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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House​

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and GENE JOHNSON
Updated 11:03 PM CDT, March 18, 2025

SEATTLE (AP) — Cybertrucks set ablaze. Bullets and Molotov cocktails aimed at Tesla showrooms.

Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas. While no injuries have been reported, Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and privately owned cars have been targeted.

There has been a clear uptick since President Donald Trump took office and empowered Musk to oversee a new Department of Government Efficiency that is slashing government spending. Experts on domestic extremism say it’s impossible to know yet if the spate of incidents will balloon into a long-term pattern.

In Trump’s first term, his properties in New York City, Washington and elsewhere became a natural place for protest. In the early days of his second term, Tesla is filling that role.

“Tesla is an easy target,” said Randy Blazak, a sociologist who studies political violence. “They’re rolling down our streets. They have dealerships in our neighborhoods.” ...

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Canada 'rage room' lets visitors smash Trump, Vance, Musk portraits to release tariff angst

President Donald Trump's tariff battle with Canada led one Halifax, Nova Scotia, business to offer Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk portraits for customers to smash.
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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration.
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Trump administration says it is working to reinstate more than 24,000 fired federal workers

Many of the reinstated employees are being placed on administrative leave, court filings show.
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After call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets | CNN Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily halt attacks on energy and infrastructure targets in Ukraine after a lengthy telephone call with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the White House said, as Russia stopped short of signing off on a broader ceasefire to end the...
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Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.
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President Trump touts 'great' phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin

President Donald Trump joins "The Ingraham Angle" for an exclusive interview after his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possibility of peace in Eastern Europe.
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Roberts rejects Trump's call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is rejecting calls for impeaching federal judges after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans.
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Judge rules DOGE's USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution in an order that blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from making further cuts to the agency.
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Analysis: In Ukraine and Gaza, Trump finds out that ending wars is tougher than it looks | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump is finding out that campaign trail bravura over peace deals can’t yield quick wins as wars rage.
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Why are Trump supporters claiming he wants to crash the US stock market?

Some MAGA followers are spreading an unsubstantiated theory related to the cost of the US national debt.
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Checks and balances: Trump, supporters seek to push back against 'activist' judges

President Donald Trump's supporters are seeking ways to check the power of so-called "activist" judges who have issued rulings unfavorable to the president's agenda.
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Zelenskyy comments on phone call between Trump and Putin

Ukraine is prepared to support any proposals that lead to peace with Russia but must be part of the negotiations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Tuesday after U.S President Donald Trump held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come with changes to human physiology and psychology.
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Vance to serve as RNC's finance chair in sign of his growing influence

Vice President JD Vance has been tapped to serve as a top fundraiser at the Republican National Committee.
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Trump continues to call for judge's impeachment after chief justice's rebuke

President Donald Trump continued his calls to impeach the judge who put a hold on his deportation flights of noncitizens alleged to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
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Analysis: A fateful moment looms as Trump’s team seeks to bypass the judiciary | CNN Politics

The most chilling aspect of a new White House claim of boundless executive power is not whether officials ignored a judge’s order to halt deportations of Venezuelan alleged gang members.
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Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by US aid cuts, UN migration agency says

The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects worldwide and firing staff following funding cuts led by the United States.
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El Salvador's Bukele weighs in after Trump's call to impeach judge: 'The U.S. is facing a judicial coup'

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After U.S. President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a judge, President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele asserted in a post on X that "The U.S. is facing a judicial coup."

Elon Musk agreed with the foreign leader, sharing the tweet and commenting, "1000%."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump, apparently referring to Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, called the judge a "Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator," noting that he had been nominated by President Barack Obama.

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Judge blocks Trump's EPA from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants after accusations of fraud

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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration.

U.S. District Judge Tonya Chutkan ruled that the federal government's "vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient." The order prevents the EPA from ending the grant program, which totaled $20 billion. The judge also blocked Citibank, which holds the money on behalf of EPA, from transferring it to the government or anyone else.

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First on Fox: Democrats launch billboards targeting House Republicans amid town hall showdowns

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EXCLUSIVE: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is putting up billboards in nine competitive House districts that call out Republican representatives whom the Democrats charge are refusing to hold town halls with their constituents.

The launch of the billboards, shared first with Fox News on Wednesday, comes as the DNC teams up with the Association of State Democratic Committees and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to host what they are calling "People's Town Halls."

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WATCH: Teen paddleboarders rescued after 16-hour ordeal

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Three fishermen found the girls, both 16, after a tide pushed them 14 miles off course in Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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Will Trump's tariffs threaten the Fed's soft landing? Experts weigh in.

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The Fed is set to announce a its latest interest rate decision on Wednesday.
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Trump again assails federal judge at center of deportation flight controversy

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President Trump is lashing out again against the top federal judge who issued an order stopping deportation flights of alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Trump administration ends program to track kidnapped Ukrainian children in Russia, lawmakers say

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The U.S. State Department has ended funding for tracking thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and a U.S. database with information on the victims may have been deleted, according to a letter U.S. lawmakers plan to send to Trump administration officials on Wednesday.

A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers penned the letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging the administration to restore the program that helps track the abducted Ukrainian children.

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Istanbul mayor and Erdogan rival arrested in major crackdown

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Ekrem Imamoglu's detention comes days before he was due to be selected as a presidential candidate.
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Fresh wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza

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The bombing is not of the same scale as it was on Tuesday, but it shows no let-up in Israel's fresh assault.
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DR Congo and Rwanda call for ceasefire in conflict with M23 rebels

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The meeting comes amid an M23 advance that has seen the rebels seize two cities in eastern DR Congo.
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US and European armies should join our war on gangs, Ecuador president tells BBC

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Daniel Noboa is calling on international armies to fight the cartels trafficking most of the world's cocaine.
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Russian drone hits Ukraine hospital after Putin, Trump agree to partial ceasefire

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said overnight missile and drone attacks launched by Russia showed that Moscow's claimed support for a ceasefire in Ukraine is not "real."
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How Donald Trump dominates the news, both positively and negatively

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The Associated Press, not exactly a White House favorite, has shot itself in the foot.

The following retraction is nothing short of humiliating:

"The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘are very good friends.’ Gabbard was talking about Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The AP will publish a corrected version of the story."

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Putin gives Trump just enough to claim progress on Ukraine peace

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Trump made a big deal of his conversation with Putin, but there is little to shout about, Sarah Rainsford writes.
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Astronauts Butch and Suni finally back on Earth

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