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1:50 AM ET, January 26, 2025

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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’  —  President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Daily Mail
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New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza  —  President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan's leader and planned to call Egypt's on Sunday.  Most of Gaza's two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting.  —  President Trump said he told King Abdullah II …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump lifts Biden's hold on 2,000-pound bombs to Israel … - The officials said that 1,800 MK-84 bombs, which were held in storage in the U.S., will be put on a ship and delivered to Israel in the coming days.  — “A lot of things that were ordered and paid for by Israel …
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Sends 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Weighs in on Refugees
Discussion: DNyuz
Andrea Margolis / Fox News:
Trump vows to deliver on ‘no tax on tips’ campaign promise during Las Vegas speech: ‘100% yours’  —  Trump visited Nevada to ‘thank’ voters for electing him  —  President Trump visited Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon to discuss his agenda for American workers, stressing a “no tax on tips” …
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Tim Balk / New York Times:
Live Updates: Noem Confirmed for Homeland Security Post; Trump to Speak in Las Vegas
Associated Press:
Trump leans into his pledge to eliminate taxes on tips at a Las Vegas rally
The Hill:
Senate confirms Noem to lead Department of Homeland Security
Washington Post:
Trump's first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat.  —  It was all part of a plan to begin with a bang and follow a detailed policy blueprint, although key administrative posts remained stuck in a hiring bottleneck and many of his directives lacked immediate effect.
Discussion: GovExec.com and The Guardian
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Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power
Discussion: New York Post
Emma-Victoria Farr / Reuters:
Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event  —  Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany's AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, speaking publicly in support of the far right party for the second time in as many weeks.
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ in speech to far-right AfD rally  —  The tech billionaire and Trump adviser has drawn rebukes for repeatedly endorsing the AfD in the leadup to Germany's snap election next month.  —  Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins  —  A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.'s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.  —  The C.I.A. has said for years …
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Politico:
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies  —  “I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go,” said one staffer.  —  President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy …
Discussion: Twitchy
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New York Times:
Trump's Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump's canceling of 50 security clearances is unprecedented and partisan, experts say  —  The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”
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Jason Alatidd / The Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history  —  An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.  —  “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history,” Ashley Goss …
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year  —  Americans can continue to expect high prices for eggs this year, new estimates show, due to the ongoing avian flu outbreak and inflation.  —  Egg prices are estimated to increase about 20% in 2025, compared to about 2.2% for food prices in general …
Discussion: Pharyngula
David Zucchino / New York Times:
They Were Waiting for Flights.  Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.  —  An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.  —  Nasir, a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war …
Fallon Roth / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A Montgomery County official mimicked Elon Musk's controversial ‘salute,’ sparking outrage online and her resignation from the local library and a nonprofit  —  A township supervisor in Montgomery County has come under fire, and resigned from her position at the local library and a nonprofit …
Tony Czuczka / Bloomberg:
House Speaker Invites Trump to Address Congress on March 4  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, seeking to set the stage for his first major speech to lawmakers since he returned to the White House.
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Johnson invites Trump to address joint session on March 4
New York Times:
The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump's Immigration Crackdown  —  Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.  These could be critical in President Trump's immigration agenda.  —  Apps and ankle monitors that track asylum seekers in real time wherever they go.
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:   Let's Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots  —  The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital …
Discussion: Reuters, Task & Purpose and CBS News
CNN:
Scientists at NIH can't purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications  —  Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing …
Discussion: Law Dork, UPI and Salon
 
 
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New York Post:
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Trump's “blatantly unconstitutional” acts test the rule of law in the United States
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Haadiza Ogwude / Cincinnati.com:
JD Vance said ‘Trump and I will stop this,’ but Skyline Chili ice cream is still happening
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