The Supreme Court has ruled Donald Trump’s administration must “facilitate” the return of a wrongfully deported Maryland father imprisoned in a brutal El Salvador jail.
ICE agents deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia last month despite a court order blocking his removal from the country.
Officials conceded this occurred due to an “administrative error,” insisting it was impossible to bring him back.
Meanwhile, U.S. stocks plunged on Thursday, giving up more than half of their historic gains from the previous day as Trump’s trade war continues to create confusion.
The S&P 500 ended the day down 3.45 percent, cutting into the 9.5 percent surge that followed the president's pause of many global Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 2.54 percent and the
On Wednesday, the president urged the world to “be cool” as his sweeping import taxes took effect, crashing global markets. Minutes after trading began on Wall Street, he declared: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”
Then, four hours later, tariffs on most nations for 90 days while increasing levies on imports from China.
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Democrats in Congress take aim at Trump’s ‘market manipulation’: ‘This could be an enormous scandal’
Key Points
- Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US from El Salvador prison
- Trump mourns Hudson River helicopter tragedy and threatens Mexico over water supply
- Wall Street closes sharply lower as investors' trade war worries return
- ‘More great days coming’ Trump promises after dramatically changing course on tariffs with 90-day pause
- Trump accused of ‘market manipulation’ with tariff pause
Truth Social: Trump mourns Hudson River helicopter tragedy and threatens Mexico over water supply
09:05
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Joe Sommerlad
The president has paid tribute to the six people who were killed when their helicopter went down in New York City’s Hudson River yesterday, also taking up a gripe with Mexico over its alleged violations of a water treaty that he says is leaving South Texas parched.
Terrible helicopter crash in the Hudson River. Looks like six people, the pilot, two adults, and three children, are no longer with us. The footage of the accident is horrendous. God bless the families and friends of the victims. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and his…
— Trump Posts on (@trump_repost) April 10, 2025
Mexico OWES Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under the 1944 Water Treaty, but Mexico is unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation. This is very unfair, and it is hurting South Texas Farmers very badly. Last year, the only Sugar Mill in Texas CLOSED, because Mexico has…
— Trump Posts on (@trump_repost) April 10, 2025
Top story: Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US
08:45
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Joe Sommerlad
Good morning!
The Supreme Court has ruled Donald Trump’s administration must “facilitate” the return of a wrongfully deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia imprisoned in a brutal El Salvador jail.
With no noted dissents, Thursday’s unsigned order from the nation’s high court states that the administration “should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.”
A lower court judge who ordered Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States must now “clarify” the ruling, “with due regard to the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs,” the justices noted.
That order “properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador, and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” according to the court’s decision.
“The intended scope of the term ‘effectuate’ in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority.”
A separate statement from the court’s three liberal justices said “the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia with all the process to which he would have been entitled had he not been unlawfully removed to El Salvador.”
Alex Woodward reports.
A win for Mike Johnson? The finish line of the speaker’s budget marathon is still far in the distance
08:30
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Oliver O'Connell
John Bowden writes:
Mike Johnson notched another victory for Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda on Thursday, but the struggle to get the Republican Party’s budget passed into law is only at the halfway point.
With the House and Senate GOP caucuses now due to reconcile two budget frameworks into one, the real work begins: finding as much as $1.5 trillion in spending cuts that won’t scare vulnerable moderate Republicans in swing districts off from the final package.
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Trump tariffs chaos: Small businesses already being hammered
07:30
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Oliver O'Connell
Richard Hall writes:
A tattoo equipment supplier in Pennsylvania is worried they won’t make it past summer. A three-person team making optical scanners in San Diego saw their bills double overnight. A coffee shop in New Orleans may be forced to raise its prices.
Donald Trump has defended his sweeping tariffs by claiming to be a president “who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street,” but it is small businesses that are already bearing the brunt of his economic gamble.
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US government moves for release of ex-FBI informant who fabricated bribery story about the Bidens
06:30
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Oliver O'Connell
The U.S. government now wants a former FBI informant who fabricated a story about former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes to be released from prison while he appeals his conviction, it was revealed Thursday in court records.
Alexander Smirnov, 44, was sentenced to six years in prison in early January after pleading guilty in Los Angeles federal court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme, which was described by prosecutors at the time as an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
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US budget deficit grows to $1.3 trillion, the second highest six-month level on record
05:30
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Oliver O'Connell
The U.S. budget deficit has grown to more than $1.3 trillion in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year — the second-highest six-month deficit on record, according to Treasury Department data released Thursday.
The deficit for October through March spans the administrations of President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. The previous high in the four decades of recordkeeping was $1.7 trillion in the first half of fiscal year 2021, when the government was tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gulf shrimpers in a Texas fishing town are rooting on Trump's tariffs
04:30
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AP
While American consumers and markets wonder and worry about President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs, there's one group cheering him as they hope he'll prop up their sinking business: Gulf coast shrimpers.
American shrimpers have been hammered in recent years by cheap imports flooding the U.S. market and restaurants, driving down prices to the point that profits are razor thin or shrimpers are losing money and struggling to stay afloat.
Tariffs, they hope, could level the playing field and help their businesses not just survive but thrive.
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Mexican president responds to Trump on sending water to Texas
03:45
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Oliver O'Connell
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Donald Trump’s Truth Social post threatening Mexico with tariffs and sanctions on the basis that it owes Texas water under a 1944 treaty.
Sheinbaum wrote her own post on X, saying that her administration had sent a proposal to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday about how to address the issue of sending water to Texas.
Sobre el comunicado que recientemente publicó el presidente Trump, informo lo siguiente:
— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) April 11, 2025
El día de ayer fue enviada al subsecretario del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos una propuesta integral para atender el envío de agua a Texas dentro del tratado de 1944, que incluye…
“There have been three years of drought and to the extent that water has been available, Mexico has complied,” she wrote.
The president said she had instructed members of her Cabinet to immediately reach out to the U.S. Agriculture Department and State Department.
“I am sure, like with other issues, an agreement will be reached,” she said.
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward
03:30
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Oliver O'Connell
A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country.
In a ruling Thursday, Judge Trevor Neil McFadden sided with the administration, which had argued that they were simply enforcing an already existing requirement for everyone in the country who wasn’t an American citizen to register with the government.
The requirement goes into effect Friday.
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Trump's trade war: Asian shares fall in early trading, with Japan's Nikkei down 5.6%
02:59
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AP
Asian shares sank Friday in early trading after U.S. stocks surrendered a chunk of their historic gains from the day before.
The deepening worries over President Donald Trump’ s trade war helped pull Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index down 5.6%.
Shares also fell in South Korea and Australia in early trading Friday.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 tumbled 3.5%, slicing into Wednesday’s surge of 9.5% following Trump’s decision to pause many of his tariffs worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,014 points, or 2.5%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.3%.
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Trump leans into RFK’s conspiracies about vaccines and autism
02:42
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Oliver O'Connell
Julia Musto reports:
Speaking with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr and other members of his Cabinet, President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that “something” is causing higher autism levels across the U.S., possibly including vaccinations, though that theory has been debunked by science.
“You stop taking something, you stop eating something, or maybe it’s a shot,” Trump mused, “but something’s causing it.”
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Report: Trump adding immigrants to Social Security ‘master death file’ to pressure them into deportation
02:26
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Oliver O'Connell
Josh Marcus reports:
The Trump administration is reportedly canceling the Social Security numbers of immigrants who came to the U.S. legally and adding their identities to a closely guarded Social Security database tracking deaths.
The move, treating the individuals as if they had literally died in the eyes of the government, is the latest in the administration’s larger campaign to revoke the status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who got temporary authorization to remain in the U.S. under the Biden administration.
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Oh, and eggs are up 60% since last year...
01:50
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Oliver O'Connell
Happy almost Easter!
Ariana Baio and Alicja Hagopian take a look at what’s happening:
Dire warning about Christmas from toy company CEO amid Trump tariff hikes
01:35
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Oliver O'Connell
Toy company BasicFun!’s CEO, Jay Foreman, has shared a warning about prices going up this Christmas due to President Donald Trump’s global tariffs plan.
Amber Raiken reports from New York.
US ambassador to Ukraine to step down as peace talks uncertain
01:08
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Gustaf Kilander
Matthew Lee writes:
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is stepping down from her post after nearly three years in Kyiv amid uncertainty over the Trump administration’s attempts to broker a peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
The State Department said Thursday that Bridget Brink will be leaving her post in the near future, although it was not immediately clear exactly when she would depart. Brink assumed the post under former President Joe Biden’s administration and has been a staunch advocate for U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.
Her resignation had been expected for some time, especially considering the Trump administration’s premium on rapprochement with Russia and ending the war.
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Trump threatens Mexico with more tariffs and sanctions over 1944 Water Treaty
01:07
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Oliver O'Connell
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Mexico on social media regarding the 1944 Water Treaty that he says the country is violating.
Trump says Mexico owes Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under a 1944 treaty, and he’s threatening sanctions to try and force its compliance.
An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover 1 acre of land to a depth of 1 foot.
Trump also wrote that he’d also recently “halted water shipments” to Tijuana, on Mexico’s border with California, to try and force compliance with the 1944 water treaty.
Here’s his full post from Truth Social this evening:
Mexico OWES Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under the 1944 Water Treaty, but Mexico is unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation. This is very unfair, and it is hurting South Texas Farmers very badly. Last year, the only Sugar Mill in Texas CLOSED, because Mexico has been stealing the water from Texas Farmers. Ted Cruz has been leading the fight to get South Texas the water it is owed, but Sleepy Joe refused to lift a finger to help the Farmers.
THAT ENDS NOW! I will make sure Mexico doesn’t violate our Treaties, and doesn’t hurt our Texas Farmers. Just last month, I halted water shipments to Tijuana until Mexico complies with the 1944 Water Treaty. My Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, is standing up for Texas Farmers, and we will keep escalating consequences, including TARIFFS and, maybe even SANCTIONS, until Mexico honors the Treaty, and GIVES TEXAS THE WATER THEY ARE OWED!
A win for Mike Johnson?
Friday 11 April 2025 00:55
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Oliver O'Connell
John Bowden writes:
Mike Johnson notched another victory for Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda on Thursday, but the struggle to get the Republican Party’s budget passed into law is only at the halfway point.
With the House and Senate GOP caucuses now due to reconcile two budget frameworks into one, the real work begins: finding as much as $1.5 trillion in spending cuts that won’t scare vulnerable moderate Republicans in swing districts off from the final package.
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Full story: Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US from El Salvador prison
Friday 11 April 2025 00:43
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Oliver O'Connell
The Supreme Court has ruled Donald Trump’s administration must “facilitate” the return of a wrongfully deported Maryland father imprisoned in a brutal El Salvador jail.
With no noted dissents, Thursday’s unsigned order from the nation’s high court says the administration “should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.”
The order said a judge’s decision to return Abrego Garcia to the United States must now “clarify” its rulings, “with due regard to the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”
Alex Woodward has been following the case and filed this report.
Even MAGA is sick of the ICE agent ‘cosplay’ following Kristi Noem’s ride-along with Libs of TikTok creator
Friday 11 April 2025 00:40
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Gustaf Kilander
Justin Baragona writes:
What seemed to begin as yet another way to “own the libs” is now backfiring on the Trump administration and one of its biggest allies in the MAGA social media ecosystem.
Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem let Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik accompany her on an ICE raid in Arizona. While Noem was decked out in tactical gear and carried an assault rifle, Raichik donned a police vest and an ICE officer badge on the “ride-along” and posted “exclusive footage” of the arrests of supposed “criminal illegal aliens” to her social media platforms.
“Just stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay ICE agent, which you’re not,” conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly exclaimed on Wednesday.
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Trump offers condolences to families of those killed in New York helicopter crash
Friday 11 April 2025 00:25
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Oliver O'Connell
President Donald Trump has offered his condolences to the families and friends of those killed in this afternoon’s helicopter crash on the Hudson River in New York City.
Six people — three adults and three children, including a family visiting from Spain — lost their lives.
The president said, “Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and his talented staff are on it.”
He wrote in full on Truth Social:
Terrible helicopter crash in the Hudson River. Looks like six people, the pilot, two adults, and three children, are no longer with us. The footage of the accident is horrendous. God bless the families and friends of the victims. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and his talented staff are on it. Announcements as to exactly what took place, and how, will be made shortly!
PREMIUM: Big Tech’s bet on Donald Trump has blown up in their face. No one is surprised but them
Friday 11 April 2025 00:20
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Oliver O'Connell
Io Dodds writes:
To back an authoritarian leader because he makes the trains run on time is one thing. To back him even when he dynamites the track is quite another.
On January 20, we watched Silicon Valley leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos line up together at Donald Trump's inauguration. It was part of an unprecedented display of truckling and toadying apparently calculated to ensure that, no matter how many people the big man fired or locked up, he'd at least protect Big Tech’s bottom line.
So how's that going?
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CDC officials plan for the agency's splintering, but questions remain
Friday 11 April 2025 00:00
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AP
A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to start planning for the agency's splintering.
Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren't infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official told senior leaders in calls and meetings.
The directive came from Dr. Debra Houry, the agency’s chief medical officer, according to three CDC officials who were in attendance. They declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to talk about the plans and fear being fired if they were identified.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court says Trump admin must return wrongly-deported Maryland man to U.S.
Friday 11 April 2025 00:00
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Oliver O'Connell
The Supreme Court says that the Trump administration must facilitate the return to the U.S. of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador and incarcerated.
BREAKING: A 9-0 Supreme Court UPHOLDS a court order requiring the Trump administration to bring a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back to the U.S. after mistakenly deporting him to El Salvador. Deadline TBD. #SCOTUShttps://t.co/bB0HHquFAk pic.twitter.com/vng90OhbL0
— Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler) April 10, 2025
Full story to come...
Now Trump has slowed his global tariff plan, what happens next and what does it mean for you wallet?
Thursday 10 April 2025 23:40
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Oliver O'Connell
Mike Bedigan reports.
Trump’s sudden announcement Wednesday that he was temporarily pausing his tariff plan caught the world – as well as most of his allies and administration – by surprise.
The announcement has given foreign leaders some relief, with a new deadline of July 8 now fixed so that trade deals with affected countries and the U.S. can be negotiated. It follows days of chaos in the global markets, with stocks on such a roller coaster that even billionaire business owners were getting the jitters.
Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on:
Wrongly deported Maryland father denied request to reply to government's latest filing
Thursday 10 April 2025 23:30
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Oliver O'Connell
Alex Woodward reports:
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is denying Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request to reply to the government’s latest filing in his case, after the Trump administration raised two new pieces of evidence.
In making their argument to stop the court from ordering Trump to return the wrongly deported Maryland father who is sitting in El Salvador’s mega prison, government attorneys claimed they have “been informed” that El Salvador has its “own legal rationales for detaining members of criminal associations and foreign terrorist groups like MS-13.”
The government contends that Abrego Garcia is a member of the transnational gang, based on spurious evidence, and which his attorneys and family have flatly rejected.
The government also stated that a Justice Department’s lawyer’s recent arguments in court “do not reflect the position of the United States.” That official was placed on leave after insufficiently defending the administration.
But, in a single-line entry on the docket, Roberts won’t allow Abrego Garcia’s team to respond to those claims in a new filing. It’s not typical for the court to grant permission for what’s called a “sur reply,” but Roberts’s brief entry is the first time the public has heard from the court since it allowed Trump to keep Abrego Garcia imprisoned while they consider next steps.
The court could rule at any time on whether Trump must bring him back to the United States.
Tariffgate: How Trump’s trade war blew up in his face
Thursday 10 April 2025 23:20
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Gustaf Kilander
Simon Walters writes:
When, in 1974, President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after lying about a break-in involving planting listening devices at his Democrat rivals’ Watergate Hotel HQ during his re-election campaign, it became the biggest scandal in political history. Now, Donald Trump has found himself in the middle of a political storm that could prove as damaging: Tariffgate.
As markets opened on Wednesday, Trump posted on his TruthSocial platform: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” Hours later, he issued an abrupt U-turn on the reciprocal tariffs he announced on his “Liberation Day” at the start of the month, declaring a “90-day pause” on tariffs for all countries except China.
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Judge halts Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries
Thursday 10 April 2025 23:05
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AP
A federal judge on Thursday said she will halt the Trump administration from ending a program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to temporarily live in the United States.
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