News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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The White House says it has the upper hand in its trade war with China, but electronics carve-outs suggest otherwise as China digs in. "Xi Jinping will not back down," one former Trump official told us. "This is going to get really ugly." www.politico.com/news/2025/04…
— Politico (@politico.com) April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: The EU expects most US tariffs to stay put after little progress was made in trade talks this week
— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) April 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Russian warplanes were detected flying off the coast of Alaska and tracked by the U.S. military, NORAD said Tuesday.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) April 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Kyiv forces hit Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine with dozens of drones, killing an elderly woman, injuring nine people and sparking fires in several buildings in the region's administrative center, Russian authorities said reut.rs/3RMPQTI
— Reuters (@reuters.com) April 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Exclusive: Under pressure from DOGE, employees of a Pentagon defense tech unit are resigning en masse over the next month. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” said the director.
— Politico (@politico.com) April 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A whistleblower complaint says that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists may have been responsible for a 'significant cybersecurity breach,' likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal labor watchdog reut.rs/4je9RyG
— Reuters (@reuters.com) April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Career officials at the IRS were pressed by Trump officials and DOGE staffers to hand over access to sensitive taxpayer data to immigration agencies, but repeatedly refused, telling their new overseers that doing so would be illegal.
— CNN (@cnn.com) April 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
— NPR (@npr.org) April 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department document obtained by CNN.
— CNN (@cnn.com) April 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"America’s rivals will celebrate, even as science and industry in the United States suffer," the lawsuit filed by various schools and the Association of American Universities said.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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An angry Indiana mother is facing multiple charges after allegedly bringing a gun to her daughter's elementary school and threatening the sixth grader's lesbian teacher to "kiss ur kids goodbye," officials say.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) April 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) April 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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