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Politico Europe reports: U.S. President Donald Trump has interfered in French politics with his tirade against the conviction of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou charged on Sunday. In an interview with Le Parisien, Bayrou called Trump’s social-media defense of Marine Le Pen an example of interference. “Interference has become the law of the world,” …

“We need a Senate that will convict him this time, and I want you to know, from my heart, from my heart, I understand that he is a Goliath. He is a Goliath. He has control of the generals in the military. He has control of the Justice Department. He has control of the Republican Party, but my friends, my …

Mediaite reports: Trump is participating in golf tournaments over the weekend, and a statement on his progress sent out by the pool went viral Saturday among members of the press for being “tone deaf” or worse, after a terrible week for the stock market and the president opting out of a solemn ceremony for fallen American service members to attend …

The Associated Press reports: Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. More than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The …

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration had violated his order to halt sweeping freezes to federal funding by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to at least 19 states. It seemed to be a “covert” effort to punish states with so-called sanctuary laws for immigrants, the judge said. In March, U.S. District Judge …

The Times of London reports: Jaguar Land Rover is pausing shipments of its British-made cars to America as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the global economy. One of Britain’s biggest carmakers, JLR is making the move from Monday while it works out how to mitigate the cost of the 25 per cent import tariff that the US …

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that’s not how it’s working out. Turns out, it doesn’t take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together. In all of his books, Peter Navarro has cited an …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Barack Obama called on universities and law firms to stand up to intimidation from President Donald Trump’s administration and urged Americans to prepare to “possibly sacrifice” in support of democratic values. In a speech Thursday night at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Obama also accused Trump’s government of working to destroy the international …

The Baltimore Banner reports: A federal judge in Maryland ordered the United States government to return a deported Beltsville man by 11:59 p.m. Monday in a case she called “unprecedented.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s argument that the court had no jurisdiction, and said the record reflects that 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia was …

CBS News reports: As stocks continued to slide after markets opened, President Trump spike at a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner Friday at Mar-a-Lago. MAGA Inc. can raise unlimited money but is barred from coordinating directly with Mr. Trump’s campaign arm. The fine print for the Friday’s invitation says the president is attending as a guest speaker and not soliciting donations. …

CNBC reports: Trump on Friday shared an outlandish social media video that defends his recent policy decisions by arguing he is deliberately taking down the market as a strategic play to force lower interest and mortgage rates. “Trump is crashing the stock market by 20% this month, but he’s doing it on purpose,” alleged the video, which Trump posted on …

“If the trade is that I experience and you experience and we all experience some short-term pain in a 401(k) or in the market, money’s liquid, man. Losing money costs you absolutely nothing. Losing your country costs you everything. “Option B is to preserve this country and to strengthen it and to put up walls around this nation to make …

“We inherited from Joe Biden an economy in total free fall. There has been zero jobs growth for American workers in four years. All the jobs growth had gone to foreign workers. That is a depression, not a recession, that is a depression for the American worker. “We had debt and deficits that were rising unsustainably that would lead us …

CNBC reports: The stock market was pounded for a second day Friday after China retaliated with new tariffs on U.S. goods, sparking fears President Donald Trump has ignited a global trade war that will lead to a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 2,200 points, or 5.5% on Friday, its biggest decline since June 2020 during the pandemic. …

The Huffington Post reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, told reporters Thursday that he plans to reinstate many employees and programs he began cutting last week. In head-scratching remarks, Kennedy said he knew he was firing more workers than necessary when he announced 10,000 job cuts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government …

“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress. The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days. “We hope to continue working in Good Faith with …

The New York Times reports: President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.” But decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes has harmed the environment and public health, from the days when leaded gasoline sent neurotoxins …

Mediaite reports: In the clip Trump shared without a caption on his Truth Social platform a narrator says, “Trump is crashing the stock market by 20 percent this month, but he’s doing it on purpose. And this is why Warren Buffett just said Trump is making the best economic moves he’s seen in over 50 years. Now, here’s the secret …

Politico Europe reports: Donald Trump may not drink beer, but this week he messed up a lot of people’s pints. Beer was quietly added Wednesday to a list of aluminum-linked products now subject to a 25 percent U.S. import duty. The move, buried in a bureaucratic annex and part of a broader trade war unleashed by the Trump administration, has …

The Washington Post reports: The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials. Like others in …