Nearly 100 pro-Palestine protesters arrested at Trump Tower

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Donald Trump threatened to impose 200 percent tariffs on European alcohol, health experts are ready to declare the pandemic over, and dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Trump Tower

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1 | Nearly 100 pro-Palestine protesters arrested after storming NYC's Trump Tower to demand release of Columbia student

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2 | Trump threatens 200% tariff on French wine and other alcohol from Europe

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3 | S&P suffers first 'correction' since 2023 having lost 10% of its record-high since Trump took office

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4 | Bryan Kohberger's lawyers will argue evidence was planted by 'real perpetrator'

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5 | Five years after the Covid pandemic, health experts are finally ready to say that it's over

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The Big Question 

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to use a wartime law to speed up the number of deportations, four people familiar with the talks told CNN.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 would give the president broad authority to remove undocumented immigrants, but it's only ever been invoked during actual wartime, and legal experts have said that President Trump would likely face pushback in the courts if he were to use it.

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$40 million

When right-wing network Newsmax and Smartmatic agreed to settle the voting software firm's election defamation lawsuit last fall for $40 million.

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"His poor response to this situation shows that the pressures of being CDC director would have been too much"

Dave Weldon, the former congressman who had his nomination to head the Centers for Disease Control yanked away by the White House on Wednesday, blamed "Big Pharma" for influencing two Republican senators to vote "no" on his nomination.

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