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Associated Press:
Trump orders tariffs on Colombia over rejection of US military deportation flights — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation to a similar order announced hours earlier by President Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights — Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees. — Colombia refused to accept military …
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CNN:
Trump issuing ‘emergency 25% tariffs’ against Colombia after country turned back deportation flights — President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after its president said he blocked US military deportation flights, the first instance of Trump using economic pressure …
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Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Mahablog and Semafor
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump's Colombia tariffs threaten surge in coffee prices … - Coffee futures are up 45% in the last six months. — Bloomberg reported last week that wholesale prices recently eclipsed all-time highs set in the late 1970s, and that it was only a matter of days to a few weeks until retail prices followed suit.
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Reuters:
Colombia's Petro will not allow US planes to return migrants — President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will impose sweeping retaliatory measures on Colombia, including tariffs and sanctions, after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported …
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Washington Examiner, Human Events, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, VINnews and Twitchy
Reuters:
Trump says US will impose sanctions against Colombia over repatriation flights
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The Hill, Must Read Alaska and The Daily Signal
CNN:
Trump wiped January 6 convicts' records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters' crimes from the internet — As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters' attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Graham says ‘a good chance’ Supreme Court sides with Trump on birthright citizenship
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences
Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences
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Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Lindsey Graham Says Trump Was Wrong to Pardon Violent Jan. 6 Rioters
Lindsey Graham Says Trump Was Wrong to Pardon Violent Jan. 6 Rioters
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Ratcliffe says Trump wants ‘politics out of the intelligence community’
Ratcliffe says Trump wants ‘politics out of the intelligence community’
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was ‘a mistake’
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was ‘a mistake’
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Rachel Ramirez / CNN:
Trump's gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”
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Associated Press:
In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution — For four years, the Environmental Protection Agency made environmental justice one of its biggest priorities, working to improve health conditions in heavily-polluted communities often …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Children of the 1960s watch in pain as the story of our lifetime is erased — My almost pathological obsession with what historians now call “the Long Sixties” — especially the years between JFK's assassination in 1963 and Richard Nixon's Watergate downfall in 1974 — includes …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘People Will Be Shocked’: Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency — Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do. — On his first full day back in the White House …
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory — US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel — Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” …
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Associated Press:
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza
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CBS News:
Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 26, 2025 — The following is the full transcript of an interview with Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 26, 2025. — MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Vice President, if you're ready, we'll dive right in.
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago — The number of arrests was uncertain. Illinois officials, including the governor, said they had not been given advance notice. — The Justice Department announced Sunday it had begun a multiagency immigration enforcement operation in Chicago …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Adam Schiff says Trump ‘broke the law’ by firing 18 inspectors general — In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” the California Democrat blasted Trump for firing 18 of the federal agency watchdogs over the weekend. — Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday blasted President Donald …
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CNN:
Trump fires inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal
Trump's Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal
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Washington Post:
Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests — The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.
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The Guardian
Jacob Sanchez / Fort Worth Report:
Fort Worth ISD launches investigation into substitute teacher's posts inviting ICE to North Side High School — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — Fort Worth ISD is investigating a substitute teacher who, according to district officials, posted requests …
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New York Post
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘Look in the Mirror’: New Catholic JD Vance Lectures Church Leaders on Faith — Vance, who converted to the Catholic Church five years ago, called on a group of bishops to “do better” after they criticized the White House's immigration policies.
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New York Times, Twitchy, New York Post, CBS News and VINnews
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its ‘Bottom Line’
Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its ‘Bottom Line’
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Breitbart, America Magazine, RedState, CBS News, Axios and The Daily Caller
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea's Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges — President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law. — South Korea's impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol …
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Greg Evans / The Independent:
SNL comedian uses five words to explain why ‘Elon Musk is not a Nazi’ — The billionaire was accused of making a fascist salute during an inauguration celebration for Donald Trump — Your support helps us to tell the story — From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Hiring Freeze Creates Confusion and Concern at F.B.I. — President Trump's directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in place. — The F.B.I. has taken drastic steps to comply with President Trump's hiring freeze …
