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In the suburbs of Chicago, Bonnie Conte didn’t see the wave of spring break pedicures she’s used to. In Brooklyn, New York, aesthetician Kijana “Yaya” Simuel saw 75% of her clients cancel their appointments the week Trump announced his global tariffs. And Guy Lacey, who sells his products to salons, said those stores are seeing clients going longer between haircuts.
Salon owners and other beauty professionals across the country said they are seeing a shift in behavior among their clients in recent weeks — as economists, investors and CEOs have been warning about an economic slowdown following widespread tariffs declared by Trump. It’s a shift in behavior that is not only hurting salon workers’ paychecks but also could be a warning sign for the wider economy.
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Ahead of oral arguments at the Supreme Court today, dueling rallies took place outside the court, with around 60 LGBTQ activists holding rainbow colored umbrellas and one holding a sign saying, “I will not stay silent.”
A few yards away, a group of around 40 people supporting the challengers held signs that read “Let parents parent” as one Montgomery County parent, Wael Elkoshairi, spoke.
“Parents’ rights trump everything,” he said.
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Hegseth this morning doubled down on his argument that he didn’t do anything wrong in the second Signal chat involving military plans in Yemen that was revealed this week.
“What was shared over Signal, then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination, other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning,” he said in an interview on Fox News.
Hegseth said that he takes the classification of information seriously and it’s important to safeguard it. He again pushed the idea that the new reporting about the second Signal chat was improperly disclosed to the media by former employees who are “attempting to leak and sabotage the president’s agenda and what we’re doing.”
“Everything we do here is aboveboard,” he said. “We’re for the war fighters. We’re for the president and none of this is based in reality.”
The defense secretary, who didn’t directly deny that he shared the sensitive information with his wife and his brother, said that the leak investigation into the former employees is ongoing. He said that once evidence is sufficiently gathered, it will be handed over to the Justice Department “and those people will be prosecuted if necessary.”
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Justice Department attorneys have requested a conference today with Judge Paula Xinis in the Abrego Garcia case, regarding the government’s court-ordered discovery that was due at 5 p.m. yesterday.
Abrego Garcia’s team is arguing that the government has responded to its discovery requests by “producing nothing of substance.”
“Its document production consists entirely of public filings from the dockets, copies of Plaintiffs’ own discovery requests and correspondence, and two non-substantive cover emails transmitting declarations filed in this case,” the attorneys said. “Its interrogatory responses are similarly non-responsive.”
They also allege the government has refused to answer questions and provide documents, citing privileges without submitting formal claims to those assertions.
Abrego Garcia’s team says it has invited the government to “meet and confer” several times, regarding these issues (meet informally without the judge present), but the government has declined.
Justice Department employees contend they have put forward “a good-faith effort to provide appropriate responses to both Plaintiffs’ Interrogatories and Request for Production.”
This morning, Joseph Mazzara, acting general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, will be deposed in this case, behind closed doors. The two parties are asking for a meeting with Xinis on these issues immediately after that deposition.
WASHINGTON — Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands, put the pilots of those fighters in grave danger. But he was doing exactly what he was supposed to: providing Hegseth, his superior, with information he needed to know and using a system specifically designed to safely transmit sensitive and classified information.
But then, Hegseth used his personal phone to send some of the same information Kurilla had given him to at least two group text chats on the Signal messaging app, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges told NBC News.
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Vice President JD Vance slammed Western countries today in a speech in Jaipur while praising India and its prime minister, Narendra Modi.
Vance said there are countries in the world that have a “flatness, a sameness, a desire to be like everyone else in the world,” while India has a “vitality” focused on the future.
It’s a “striking contrast to the West,” he said, adding that it’s “stricken with fear” about the future.
Vance said Modi is a “special person” and tough negotiator and said that his wife, Usha, whose parents are from India, is a celebrity there.
The vice president has repeatedly denounced Western allies in other speeches abroad, arguing that they’ve taken advantage of the U.S. and that the alliances have worked against America’s interests.
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., launched her campaign for Senate today, joining a Democratic primary that is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in the country next year in a tightly divided state also set to be a competitive Senate battleground in the midterm elections.
Stevens joins state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’ seat, which Democrats must hold to have any hope of capturing the Senate majority next year.
Stevens launched her run by focusing on the state’s crucial auto industry, while also taking aim in her announcement video at Trump, who carried Michigan by 1 percentage point in November.
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In response to Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over the cutting off of federal funding, the White House says that the Ivy League school has lost the privilege of accessing taxpayer funding.
“The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families, is coming to an end,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said.
He continued, “Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.”
Harvard University sued the Trump administration yesterday after the federal government said it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants and sought what university officials described as “unprecedented and improper” control over the Ivy League institution.
“The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a message yesterday announcing the lawsuit.
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Reporting from Washington
The Supreme Court today considers the latest dispute that pits religious rights against LGBTQ rights as the justices weigh objections made by parents over books made available in a school district’s elementary schools that feature stories about gay and transgender characters.
At issue are books included in the English language arts curriculum in Montgomery County, Maryland. The dispute arose in 2022 after the school board in Montgomery County, a large and diverse jurisdiction just outside Washington, D.C., decided that it wanted more storybooks reflecting LGBTQ stories to better reflect the people who live there.
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