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Elon Musk may have dumped $20 million-plus in Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election — and warned the race had implications that could determine "the future of America and Western Civilization" — but his resounding loss late Tuesday hasn't deterred him one bit.

Musk donated millions to support conservative candidate Brad Schimel in the race, primarily through his affiliated organizations like America PAC and Building America's Future. Schimel was on the receiving end of a shelacking, however, heated by double digits by progressive judge Susan Crawford in a race that will tip the court's ideological scales as it sets to make decisions on key issues including the redrawing of the state's congressional maps.

Tuesday night’s election results in Florida and Wisconsin have Republicans on Capitol Hill growing increasingly nervous that the “shock and awe” ushered in by President Donald Trump’s second-term administration will hand the GOP a midterm shellacking.

That’s according to a new report in Politico, which detailed the internal struggle among Republicans over concerns the party should shift focus to economic issues with next year’s midterms looming.

A key figure in the Trump administration is urging other countries to hit the pause button on hitting the United States with tariffs, CNN reported — even though President Donald Trump just went nuclear with tariffs on virtually the entire rest of the world.

The tariffs, which are part of an intended global economic realignment Trump calls "Liberation Day," range from 10 to 49 percent. Trump claims they are reciprocal tariffs that tax other nations' goods at half the rates they tax American goods, although experts have noted many of Trump's claimed foreign tariffs on the U.S. don't appear to be correct.

by Beiyi SEOW

A fresh "baseline tariff" of 10 percent will apply to economies around the world, with steeper rates tailored to those that Washington deemed as bad actors.

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The US president laid out the new measures after Wall Street stock markets had closed. But his announcement still rippled through the markets that were open at the time, sending stock futures and bond yields lower, while gold surged to a new record high.

Syria on Thursday condemned deadly Israeli strikes across the country as a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty, after Israel said it struck "military capabilities".

Syrian state media said the strikes hit close to a defence research centre in Damascus, among other sites, while a war monitor reported four dead in the latest Israeli attack on Syria since Islamist-led forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump insisted that he knew nothing about Project 2025 —the Heritage Foundation's 920-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency. But now that President Trump is actually serving his second term, a key part of the Project 2025 agenda — a dramatic restructuring of the federal workforce — is being carried out with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In an article published on April 1, however, The Atlantic's David A. Graham focuses on a Project 2025 priority that so far, hasn't been a big priority for the Trump administration: A push for Christian fundamentalist households.

President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs plan was slapped together over a matter of a couple days, CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported on Wednesday evening.

The plan, which puts sharp new taxes on imports from around the world, even from remote and uninhabited islands, has prompted a massive plunge in stock futures and even has some Republican lawmakers revolting against the president.

Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration’s national security scandal that potentially endangered the lives of U.S. service members, and risked exposing military plans, by using an insecure channel to discuss, map out, and announce progress of an attack in Yemen. Then there was the Trump administration’s passwords scandal, where passwords, email addresses, and phone numbers of top Trump national security officials were easily found online. And just yesterday, GmailGate, the Trump administration’s use of the even less-secure commercial email app, to conduct government business.

All three crises involved President Donald Trump’s national security team, including White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, who admitted to setting up the insecure Signal chat.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) hit back at Pam Bondi on Wednesday over the attorney general's recent attacks on Fox News, which Crockett derided at a House hearing as "Faux News."

In recent appearances on Fox News, Bondi criticized Crockett for her remarks about Elon Musk and Tesla, accusing Crockett of using dangerous rhetoric that could incite violence. She took particular issue with Crockett expressing a desire for Musk to be "taken down" during a livestream event. Bondi also tied Crockett’s comments to broader protests against Tesla, some of which have turned violent, including incidents involving Molotov cocktails.

The mayor of North Dakota’s fourth largest city is out of a job after he accidentally texted the female city attorney a video of him performing a sex act on himself – which he intended as a “sexy video” for his girlfriend, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.

Tom Ross, 60, resigned as the mayor of Minot, population 50,000, effective Monday, after a two-month investigation into the sexually explicit video concluded.

Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman was completely aghast at President Donald Trump's new round of so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs, which impose new import taxes ranging from 10 to 49 percent on essentially every country's imports — and even a handful of random, remote islands with tiny populations and negligible trade with the United States.

"Based on what he said, he’s gone full-on crazy," wrote Krugman, a frequent critic of the president. "It’s not just that he appears to be imposing much higher tariffs than almost anyone expected. He’s also making false claims about our trading partners — not sure in this case whether they’re lies, because he may be truly ignorant — that will both enrage them and make it very hard to back down. Basically, he’s claiming that the rest of the world is placing very high tariffs on U.S. products, and that he’s imposing 'reciprocal' tariffs that are only half what they impose on us."