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Today — 6 April 2025Main stream

Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.

© Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.

Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out

The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.

© Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed league, has sponsored a tournament at the Trump family’s Miami golf resort four times.

Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country

Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

© Adam Gray for The New York Times

The crowds stretched for nearly 20 blocks in Manhattan.
Yesterday — 5 April 2025Main stream

The Public School Programs Trump Has Threatened

The Trump administration has a new directive for U.S. public schools: Cut D.E.I. programs or face federal funding cuts. Dana Goldstein, who covers education for The New York Times, describes what programs might be targeted by the directive, which is already being challenged in court.

Netanyahu Will Meet Trump in Washington in a Sign of Their Strong Ties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s expected visit, his second since January, underscores how the Israeli leader has seen his diplomatic standing in Washington shift since President Trump’s return to power

© Marton Monus/Reuters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Budapest on Friday, where he met with Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban.

Republicans Like to Cut Taxes. With Tariffs, Trump Is Raising Them.

5 April 2025 at 17:02
President Trump’s tariffs are scrambling the Republican plan for the economy, long centered on tax cuts and growth.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump has argued that tariffs are not taxes on U.S. consumers, but rather on foreign companies that will have to lower their prices to maintain access to the U.S. market.

The Fed Isn’t Rushing to Save the Markets This Time

5 April 2025 at 17:03
With stocks in a steep decline and tariffs inducing recession jitters, the patience of investors may be tested.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

“It is too soon to say what will be the appropriate path for monetary policy,” Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said Friday.

How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies

5 April 2025 at 07:02
These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back on public offering plans and bracing for pain.

© Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters

Klarna, the digital payments company, has paused its initial public offering plans after President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs.

Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses

The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.

© Joshua Roberts/Reuters

The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md., in 2020. President Trump fired the head of the agency on Thursday, after weeks in which he has taken other steps weakening the country’s cyberdefenses.

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

5 April 2025 at 17:01
As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.

© Jared Soares for The New York Times

The head of the National Archives, which has been described as “the custodian of America’s collective memory,” was fired by President Trump in February.

Trump Is on Shaky Legal Ground With Mass Layoffs at H.H.S., Experts Say

Job and program cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services have teed up court challenges and prompted bipartisan criticism in Congress.

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Thousands of federal workers were put out of a job and dozens of offices were hollowed out as a result of the Trump administration’s layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump Treats European Allies as a Cash Cow

5 April 2025 at 17:03
President Trump has shown a willingness to fracture the trans-Atlantic alliance with his tariffs and demands for higher military spending.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

President Trump’s antagonism toward Europe has been public for decades.

Surprising Allies for Syria’s New Leaders: Some Jews Who Fled Long Ago

5 April 2025 at 17:03
A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite wariness from other Jewish groups and from Israel.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Henry Hamra, a Syrian Jew, in a meeting with lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. Mr. Hamra is working with Syrian American advocacy groups in lobbying the United States to lift sanctions.

‘I Hope Trump Won’t Deceive Us’: Ukrainians Are Wary of U.S. Minerals Deal

In a major mining region of Ukraine, President Trump’s proposal to collect profits from mineral wealth is meeting with a mix of skepticism and weary acceptance.

© Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times

Volodymyr Savytskyi, a geologist, says Ukraine should cut a deal that gives his country its “fair share.”

Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats

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.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

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