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Trump’s tariffs: President Donald Trump’s blanket 10% tax on imports took effect overnight, with much steeper tariffs for many countries still to come next week. Trump has so far struck a defiant tone on his deepening global trade war, even as markets plunged this week and recession fears grow.

• Protest movement: Crowds of protesters have gathered in cities across the country today for coordinated demonstrations against Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Organizers say events are planned in all 50 states, plus some major cities outside the US.

• Budget fight looms: Senate GOP leaders took a key step toward advancing Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar agenda overnight, but the plan faces a messy spending fight in the House, where some conservatives are already signaling opposition to the budget blueprint.

The Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy has removed 381 books related to race, gender and sexuality, according to a list published today by the Pentagon.

One popular book included in the list is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” an autobiography from famous Black author Maya Angelou.

Other works by authors of color have been targeted, including “Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America” by former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “The Hate U Give,” a popular book-turned-movie written by Angie Thomas, was also removed.

Another book on the list is called “Managing Diversity in the Military: The Value of Inclusion in a Culture of Uniformity.” Its removal reinforces the Trump administration’s clamp down on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the federal government.

The Department of Defense recently faced backlash for purging Pentagon website pages that featured thousands of photos and articles about contributions made to the military by women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color and historical figures.

CNN has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Sunday after being invited to meet with US President Donald Trump, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office.

A White House official told CNN earlier today that Trump will host Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.

The two leaders will discuss tariffs, efforts to return hostages from Gaza, Israeli-Turkish relations and Iran, the Israeli prime minister’s office said.

They will also discuss “the fight at the International Criminal Court,” the office said, in what appears to be a reference to the arrest warrant the court has issued against Netanyahu for alleged war crimes — a move he has described as “absurd and antisemitic.”

“The prime minister appreciates the personal and warm ties with President Trump and thanks him for the invitation to be the first leader to meet with him following the imposition of global tariffs, just as he was the first leader to meet with him following his entering the White House,” the prime minister’s office said.

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is expected to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security in the coming days, seeking potentially major staffing cuts across its agencies, including the US Secret Service, multiple sources tell CNN.

DHS is bracing for what could amount to significant layoffs, according to four sources familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymity to speak freely, though no final decisions have been made, and the ultimate scale and scope has not been set.

This week, two of the sources said, there was back-and-forth negotiation and lobbying between DOGE, the White House, and Homeland Security leadership.

A senior DHS official told CNN the department is “determined to eliminate government waste that has been happening for decades at the expense of the American taxpayer. Across DHS, we will be eliminating non-mission critical positions and bureaucratic hurdles that undermine our mission to secure the homeland.”

CNN has reached out to DHS and DOGE for comment.

Cuts to the Secret Service would come at a particularly challenging time for the agency, which has been strained by what top officials have cast as an unprecedented and dynamic threat environment, including two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump last summer.

Two federal employee union presidents spoke out today against President Donald Trump and his policies targeting federal workers as part of a “Hands Off!” protest in Washington, DC.

“Trump administration is absolutely destroying public services in this country. That’s right. They claim to be making government more efficient,” said National Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin. “That is a joke, people. That is a cruel joke. They’re doing the exact opposite

NFFE and the American Federation of Government Employees are part of a coalition suing the Trump administration over its attempt to end collective bargaining rights for many federal employees.

Erwin called the move by the Trump administration “the biggest assault on collective bargaining that we have ever seen in this country.”

They thought we were easy targets. But let me tell you something about union members and veterans. We will not be intimidated. … We will not be silenced. We will not bow down,” AFGE President Everett Kelley said

The protest at the Washington Monument has drawn rallygoers from across the country in a show of force at the nation’s capital.

Demonstrators on the National Mall are chanting, “Hey ho, Trump’s gotta go,” holding signs reading, “Protect our constitution,” and, “Hands off our rights.”

Vince Gardina, a retired engineer from Baltimore, told CNN he’s concerned about the administration’s scope of power.

Gardina likened Trump to a “dictator,” saying he is “enacting policies without the approval of Congress, laying off people without some due process, implementing policies that have profound impacts on people’s lives, on veterans, on the environment, without any deliberation.”

Because of what Trump has done, people’s livelihood has been at stake,” Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida told CNN, minutes before taking the stage to speak to the crowd.