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President Donald Trump issued new threats against Harvard University after it defied the administration's demands to crack down on campus activism.

The Trump administration announced it was freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts with the school after it refused to demands to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, prohibit masks at campus protests, make reforms to its hiring and admissions, and target faculty and administrators who publicly oppose the president's agenda.

The U.S. economy is set to lose billions of dollars over foreign boycotts of President Donald Trump's tariffs and other policies.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that foreign travel to the US had decreased by almost 10% in the past year. A worst-case scenario would be a 0.3% hit to the US gross domestic product — about $90 billion — according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc estimates.

President Donald Trump's condemnation of an arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence on Monday earned no applause from an analyst at The Atlantic, who called his response "empty."

When asked about the attack, Trump referred to the suspect as "probably just a whack job" and stressed that "such incidents cannot be tolerated."

Former NAACP director Cornell William Brooks laid into President Donald Trump's move to freeze billions in federal funding from Harvard University, after the prestigious institution rejected his demands to crack down on the political ideology of its faculty and student body — a similar ultimatum Trump used against Columbia University that that school ultimately complied with.

"We have a wonderful Constitution that contains a First Amendment, which this government, this administration is violating," Brooks told CNN's John Berman. "This is to say, the government does not get to dictate political ideology. It does not get to determine whether faculty or staff or too liberal to conservative to this, to that. The First Amendment has a little something to say about that."

An April poll shows President Donald Trump is losing his biggest polling advantage over Democrats.

“Bad news for the White House per @EchelonInsights,” wrote Snapchat host Peter Hamby. “Dems are now tied with Republicans on the question of who would do a better job on inflation and the cost of living.”

President Donald Trump's attorney general appeared to rebuff an opportunity to endorse her boss's recent idea to send Americans convicted of violent crimes to prisons in El Salvador.

Trump reiterated the idea on Monday during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, in which Trump told reporters, "homegrowns are next," referring to U.S. citizens.

President Donald Trump has turned a unanimous Supreme Court order for his administration to facilitate the return of wrongly deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an infamous Salvadoran prison on its head to justify why he doesn't have to do anything, wrote Hugo Lowell in a scathing analysis for The Guardian published on Monday evening.

This follows Trump's White House visit with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, who also refused to lift a finger to return Abrego Garcia, even though he was married to a U.S. citizen, living in America with a work permit, and had no criminal record. During the meeting, Trump aide Stephen Miller said, “The ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador’s sole discretion was sent back to our country, we could deport him a second time.”

An immigration attorney cheered Monday evening as a judge issued an emergency order to temporarily block the government's effort to suddenly cancel parole and work permits for many migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who were legally allowed into the United States.

The government told the immigrants they could stay for up to two years, but a new rule under the Trump administration said their legal stay would end early — on April 24 — unless the government decided otherwise. The migrants affected by the rule raced to the courts to stop this from happening.

President Donald Trump is now asking Congress to claw back $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — an amount totaling around two years' worth of funding — in his latest budget request, according to The New York Times, leaving media executives blindsided by the attack on public stations.

"The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed company that funds public media organizations across the United States, one of the people said," reported Benjamin Mullin, Tony Romm, and Jonathan Swan, noting that the funding "goes to public broadcasters including NPR, PBS and their local member stations. The Trump administration isn’t planning to ask Congress to claw back about $100 million allocated for emergency communications."

Trump officials cut planning grant for Texas high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston

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State prosecutors in New York are looking into whether the Trump administration engaged in insider trading, according to a report.

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James told CNN on Monday it is looking into potential insider trading by officials and associates after Trump announced — then paused — broad tariffs for 90 days.

President Donald Trump’s recent escalating rhetoric and actions across multiple fronts have alarmed political experts, who are now warning that the United States is not just drifting but accelerating toward fascism—and may have already crossed the threshold.

“He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him,” warned Republican Sarah Longwell, a political strategist and publisher of The Bulwark. “He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), normally a fierce supporter of President Donald Trump, expressed some hesitation about tariffs when pressed Monday afternoon by CNN's Jake Tapper.

Trump's plan calls for 10 to 49 percent import duties on virtually the entire rest of the world — with the rate calculated by how much of a trade deficit the United States has with each country. Bowing to market panic and discontent from his party, he pared things back temporarily, announcing that for 90 days, all countries except China would only face the minimum of 10 percent.