Former Vice President Kamala Harris praised the millions of protesters who gathered at 1,300 “Hands Off” demonstrations across the country Saturday for “standing up” to the Trump administration.
“Thank you for using your voices and the power of protest to stand for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; for the Department of Education and programs like Head Start; for clean air and water; for the right to make decisions about your own body without government interference,” Harris wrote on X. “The voices of working people will always be louder than the unelected billionaires.”
Protesters staged demonstrations at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in more than 1,000 other places nationwide, asking for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to get their “hands off” health care, public lands, immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights, cancer research, and more.
DOGE has executed mass layoffs across the federal workforce, slashed contracts, and made strides to reduce the federal government’s real estate footprint. Meanwhile, in recent weeks, the administration ordered many immigrants to be deported from the U.S., cut funding for health programs, and took steps to shutter federal agencies.
Speaking to a crowd in D.C., Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin described Trump as “an economy-crushing dictator who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
The demonstrations come one day after the stock market closed with a bloodbath on Friday, as investors are spooked about the impact of Trump’s tariff plan that he unveiled Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, the White House said the president won his second-round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, Florida and advances to the Championship Round on Sunday.
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SNL cold open mocks Trump tariffs with ‘Make America Great Depression Again’ line
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Kelly Rissman
Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson took to the stage as President Donald Trump, promising to “Make America Great Depression Again” in a spoof of the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement in which he detailed his widespread tariffs.
“Thank you all for coming out to hear about tariffs. My favorite word, tariff, which, of course, is short for a-terrific-idea,” said Trump, calling the tax on Americans the “backbone of my incredible plan for our economy.”
“It's actually even better than a plan, because it's a series of random numbers, like the numbers on the computer screen in Severance,” he added. “You have no idea what the hell they mean, but I know what the numbers mean … They mean we're gonna make America wealthy again. You know you're gonna check your stock portfolio in a couple days and think ‘I'm almost too wealthy.’”
But before all that, the president said, “We’re going to do MAGDA — Make America Great Depression Again … It'll be better than great. It'll be a fantastic, unbelievable depression, the likes of which have never been seen before.”
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
WATCH: Canada 'will win' trade war with Trump, says PM Carney
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Kelly Rissman
Democrats in Pennsylvania are angry. John Fetterman’s old rival is listening
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Kelly Rissman
Glenn Thompson’s cardboard cutout took some real abuse on Saturday, as a room full of Pennsylvania Democrats let out their frustrations.
A few other members of the state’s congressional delegation might be thankful that his likeness was the only one on display.
Thompson, on his fourth term in the House of Representatives, is just one of dozens of Republican lawmakers who have scaled back public events or avoided them completely amid nationwide outrage from Americans set to see steep cuts to funding for programs in their communities and their own personal safety nets under a Trump 2.0 agenda. Town hall events have become raucous gatherings where Republicans like Victoria Spartz, Chuck Edwards and others have been forced to confront angry voters demanding Congress take action to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE firing spree affecting the Social Security Administration, USAID and other agencies.
John Bowden has the story.
Justice Department seeks 87-month sentence for former GOP Rep. George Santos
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Gustaf Kilander
The Department of Justice is seeking an 87-month sentence for former New York Republican Rep. George Santos after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft last August.
“Santos’ history and characteristics are troubling in the extreme. Santos is a pathological liar and fraudster,” states the 26-page sentencing memo from the department. “For years, Santos manufactured and promoted a fictionalized biography, one that depicted himself as a highly educated, independently wealthy, successful businessman, all premised on a heap of lies.”
Santos was elected in the 2022 midterms when he flipped a Democratic district covering parts of Long Island and Queens.
His life story, however, was quickly found to be largely fabricated. His claims that he worked at top firms on Wall Street and had attended a particular college were debunked, and the financing of his campaign raised questions.
Santos was expelled from Congress in December 2023, after only 11 months as a representative. He was only the sixth member to be expelled; the other five were members of the confederacy.
DHS claims these tattoos show Venezuelan gang membership. The tattoo artists who did them say the truth is a lot more innocent
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Kelly Rissman
In its sweeping deportation campaign against Venezuelan immigrants, the Trump administration has repeatedly relied on tattoos to determine whether someone is a member of the feared criminal syndicate Tren de Aragua.
But The Independent has found that the U.S. government’s examples of TDA tattoos, created under the Biden administration, include art by artists in the UK and India, who say the tattoos they etched had innocent meanings. One honored the birth of a child, while another appears to commemorate the Aussie rock band AC/DC.
“It is mind-blowing that this is being used as an example of gang tattoos. It makes no sense at all,” the British artist whose clock tattoo appears in a 2024 Department of Homeland Security briefing on “detecting and identifying” TDA members told The Independent. “I have no relationship to Venezuelan gangs, and my art has nothing to do with them.”
Io Dodds has the details.
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Kelly Rissman
Millions flocked to the streets across the country in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to health program funding, mass firings of federal workers and steps toward shuttering entire agencies.
“Hands Off” protests, organized by nearly 200 advocacy groups, cropped up in more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and around the globe Saturday in what became the largest day of collective action since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
The protests aimed to put a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” organizers said. Millions — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, workers’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights that have been under “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
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Ukrainian refugees accidentally told to leave in mistaken email
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Gustaf Kilander
Ukrainians legally in the U.S. were told in an email mistakenly sent Friday by the Department of Homeland Security that their parole status had been withdrawn and that they had to self-deport, according to Politico.
The email, sent to an unidentified number of people, prompted widespread fear among those who came to the U.S. to flee the full-scale Russian invasion that began in February 2022. The refugees have been increasingly concerned about their legal status in the country, as President Donald Trump said last month that they could revoke their residency status.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the outlet that the U.S. has not yet revoked the temporary parole status handed to the 240,000 Ukrainians who came to the U.S., fleeing the war under former President Joe Biden.
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DOJ lawyers file emergency appeal on order requiring return of Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador
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Kelly Rissman
The Trump administration is arguing that a federal judge didn’t have the authority to order the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, a Saturday filing reveals.
On Friday. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. by late Monday night. On Saturday, government lawyers filed an emergency appeal, requesting the court pause the judge’s order.
“A judicial order that forces the Executive to engage with a foreign power in a certain way, let alone compel a certain action by a foreign sovereign, is constitutionally intolerable,” the attorneys wrote in a filing in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appeals court asked Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to respond to the government’s filing by Sunday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.
The arrest and wrongful removal of a Salvadoran immigrant from the United States was unconstitutional “from the moment he was seized,” a federal judge told lawyers for Donald Trump’s administration on Friday.
“He was apprehended without legal basis … and without due process,” Judge Xinis said.
Alex Woodward has more on the story.
Trump vows to ‘Make America Great Depression Again’ in SNL cold open spoof on tariffs announcement
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Gustaf Kilander
Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson took to the stage as President Donald Trump, promising to “Make America Great Depression Again” in a spoof of the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement in which he detailed his widespread tariffs.
“Thank you all for coming out to hear about tariffs. My favorite word, tariff, which, of course, is short for a-terrific-idea,” said Trump, calling the tax on Americans the “backbone of my incredible plan for our economy.”
“It's actually even better than a plan, because it's a series of random numbers, like the numbers on the computer screen in Severance,” he added. “You have no idea what the hell they mean, but I know what the numbers mean … They mean we're gonna make America wealthy again. You know you're gonna check your stock portfolio in a couple days and think ‘I'm almost too wealthy.’”
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Justice Department lawyer placed on leave after questioning deportation of Maryland man
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Gustaf Kilander
A top immigration attorney at the Department of Justice was placed on indefinite leave Saturday after he questioned the deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador, according to The New York Times.
A letter obtained by the paper, which had been sent to Erez Reuveni, the acting deputy director of the immigration litigation division, states that he was suspended by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for not following “a directive from your superiors.”
This comes after Reuveni was promoted just two weeks ago. He’s one of several career officials who have faced demotion, suspension, a transfer, or been fired for not following directions from Trump appointees.
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WATCH: Trump Tariffs: What happened to the markets overnight?
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Kelly Rissman
Fresh from telling Trump which national security officials to fire, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer reveals her new political wish
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Gustaf Kilander
The rightwing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has expressed interest in joining the Trump administration.
Loomer took to X on Saturday to say, “I really want to work for President Trump. There is honestly nothing I want more than that.”
Loomer’s comments come after Trump fired several members of the National Security Council following a meeting with the conspiracy theorist during which she pressed the president to remove those she deemed disloyal.
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads the US Cyber Command, was dismissed on Thursday, along with NSA deputy director Wendy Noble.
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Trump and Musk denounced as thousands protest in cities across US: ‘The politics of Mussolini’
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Kelly Rissman
Millions flocked to the streets across the country in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to health program funding, mass firings of federal workers and steps toward shuttering entire agencies.
“Hands Off” protests, organized by nearly 200 advocacy groups, cropped up in more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and around the globe Saturday in what became the largest day of collective action since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
The protests aimed to put a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” organizers said. Millions — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, workers’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights that have been under “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
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Tufts PhD student scores legal win against Trump administration
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Kelly Rissman
A federal judge has rejected a request from Donald Trump’s administration to throw out a Tufts University doctoral student’s legal challenge to her arrest and imprisonment.
Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk — who is currently imprisoned in a Louisiana detention center where several other international students are detained — was arrested outside her apartment in Massachusetts after masked and hooded plaint-clothes immigration agents grabbed her off the street.
On Friday, District Judge Denise Casper agreed to move her case to Vermont, where she was when her lawyers initially petitioned the court for her release. Her attorneys have argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement deliberately and secretly moved her case into another jurisdiction where the Trump administration would have a more favorable outcome.
Alex Woodward has the story.
Musk lashes out at architect of Trump’s tariffs in first public comments about shock policy
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Gustaf Kilander
Graig Graziosi writes:
There's trouble in Trumpland; Tesla CEO and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, has taken public swipes at Donald Trump’s adviser on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro, who helped shape the president's reciprocal tariff policy that tanked markets across the world.
Musk is typically vocal in his support and defense of the president, but has been quiet since Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement that killed $2.5 trillion from the U.S. stock market — a loss of value that cost the Tesla CEO more than $30bn, according to CNBC.
On X, which Musk owns, he took swipes at Navarro, a Harvard-educated economist who advises Trump on trade. Navarro who was originally tapped for a spot in the White House by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is the author of books on China and the economic threats he says the nation poses to the U.S.
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ICYMI: Trump gives TikTok deal extension after China walked away from negotiations over tariffs
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Kelly Rissman
President Donald Trump said on Friday he would extend the deadline for TikTok to find a U.S. buyer by an additional 75 days to “ensure all necessary approvals are signed,” while preventing the popular social media app from going dark in the United States.
“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”
On his first day in office, Trump delayed the app’s ban via an executive order, giving the Chinese-based owner ByteDance until Saturday, April 5 to find a U.S. buyer.
Ariana Baio has the story.
World’s richest billionaires lost $200bn in single day after Trump’s tariffs rocked markets
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Karl Matchett
The richest people in the world lost more than a combined $200bn on Thursday when stock markets cratered in response to tariffs slapped on imports to the US by Donald Trump.
Just over a month ago, a gradual downturn in the stock market meant that 10 tech-focused US billionaires had lost a similar value across the course of 2025 – but this time, a sharper shock wiped out that sum in one trading session.
Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index (BBI) tracks the fortunes and combined wealth of those whose assets tally at least a 10-figure sum, with the richest 13 on that list currently worth a minimum of $100bn (£77bn) each.
However, Thursday’s global stock markets fall saw the group’s combined wealth drop by $208bn, with an average decline of more than 3 percent apiece, Bloomberg said.
WATCH: Trump debuts 'Gold Card' enabling immigrants to buy US residency for $5m
Sunday 6 April 2025 00:30
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Kelly Rissman
Former Trump official explains the reason he believes the administration is using Signal
Sunday 6 April 2025 00:00
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Kelly Rissman
A former Trump administration official and ex-CIA agent has revealed why he believes current Cabinet members used the publicly available app Signal to discuss Yemen attack plans, rather than a more secure system.
Kevin Carroll, who previously served under President Donald Trump in his first term and as a CIA officer, wrote an op-ed for The Guardian arguing National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other administration officials use Signal to ensure their communication isn’t discoverable in legal battles or subject to information requests.
“I believe the reason these officials risk interacting in this way is to prevent their communications from being preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act, and avoid them being discoverable in litigation, or subject to a subpoena or Freedom of Information Act request,” Carroll writes.
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Rubio says he's revoking 'all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders'
Saturday 5 April 2025 23:45
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Gustaf Kilander
I am taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States, effective immediately, due to the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) April 5, 2025
Trump admin sends Hegseth to ceremony for remains of soldiers while president attends fundraiser
Saturday 5 April 2025 23:30
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump did not attend a Friday ceremony in Delaware where U.S. officials accepted the remains of four soldiers who died during a training accident in Lithuania last month.
Instead, the president has been in Florida since yesterday, where he celebrated the beginning of a three-day tournament of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series at one of his golf courses, then was set for a Friday fundraising dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“The Secretary of Defense will represent the Administration at the dignified transfer for the four brave U.S. service members who tragically died during a training exercise in Lithuania,” the White House told The Hill.
The Trump campaign and conservative media previously criticized Joe Biden for looking at his watch during a dignified transfer ceremony.
Josh Marcus has the details.
Why Bibles could soon get more expensive thanks to Trump’s policy
Saturday 5 April 2025 23:00
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump’s sweeping international tariffs may raise the price of Bibles - including the president’s branded version of the holy text.
The CEO of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, which describes itself as the U.S.’s largest commercial Bible and Christian book publisher, told The Wall Street Journal that it had been “all hands on deck,” after the president announced the tariffs on Wednesday.
Bibles are typically printed on thin paper stock and with presses that are largely located outside the U.S., according to The Journal.
This includes China, where Trump’s official “God Bless the USA” Bibles are printed.
According to a chart produced as a prop by the president during his announcement, Chinese imports will face a 34 percent “reciprocal” tariff in addition to a pre-existing 20 percent tariff imposed earlier this year, for a total of 54 percent.
Mike Bedigan has the story.
Why did Russia escape Trump’s tariffs?
Saturday 5 April 2025 23:00
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Kelly Rissman
Almost no countries were spared from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs; even small, uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean were included in the exhaustive list. But one country was notably missing: Russia.
One of the United States’ largest adversaries was omitted from the list of countries slapped with even the 10 percent baseline tariff – a move that raised some eyebrows given Trump’s previously friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But other countries, including the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which have a population of 59 and Svalbard and Jan Mayen, islands in the Arctic Circle with approximately 2,000 people, were hit with tariffs.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday that Russia was exempt because the U.S. doesn’t trade with them under heavy sanctions placed on the country after it invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Trump and Musk denounced as thousands protest in cities across US
Saturday 5 April 2025 22:43
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Kelly Rissman
Millions flocked to the streets across the country in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to health program funding, mass firings of federal workers and steps toward shuttering entire agencies.
“Hands Off” protests, organized by nearly 200 advocacy groups, cropped up in more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and around the globe Saturday in what became the largest day of collective action since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
The protests aimed to put a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” organizers said. Millions — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, workers’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights that have been under “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
Here’s the full story.
Jaguar Land Rover pauses US shipments after Trump rolls out tariff plan
Saturday 5 April 2025 22:30
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Kelly Rissman
Jaguar Land Rover is pausing shipments to the US as it works to “address the new trading terms” in the wake of Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on British goods coming into force.
Sir Keir Starmer was expected to spend the weekend making back-to-back phone calls to world leaders about the tariffs, after talking with the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni, on Friday. In those calls the leaders agreed that an “all-out trade war would be extremely damaging”.
Sir Keir was “clear the UK’s response will be guided by the national interest” and officials would “calmly continue with our preparatory work, rather than rush to retaliate”, a No 10 spokesperson said.
On Saturday afternoon, Jaguar said it was “taking some short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans”.
Archie Mitchell the full story.
DOJ lawyers file emergency appeal on order requiring return of Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador
Saturday 5 April 2025 21:59
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Kelly Rissman
The Trump administration is arguing that a federal judge didn’t have the authority to order the retu
