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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) admitted on Monday that she purchased between $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks on April 8 and 9, in line with the day President Trump sent stocks soaring by pausing his sweeping tariffs. Numbers show she also dumped between $50,000 and $100,0000 in Treasury bills on the day the bond market selloff badly rattled investors.

The NY Times reports Trump wrote, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” on social media the morning of April 9. Roughly four hours later, the president made his own statement true by voluntarily pausing the worst of his tariffs dogging the US and world market for nearly two weeks, and the publication noted that Greene bought what it characterized as an "unusually large volume of stock" in companies impacted by tariffs.

Charlie Sykes, political commentator and former editor-in-chief of the website The Bulwark, said Monday afternoon that the United States is in an "emergency" situation.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noted on her show that during an Oval Office press availability with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Monday, Trump "seemed very proud of the fact that he was defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to facilitate the return of a man his own administration admits was wrongfully deported."

A judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Palestinian student and legal permanent resident of the United States who is pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University.

Earlier in the day, Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents during what he thought was a naturalization interview in Vermont. Mahdawi took an outsized role in pro-Palestinian protests on Columbia's campus and co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia alongside fellow activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was recently detained by immigration authorities.

"We have confirmed a number of fatalities from the disaster that currently stands at 231 deaths," of whom 221 died at the scene, Dominican Interior Minister Faride Raful told reporters Monday.

Twelve people were still in hospital, according to health authorities. Three were in a critical condition.

Sudan's civil war has displaced 13 million people, the United Nations reported Monday, as the conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters a third year.

"The conflict has provoked the displacement of 13 million people, including 8.6 internally displaced people and 3.8 million refugees," said Abdourahouf Gnon-Konde of the UN refugee agency in an interview with AFP.

US President Donald Trump resumed his attempts Monday to blame Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia's invasion, falsely accusing him of responsibility for "millions" of deaths.

Trump -- who had a blazing public row in the Oval Office with Zelensky six weeks ago -- said the Ukranian shared the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the February 2022 invasion, and then-US president Joe Biden.

Elite US university Harvard risked billions of dollars in federal funding Monday as it rejected a list of sweeping demands that the Trump administration said are intended to crack down on campus antisemitism.

The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions procedures expands on a list Harvard received on April 3, which ordered officials to shut diversity offices and cooperate with immigration authorities for screenings of international students.

A man who allegedly torched two vehicles at a Tesla dealership and painted "Die Elon" on the side of the building has been hit with federal charges, the US Department of Justice said Monday.

The charges are the latest to be levied in connection to attacks on the EV maker, whose boss Elon Musk has become a hate figure for some over his role in slashing government as a top advisor to President Donald Trump.

A civil rights attorney sounded the alarm Monday afternoon, warning the Trump administration is essentially engaged in what he called "human trafficking."

Trump publicly said he would like to deport American citizens who are violent offenders to El Salvador, where they would then serve their prison sentences under a deal with the Salvadoran government. Trump made the remarks during a White House meeting with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.

President Donald Trump was ordered by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a judge he appointed, to stop the blacklisting of The Associated Press from White House press briefings and functions over their refusal to adopt Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, calling it a "brazen" assault on the First Amendment.

But the president appears to be flouting the order.

During his first term, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump removed a significant portion of Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden at the White House. Now, the second term has removed another tree, and pavers are being placed, reported Daily Mail reporter Emily Goodin.

In February, The New York Times reported that the Trump team was planning to make more changes to the iconic Rose Garden to craft a patio in the Mar-a-Lago style.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested Jesus Christ would send "Saturday Night Live" actors and writers to hell for a sketch that mocked President Donald Trump.

In a sketch over the weekend, comedian James Austin Johnson mentioned Jesus during his impersonation of Trump.