The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

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A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.

Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

A year after 'Liberation Day,' Trump's tariffs are hurting small businesses Many small business owners say the uncertainty that goes along with the high cost of the Trump administration's emergency tariffs is driving away customers and eating into profits.

The emergency tariffs Trump imposed last year cost American businesses $151 billion in the year that ended in February.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brent oil spot price for actual cargo soars to $141, highest level since 2008 financial crisis The Brent oil futures price is giving the market a false sense of security, said Amrita Sen, founder of Energy Aspects.

Brent oil spot price for actual cargo soars to $141, highest level since 2008 financial crisis www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/d...

Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records Trump was indicted after his first term for failing to turn over some documents when he left office.

"President Trump's Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring presidential records to be turned over to the government is unconstitutional."

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety-net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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Trump’s “God Squad” Might Vote for a Whale’s Extinction This Week On Tuesday, a powerful committee of agency leaders will decide whether oil and gas companies can disregard protections for a critically endangered species known as “America’s whale.”

On Tuesday, a powerful committee of agency leaders will decide whether oil and gas companies can disregard protections for a critically endangered species known as “America’s whale.”

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
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Immigrant kids can attend school regardless of citizenship – some states are challenging this standard The Heritage Foundation released a policy document in February 2026 that spells out how states can try to challenge a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that enshrined immigrant students’ right to attend schoo...

Republican legislators in several states, including Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ohio, are trying to pass legislation that challenges the right of immigrant children to attend K-12 public school.

When did the Spurs get to town? Any late night Oscar parties? Cause they started the first quarter dragging.

Iran Has Just Fired the Most Dangerous Shot of This War and it wasn't a missile Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on the condition that the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official told CNN

Tehran has floated allowing a limited number of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, not US dollars. This would be the biggest challenge to the petrodollar system in its history, striking at the financial architecture that underpins American global power.

Roughly 2.3 million people live within two miles of these facilities in what are often low-income neighborhoods or communities of color.

Forgoing food. Cutting back on utilities. Driving less. Borrowing money. These are the sacrifices that tens of millions of people are making to afford their health care expenses, according to a West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America survey released.

‪NBC News‬ ‪@nbcnews.com‬ · 11m Defense Department officials told senators in a closed-door briefing that they estimate the first six days of the war in Iran cost more than $11.3 billion, three sources say.

Quite the split screen:
-Millions of Americans are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities to afford health care

-First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3 billion, Pentagon tells Congress

“.. For the American consumer, things are getting very real, very fast: average gasoline price is now up by 19.9% over the past 10 days ... that eclipses the move in 2022 and is now the largest spike we've seen in the history of the data going back to 2004.” ⛽️

- Schwab

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

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America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

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As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr’s allies work to gut vaccine laws Activists who dispute safety of vaccines are pushing to limit immunization requirements in schools

Groups with ties to Robert F Kennedy Jr are encouraging followers to organize opposition to vaccine mandates in more than 20 states, including six states with current measles outbreaks.

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

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To put this in context: Consistently, about 13 percent of Americans believe in Bigfoot. So war with Iran polls slightly better than Bigfoot.

Dr. Catharine Young: We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House site.

Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President's House in Philly www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Trump touts climate savings but new rule set to push up US prices Critics accuse administration of ‘cooking the books’ by claiming US would save $1.3tn from climate finding reversal

The repeal of the climate endangerment finding will impose an estimated costs of $1.5tn, overshadowing the projected $1.3tn in savings. And that’s before you take into account the huge social and climate costs.

Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.

Before January 2026, those who wished to learn about Judge could literally stand on the same walkway in Philadelphia she took to flee President Washington’s house. This changed when the National Park Service dismantled the slavery exhibit at Philadelphia Independence National Historic Park.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ