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CNBC:
Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials … - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you.
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump planning to pardon Rod Blagojevich … - Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention. — The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump's legal problems to his own.
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Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump Eases Enforcement of Law Banning Overseas Bribes
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Breitbart
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight
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Talking Points Memo, Salon, Fox News, CBS News, Axios, Raw Story, Twitchy, ZeroHedge News, New York Daily News, American Thinker, Frontpage Mag and CNN
Associated Press:
Trump pardons ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence
Trump pardons ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence
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The Post Millennial, New York Daily News and New Republic
NPR:
Trump pardons disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Trump pardons disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Rod Blagojevich Pardoned on Corruption Conviction by Trump
Rod Blagojevich Pardoned on Corruption Conviction by Trump
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USA Today
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants. — A federal judge on Monday said the White House has defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants …
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STAT:
Federal judge halts Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states — Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs — Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block …
ProPublica:
The Courts Blocked Trump's Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway. — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — When the federal courts first blocked …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze
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Washington Post:
19-year-old Musk surrogate has State Department email address — The move illustrates that Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service aides are being asked to fulfill multiple roles at once.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say — Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power. — There is no universally accepted definition …
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Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog, New Republic and The Daily Wire
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Advances Tulsi Gabbard, Signaling Quick Confirmation
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Advances Tulsi Gabbard, Signaling Quick Confirmation
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The Daily Wire
Associated Press:
Trump fires top US ethics official and head of agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers — President Donald Trump has fired the federal government's top ethics official as well as the leader of the agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers — the latest moves in the Republican …
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
House Democrats create a Trump-focused ‘rapid response task force’
House Democrats create a Trump-focused ‘rapid response task force’
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Fox News:
Trump reveals whether he sees JD Vance as his successor — President Donald Trump sits down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for an exclusive interview.
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory
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Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event — The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President …
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive | Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI — The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.
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Washington Post:
Trump announces fresh round of tariffs on steel and aluminum — Additional trade measures are expected as soon as tomorrow — President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday imposing 25-percent tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, the latest salvo in his ongoing effort to overhaul …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Imposes Global 25% Steel, Aluminum Tariffs — ‘This is the beginning of making America rich again,’ president says — WASHINGTON—President Trump on Monday announced 25% tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum to the U.S., reinstating global duties without exceptions for allies such as Canada …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams — The New York City mayor cultivated a close relationship with President Trump, who said they had both been persecuted. — The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The NSA's “Big Delete” — Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.” The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. — When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
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Mediaite, CNBC, Axios, Fox Business, American Thinker, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, The National Pulse, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse and Raw Story
Ellen Knickmeyer / The Republic News:
USAID watchdog warns of lack of oversight of $8.2 billion in unspent aid after Trump moves — The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration's foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.
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NBC News:
Judge extends freeze on Trump's unprecedented plan to get millions of federal workers to resign — U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said the pause would continue until he ruled on the legality of Trump's “deferred resignation” plan. — A federal judge in Boston on Monday continued …
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Washington Post:
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds — The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals. — Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
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Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Tesla Is Elon Musk's Soft Underbelly — Tesla's brand is toxic and its sales are in the toilet. That's how you hurt Musk. — ∙ Paid — 1. Consequences — Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff. — This fact is satisfying on moral, spiritual, and psychosexual levels.
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senate Advances Gabbard, Signaling Quick Confirmation — The test vote indicated that despite early reservations even among some Republicans, the former Democratic congresswoman had the necessary support to be confirmed in a vote expected by Wednesday. — The Senate on Monday voted along party lines …
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Vance out of the country ahead of Gabbard confirmation vote
Vance out of the country ahead of Gabbard confirmation vote
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Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? — This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order … - The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order.
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Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail and The National Pulse
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women — Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away — In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …
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