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The month's top story

Trump inner circle warned of tariff consequences

As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.

NYT · 5 sources

Also covering this CBSFlorida stationery business owner sues Trump administration over tariffs WSJHow the U.S. Lost Its Place as the World’s Manufacturing Powerhouse FOXTrump vows nobody getting 'off the hook' for 'unfair' trade balances, says there was no t…
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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Top Stories

    Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Top Stories

    Missouri State football standout Todric McGee dies at 21

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Top Stories

    Bukele Proposes Deal That Would Free Deported Venezuelans

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 411 stories

  1. Mar 31: CBS News 24/7, 10am ET

    CBS · 5 outlets

    Memo details how U.S. can send non-criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay; Vietnam War documentary series uses CBS News archives and declassified government records.

  2. Trump’s Claims About Global Trade and Tariffs: Fact Check

    CBS · 4 outlets

  3. FSU president reacts to shooting, saying "it's overwhelming"

    CBS · 5 outlets

  4. How Are Democrats Responding to Trump?

    CBS · 4 outlets

Show 8 more

  1. Harris Will Help Democrats Raise Cash as She Steps Back Into Politics

    FOX · 2 outlets

  2. Mar 25: CBS News 24/7, 10am ET

    CBS · 4 outlets

  3. Biden Condemns Trump Over Social Security in First Speech Since Leaving Office

    NYT · 4 outlets

  4. Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?

    FOX · 5 outlets

  5. Trump is studying how to remove Fed Chair Powell, adviser says

    NYT · 3 outlets

  6. Here Comes the Sun: Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club and more

    CBS · 1 outlets

  7. Apr 18: CBS News 24/7, 4pm ET

    CBS · 1 outlets

  8. 4/16: The Daily Report

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 327 stories

  1. Stock Investors Cheer Tariff Exemptions

    CNBC · 3 outlets

    South Korea has found increased attempts to disguise foreign products as Korean exports, primarily from China, to avoid tariffs.

  2. Former U.S. attorney for Virginia found dead at 43

    CNBC · 4 outlets

  3. Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  4. Volatility in JGB Market Remains High

    CNBC · 3 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. ESG Roundup: Market Talk

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  2. Nvidia Is Now the Biggest U.S.-China Bargaining Chip

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  3. Fed's Williams sees no looming need to change monetary policy: Report

    WSJ · 2 outlets

  4. Dealing With Social Security Is Heading From Bad to Worse

    MKTW · 3 outlets

  5. JGB Yields Diverge on Mixed Tariff Signals

    WSJ · 2 outlets

  6. U.S. Natural Gas Futures Extend Losses on Trade Wars

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  7. Elon Musk’s Megadeal Between X and xAI Breaks Wall Street’s Rulebook

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  8. 23andMe bankruptcy: With America's DNA put on sale, market panic gets a new twist

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  9. Bitcoin surges more than 7% in broad market relief rally as Trump pauses some tariffs

    CNBC · 1 outlets

  10. Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out

    WSJ · 2 outlets

Sports 294 stories

  1. Former NFL offensive lineman John Vella dies at 74

    CBS · 4 outlets

  2. If the NFL had an expansion draft, would Mahomes go No. 1? Who takes a non-QB first?

    ESPN · 4 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Steelers re-sign OL Max Scharping

    PFT · 4 outlets

  2. Where will Shedeur Sanders land?

    PFT · 4 outlets

  3. UConn star Paige Bueckers goes No. 1 to Dallas Wings in 2025 WNBA Draft

    ESPN · 3 outlets

  4. Tush push ban vote tabled; 16 NFL teams in favor

    PFT · 4 outlets

  5. Hunter says game over if he can't play both ways

    PFT · 4 outlets

  6. Stay at Duke or go to the NBA? Where Cooper Flagg stands with his decision

    CBS · 3 outlets

Technology 283 stories

  1. 9to5Mac Overtime 045: It only takes one – hands-on with Nintendo Switch 2

    TechRadar · 2 outlets

    Nintendo has quietly removed the mention of VRR support from some of its regional Switch 2 websites.

  2. Apple releases iOS 18.5 beta 2

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  3. Apple has an iPad keyboard problem

    9to5 · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Meta blocks Apple Intelligence on Facebook and its other iOS apps

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  2. Quordle hints and answers for Monday, April 21 (game #1183)

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. Leak confirms OpenAI's GPT 4.1 is coming before GPT 5.0

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

  4. iPadOS 19 needs these changes to be more like macOS

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  5. You can now buy an Apple Pencil Pro that looks like a crayon

    9to5 · 1 outlets

  6. Report: How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  7. How closing your Apple Watch rings helps sleep, heart health, and mental wellbeing

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  8. Microsoft starts testing Windows 11 taskbar icon scaling

    TechRadar · 2 outlets

  9. ChatGPT 4.1 early benchmarks compared against Google Gemini

    Bleeping · 3 outlets

Entertainment 395 stories

  1. How Many Iconic '70s Movies Can You Identify From A Single Image?

    USMag · 2 outlets

  2. 18 Costars Who Started Dating Long After Production Wrapped

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Bowen Yang Reflects on Going to Conversion Therapy: ‘Detrimental’

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  2. Meghan Markle Made Rare Comments About Her 2020 Miscarriage

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  3. Teddi Mellencamp Shares Birthday Message for Ex Edwin Arroyave

    USMag · 1 outlets

  4. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health Is Investigating Miller Gardner's Death

    USMag · 1 outlets

  5. Celebrities Who Were Childhood Friends

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  6. Lake Bell Reveals ‘Parameters’ for Introducing Kids to New Partners

    USMag · 2 outlets

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