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Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/spacex-golden-dome-musk-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics

Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield

SpaceX-led group is pitching the Pentagon on a ‘subscription model’ for missile defense

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 1h ago

Tufts student detained for authoring op-ed denied bail by US immigration judge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/trump-rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-detention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics

Tufts student detained for writing op-ed denied bail by US immigration judge

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was seized in Massachusetts by plainclothes agents and spirited to Louisiana detention center

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 1h ago

Re-arm, reassure and spend big: how the Asia Pacific is responding to a new era under Trump #TheGuardian #NoFakeNews https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/asia-pacific-trump-response-china?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-US-News

Re-arm, reassure and spend big: how the Asia Pacific is responding to a new era under Trump

The US president has upset global norms in the space of weeks, spurring a flurry of defence spending, diplomatic overtures and offers to boost trade

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 2h ago

Stephen Colbert Reveals What Right-Wing 'Trump Whisperer' Should Really Be Whispering #HuffPostUsNews https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-whisperer_n_6801f9ffe4b058dd5962c5c1?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-HuffPost-US-News

Stephen Colbert Reveals What Right-Wing 'Trump Whisperer' Should Really Be Whispering

The "Late Show" host looked at the president's meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

HuffPost

Tucker Frump 2h ago

‘Sixth Sense’ Star Haley Joel Osment Arrested At California Ski Resort For Public Intoxication #HuffPostUsNews https://www.huffpost.com/entry/haley-joel-osment-public-intoxication-arrest_n_6800d48de4b027910a15b2ac?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-HuffPost-US-News

‘Sixth Sense’ Star Haley Joel Osment Arrested At California Ski Resort For Public Intoxication

The actor was charged with an additional count of possession of an unidentified controlled substance, according to a local police source.

HuffPost

Tucker Frump 7h ago

IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/harvard-tax-exempt-status-trump-irs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics

IRS reportedly weighs revoking Harvard’s tax-exempt status

Probably illegal move against US’s richest university is latest in Trump’s attack on independence of higher education

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 7h ago

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre #TheGuardian #NoFakeNews https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Post-Now

‘I was a British tourist trying to leave the US. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre’

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 8h ago

Trump Threatens Jerome Powell Over Interest Rates: ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough!’ #HuffPostUsNews https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-rips-jerome-powell-over-interest-rate-cuts_n_6800f83ce4b0f92ccce13b68?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-HuffPost-US-News

Trump Threatens Jerome Powell Over Interest Rates: ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough!’

The Federal Reserve chairman refuses to cut rates, while warning that Trump’s tariffs are likely to have worse economic impacts than previously expected.

HuffPost

Tucker Frump 8h ago

Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/cory-booker-trump-garcia-deportation-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics

Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US

Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego García

The Guardian

Tucker Frump 9h ago

Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/trump-garcia-el-salvador-deportation-wife-?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics

Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective order

The Guardian