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9:55 AM ET, January 27, 2025

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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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Associated Press:
White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown  —  The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports …
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Aides Want to Hit Mexico, Canada With Tariffs Before Talks
Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here's What Could Cost More.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and The Hill
CNN:
Trump issuing ‘emergency 25% tariffs’ against Colombia after country turned back deportation flights
New York Times:
Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs
Elvia Limon / The Hill:
Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods after Trump order
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump places tariffs, travel ban on Colombia after not accepting deportation flights
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 …
Discussion: Off Message and Twitchy
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats move to condemn Trump pardons of violent Jan. 6 defendants  —  Senate Democrats offered a resolution Monday to condemn President Donald Trump's decision to pardon Jan. 6 defendants who assaulted Capitol Police officers, saying the move invites future political violence.
Discussion: ABC7 and CBS News
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Post
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Reuters:
Trump to order end to DEI in military, reinstate troops who refused COVID vaccines, Hegseth says  —  U.S. President Donald Trump will soon sign executive orders removing diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and reinstating thousands of troops who were kicked out for refusing COVID vaccines during …
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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CBS News:
Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony for 80th anniversary of its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law  —  🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent media is more important right now than ever. … 🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️
Discussion: The Hill
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Is Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
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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Financial Times:
Tech stocks tumble as China's DeepSeek sows doubts about AI spending
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.
Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:
Democratic lawmakers slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices amid egg shortage  —  “During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.
Agence France-Presse:
Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed  —  Douglas Magno with Facundo Fernandez Barrio in Sao Paolo  —  Brazil's government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights.
Discussion: Reuters
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Vance's political team signs on to run Vivek Ramaswamy's bid for Ohio governor  —  It's a signal that Vance's team, which overlaps in places with President Donald Trump's, is fully behind Ramaswamy — and that Vance himself is comfortable lending out their talents.
Discussion: WHDH-TV
Joan Westenberg / The Index:
This Man is a Coward.  —  Mark Zuckerberg sat in the safety of his bubble this week, silent as Donald Trump dismantled and declawed the National Institutes of Health.  Forty billion dollars in research funding now hangs frozen.  Thousands of scientists wait in limbo.
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 …
Stephanie Psaki / STAT:
Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?  —  The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats  —  On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.
Freddie Clayton / NBC News:
Elon Musk's call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says  —  Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany's far-right AfD party, saying “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents.”
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 …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Associated Press:
In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution
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