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[quote=Anonymous][b]‘Subtle rebuttals’: what the papers say about King Charles and Trump—Monarch’s meeting with president and speech to Congress feature on front pages in UK and US.[/b]
“Online and on its print front page, the WashPo focuses on the arguably barbed moments of Charles’s speech. “King Charles urges checks on executive power as Trump hosts royal visit,” reads the paper’s headline online, with a similar missive in print.
Likewise, the LA Times focuses on the more pointed references in Charles’s speech rather than the jokes and pleasantries he offered.
In the UK, the papers all focused heavily on the pointed references to the strained relations between the UK and US and some of the controversial aspects of Trump’s second term.
https://apple.news/AveozVNn3TAuQKJUC1b744g

[b]Bipartisan senators unveil bill pushing back on Trump easing Russia oil sanctions.[/b]
“ A bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Rube Gallego (D-Ariz) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pushed back on President Trump’s decision to loosen sanctions on Russian oil amid a global shortage of oil supplies by introducing legislation to restore congressional oversight of U.S. sanctions on Russia.
Gallego and Grassley’s No Oil Profits for Enemies (NOPE) Act would strengthen existing sanctions law and restore congressional oversight over sanctions against Russia.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5848062-congressional-oversight-trump-russia-sanctions/

[b]Uh Oh: Putin Warns Trump: Resuming Iran War Would Be ‘Dangerous and Unacceptable’.[/b]
“The Kremlin on Wednesday warned of “dire consequences” if fighting against Iran resumes amid a ceasefire, after Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the issue in a phone call with President Donald Trump.
Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said Putin told Trump that renewed hostilities would be “dangerous and unacceptable,” especially any ground operation on Iranian territory. Putin stressed, according to the Kremlin, that such a move would carry serious risks not only for Iran but for the broader international community, Ushakov said.”
https://www.newsweek.com/kremlin-warns-dire-consequences-iran-hostilities-putin-trump-11895071

[b]NACHO: Wall Street Is Reportedly Mocking Trump With A New 5-Letter Nickname.[/b]
“The acronym is more spicy than cheesy, as it bluntly stands for “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens,” a reference to Iran’s decision to restrict movement through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf where 20% of all traded oil and natural gas normally passes.”
https://apple.news/AK7ZBVR_hQbSizEXbirvZcA

[b]MAGA Firebrands Furious Over Epstein Files Could Derail Trump’s Agenda.[/b]
GOP representatives Lauren Boebert , Nancy Mace, and Anna Paulina Luna publicly criticized the White House after the Justice Department declined to release additional Epstein‑related records.
Boebert and Mace said they could derail a procedural vote that GOP leaders need to advance three major priorities at once: extending spying powers enabled by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, passage of the Farm Bill and a budget blueprint to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-firebrands-furious-over-epstein-files-could-derail-trumps-agenda-11892999

[b]How a Farm Bill Fight Is Threatening the GOP Agenda.[/b]
“A Republican fight over the Farm Bill is threatening to derail far more than agricultural policy, as GOP leaders brace for a high-stakes procedural vote that could stall multiple party priorities and expose Speaker Mike Johnson’s shaky grip on the House.
At issue is a House “rule”—the procedural step required to bring legislation to the floor—that bundles the Farm Bill with a three-year extension of the government’s foreign surveillance authority and a budget resolution tied to immigration enforcement. Republican leaders hoped the package would streamline voting and hold the party together, but objections to the Farm Bill, particularly over changes affecting food assistance programs, have sparked a broader rebellion that now risks blocking all three measures at once, with Johnson able to afford only a handful of defections.”
https://apple.news/AGUy8P-YPTsCL_HeC9tK7IQ

[b]Cole Allen case reveals Secret Service failures that could have led to tragedy at D.C. gala.[/b]
“Contradicting a prior claim by Blanche that officers had "promptly tackled and detained" Allen, prosecutors wrote that the 31-year-old tutor from Torrance simply "fell to the ground" after blowing past a team of agents just two open flights of stairs from the ballroom.
They wrote that one officer fired at Allen five times, but never hit him.
…
They said nothing about the Secret Service officer who Blanche said was shot in his ballistic vest during the incident — adding to speculation that the officer may have been shot not by Allen, but by a fellow officer.
In all, the court filing brought further into focus a chaotic Secret Service response that appeared flawed from the start, including in a video Trump posted shortly after the incident in which agents appeared to be idling around an unobstructed entrance when Allen ran past them.”
https://apple.news/AVVWLFlVRT5uROY-S7DtimA

[b]Mexico to require federal projects to use local steel in response to US tariffs.[/b]
“The president's initiative is one of the first public efforts by the Mexican government to reduce its economy's ⁠enormous dependence on the U.S. While Trump's global tariffs have inspired other countries, such as Canada, to try to scale back their dependence on the U.S., Mexico has previously been reluctant to take steps that could irritate its largest trading partner, and the destination of 80% of its exports.
…
Mexican officials have repeatedly ‌said ⁠the tariffs are unfair, in part because the United States runs a trade surplus with Mexico in steel and aluminum.”
https://apple.news/APlXS4NJYSoOUtsG0OC6S1w

[b]Trump’s DOJ cuts thousands of law-enforcement jobs — despite promising to be tough on crime: report[/b]
““The administration talks a big game when it comes to crime and terrorism, but the fact that it’s hollowing out agencies tasked with addressing them shows that they don’t stand behind their words,” Stacey Young, a former Justice Department lawyer, told the outlet.
The FBI has lost more than seven percent of its staff since the 2024 fiscal year, about 2,600 people, according to the outlet.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, meanwhile, has lost about six percent of workers, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives dropped more than double that figure.
Within the main Justice Department, the agency’s national security division lost more than a third of its staff and its civil rights division lost more than half, per Reuters, while about 7,000 DOJ jobs remain unfilled.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-doj-fbi-firings-national-security-b2963993.html

[b]Judge signals trouble for Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS.[/b]
“President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns ran into turbulence Friday as a judge ordered a hearing on whether the Constitution allows the president to sue the federal government he oversees.
…
“Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction,” Williams wrote in a four-page order. “It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy [the Constitution’s] case or controversy requirement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/trump-lawsuit-irs-00891894

[b]Collapse of Jerome Powell case adds to Jeanine Pirro’s embarrassing losing streak.[/b]
“Pirro was, however, quickly overwhelmed by reality. The politically motivated investigation obviously had no merit; a federal judge had already quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas, emphasizing the inconvenient fact that prosecutors “produced essentially zero evidence”; and the longer the baseless case continued, the more it threatened to delay confirmation of Trump’s new Fed chair nominee.”
https://apple.news/AsVHiszTcQZ-pPlrdWp3lVA

[b]Appeals court rules against ICE’s mandatory detention policy.[/b]
“A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lock up the majority of people it is seeking to deport without an opportunity for release on bond — even if they have no criminal records and have resided in the country for decades.
In a 3-0 ruling, a panel of the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found that ICE’s policy was based on a flawed, implausible and unprecedented interpretation of decades-old laws. But more fundamentally, the panel said the Trump administration’s position would raise acute constitutional concerns by instituting “the broadest mass detention-without-bond mandate in our Nation’s history for millions of noncitizens.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/ice-mandatory-detention-appeals-court-ruling-00895115

[b]Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals—Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”[/b]
“Some historic preservationists and other experts warned that Trump’s renovations could distort the experience for visitors. Charles A. Birnbaum, who heads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, an education and advocacy organization, noted that the neutral colors used for the pool’s basin were intended to convey greater depth and reflection that could now be threatened by the president’s changes.
“A blue-tinted basin risks reading more like a large lap pool than the solemn and hallowed visual and spatial connection between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial,” Birnbaum wrote in an email.
He also pointed to a 2009 National Park Service report, conducted before the last major renovation, which detailed the careful intention of the pool’s designers and Park Service officials to preserve vistas.”
https://apple.news/AIV2Lik2YRe6DGnDLMX0AKQ

[b]LOL: Todd Blanche’s bid to join elite private Washington club hits resistance.[/b]
“Some members of one of Washington’s most exclusive clubs have a message for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: We don’t want you.
Around February last year, Blanche started the rigorous process to join the Metropolitan Club, which is one of Washington’s oldest private clubs and claims D.C. royalty as members. But at least six members have written to the Met Club’s board of directors to object to Blanche’s joining, saying he’s too polarizing and has politicized the Justice Department, according to two current members who have seen or been told about the letters.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/todd-blanche-metropolitan-club-00894299

[b]Appeals court won't rehear Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll verdict.[/b]
“A federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's request to rehear his challenges to the writer E. Jean Carroll's successful defamation and sex assault claims.
Carroll successfully argued during a nine-day trial in 2023 that Trump sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her in 2022 with comments he made after he left office.”
https://apple.news/ANilqIaa1RB2ditrzc_NLbg

[b]Education Department layoffs backfire.[/b]
“The decision to slash staffing at the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has left the agency buried under a massive backlog of discrimination complaints, with Secretary Linda McMahon testifying yesterday that it’s now working to hire more people.
Lawmakers cited roughly 12,000 unresolved cases nationwide; data shows the department resolved 30 percent fewer complaints in 2025 than the year before and reached resolution agreements in fewer than 1 percent of investigations. If a case is not resolved, schools aren’t required to change their policies, provide accommodations for students or correct alleged discrimination.”
https://apple.news/AGkEThIrlQ-qse93ZHMhLyg

[b]A crypto mogul’s lawsuit against a Trump-linked crypto firm shows the peril of investing with Trump.[/b]
“First, don't believe what crypto firms tell you about the security of your investments.
Second: Be wary — very wary — of investing with a crypto firm associated with the Trump family.
These warnings come from Justin Sun, one of the leading tycoons in the crypto space, who last week filed a $45-million lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against World Liberty Financial, an arm of the family's investments in crypto. 
Sun claims that World Liberty Financial, a Florida company, has blocked his transfers of the WLF crypto tokens he values at $45 million, largely in retaliation for his refusal to invest more than that in the firm.”
https://apple.news/A8QZlEmAsQbOWmmheGWCdkw

[b]The Official Trump (TRUMP) meme coin has plunged to an all-time low on Saturday, down about 96% from its peak, amid U.S. President Donald Trump's preparations to host top token holders at an exclusive crypto-themed event at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.[/b]
https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/cryptocurrency/trump-crashes-to-all-time-low-down-while-maralago-gala/cZBKXRlRecy

[b]How a Republican state lawmaker tried (and failed) to let Holocaust deniers hijack history lessons.[/b]
“This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state’s public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis’ murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust was a hoax.
Though their effort failed, the incident was just the latest example of antisemitic extremism creeping further into the American political mainstream, to the point that prominent conservative voices have warned of a “cancer” destroying the pro-Trump MAGA movement from within. And in a sign of just how normalized these incidents of anti-Jewish bigotry have become, the state lawmaker responsible for the effort, Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière, appears to have faced no consequences and minimal backlash from Republican leadership in New Hampshire.”
https://apple.news/Ab3t9uIxhT66C0d2VbU4EEQ

[b]Democrats have a 10-point lead over Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, according to a new poll.[/b]
https://apple.news/ARvUEgDZNTq-cSmWBa6usRQ

[b]LOL: Less Than Half of Republicans Want a Passport With Donald Trump’s Portrait.[/b]
“Only 40 percent of Republicans said they would select the passport with Trump’s image, compared to 37 percent who said they would pick the passport without his portrait and 23 percent who were unsure which passport they’d select, the poll found.
Overall, only 18 percent of Americans said they would pick the passport with Trump’s portrait, while 67 percent said they would pick the passport without the portrait, according to the poll.”
https://apple.news/AiCpUS9IDTRS6PRW-peAeVg
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