News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said the response to his staggering new tariff plan is “going very well," while stocks sank following the announcement of his far-reaching “reciprocal tariff” policy. cnb.cx/4iWIp8u
— CNBC (@cnbc.com) April 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Canada will impose a 25% tariff on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Prime Minister Mark Carney said reut.rs/3FT41nH
— Reuters (@reuters.com) April 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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China urged the United States to immediately cancel its latest tariffs and vowed countermeasures to safeguard its own interests, after President Donald Trump declared sweeping levies on all US trading partners around the world reut.rs/4i21Mf7
— Reuters (@reuters.com) April 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Germany’s leaders aren’t concealing their preferred strategy on how to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs: Retaliate hard enough to get Trump to come to his senses.
— POLITICO Europe (@politico.eu) April 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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President Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced today stretched across the globe, including the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are populated by zero humans but lots of seals and penguins. nbcnews.to/3QXPQ31
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) April 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Israel is not ruling out a diplomatic path to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said, adding that there were signs that there could be indirect talks between Tehran and the United States reut.rs/3E6kvrQ
— Reuters (@reuters.com) April 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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JUST IN: The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key national security officials to discuss military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month, the IG’s office announced.
— CNN (@cnn.com) April 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Breaking News: President Trump is said to have fired at least three national security officials after the far-right conspiracist Laura Loomer pushed for a purge.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Recurring applications for US unemployment benefits rose to the highest since November 2021, adding to signs it’s proving more difficult for out-of-work people to reenter the workforce
— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) April 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report. The biggest culprit was one particular employer: the federal government cnn.it/42dIxcF
— CNN (@cnn.com) April 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Exclusive: In the early weeks of President Trump’s second term, the White House highlighted 72 people ICE had arrested. A Post analysis reveals that at least 36, or half, were already in prison.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) April 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) April 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said that he would not run for re-election in the Democratic primary, an acknowledgment of the growing backlash against his embrace of President Trump and his record-low approval ratings. He will run as an independent instead. Read more: nyti.ms/4j9Z3RG
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) April 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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After more than two dozen tornadoes and flooding rains pummeled the central U.S. on Wednesday night, the region was braced on Thursday for more days of significant rainfall that forecasters said would last through the weekend.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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