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Trump administration live updates: President floats 80% China tariff; Pope Leo XIV’s social media scrutinized  NBC News

Top White House aide Steven Cheung didn’t hold back his raging response when he caught wind of Lawrence O’Donnell’s psychological assessment of President Donald Trump, according to the Daily Beast. O’Donnell wondered aloud on his MSNBC show whether Trump’s mental

It is a mass of rubble. The doors and windows of Jamia Ummul Qurah mosque in Muridke were blown off and there are two huge holes in the ceiling.

Federal judge temporarily halts Trump’s sweeping government overhaul at 20 agencies  NPR Judge halts drastic cuts to agencies being done under Trump executive order  CNN Judge pauses Trump’s effort to reduce the size of the federal government  NBC News Judge temporarily blocks Trump

There’s an exchange in the new miniseries The Four Seasons that will land with a lot of long-married women. Tina Fey’s Kate and her husband Jack, who’s played by Will Forte, are running late for an obligation, and Jack mentions

New Jersey mayor arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting, prosecutor says  CNN Newark mayor arrested at ICE facility during protest with congressional Dems  FOX 5 New York Federal immigration agents arrest Newark mayor trying to enter NJ detention center.  USA

White House ‘actively looking’ at suspending habeas corpus in immigration crackdown  The Hill

After a brief, two-day deliberation, a new pope to lead the Catholic Church has been selected to succeed Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Robert Prevost, the first American Pope in history, took the name Pope Leo XIV, and

Since Israel’s military went to war against Hamas in Gaza more than a year and a half ago, it has conducted thousands of strikes in the territory. One attack last year stands out. Israel struck a five-story building housing an

A federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University who had been held for six weeks in an immigration detention center, ruling that her arrest and continued confinement were unlawful