NEW: Justice Dept. expected to announce antitrust action against Live Nation as soon as tmw, three sources tell me and Perry Stein. The feds have been probing the Ticketmaster parent, which has a sprawling biz in concert promotion, ticket sales and more.

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.Rachel Leah Siegel reports on the potentially devastating consequences for the labor market of Trump's plans for massive deportations washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Congress approved hundreds of billions for veterans disability compensation

But veterans have faced a massive backlog & impenetrable bureaucracy

Despite investigations & USG warnings, for-profit companies w/ powerful lobbyists & big campaign contributions are now making tens of

Great Lisa Rein reporting

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Trump is very serious about wanting to put a 10% tariff on ALL imports. He calls it a 'ring around the country.'

Can a president do that?

Congress is supposed to have the power of the purse. Still, Trump advisers are trying to figure out a way Jeff Stein reports.

So, so, so proud of my friend and inspiration Keri Blakinger for her Pulitzer finalist in feature writing for 'The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row.' nytimes.com/2023/08/31/mag…

a lovely succession of paragraphs from Alex Roarty on RFK Jr's alleged plan to have 3% mortgage rates notus.org/2024-election/…

hard evidence that you should leak stuff to me:

Trump's advisers keep downplaying the extent of his tariff proposals -- saying this 10% idea is just one more extreme idea among many -- but then Trump himself keeps suggesting he would actually like to be *more* aggressive

AP -- Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children (one aged 5 days old)
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As giant factories rise up in the desert, Heather Long heads to Arizona to chronicle the challenges and promise on the ground

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'What's happening, according to our own intelligence analysis, is that we are essentially creating bulletin board material, recruiting material, for terrorist groups all around the world when you have 13,000, 15,000 children dying inside Gaza' - Chris Murphy 🟧 on Fox this morning

Reporting from Andrew Restuccia & co on Trump allies’ sweeping plans for the Federal Reserve

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Latest via Kelly Kasulis Cho & Adela Suliman washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

A remarkable story from Rick Perlstein about a night he shared with Marc Andreessen, who said of rural small-town Americans who didn't leave their communities, 'I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet'
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A TikTok ban, should ByteDance refuse to sell, won't be triggered before 2025. For now, a number of Democrats and Republicans are saying TikTok won't be banned.

'TikTok ain’t going away,' says Sen. Tim Kaine. 'If you like it, you’re going to keep it.'

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Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. The baby's mother, who was 30 weeks pregnant with her, died along with the baby's father and sister in an Israeli airstrike. nbc4dc.com/CVy99Qo

One example we found:

A pregnant woman arrived at a Florida hospital in Dec. 2022, five days after her water broke, pleading for treatment. She was sent home.

Federal officials concluded that the hospital put her life at risk.

Read the investigation: documentcloud.org/documents/2457…