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Europe’s ‘Trump whisperer’ arrives  Politico Trump says there will ‘100%’ be EU tariff deal as he meets Italy’s Meloni  BBC Meloni Meets With Trump, With Tariffs on the Agenda  The New York Times Trump meets with Italian PM Meloni as he navigates tariff

Erik and Lyle Menendez resentencing hearing to begin in Los Angeles  BBC The Menendez brothers, currently serving life in prison, are set to be resentenced this week  Yahoo What to know as Menendez brothers’ life sentences are revisited by judge  NBC News Menendez

Wife of mistakenly deported Maryland man responds to release of protective order filing  WTOP Abrego Garcia’s wife responds to Trump administration publicizing civil protective order filing from 2021  CNN Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’  The Guardian

Wife of mistakenly deported Maryland man responds to release of protective order filing  WTOP ‘Maryland man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia exposed in police records as ‘violent’ repeat wife beater  Fox News New documents detail government’s case that mistakenly deported man was a gang

Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live  The Guardian

China is facing a double whammy: corrosive deflation and tariffs that threaten to block trade. Chinese workers will be the biggest casualties.

Destroying endangered species’ habitat wouldn’t count as ‘harm’ under proposed Trump rule  NPR Proposed rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for environmentalists  AP News New Endangered Species Rule Would No Longer Count Habitat Loss as ‘Harm’  U.S. News & World Report Trump

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species at risk. (Image credit: Tom Szczerbowski)

Newsom announces lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs as California stands to lose billions  Los Angeles Times California becomes first state to sue over Donald Trump tariffs  BBC California’s lawsuit puts West Coast business leaders to the test  Politico California launches legal challenge against Trump’s

The Texas House approved the plan, part of a push by President Trump’s allies to offer up to about $10,000 for private school, home-school or virtual learning.