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Today — 5 April 2025NYT | Top Stories

Swiss Indignant to Make the Top 10 of Trump’s Tariffs List

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By: Liz Alderman and Melissa Eddy
5 April 2025 at 04:21
Swiss companies bemoan the loss of a reliable partner, and called the 32 percent tariff “incomprehensible.”

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Switzerland, known for neutrality, chocolates and watches, recently scrapped all industrial tariffs — including on U.S. goods.

Tempted by Trump’s Tariffs to Panic-Buy? Don’t.

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By: Ron Lieber
5 April 2025 at 00:00
A census of Costco carts on Thursday revealed little fear. Tariffs could go as fast as they’re coming, and our columnist is not stuffing his pantry.

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Leave the toilet paper. Take the frankfurter.

Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats

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By: Vimal Patel
5 April 2025 at 07:33
As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn’t be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out opposing voices.

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Former President Barack Obama at a forum in Chicago in December.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Maryland Man Deported to El Salvador

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By: Aishvarya Kavi and Alan Feuer
5 April 2025 at 05:19
A federal judge said officials had acted without “legal basis” last month when they arrested the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and put him on a plane to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

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Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who is married to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, celebrated the judge’s decision on Friday with a cheering crowd of supporters.

Los Angeles County Plans to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Sex Abuse Claims

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By: Shawn Hubler
5 April 2025 at 07:33
The settlement, which still needs formal approval, covers more than 6,800 claims of abuse, some of which date back to 1959.

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Ben Crump, a lawyer, center, at a news conference in 2022 with survivors of sexual abuse that occurred at MacLaren Hall in Los Angeles.

New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order

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By: Troy Closson
5 April 2025 at 07:21
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.

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Students and faculty members participated in a December rally at the University of Michigan supporting diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Private School Diversity Events Are Canceled Amid Government Crackdown

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By: Troy Closson
5 April 2025 at 04:34
The National Association of Independent Schools said it would reassess two of its diversity conferences “given the rapidly evolving political and legal landscape.”

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One of the conferences had come under fire from several Jewish organizations that condemned remarks made by some speakers as antisemitic.

Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime

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By: Liam Stack
5 April 2025 at 07:12
Graffiti was etched onto walls of the room, at a university library, and prayer mats kept there had been soaked in urine.

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Students and staff members say they were shaken after the vandalism at a prayer room for Muslim students at the Bobst Library on Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

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By: Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins
5 April 2025 at 06:32
Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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A Biden proposal to expand coverage of the popular weight-loss drugs would have cost billions of dollars under Medicare and Medicaid.

Los Angeles County Plans to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Sex Abuse Claims

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By: Shawn Hubler
5 April 2025 at 06:41
The settlement, which still needs formal approval, covers more than 6,800 claims of abuse, some of which date back to 1959.

© Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register, via Associated Press

Ben Crump, a lawyer, center, at a news conference in 2022 with survivors of sexual abuse that occurred at MacLaren Hall in Los Angeles.

Judge Orders Tufts Student’s Detention Case Moved to Vermont

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By: Anemona Hartocollis
5 April 2025 at 06:24
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.

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People rallied in support of Rumeysa Ozturk on Thursday in front of a federal courthouse in Boston.

Laura Loomer’s Role in NSC Firings Shows Rising Sway of Fringe Figures on Trump

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By: Jonathan Swan， Maggie Haberman and Ken Bensinger
5 April 2025 at 06:03
President Trump has always solicited information from dubious sources. But now, in his second term, he has fewer people around him who try to keep those voices away.

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Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, on a tour of a migrant camp in Panama last year.

How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown

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By: Carol Rosenberg
5 April 2025 at 07:24
In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation.

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The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.

More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump

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By: Ben Protess
5 April 2025 at 05:22
The firms signed a legal brief supporting Perkins Coie, calling the president’s actions a threat “to the rule of law.” The largest firms declined to sign.

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The brief was drafted by Donald B. Verrilli Jr., a solicitor general during President Barack Obama’s administration.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers

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By: Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle
5 April 2025 at 06:40
The justices allowed the Trump administration to temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants, which helped place teachers in poor and rural areas.

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The Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the liberal justices in dissent, amounted to an early victory for the Trump administration before the court.

Supreme Court Asked to Keep Pause on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

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By: Abbie VanSickle
5 April 2025 at 04:52
Immigrant groups and Democratic states pushed back on a Trump administration request for the Supreme Court to allow curbs on birthright citizenship to go into effect in some places.

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Rather than address the legality of curbing birthright citizenship, government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a long-simmering debate about a tool used by federal judges, the nationwide injunction.

Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself

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By: Lindsay Zoladz
5 April 2025 at 05:00
For years, the singer and songwriter has avoided the spotlight. But she is breaking her silence to look back on her self-titled debut and its powerful hit “Fast Car.”

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“I think there’s some assumption with me that I’m coming out of the ’60s folk tradition,” Chapman said. “You can slot me in there, but it wasn’t my foundation. I wasn’t aware of that music in Cleveland in the ’70s, as a young Black girl.”

Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Defrocked Over Sex Abuse, Dies at 94

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By: Robert D. McFadden
5 April 2025 at 04:55
He ascended to the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of misconduct in 2018, and an investigation led Pope Francis to strip him of his title and priesthood.

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Theodore E. McCarrick in Rome in 2013. An investigation in 2018 concluded that he had molested a teenage altar server in 1971 and 1972, while he was a monsignor in New York City.

A Miracle Underground: Sean Duffy Rides the Subway. (He Survived.)

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By: Dana Rubinstein and Stefanos Chen
5 April 2025 at 04:09
Mr. Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary who has characterized the New York City subway as dirty and dangerous, rode a train with Mayor Eric Adams on Friday.

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Trump Is Defiant as Tariff Moves Roil Markets a Second Day

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By: Tony Romm
5 April 2025 at 03:44
After China announced new retaliatory measures against the United States, President Trump responded that Beijing “PLAYED IT WRONG.”

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President Trump defended his economic strategy Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social.

‘Wait, Baby, Wait’: Slumping Oil Prices Reflect Economic Worries

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By: Stanley Reed and Rebecca F. Elliott
5 April 2025 at 02:03
Fears that President Trump’s tariffs could slash global economic growth — and demand for oil — are weighing on the market.

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An oil drilling site in Midland, Texas.

Trump Extends TikTok Deal Deadline, Delaying a Potential Ban

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
5 April 2025 at 02:54
The app was facing a Saturday deadline to change its ownership or face a ban in the United States.

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An advertisement for TikTok in New York. The popular video app now has an additional 75 days to find a new owner.

Felon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge

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By: Santul Nerkar and Michael S. Schmidt
5 April 2025 at 02:54
Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.

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Jonathan Braun has been arrested five times since the president freed him at the end of his last term.

Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election

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By: Eduardo Medina and Nick Corasaniti
5 April 2025 at 02:31
The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.

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Judge Jefferson Griffin’s legal argument centers on a claim that some 65,000 people who voted early or by mail in the State Supreme Court race did not provide required proof of identity.

Russian Strike Kills 16, including Six Children, Ukraine Says

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By: Constant Méheut
5 April 2025 at 05:21
The missile strike was the latest in a series of attacks that have caused civilian casualties, despite ongoing cease-fire talks. Russia said it had targeted a meeting of Western military instructors.

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Emergency personnel work next to a body lying on the ground, at the site of a Russian missile strike in a residential area of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Friday.
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