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'Those aren't actual deals': ABC host busts treasury secretary on Trump's trade 'deals'

April 27, 2025 10:27AM ET ABC News host Martha Raddatz challenged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after President Donald Trump claimed that he had made 200 trade deals in his first 100 days in office. "He said that he has made 200 deals on tariffs. 200 deals?" Raddatz told the secretary on Sunday. "Who has he made deals with? Is there actually any deal at this point?" "I believe that he is referring to sub-deals within the negotiations we're doing," Bessent rep ...

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ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted

IMMIGRATION ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority. Hawes Spencer 9 hrs ago U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has broken its silence, conceding its agents were responsible for the arrest of two men during a raid on a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and promising that the bysta ...

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Kari Lake Suggests Trump Should Defy Courts: I'd Rather 'Follow The Constitution Than a Judge Who's Got an Agenda'

Apr 27th, 2025, 2:43 pm Kari Lake, the Trump administration Senior Advisor for the US Agency for Global Media, suggested Sunday that President Donald Trump should defy court orders he views as politically motivated. Appearing on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Lake criticized federal judges who have issued rulings blocking Trump’s executive actions on immigration, tariffs, and agency reforms. She also accused the judiciary of attempting to “subvert the will of the people” through those ru ...

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Trump ready to bail out farmers amid trade war squeeze, Rollins says

6 hours ago President Trump is prepared to bail out American farmers if the trade war continues squeezing commodity exports, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Sunday. Why it matters: Exports of key commodities are plunging, particularly soybean and pork sales to China, threatening tens of billions of dollars in farm income. What they're saying: "First of all, the prayer is that that doesn't need to happen — but secondly, if it does, for the short term, just as in Trump 1, we ar ...

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Mass shooting in Myrtle Beach tourist hotspot leaves 11 injured, suspect killed by police

Sunday 27 April 2025 16:20 EDT At least 11 people were injured and one suspect was killed in an officer-involved mass shooting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Myrtle Beach Police Department revealed on Facebook that officers responded to an incident at roughly 11:50 p.m. Saturday. Officers “observed a disturbance involving multiple individuals” on North Ocean Boulevard, the statement said. One person fired a weapon during an “altercation,” prompting an officer to respond by discharging ...

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Arrest made in the theft of Kristi Noem's purse and thousands in cash, source says

Arrest made in the theft of Kristi Noem's purse and thousands in cash, source says By Josh Campbell, Kit Maher and John Miller, CNN 2 minute read Updated 2:12 AM EDT, Sun April 27, 2025 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on March 27, 2025 in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images) Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Images/File (CNN) -- An arrest has been made in the investigation of the theft of a high-end Gucci bag belonging to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a law enforcement sour ...

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Campgrounds, visitor centers at federal lakes are closing amid Trump's budget cuts

April 27, 2025, 12:03 AM TOPEKA, Kan. -- Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May as the Trump administration tries to rapidly shrink the U.S. government. Officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the lakes and reservoirs and their amenities for boating, camping, hiking and sightseeing, said they are dealing with staffing shortages and other ...

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Mother of 1-Year-Old Married to US Citizen Deported, Separated From Baby

Published Apr 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM EDT Updated Apr 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM EDT Heydi Snchez Tejeda, a Cuban immigrant married to a United States citizen with whom she shares a baby daughter, was detained earlier this week and deported to Havana on Thursday on a flight carrying dozens of Cuban migrants, the Miami Herald reported on Saturday. Her husband, Carlos Yuniel Valle, said in Spanish in an emotional video posted on his Facebook account, "They separated a girl from her mother. They kill ...

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Trump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps in cities and forcibly hospitalize people, report

Saturday 26 April 2025 21:14 BST Officials from the Justice Department who manage grant distributions are brainstorming ways to clear homeless encampments and increase the involuntary hospitalization of individuals with mental illnesses, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post. This represents the latest indication that the Trump administration is following through on commitments to aggressively remove homeless people from public spaces, as President Donald Trump spoke of during ...

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Several people killed after SUV rams into Vancouver street festival

Vancouver police say several people have been killed and multiple others injured after a driver of a black SUV drove into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening. The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place. ... He said crews lifted a barricade that had been blocking traffic to allow a vehicle to enter. While some cars were being guided carefully through the crowds, Pangilinan said one car suddenl ...

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Russia declares a ceasefire in Ukraine on May 8-10 for WWII Victory Day

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'Should Not Treat Them Nicely!' Trump Calls For Republicans to Crack Down on 'Disruptors and Troublemakers' at Town Hall

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Trump says he's "bringing back Columbus Day from the ashes"

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Scoop: Trump admin game-planning for potential North Korea talks

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Trump Floats New Income Tax Cut in Bid to Ease Tariffs Bite

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