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President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10.Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images file

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Trump's economy at 100 days: Unprecedented uncertainty reigns

By Rob Wile

Voters returned Donald Trump to the White House in November believing he would be better for the economy than his opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Yet 100 days into Trump’s second presidential term, voters now face an economic landscape rife with uncertainty.

Among its attributes: recession odds of as high as 60%, inflation rates that have barely budged and a stock market that, until recently, was beset by volatility.

At issue is Trump’s tariffs strategy.

Though he said throughout his campaign that he planned to impose tariffs on goods brought into the United States, consumers and businesses alike have reacted with shock at what Trump has implemented and the speed with which he has done it: a 10%-across-the-board tariff, 25% duties on autos and auto parts and steel and aluminum products, and duties of as high as 145% on goods from China, the third-largest source of imports into the United States behind the European Union and Mexico.

“A lot of economic policy has been made in these first 100 days — more than any other administration I can think of,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. ...

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Senate to force vote on blocking Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a measure aimed at blocking President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs amid anxiety over how the wide-ranging tariffs could disrupt the U.S. economy.

The resolution, led by Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, would terminate the April 2 national emergency that the president is using to impose the tariffs, effectively blocking the sweeping levies on foreign imports.

But the measure almost certainly won't be taken up in the GOP-controlled House, making...
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Rubio passionately defends immigration actions to weed out 'perverts and pedophiles and child rapists'

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s decision to send an accused MS-13 gang member back to his native country of El Salvador — and said the U.S. is seeking other countries to do the same.

"I say this unapologetically: We are actively searching for other countries to take people from third countries. So we are active, not just El Salvador," Rubio said Wednesday during a cabinet meeting at the White House. "We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your...
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Florida AG launches Office of Parental Rights, lending legal firepower to defend parents' 'God-given right'

  • News source: FOX News
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the creation of an Office of Parental Rights in the Sunshine State that will lend legal muscle to help parents fight for the rights they've been granted by God.

Uthmeier pointed out during remarks on Tuesday that "it is not the role of the government to raise kids," but that the role is parents' "God-given right." He said that "parents have the God-given rights to raise their kids the way they deem appropriate."

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WH says 'no dispute' deported suspected gang member had MS-13 tattoos despite photos to the contrary

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump defended the deportation of illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a fiery interview with ABC, pointing to a photo he shared on social media clearly showing the notorious gang's name tattooed across Abrego Garcia's knuckles.

Other recent photos of the illegal alien, however, do not appear to show the tattoo, Fox News Digital found.

"Ask any law or immigration enforcement official who’s been on the ground about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s tattoos: they’re MS-13," White House spokesman Kush Desai...
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Graham mocks Democrats as Trump DEA nominee confirms MS-13 gang tattoos

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During the confirmation hearing for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) nominee Terrance Cole, Sen. Lindsey Graham produced a photo of deported alleged gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia and asked Cole to essentially translate the man’s controversial tattoos.

"Are you familiar with MS-13? Briefly, what are they?" Graham asked.

"They’re a terrorist organization," Cole replied.

"[They’re involved in] extortion, kidnapping, drugs, intimidation, money laundering…"

‘MARYLAND MAN’ KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA EXPOSED IN POLICE RECORDS AS ‘VIOLENT’ REPEAT WIFE...
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Ex-McConnell advisor-turned-MAGA star doesn’t rule out potential Senate bid as rumors swirl

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Scott Jennings, CNN's Trump-supporting commentator who has gone viral on social media for his sparring matches with left-leaning guests, responded to reports that he may run for Senate in Kentucky to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell.

"Man, the internet’s a crazy place. Long way until next May," Jennings, who formerly advised multiple McConnell campaigns, told Fox News Digital at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. "I read all this with some amusement, but again, it’s a long way until next year."

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South Africa sets up inquiry into apartheid prosecutions

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Several apartheid-era atrocities, like murder, have been uncovered but few have made it to court.
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Xi's real test is not Trump's trade war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The real battleground of the current trade war might be China's domestic economy
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Anti-Israel Columbia protester detained by ICE is freed after federal judge's order

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A federal judge ordered the release of an anti-Israel protester who helped organize riots and protests at the University of Columbia on Wednesday.

Authorities with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder, earlier this month.

According to the court filing, Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia in the fall of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack. He founded the group with Mahmoud Khalil, another pro-Palestinian activist who was detained by federal immigration officials under the Trump...
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Liberal Supreme Court justices grill religious institution in landmark school choice case

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case involving the nation's first religious charter schools, and whether it is eligible for state funding despite its religious teachings.

At issue in the case is a virtual Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, and whether the school is eligible to receive public funding because of its religious teachings. Lawyers representing the school have argued that it is operating like a private actor working under a contract with the state, and asked the...
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Biden-appointed federal judge keeps blocking Trump admin from nixing funding for lawyers for migrant children

  • News source: FOX News
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U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín is continuing to block the government from cutting off funding for legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children.

"This injunction precludes cutting off access to congressionally appropriated funding for its duration," the court ordered.

The move to grant the motion for a preliminary injunction came after the court had previously granted a temporary restraining order to the same effect.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Wednesday but did not receive a response by the...
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Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released

  • News source: Chloe Atkins and Matt Lavietes | NBC News
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A judge ordered Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released from federal immigration custody on Wednesday.

Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained April 14 by armed DHS agents during his naturalization interview in Vermont to become a U.S. citizen.

"I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you," Mahdawi said outside the Vermont courtroom.

"What we are witnessing now and what we’re understanding is exactly what...
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Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE detention

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Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian Columbia student who had been detained by immigration authorities when he went in for his U.S. citizenship interview, has been released after a federal judge's order on Wednesday.

Mahdawi was taken into custody on April 16.

Mahdawi's attorneys argued that the Trump administration is seeking to deport Mahdawi because he helped lead pro-Palestinian protests on Columbia's campus in the early months of the Israel-Hamas war, in violation of his First Amendment rights.

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Cruz escalates feud with ex-Iranian official working at Princeton: ‘You should be deported’

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz escalated his war of words with a former Iranian regime official who, as a faculty member at Princeton, was reportedly making Jewish students feel uncomfortable amid global tensions.

"I try not to be in the room with people linked to Iranian terrorists who have murdered dozens of dissidents," Cruz wrote in response to a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, from former Iranian Ambassador to Germany Seyed Hossein Mousavian.

"Your books are unreadable, and the only debate you should be having is with DHS agents, at the...
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Uzbekistan agrees to pay for and accept 131 Central Asian illegal immigrants in landmark agreement

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: A plane full of Central Asian illegal immigrants is on its way from the U.S. to Uzbekistan at no cost to Americans under a deal brokered between the two governments, Fox News Digital has learned.

Over 100 unlawful immigrants are flying back to Uzbekistan on Wednesday as part of the agreement, and Uzbekistan is paying for the chartered deportation flight, the first such agreement by a foreign government since President Donald Trump took office. The flight, which took off this morning, had 131 migrants on board.

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