exposed sensitive information

  • News source: FOX News
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates and supervises national banks, on Tuesday said it notified Congress of a February hack that it called a "major information security incident."

The breach was first disclosed in February when it learned of "unusual interactions between a system administrative account in its office automation environment and OCC user mailboxes," an OCC news release states.

According to Bloomberg, the hackers had access to more than 150,000 emails after breaching the system in June 2023.

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Colorado Dems are 'poking the bear' by defying Trump's orders, GOP lawmaker warns

  • News source: FOX News
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A Republican lawmaker has warned that Democrats in Colorado’s state legislature could face the ire of the Trump administration if a series of controversial bills passed Sunday — including one labeling parental misgendering during custody battles as "coercive control" — are signed into law.

"It really does feel like we're poking the bear," state Rep. Jarvis Caldwell told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

Colorado enacted legislation to expand health care access to illegal immigrants this year, "as well as housing and food and education for illegal...
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US court orders White House to restore access for AP journalists

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The AP was prevented from accessing the White House over its continued use of the term "Gulf of Mexico" in its coverage.
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Global executions at highest level since 2015, report says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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But Amnesty International also says only 15 countries carried out the death penalty, the lowest on record
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Fact check: Trump misleads on transgender issues

  • News source: Catalina Jaramillo
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On the first day of his administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to no longer consider a person’s gender and to recognize people as either male or female, as defined by the size of their reproductive cells.

The directive served as a basis for a series of subsequent orders that called for defunding medical or educational institutions that have protections for transgender students, provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth or allow transgender girls or women to participate in...
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Future of Trump budget bill uncertain as House GOP rebels mutiny over Senate plan

  • News source: FOX News
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House Republicans are divided over how to proceed on a massive piece of legislation aimed at advancing President Donald Trump's agenda as a possible vote on the measure looms Wednesday afternoon.

Fiscal hawks are rebelling against GOP leaders over plans to pass the Senate's version of a sweeping framework that sets the stage for a Trump policy overhaul on the border, energy, defense and taxes.

Their main concern has been the difference between the Senate and House's required spending cuts, which conservatives want to offset the cost of the new...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: 'Spine of steel', willing to deal

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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.

Here's what's happening…

-Here's the list of books the Naval Academy removed from its library during DEI purge

-Supreme Court sides with Trump over fired probationary federal employees

-Judge Boasberg cancels planned hearing to review Trump deportations

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Tuesday that "all options are on the table for each country" when it comes to making deals over...
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Trump trade rep takes bipartisan fire over tariffs as Dem launches bid to halt them

  • News source: FOX News
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Wall Street rebounded into the green as multiple foreign countries came to the tariff negotiating table with President Donald Trump – but that was not enough to assuage some lawmakers’ critiques of the "alla prima" tariff actions, as one Republican put it.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testified Tuesday the U.S. has long-suffered from "China Shock" – the surge in manufacturing outputs from the Communist nation since the turn of the century – and that the U.S. had to do something substantive but strategic about the 5 million manufacturing...
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New GOP proposal builds off Laken Riley Act with slew of crimes targeting illegals

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Legislation will be introduced Tuesday to expand the list of crimes that would require a migrant to be taken into custody.

The "Safeguarding American Property Act" would add arson, vandalism and trespassing to the crimes that would require those in the country illegally to be placed into federal custody.

"Property rights are a fundamental American value," Rep. Troy Downing, R-Mont., said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

TRUMP SIGNS LAKEN RILEY ACT INTO LAW AS FIRST LEGISLATIVE VICTORY IN NEW ADMINISTRATION

"Those who disregard our...
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