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Jenni Reid / CNBC:
Nvidia falls 12% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off … WATCH NOW — U.S. technology firms plunged in premarket trading, as Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked concerns over competitiveness in AI and America's lead in the sector, triggering a global sell-off.
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Washington Post:
China's DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling — The tech-heavy Nasdaq index lost nearly 4 percent in early trading Monday, with chipmaker Nvidia down nearly 12 percent. — The sudden popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence model called DeepSeek pummeled stocks Monday …
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The Hill, Politico, CNN, @amuse, Associated Press, MIT Technology Review, Fox Business, Fortune and The Japan Times
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump's agenda — Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats' agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymie Trump. — DORAL, Florida — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump's agenda is about to hit a make-or-break moment — Huddling at the president's Florida resort, Republicans are looking to make a game plan. — House Republicans are heading to President Donald Trump's Miami-area resort for their annual policy retreat. They're not going there for the weather.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats move to condemn Trump pardons of violent Jan. 6 defendants
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BBC:
Colombia yields on US deportation flights to avert trade war — A looming trade war between the US and Colombia appears to have been averted after the Colombian government agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land in the Andean country.
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Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg:
Trump to Hold Off on 25% Colombia Tariffs, Reaches Deal on Migrants — US President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after reaching a deal on the return of deported migrants, the White House said. — The South American nation …
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Garrett Epps / Washington Monthly:
Trump's Flaming Turd of an Argument for Ending Birthright Citizenship — My late father, an old-school seersucker-and-bow-tie Virginia lawyer, had his good days in court and his other days. After one particularly fraught session in another city, he called my mother to report. “I did just fine,” he said.
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New York Magazine and The Moderate Voice
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law
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The Hill
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Is Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
Is Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
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CNN:
Trump expected to sign executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops — President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
No. We Should Not Move Beyond ‘That’ — The Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. (So are the Kansas City Chiefs, but who cares?) The last time the Eagles won it all, in 2018, many of the players declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate with President Trump …
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Jewish Insider
Reid Wilson / Pluribus News:
Dem leads early Virginia governor polls — Former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger received 44% support in two surveys. — Early surveys show former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) leading Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in the race to replace Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) …
Alaa Elassar / CNN:
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps — At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement …
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The Guardian
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Kristi Noem Is So Late To Her Swearing-In By JD Vance, He Leaves: Report — The new homeland security secretary eventually took her oath elsewhere at a notable conservative's home. — LOADING — Kristi Noem kept Vice President JD Vance waiting about 25 minutes to swear …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Lumber Tariffs and Disaster Recovery — Border taxes on imports from Canada will slow rebuilding in Los Angeles and North Carolina. — President Trump on Friday promised to help North Carolina and California rebuild faster. One way to do it would be to drop his threat …
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Why Trump won't be deporting “millions” of criminals … - About 13,100 of those were convicted in homicides and are imprisoned in the U.S. They'll have deportation hearings after serving their sentences. … But being in the U.S. illegally is a civil violation, not a criminal one.
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Townhall, The American Conservative, Fox News, The Post Millennial and New York Post
Alex Skopic / Current Affairs:
I Voted for John Fetterman. He Betrayed Supporters Like Me. … I don't have a lot of political regrets, but at the very top of the list is voting for John Fetterman in 2022. At the time, I was living in a small town called Tunkhannock in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, where I grew up …
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Fox News:
Trump to reinstate service members discharged for not getting COVID-19 vaccine — Service members will receive back pay — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.
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Bloomberg, RedState, Townhall, New York Post, Daily Mail, IJR, Florida Politics and Must Read Alaska
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Less than 220K Holocaust survivors left worldwide, study finds … - A small number of survivors are expected to speak at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum commemoration in Oświęcim, Poland. — A handful of survivors will also be on hand at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache … During an american election, a rich man can hand out $1 million checks to prospective voters. Companies and people can use secretly funded “dark money” nonprofits to donate unlimited money, anonymously, to super PACs, which can then spend it on advertising campaigns.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
One of 2025's Biggest Battles Over Abortion Rights Has Already Begun — A contest for control of Wisconsin's top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake. — Tens of millions of dollars flooding into a state election.
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Washington Examiner
Steve Robinson / The Maine Wire:
Maine Law Firm Tells Public Schools to Resist ICE Enforcement by Destroying Immigration Records — A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors …
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The Post Millennial
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Kash Patel's Cringe Documentary Teases What Could Be in Store for the FBI — The conspiracy theorist Trump tapped to become FBI Director will sit for his confirmation hearing this week — Kash Patel will sit down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to explain …
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The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit and SpyTalk
Paul Krugman:
The Deportation Nightmare Begins — Whatever Trump intends, this will spiral out of control — Item: On Thursday, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the back of a small business in Newark, NJ without a warrant and arrested three undocumented workers.
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HuffPost, Nebraska Examiner and Raw Story
Bob Bauer / Executive Functions:
The Meme Coin Is Just the Beginning — The Market for Foreign Government Business Under Trump's New Ethics Policy — President Trump's new meme crypto token has dropped from its pre-inaugural highs and in recent days has been valued at only $ 29 billion, a fall of 60 per cent from its peak.

