New: Based on SCOTUS opinion vacating Jeb Boasberg’s ban on deporting Alien Enemies Act illegals, Trump DOJ asks Boasberg to cancel tomorrow’s hearing and dismiss case.

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Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te on Sunday proposed zero tariffs, lower trade barriers, and more investment in the United States instead of retaliating against President Donald Trump’s tariff increases.

President Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday included 32 percent on all Taiwanese exports except semiconductors, which are Taiwan’s most celebrated and economically significant product.

Trump had threatened in March to include Taiwanese semiconductors on his tariff list, because he said Taiwan “stole” the industry from America with unfair trade practices.
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China’s Commerce Ministry said it “resolutely opposes” U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of escalating tariffs, and vowed to take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests.

The comments came after Trump said he would impose an additional 50% duty on U.S. imports from China Wednesday, if Beijing does not withdraw the 34% tariff it imposed on American products last week.

“The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake,” the statement said, according to a CNBC translation. “China will never accept it. If the U.S. insists on its own way, China will fight to the end.”
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Size matters…. at least on New York’s power political gala circuit!

Guests were tittering when disgraced pol Anthony Weiner appeared to be relegated to “the kids’ table” at the 101st Inner Circle dinner at the Ziegfeld Ballroom.

An insider who attended the storied event told Page Six, “Anthony Weiner was stuck on the ‘kid’s table” — also dubbing the seat, “the small Weiner table” — “because there was no room” at one of the larger tables at the event.

The source told us, “First off, Weiner was sitting [at a big table] then someone tapped him on the shoulder, and he had to sit at the baby table which was right in front of the stage.”

In the end, “Weiner pulled out early and left at the first intermission… Everyone in the room was laughing about it.”
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REUTERS: Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

While much of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded in secrecy, the surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting.

The DOGE team is also using the Signal app to communicate, according to one other person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially violating federal record-keeping rules because messages can be set to disappear after a period of time. And they have “heavily” deployed Musk’s Grok AI chatbot – an aspiring ChatGPT rival – as part of their work slashing the federal government, said that person. Reuters could not establish exactly how Grok was being used.
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Cassie Ventura is set to testify against her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs in his upcoming sex trafficking trialnext month.

The “Me & U” hitmaker, 38, will be using her name in court rather than testifying anonymously, a motion filed Friday revealed.

Prosecutors stated that “Victim-1” would be taking the stand in the disgraced music mogul trial. He has been accused in the suits of drugging and raping both men and women over a decades-long period. Combs has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty in his criminal case.

In January, Rolling Stone identified “Victim-1” as Ventura.
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The United States has sent an 'unprecedented' deployment of its heavy B-2 bombers to the Chagos Islands in a show of force amid rising tensions with Iran.

Six of the famed stealth bombers flew in to the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia from Missouri last week in the 'largest single deployment in US history'.

Satellite images of the Indian Ocean airbase showed six of the planes on the apron, adjacent to the runway, last Wednesday. 

To my knowledge, this is the largest B-2 deployment to a forward location,' Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists told American journalist Ken Klippenstein.

The Trump administration has been unusually quiet on the deployment to Chagos, which is in range of both Iran and Yemen, where B-2s have been used to target Houthi rebels.

While Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, said last month that there was still hope Iran could be reached through diplomatic routes, the U.S. president has been more direct in threats against the regime.

Trump said yesterday that if talks between U.S. officials and Iranian leaders this weekend do not go well, 'Iran is going to be in great danger'.
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🤡The European Parliament will send a fact-finding mission to Hungary in mid-April to assess the latest developments regarding the rule of law, and 19 EU member states are already ready to take away Hungary’s voting rights.

The EUobserver claims that “rule of law in Hungary continues to deteriorate,” which is why EU institutions are considering accelerating sanctions under Article 7 of the Treaty.

This claim comes even as Marine Le Pen is banned from running for office in France on trumped-up charges as well as the presidential frontrunner in Romania, Călin Georgescu, being banned from running for president and suffering a show-trial arrest. 

At the same time, Germany is working on banning the largest opposition party in the country, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), all in a clear breach of fundamental democratic rights.

The author suggests that as a first step, four-fifths of countries could establish that there is a clear risk of a serious breach of the EU’s fundamental values in Hungary.
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Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith on Monday said he is “leaving all doors open” when it comes to a presidential bid.

“Time to stop messing around. Life is great. Especially at ESPN/Disney. Hate the thought of being a politician. But sick of this mess. So I’m officially leaving all doors open,” Smith said in a post on the social platform X in response to reporting that the sports personality said a bid for the White House is not out of his future.
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China is using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to ramp up disinformation against Taiwan to "divide" Taiwan's public, the island's National Security Bureau said.

Taiwan has accused China of stepping up military drills, trade sanctions and influence campaigns against the island in recent years to force the island to accept Chinese sovereignty claims. Taiwan strongly rejects China's sovereignty claims

China staged two days of war games and live-fire drills near the democratically governed island this month, triggering concern by the United States and many of its allies.

In a report to parliament, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, the security bureau said it had detected more than half a million pieces of "controversial messages" so far this year, mostly seen on social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok.

Beijing has targeted sensitive moments such as President Lai Ching-te's speech on China last month or chipmaker TSMC's announcement of new U.S. investment to launch what the report said was "cognitive warfare", adding such efforts were "designed to create division among our society."
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Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second alleged assassination attempt against President Trump, has formally asked a judge to suppress statements from the eyewitness who identified him to police as the suspect with a high-powered rifle who was a few hundred yards away from Mr. Trump at his Florida golf course.

Prosecutors say Routh plotted to kill Mr. Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as the then-Republican nominee played golf on Sept. 14, 2024, at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Before Mr. Trump came into view, Routh was spotted by a Secret Service agent and fled, according to prosecutors. Law enforcement said the eyewitness statement was critical to finding and then charging Routh.

In a 13-page court filing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the defense alleged police induced or were "impermissibly suggestive" when questioning the witness, who was allegedly shown a single photograph of Routh taken after he was detained. 

Routh's legal team claimed police created a situation in which an "irreparable misidentification" would occur and asked a judge to exclude the witness identification of Routh from the trial, which is scheduled to begin Sept. 8, 2025. The defense argued that the testimony would be "constitutionally inadmissible" in court.
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BREAKING 🚀: The Justice Department has disbanded its cryptocurrency unit as President Trump continues to roll back regulations on digital assets.

The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff on Monday evening that the agency was disbanding a unit dedicated to crypto-related investigations. In a four-page memo reviewed by Fortune, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the decision, stating: “The Department of Justice is not a digital assets regulator. However, the prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless strategy of regulation by prosecution.”

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NEW🚨: Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.

The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.

The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games "publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format" by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.

The potential COVID-19 illnesses from the American participants in the Wuhan World Military Games appear to have been a closely guarded secret of the Defense Department. Chinese authorities have suggested since as early as February 2020 that America could have unleashed COVID-19 into Wuhan through their participation in the World Military Games. Former Biden Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told the Washington Post in June 2021 that the military had "no knowledge" of any COVID-19 infections among the troops that participated in those games.

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Jasmine Crockett thinks all immigrants are farm workers and says she's done picking cotton? Oh, and by the way - that's educating people. 🤡

Where did she go to school? Be sure to never send your kids there.

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The North Carolina Supreme Court on Monday blocked a lower court decision that would have given more than 60,000 voters just 15 days to confirm their eligibility or risk having their ballots thrown out in a closely contested state Supreme Court race.

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Department of Homeland Security employees on Monday evening were asked to consider voluntarily resigning, retiring or taking a “buyout” of as much as $25,000 under a new “voluntary workforce transition program” intended to slash the department’s staff, according to an email seen by Bloomberg.

The workers have until midnight on April 14 to opt for one of three options: the Deferred Resignation Program, the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority and the Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment, which provides as much as $25,000 in a one-time payout, according to the email from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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AP: A former Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracies and led an investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss in the swing state agreed Monday to surrender his law license to settle multiple misconduct violations.

The state Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a 10-count complaint in November against Michael Gableman, accusing him of misconduct during the probe. The state Supreme Court ultimately could revoke Gableman’s law license, although the court rarely administers such a harsh punishment against wayward attorneys.

The OLR and Gableman filed a stipulation with the Supreme Court on Monday in which they agreed an appropriate sanction would be suspending Gableman’s license for three years. A referee overseeing the case and the Supreme Court must approve the agreement before it can take effect.

Gableman acknowledged in the filing that the complaint provides “an adequate factual basis” and that he couldn’t successfully defend himself against the allegations.
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JUST IN: Volodymyr Zelenskyy says two Chinese soldiers have been captured while fighting in eastern Ukraine.

He said his forces had fought six Chinese soldiers and two of them had been taken prisoner. He added he had ordered officials to obtain an explanation from Beijing.

"We have information that there are many more Chinese citizens in the occupier's units than just two. We are now finding out all the facts," he added.

China is an ally of Russia and has been accused of helping its war in Ukraine, though Beijing has repeatedly denied allegations that it has supplied Kremlin forces with weapons.
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) are asking law firms that were targeted by the Trump administration but then struck a deal with it for more information about how the agreement was reached.

Trump has signed several executive orders targeting prominent law firms with connections to his political opponents, including people who have investigated him and lawyers who have challenged his administration. The punishments include blocking the firms’ lawyers from government buildings and removing their security clearances.

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