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Wisconsin and Florida held special elections for a state supreme court seat and two open spots in the House of Representatives, in the first elections since Donald Trump’s election in November. In Wisconsin, liberal judge Susan Crawford won her race, despite tech billionaire Elon Musk’s millions in donations in support of her opponent. Meanwhile, in Florida, Republicans maintained control of the two seats vacated by national security adviser Mike Waltz and former congressman Matt Gaetz.
Senator Cory Booker, the Democrat from New Jersey, broke the record for the longest speech given on the Senate Floor after he concluded a 25 hour and 5 minute address denouncing the Trump administration and its budget cuts.
Thousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country were dismissed as the Trump administration began implementing its controversial workforce-reduction plan. The firings have included staff members who were working on the Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response, and shuttered at least five of Head Start’s regional offices.
The US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December.
A group of Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration over its decision to cut $11bn in federal funds that they were allocated during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” is finalizing its shuttering of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers, US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas
Delivering her victory speech in Madison, Judge Susan Crawford thanked Wisconsin voters for electing her to the state’s supreme court.
“I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world,” she said, a nod to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s significant spending on her opponent’s campaign.
“My promise to Wisconsin is clear: I will be a fair, impartial justice on the Wisconsin supreme court.”
Democrat-backed candidate Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin’s open seat on the state’s supreme court, preserving the court’s liberal majority as it prepares to hear cases that could determine the future of abortion and collective bargaining rights.
Although state supreme court races are technically nonpartisan, Democrats had backed Crawford over her opponent, Brad Schimel, who’d drawn support from Republicans including Elon Musk.
The election became a proxy for national debates and skyrocketed to the most expensive court race in US history, with spending approaching $99m. While Schimel received significant support from Musk, who flew to Wisconsin over the weekend and contributed more than $21 million on the race, Crawford embraced abortion rights supporters, including Planned Parenthood, who backed her candidacy.
Crawford’s win will preserve the court’s 4-3 liberal majority for another three years.
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Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, fasted and dehydrated himself ahead of his record-setting speech with the aim of breaking Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record for the longest speech on the Senate floor.
Booker told CNN that he stopped eating days ago and dehydrated himself to avoid needing to take a break to use the restroom over the course of his 25 hour and 5 minute speech. As a result, he said, he experienced muscle spasms as he stayed on his feet throughout the address.
Booker said he was “very aware of Strom Thurmond’s record” heading into the marathon speech.
“Since I’ve gotten to the Senate, I always felt it was a strange shadow hanging over this institution — that the longest speech, all the issues that have come up, all the noble causes that people have done, or the things that typically try to stop — I just found it strange that he had the record,” Booker told CNN. “And, as a guy who grew up with the legends of the civil rights movement, myself — my parents and their friends — it just would seem wrong to me. It always seemed wrong.”
Wisconsin voters have elected to enshrine a voter ID law in the state constitution.
Still to come are the results from two races occurring in the state this evening, for a seat on the state’s supreme court and to lead the state’s education department.
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Tallies from Wisconsin’s hotly contested supreme court race are beginning to roll in, but it’s not the only election happening tonight in the Badger state.
Voters will also decide at the polls who will serve as the state’s top education officials and whether to enshrine a voter ID law in the state constitution.
In the race to lead the state’s department of public instruction, Democrat- and union-backed Jill Underly is running against Republican-backed Brittany Kinser. Both have previously worked at public schools, but Kinser has called herself a supporter of the private school voucher program
Voters will also decide whether to amend the state constitution to include a photo ID requirement, a measure put forward by the Republican-controlled legislature. The law, one of nine such photo-ID requirements in the country, will remain in place whether voters agree to enshrine it in the constitution or not.
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Numerous issues likely drove Wisconsin voters to the polls in “historic” numbers for this year’s state supreme court race, including abortion access, Guardian reporter Carter Sherman writes.
Here she is with more:
On Tuesday, Wisconsin residents will decide whether to elect liberal Susan Crawford or conservative Brad Schimel, two county judges, to the state supreme court, which is poised to weigh in on two major abortion cases. Abortion rights advocates are trying to use the threat to the procedure to convince people to head to the polls, but, more than two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it is no longer clear whether abortion can tip an election. Democratic candidates talked about outrage over Roe constantly during the 2024 election – and fell short, losing both the White House and the Senate.
Ben Wikler, leader of the Democratic party of Wisconsin, remains convinced that the issue can be Democrats’ silver bullet.
“Abortion is the single issue that most motivates Democratic voters and persuades independent, moderate voters to cast a ballot for Susan Crawford and against Brad Schimel,” Wikler said. Although the candidates are nominally non-partisan, the Democratic party is backing Crawford, while Donald Trump has endorsed Schimel. If Schimel wins, conservatives will regain control of the state supreme court.
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Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case should continue to play out in New Jersey, a federal judge ruled today, not Louisiana where Khalil was transfered into custody.
US District Judge Michael Farbiarz said the case should remain in New Jersey since Khalil was being held there when his lawyer filed their Habeas Corpus petition. If Khalil’s case had been heard in Louisiana, it could have ended up before one of the nation’s most conservative appeals courts.
Immigrations and customs enforcement (Ice) detained Khalil, a greencard holder, on March 8, citing his involvement in student protests against the war in Gaza.
With results from Florida’s special elections already in, we’re still waiting on news out of Wisconsin, where voters will elect a new justice to the state’s supreme court. Conservative Brad Schimel and liberal Susan Crawford are locked in a race that will determine the balance of power on the state’s court.
Turnout appears high in Wisconsin – so high that seven polling sites in the city of Milwaukee reported ballot shortages – and early voting was more than 50% ahead of levels seen in the state’s last supreme court race.
That turnout is indicative of the attention that the Wisconsin race has garnered from across the country. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, it is now the most expensive court race on record in the US, with spending approaching $99m.
Donald Trump’s ally and tech billionaire Elon Musk personally contributed $3m to Schimel’s campaign and another $1m each to three voters who signed a petition he circulated against “activist judges”, while groups he funded donated another $18m.
Democrats also showed support for their preferred candidate in the race, with former Barack Obama and the billionaire George Soros backing Crawford.
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Republicans maintain hold on both Florida seats
Republican Jimmy Patronis has won his race for Florida’s house district 1, retaining Republican control of a seat that his predecessor Matt Gaetz won by more than 30 points last year.
Patronis’s win came despite millions in donations in support of his competitor’s campaign from Democrats nationwide, who’d hoped the special election might prove an opportunity to voice their disapproval of Donald Trump’s agenda.
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Cory Booker has concluded his speech denouncing the Trump administration, 25 hours and five minutes after he began speaking Monday evening.
“I believe that there is an urgent crisis in our country that we are not talking about. It’s not a left-right crisis, it’s a right-wrong crisis,” he said shortly after announcing he was winding down his remarks.
In the final minutes of his speech, Booker returned to stories he had shared over the previous day from Americans who’d accessed veterans, Medicaid and other benefits currently under threat of cuts by Trump’s cost-cutting measures.
“I don’t know how to solve this, I don’t know how to stop us from going down this road,” Booker concluded. “But I know who does have the power. The people of the United States of America. The power of the people is greater than the people in power.”
“Let’s get in good trouble,” Booker ended, referencing his mentor the late congressman John Lewis.
Republicans retain key congressional seat in Florida
The Republican Randy Fine has won his race for Florida’s House district six, filling the seat vacated by Michael Waltz, who is now Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
Democrats had hoped that challenger Josh Weil might flip the long-held conservative seat, located where the president won by more than 30 points, as Weil out-raised Fine nearly tenfold.
Results are not yet available for the second special election in Florida tonight, where voters will decide who will fill the seat vacated by the former representative Matt Gaetz.
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The former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize winner Óscar Arias says the United States has revoked his visa to enter the country.
Arias shared the news with Reuters, noting that the decision came just weeks after he criticized President Donald Trump on social media. In a post, Arias said Trump was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
Cory Booker gives longest speech in US Senate history
As he approached the record for longest speech given on the Senate floor, the New Jersey senator Cory Booker reflected on the legacy of his late colleague, the civil rights leader John Lewis.
“This is one of those moments when John Lewis would not sit still,” he said. “I don’t know what John Lewis would say right now” but he “would say something, he would do something”.
“This is our moral moment. This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested,” Booker continued. “Are we going to do something different like John Lewis would call us to do? He would call us to get into good trouble, necessary trouble.”
At the exact moment when he surpassed the previous record – held by the Republican senator Strom Thurmond, who gave a 24-hour-and-18-minute long speech filibustering the Civil Rights Act in 1957 – Booker forgave Thurmond for trying to block the protections that allowed him to be where he is today.
The Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer then interrupted Booker to ask a question, telling him he’d broken the record.
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Booker's anti-Trump speech surpasses 24 hours on Senate floor
Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, has surpassed 24 hours of speaking on the Senate floor.
Booker took to the floor at 7pm ET on Monday in an attempt to disrupt the normal business of the Senate to protest the “grave and urgent” danger of Donald Trump’s presidential administration.
As he approached a full day of speaking, Booker had begun to stumble slightly in his speech, but was still on his feet, making sweeping gestures as he spoke.
Over the past hour, Booker has evoked the Founding Fathers, Civil Rights leaders and lawmakers who stood up against McCarthyism in his calls for congressmembers to more assertively hold the Trump administration accountable.
Yielding to a question from Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, while retaining the floor, Booker rested a moment while Murphy recounted the longest speech in Senate history, given in 1957 by Republican senator Strom Thurmond to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.
“What you have done here today Senator Booker couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957,” he said. “Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress.” He added, “Today, you are standing in the way not of progress but of retreat.”
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As he approaches 24 hours of speaking on the Senate floor, the New Jersey senator Cory Booker has invoked nation’s founders.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” Booker said, reading from Federalist No 51. He added: “But our president is no angel.”
Emphasizing the role Congress should play to hold the executive branch accountable, Booker decried his fellow congressmembers for failing to vote against the president’s cabinet nominees and other policies.
“The most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world have taken a battle axe to the Veterans’ Association, a battle axe to the Department of Education, a battle axe to the only agency solely focused on protecting consumers against big banks and other factors that might abuse them,” he said. “What will we do in this body? What will we do in the House of Represenatitves? Right now the answer is nothing.”
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Hours after the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr wrote on social media: “The revolution begins today!” thousands of employees of the Department of Health and Human Services received layoff notices.
Those layoffs forced nearly half of the regional offices for Head Start to close Tuesday, according to the National Head Start Association. Five of the preschool program’s 12 regional offices closed due to workforce reductions.
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The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, spoke on the phone with the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, today to discuss the “importance of building upon the strong trading and investment relationship between the two countries”.
The North American leaders spoke about “the challenging times ahead” and promised to stay in “close contact”, according to the Canadian government, as they navigate efforts to secure their sovereignty and economic competitiveness amid tariffs and other threats from the United States.
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Booker's speech criticizing Trump becomes second-longest in Senate history
Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 23 hours.
“This is wrong in every way you look at it,” he said, speaking about the Trump administrations’ proposed budget cuts, as he approached the 23-hour mark of his speech.
Booker began his speech yesterday at 7pm ET in protest of what he called the “grave and urgent” danger that Donald Trump’s presidential administration poses to democracy and the American people.
Booker is closing in on the longest speech ever given in Senate history. In 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Republican from South Carolina, gave an anti-civil rights speech that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.
In 1986, Alfonse D’Amato, a Republican from New York, spoke about the Defense Authorization Act for 23 hours and 30 minutes. But earlier today, the Senate Historical Office corrected its list to omit D’Amato’s speech because the Senate adjourned for several hours during his remarks.
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During a Fox News interview this afternoon, Elon Musk made a last-minute appeal to Wisconsin voters in support of the state supreme court candidate Brad Schimel.
“A judge race, election in Wisconsin will decide whether or not the Democrats can gerrymander Wisconsin in order to remove two House seats from Republican to Democrat,” Musk said. “If you know people in Wisconsin, call them right now.”
Republicans including Musk and Donald Trump have backed Schimel, a former state attorney general, in hopes of turning the 4-3 supreme court conservative. Musk traveled to Wisconsin over the weekend, where he handed out $1m checks to two voters.
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A Pennsylvania man has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk claiming the billionaire reneged on payments promised to canvassers during the 2024 election, the New York Times reports.
Filed as a class action against Musk and his Super Pac, the suit alleges Musk failed to pay the claimant $20,000 he was owed for collecting signatures.
Musk told Pennsylvanians he’d pay $100 to those willing to sign petitions supporting free speech and gun ownership rights, and $47 for each signatory recruited, an amount raised to $100 in the final days of the election.
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Thousands of people are tuning in to watch Cory Booker hold the Senate floor as his marathon speech against the “grave and urgent” danger posed by the Trump administration closes in on the 22-hour mark.
Just before 5pm ET, more than 71,500 people were watching along from Booker’s live feed on YouTube. Meanwhile, several news organizations, including AP, PBS, CBS – and of course the Guardian – had feeds of their own. Others tuned in through C-SPAN.
Booker began speaking on Monday evening, vowing to remain on the Senate floor as long as he was “physically able”. His speech has already become one of the longest in Senate history.
“These are not normal times in our nation,” Booker said as he launched into his speech. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them.”
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Mike Waltz and other national security officials using Gmail for government business - report
National security leaders, including the White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, the Washington Post reports.
The Post cites documents it reviewed and interviews with three US officials that showed members of Donald Trump’s National Security Council had used the commercial email service, which is less secure than Signal, the service Waltz and other Trump administration officials used to coordinate a bombing attack on Yemen last week.
“A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict,” the Post reports. “While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.”
It continues: “Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions.”
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Today so far
We’ve been watching today as the New Jersey senator Cory Booker enters his 21st hour of speaking during a marathon address designed to “disrupt” the “normal business of the United States Senate” for as long as he is “physically able”. Here’s what else is going on across the country.
Voters are casting their ballots in Wisconsin and Florida in elections that may prove a symbol of Donald Trump’s popularity and Elon Musk’s clout.
Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” is finalizing its shuttering of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers, US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas.
Thousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country are being dismissed as the Trump administration began implementing its controversial workforce-reduction plan. The plan could see 10,000 staff members removed from the department.
The firings at HHS have included staff members who were working on the Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response, Reuters reports.
The representative Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, has issued a statement strongly condemning the Trump administration for cancelling $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University because of what it alleged was the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment.
The US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December.
The Republican House speaker Mike Johnson failed to block a bipartisan effort to change House rules to allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely after the birth of a child. The proxy vote resolution has been led by Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and the Democratic representative Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.
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Cory Booker's Senate floor speech enters 21st hour
Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, has now spoken for 21 hours on the Senate floor in opposition to the Trump administration.
Booker has used his speaking slot to decry the Trump administration’s spending cuts, its attempt to abolish the Department of Education, the president’s attempts to bypass the judicial system and the removal of people from the US who speak out against the administration.
He began his speech at 7pm ET on Monday night and will pass the 21-hour mark at 4pm on Tuesday. Booker has had help from Democratic colleagues, who have been asking him questions that have allowed him to have a break without yielding the floor.
Booker is getting close to the all-time Senate record. In 1957, Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of the same year.
First lady Melania Trump spoke at the International Women of Courage Award ceremony on Tuesday where she spoke about courage as “a strength that is based in love”.
Trump, during a rare public appearance at the state department, recognized eight women from around the world for bravery, including an Israeli woman who was held hostage by Hamas. She said:
I have harnessed the power of love as a source of strength during challenging times. Love has inspired me to embrace forgiveness, nurture empathy and exhibit bravery in the face of unforeseen obstacles.
Congressman Jerry Nadler condemns Trump's 'authoritarian tactics' amid 'attacks' on higher education
Congressman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, has issued a statement strongly condemning the Trump administration for cancelling $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University because of what it alleged was the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment.
The administration announced on Monday that a federal antisemitism taskforce is also reviewing more than $255m in contracts between Harvard University and the federal government, as well as $8.7bn in grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates.
“I strongly condemn former President Trump’s latest attacks on higher education cloaked under the guise of fighting antisemitism,” Nadler said in his statement on Tuesday.
Withholding funding from Columbia and, potentially, Harvard will not make Jewish students safer … Make no mistake. Trump’s actions are not rooted in genuine concern for combatting hate.
Nadler noted that the president’s record “is stained by praise for neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and white nationalists”, adding:
I call on our nation’s universities to reject President Trump’s demands and to fight back against these hostile acts. If necessary, these issues must be litigated in federal court to put an end to the illegal and unconstitutional actions taken by the Trump Administration.
From Sam Levine in New York and Ashley Spencer in Daytona Beach, Florida:
Andrew Julius, a veteran, cast his vote for Josh Weil, a Democrat, at the John Dickerson Community Center on Tuesday in a special election to determine who will replace Mike Waltz, the US national security adviser.
I’m actually a fan of Josh Weil. I listened to him talk. I actually went to one of his town halls a couple of weeks ago at the church and I was like, all right, he seems like an educated person. He’s a teacher, level headed, doesn’t have those crazy conspiracy thoughts. And so I felt comfortable saying, okay, I can vote for this guy instead of not voting at all.
A former sonar technician in the navy, Julius said he was concerned over the recent disclosure that top Trump administration officials had used Signal to communicate about sensitive bombing plans in Yemen. He said:
I had a top secret security clearance with my job in the Navy because I was a sonar tech. So we had to have a security clearance, and if I would have done just a fraction of a mistake or what was done with this whole Signal-gate fiasco, I would have been court martialed. I would have been court martialed, kicked out of the Navy, lost rank, lost pay.
“It’s really concerning that no one has even taken responsibility like, hey, we messed up. That was a mistake. We shouldn’t have done that,” he added.
The district is solidly Republican, and the GOP candidate, Randy Fine, is still the favorite to win. But recent polling has shown that the race may be closer than expected, prompting some Republican skittishness.
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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson tried – and failed – to block a bipartisan effort to change House rules to allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely after the birth of a child.
The House, in a 206-222 procedural vote, fell short of the votes needed to adopt a rule that included language blocking a proxy vote resolution led by Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Democratic congresswoman Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.
“If we don’t do the right thing now, it’ll never be done,” said Luna, who gave birth to her son in 2023.
Pettersen, with a diaper over her shoulder and her four-month-old son in her arms, pleaded with House colleagues. “It is unfathomable that in 2025 we have not modernized Congress,” she said. “We’re asking you to continue to stand with us.”
Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID - report
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.
On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID’s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department.
The latest move by Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” will in effect eliminate what is left of the agency’s workforce.
The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, Reuters reports.
Among those fired today were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, the news agency writes, citing a source.
The center’s Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network tests raw pet food for bird flu. In recent weeks, the FDA has issued several pet food recalls after detecting bird flu contamination.
The move will bring operations at the laboratory network to a halt, the source told Reuters.
As egg prices have reached record highs, about a third of American consumers have stopped buying them in response to the rising costs, a new study suggests.
According to research from Clarify Capital, 34% of Americans have stopped purchasing eggs as prices for the breakfast staple are becoming less affordable. On average, these consumers say they won’t begin buying eggs again until costs come down to $5 or less for a carton.
The report compared the average price of eggs across all US states, observing a significant jump in 2018, when the average was $1.49. In 2025, that figure is sitting at about $5.18.
The study found that nearly 95% of Americans have noticed the significant rise in egg prices, with shoppers reporting their perceived average as $7 a dozen. The average American said they would stop buying eggs when prices hit $8 a dozen.
A comedian whose skit for White House reporters was canceled for fear of upsetting Donald Trump skewered the journalists who dropped her in a biting late-night talk show routine mocking their perceived subservience to the president.
“I thought when people take away your rights, erase your history and deport your friends, you’re supposed to call it out. But I was wrong,” Amber Ruffin said during a brief appearance Monday on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers.
Glad to find that out now, because if they had let me give that speech, ooh baby… I would have been so terrifically mean.
Ruffin was dropped at the weekend from the 26 April White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner when the group decided its “focus is not on the politics of division”.
As a comedy writer for Meyers and host of her own chat show on Peacock, Ruffin has frequently mocked or criticized Trump and his actions.
White House press secretary defends mass layoffs after health department guts staff
When asked about more possible dismissals in the federal government, White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said:
“The President has given the responsibility to his Cabinet secretaries to hire and fire at their respective agencies, and they reserve that right. You saw the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced more layoffs today. This is all part of the administration’s effort for a mass reduction in force in the federal bureaucracy here in Washington DC, to save American taxpayers money.”
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Ashley Spencer reports on the ground from Florida:
At the Church of Christ in Daytona Beach, voters lined up to vote in Florida’s special election to replace Rep. Mike Waltz after he was appointed Trump’s national security advisor. At the church, Trump bumper stickers dotted the parking lot. But the campaign for Democratic candidate Josh Weil had a more robust table set up with flyers and resources than that of Republican Randy Fine, who is favored to win.
“Calling all immigrants or noncitizens ‘illegal’ or calling them ‘criminals’ is insane,” said Victor Valentin, who volunteered for a political campaign for the first time and on behalf of Weil. “I’m a Hispanic man from Puerto Rico, and those are my fellow Hispanic folks also. These are great people that come here to work hard. They come here to educate their kids.”
Meanwhile, a Fine campaign volunteer wore a shirt with Trump’s mugshot that said Never Surrender. The former Democrat said he supported Trump and key ally Elon Musk. “I want him to do what he’s trying to do,” he said of Musk. “Anybody who’s not happy with him is either brainwashed or a crook.”
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California attorney general Rob Bonta sent letters to 15 insurance companies reminding them that under AB 571, they cannot deny, cancel, or increase premiums on malpractice insurance for medical providers who offer abortion, contraception, or gender-affirming care in California.
The letter sent to insurers requests proof of compliance, and Bonta also issued a general industry alert.
“California has been and remains committed to protecting the right to choose and the right of individuals to access necessary medical care,” said Bonta. “Licensed providers that offer reproductive and gender-affirming care too often face significant obstacles in securing malpractice insurance — the California Legislature passed, and the Governor signed into law, AB 571 to tear down those barriers.”
Leavitt was asked about the error regarding a Salvadoran national with protected legal status who was deported to El Salvador last month, despite his legal protections. The Trump administration acknowledged in court that his deportation was due to an “administrative error”.
“The error you’re referring to was a clerical error,” Leavitt said on Tuesday. “It was an administrative error. The administration maintains the position that this individual, who was deported to El Salvador and will not be returning to our country, was a member of the brutal and vicious MS-13 gang.”
White House press secretary teases Trump's Wednesday tariff announcement
In Tuesday’s press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the deaths of four US soldiers in Lithuania, the US southern border, and a new tariffs announcement slated for tomorrow:
“This is obviously a very big day,” Leavitt said. “He is with his trade and tariff team right now, perfecting it to make sure this is a perfect deal for the American people and the American worker, and you will all find out in about 24 hours from now.”
Trump is expected to impose sweeping tariffs on US imports on Wednesday, which he has called “liberation day”.
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Summary of the day so far
New Jersey senator Cory Booker is about to enter the 17th hour of his marathon overnight speech on the Senate floor to warn of what he called the “grave and urgent” danger that Donald Trump’s presidential administration poses to democracy and the American people. Here’s what else is happening today:
US voters are headed to the polls in Wisconsin and Florida in elections that some see as a test of Donald Trump’s popularity and the political clout of Elon Musk. The most closely watched contest is a battle for a seat on Wisconsin’s seven-member supreme court.
US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December.
Thousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country are being dismissed as the Trump administration began implementing its controversial workforce reduction plan, which could ultimately remove 10,000 staff from the department through forced layoffs.
A group of Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration over its decision to cut $11bn in federal funds that they were allocated during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Republican House speaker Mike Johnson brushed off Trump’s suggestion that he could run for a third term, adding that “the president and I have talked about this, joked about it.”
The reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people.
The White House said Donald Trump will deliver remarks at a “Make America Wealthy Again” event on Wednesday at 4pm ET from the White House Rose Garden.
Trump is expected to unveil a swathe of reciprocal tariffs at the event tomorrow, which he has called “Liberation Day”.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday that the goal would be to announce “country-based tariffs”, although Trump has remained committed to imposing separate sector-specific charges.
Attorney general Pam Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty against Luigi Mangione
US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December.
A statement by Bondi reads:
Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.
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The top Democrat on the House armed services committee says he is not confident that the defense department will get to the bottom of the Signal group chat where senior US government officials discussed plans to bomb Yemen in front of a journalist.
Last week, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate armed services committee requested the defense department (DOD) inspector general investigate the chat.
It’s unclear if that inquiry has started, but Democratic congressman Adam Smith said he did not think the department’s independent watchdog was up to the task.
“President Trump fired all of the inspector generals, as we know, including the one at DOD, and I think he made it very clear what he expected out of them”, Smith told a press conference at the Capitol, referring to one of the first moves the president took after being sworn in.
Is the inspector general’s process going to be legitimate in light of the Trump administration’s clear effort to fire people who don’t give them the answers they want? I think the answer to that question is highly in doubt.
The inspector general’s investigation would likely be the only one to happen anytime soon. Donald Trump, along with senior officials on the group chat including defense secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz, have denied any wrongdoing, and Congress’s Republican leadership appears disinterested in pressing the matter further.
From Jenny Peek in Madison, Wisconsin, where voting is under way in an election that will decide majority control of the state’s supreme court:
Voters streamed into Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday morning. It’s the state’s capital city and a Democratic stronghold.
Jeannine Ramsey, 65, said it’s her civic duty to vote, and she does so in every election.
The Madison resident voted for liberal-backed candidate Susan Crawford shortly before 9am. She said the “Elon Musk-supported Brad Schimel” wouldn’t rule fairly on the issues most important to her.
“I think it’s shameful that Elon Musk can come here and spend millions of dollars and try to bribe the citizens,” Ramsey said.
I don’t think it should be allowed. He doesn’t live in our state, and I don’t think he should be able to buy this election. It makes me angry.
Ramsey pointed to redistricting, the state’s civil rights era abortion ban and collective bargaining as major issues the Wisconsin supreme court could hear in the coming months. And despite living in a liberal city, she’s cautious about getting her hopes up.
“I live in a very blue bubble and I’ve been very disappointed in the past,” she said.
I thought I knew what people were thinking and feeling, and I was really surprised that people would send a convicted felon back into the presidential office.
Nearly two dozen states sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding
A group of Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration over its decision to cut $11bn in federal funds that they were allocated during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the lawsuit, attorneys general and governors from 23 states and the District of Columbia argue that Department of Health and Human Services lacks the authority to unilaterally claw back funding the states had already built health programs around.
The “sudden and reckless cuts violate federal law, jeopardize public health, and will have devastating consequences for communities nationwide,” the lawsuit writes.
The lawsuit asks the court to immediately stop the Trump administration from rescinding the money, which was allocated by Congress during the pandemic and mostly used for Covid-related efforts such as testing and vaccination, Associated Press reports.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he and Trump have 'joked' about running for third term
At a press conference in the Capitol, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson brushed off Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could run for a third term.
“There’s a constitutional path. You have to amend the constitution to do it, and that’s a high bar,” Johnson said, adding that “the president and I have talked about this, joked about it.”
“We take him at his word,” Johnson continued, before downplaying the possibility that any change to the constitution would succeed.
I understand why so many Americans do wish that he could run for a third term, because he’s accomplishing so much in this first 100 days that they wish it could go on for much longer. But I think he recognizes the constitutional limitations, and I’m not sure that there’s a move about to amend the constitution.
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Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer praised Senator Cory Booker for his “strength”, “fortitude” and “clarity”.
“All of America is paying attention to what you’re saying,” Schumer said during his question to Booker, adding:
Our whole caucus is behind you. We admire your stamina, your strength, your passion, your intelligence.
Some of Senator Cory Booker’s fellow Democrats have helped support him during his monologues, with several asking questions that have allowed Booker to have a break without yielding the floor.
Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer was the first to pose a question to his New Jersey colleague, and he praised Booker for his “strength and conviction”.
“You’re taking the floor tonight to bring up all these inequities that will hurt people, that will so hurt the middle class, that will so hurt poor people, that will hurt America, hurt our fiscal conditions, as you document,” Schumer said in his own question to Booker.
Just give us a little inkling of the strength – give us a little feeling for the strength and conviction that drive you to do this unusual taking of the floor for a long time to let the people know how bad these things are going to be.
Booker's Senate floor speech stretches into 15th hour
Senator Cory Booker, whose marathon overnight speech on the Senate floor began at 7pm last night and is still happening, warned of what he called the “grave and urgent” that Donald Trump’s administration poses to democracy and the American people.
Booker decried the Trump administration’s spending cuts, its attempt to abolish the Department of Education, the president’s attempts to bypass the judicial system and the removal of people from the US who speak out against the administration.
Booker’s speech has been supported with reams of quotes from speeches by the late American politicians John McCain and John Lewis, as well as excerpts from newspaper articles.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said Cory Booker was “giving people hope” and that her colleague was “an alarm clock right now for this country”.
“We’ve seen people realize this isn’t a bunch of campaign rhetoric that’s going on,” Klobuchar said as Booker yielded for a question on the Senate floor.
People are stepping up. They’re fighting it in the courts. They’re fighting it in Congress.
She praised Senator Booker for “standing in a snowstorm”. “You’re the kind of person that gives me strength,” she said.
Senator Raphael Warnock said he was “very proud” of his Democratic colleague, Cory Booker, for his marathon speech on the Senate floor.
Warnock, speaking as Booker yielded for a question, said he had fought to expand Medicaid in his state of Georgia. The Trump administration is not working for ordinary people, he said.
The administration is working for billionaires. They’re working for people like Elon Musk.
Senator Cory Booker thanked his Minnesota colleague Tina Smith for her question, saying she “wades into some difficult waters”. He said he had read “horrible stories, painful stories” about people “trapped” in the immigration system that were a “betrayal of American values”.
Booker said the Trump administration was “violating the very first words” of the constitution. He said:
[Donald Trump] wants to take power from our Congress. And the thing that is killing me, that is actually breaking my heart, is that we’re letting him take our power.
On the subject of foreign policy, Booker said Trump had left US allies feeling “abandoned”, “degraded” and “insulted” while leaving its adversaries “emboldened”.
In the short time President Trump has been in office for his second term, Americans have already been put in harm’s way because of the reckless approach of the administration.
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Senator Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, accused Donald Trump of using the immigration system “as a tool to restrict first amendment freedoms, to subvert due process and to further weaken America’s global standing”.
Smith, speaking as Senator Cory Booker yielded for a question on the Senate floor, said Trump was “seek(ing) to emulate the authoritarian regimes that he so openly admires”.
She noted the number of international students targeted for arrest and deportation in recent weeks because of their participation in protests in support of Palestine.
“These are young people who play by all the rules,” Smith said.
Their views on the war in Gaza may differ sharply from mine or others, but I believe that the first amendment guarantees them the right to express those views without facing punishment or reprisal from our government.
She said the arrests had been carried out in a manner “that seems calculated to maximize fear and intimidation in immigrant and activist communities”. Smith said:
Does punishing people for their political speech seem consistent with American democratic values? I can’t believe that.
Senator Cory Booker, who is now more than 13 hours into his marathon speech on the Senate floor, accused the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress of “putting profits over people”. Booker said:
They are trying to gut Medicaid and Medicare, programs on which nearly a third of our country rely – all to pay for tax cuts to billionaires and corporations.
Booker also said social security “is not the government’s money to spend” but the “hard-earned savings of working Americans that belongs to Americans,” adding:
[Donald] Trump and [Elon] Musk need to keep their hands off of money that isn’t theirs to take.
Staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have started receiving notice that their jobs are being cut, Reuters reports.
The news agency, citing an FDA employee, reports that staff on Tuesday morning had to present their badges at the building entrance and those who had been fired were given a ticket and told to return home.
Fired staff at the CDC worked for the National Center for Environmental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), it says.
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Mass layoffs begin at federal health agencies
Some employees at federal health agencies began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday morning, according to reports, days after the US department of health and human services (HHS) announced it planned to cut 10,000 full-time jobs.
An email addressed to an employee at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obtained by CNN, reads:
This action does not reflect directly on your service, performance or conduct.
The email states that the person would be placed on administrative leave and would no longer have access to building as of Tuesday, the outlet reports.
HHS secretary Robert F Kennedy announced the planned cuts as part of a sweeping organization of the department which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, and monitoring the safety of food and medicine, as well as for administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country, Associated Press reports.
The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff – 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers, according to the news agency.
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Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new limits on what books are allowed in school libraries in a move that critics decry as censorship often focused on LGBTQ+ issues, race or imposing conservative social values.
Caught up in the attempts at suppressing books are classics like The Color Purple and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Opponents of such bills argue that they would actually hinder individual rights because the proponents would be imposing their beliefs on parents and children who do not share their views. Those campaigning for the restrictions say it would prevent children from being exposed to what they label sexually explicit and obscene content and increase parental rights.
There are at least 112 proposed state bills concerning school – and public – libraries that seek to expand the definition of what is deemed obscene or “harmful to minors” and to limit librarian staff’s ability to determine which books are in their collections, according to the American Library Association.
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Democratic senator Cory Booker holds marathon speech to highlight 'recklessness' of Trump policies
Senator Cory Booker has been giving a marathon speech on the Senate floor that has lasted into the early hours of Tuesday morning, highlighting what he described as the “recklessness” of the Trump administration.
The New Jersey Democrat began his address on Monday night and said he would continue to speak for as long as he could “physically endure”. By 7.30am ET, Booker was still going.
The focus of his remarks are concerns over president Trump’s proposed cuts to programs like Medicaid.
At the start of his speech, Booker said:
I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our nation is in crisis.
He went on:
In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy and even our aspirations as a people for – from our highest offices – a sense of common decency.
These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.
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US voters are headed to the polls on Tuesday in Wisconsin and Florida in elections that some see as a test of Donald Trump’s popularity and the political clout of his billionaire ally Elon Musk.
The most closely watched contest is a battle for a seat on Wisconsin’s seven-member supreme court. Conservatives are trying to flip ideological control of the court, which currently has a 4-3 liberal majority. The contest, which features liberal judge Susan Crawford facing off against conservative Brad Schimel, will have huge consequences in the state.
The supreme court is set to determine the future of abortion and collective bargaining rights. The court could also ultimately require the state legislature to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts, which are heavily distorted in favor of Republicans, who control six of them.
A Cornell University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests and was asked to surrender by United States immigration officials has said he is leaving the US, citing fear of detention and threats to his personal safety.
Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana studies and dual citizen of the UK and the Gambia, has participated in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza after the October 2023 Hamas attack. His attorneys said last month that he was asked to turn himself in and that his student visa was being revoked.
Donald Trump has pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters and accused them of supporting the militant group Hamas, being antisemitic and posing foreign policy hurdles.
Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say the Trump administration wrongly conflates their criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism and support for Hamas.
Last year, Taal was in a group of activists who disrupted a career fair on campus that featured weapons manufacturers and the university thereafter ordered him to study remotely. He previously posted online that “colonised peoples have the right to resist by any means necessary”.
Taal filed a lawsuit in mid-March to block deportations of protesters, a bid that was denied by a judge last week.
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The reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people.
Planned Parenthood said that nine of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as Title X, which has supported healthcare services for poor people since 1970.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week the US Department of Health and Human Services planned an immediate freeze of $27.5m in family planning grants for groups including Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood says more than 300 health centers are in the Title X network and Title X-funded centers received more than 1.5m visits in 2023. It did not say how much funding would be halted by the Trump administration.
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Large majority of Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against US, poll finds
A large majority of western Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against the US, a survey has shown, if Donald Trump introduces sweeping import duties for major trading partners as expected this week.
The US president appears likely to unleash a range of tariffs, varying from country to country, on Wednesday, which he has called Liberation Day. He also said last week that a 25% levy on cars shipped to the US would come into force the next day.
Many European firms are likely to be hit hard. Some, including Germany’s car manufacturers and France’s luxury goods firms and wine, champagne and spirits makers, rely on exports to the US for up to 20% of their income.
The EU has already pledged a “timely, robust and calibrated” response to Washington’s plans, which experts predict are likely to depress output, drive up prices and fuel a trade war. Global markets and the dollar fell on Monday after Trump crushed hopes that what he calls “reciprocal tariffs” – arguing that trading partners are cheating the US – would only target countries with the largest trade imbalances.
A YouGov survey carried out in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK found that if the US tariffs went ahead, large majorities – ranging from 79% of respondents in Denmark to 56% in Italy – favoured retaliatory levies on US imports.
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As Donald Trump prepared to unveil a swathe of reciprocal tariffs, global markets braced and some Republican senators voiced their opposition to a strategy that critics warn risks a global trade war, provoking retaliation by major trading partners such as China, Canada and the European Union.
The US president said on Monday he would be “very kind” to trading partners when he unveils further tariffs this week, potentially as early as Tuesday night.
The Republican billionaire insists that reciprocal action is needed because the world’s biggest economy has been “ripped off by every country in the world”, promising “Liberation Day” for the US.
He could also unveil more sector-specific levies.
Asked for details, he told reporters on Monday: “You’re going to see in two days, which is maybe tomorrow night or probably Wednesday.”
But he added: “We’re going to be very nice, relatively speaking, we’re going to be very kind.”
Trump aides draft proposal for at least 20% tariffs on most imports to US, Washington Post reports
White House aides have drafted a proposal to impose tariffs of about 20% on most imports to the United States, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Donald Trump’s team is mulling using trillions of dollars in new import revenue for a tax dividend or refund, the report said, citing sources.
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Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul the nation’s elections faced its first legal challenges on Monday as the Democratic National Committee and a pair of non-profits filed two separate lawsuits calling it unconstitutional.
The Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund brought the first lawsuit Monday afternoon. The DNC, the Democratic Governors Association and Senate and House Democratic leaders followed soon after with a complaint of their own.
Both lawsuits filed in the US district court for the District of Columbia ask the court to block Trump’s order and declare it illegal.
“The president’s executive order is an unlawful action that threatens to uproot our tried-and-tested election systems and silence potentially millions of Americans,” said Danielle Lang, senior director of voting rights at the DC-based Campaign Legal Center.
“It is simply not within the president’s authority to set election rules by executive decree, especially when they would restrict access to voting in this way.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Control of the Wisconsin supreme court at stake in race that broke records for spending
Majority control of the Wisconsin supreme court will be decided on Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation’s political fights, pitting a candidate backed by Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger.
Republicans including Trump and the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, lined up behind Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general. Democrats like Barack Obama and billionaire megadonor George Soros backed Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID.
The first major election in the country since November is seen as a litmus test of how voters feel about Trump’s first months back in office and the role played by Musk, whose “department of government efficiency” has torn through federal agencies and laid off thousands of workers, AP reported. Musk traveled to Wisconsin on Sunday to make a pitch for Schimel and personally hand out $1m checks to two voters.
On Monday, Trump hinted as to why the outcome of the race was important. The court can decide election-related laws and settle disputes over future election outcomes.
“Wisconsin’s a big state politically, and the supreme court has a lot to do with elections in Wisconsin,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “Winning Wisconsin’s a big deal, so therefore the supreme court choice – it’s a big race.”
Crawford embraced the backing of Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights advocates, running ads that highlighted Schimel’s opposition to the procedure. She also attacked Schimel for his ties to Trump and Musk, referring to “Elon Schimel” during a debate.
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Oliver Stone to testify at John F Kennedy assassination hearing
Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a US House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday that is considering thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy released this month at Donald Trump’s direction.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said that lawmakers will hear from witnesses about the value of the documents.
“By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, our task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people,” Luna said.
Shortly after taking office for his second term in January, Trump signed an executive order directing national intelligence and other officials to quickly come up with a plan for the full and complete release of all records relating to President Kennedy’s assassination.
The archives’ Kennedy assassination collection has more than 6m pages of records, the vast majority of which had been declassified and made public before Trump’s order. Kennedy’s murder has been attributed to lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Special elections to deliver voters’ verdict on Trump’s chaotic first months
Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.
We start with news that several elections today will be a crucial test of the popularity of the chaotic and extremist first two months of Donald Trump’s second term and the clout of his close ally, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who has been tasked with radically reforming the US federal government.
They could also offer a glimmer of hope to Democrats – fresh off a surprise upset win in a local race in Pennsylvania last week – that their divided political party could be seeing a resurgence in its fortunes.
Or, if they fail to land further blows on Republicans, it will be yet another sign that the party is destined for a long period in the wilderness amid historic lows of its popularity in recent polls.
Many eyes are focused on two previously Republican-held congressional seats in Florida, where its sixth and first congressional districts are vacant and up for grabs.
Mike Waltz left to take up a cabinet job for Trump and Matt Gaetz resigned to pursue a failed bid to become attorney general. House Republicans currently hold a razor-thin majority over Democrats, 218 to 213, with four seats vacant, in the lower chamber of Congress.
Republican nerves about how tight the House could become were emphasized last week after Trump pulled the nomination of New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be United Nations ambassador – a move widely seen as admitting that marginal Republican districts are at risk of being lost.
It is the old district of Waltz, Trump’s embattled national security adviser, that is most at risk. State senator Randy Fine has lagged behind his Democratic opponent, Josh Weil, in fundraising amid concerns that he could lose the district – though such a defeat is far from certain.
Read my colleague Richard Luscombe’s full report on the elections here:
In other news:
Trump said Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” when he announces reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners. Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold amid recession fears.
The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.
Senate majority leader John Thune said he believes Donald Trump is “probably messing with you” with his remarks on Sunday that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term.
A coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block portions of Donald Trump’s executive order that would require voters to prove their citizenship in order to vote.
Trump took aim at ticket scalping in a new executive order signed today, which directs the Department of Justice and the FTC to crack down on ticket resellers who price-gouge.
Tens of millions of dollars is being withheld from Planned Parenthood chapters across the US in an attempt by the Trump administration to force the clinics to change their operations.
A federal judge has put the Trump administration plans to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants on pause, ruling Monday that protections struck down by officials should be reinstated while lawsuits continue.
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