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CNBC:
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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.
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump Eases Enforcement of Law Banning Overseas Bribes
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight
Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Rod Blagojevich Pardoned on Corruption Conviction by Trump
Discussion: USA Today
NBC News:
Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Discussion: The Independent
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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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze
New York Times:
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding
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Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Advances Tulsi Gabbard, Signaling Quick Confirmation
Discussion: 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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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump removes Government Ethics Office director
Discussion: CBS News, CNBC, USA Today and E&E News
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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
New York Times:
Trump Says Palestinians Will Not Be Allowed to Return to Gaza Under His Proposal
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.
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 …
Discussion: The City and New York Daily News
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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 …
Discussion: 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.
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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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:   Unspent aid worth billions lacks oversight as Trump dismantles USAID, watchdog warns
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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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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 …
Discussion: mai まい and Wait - what ?
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.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Alternet.org:
Trump quietly fired head of office that protects whistleblowers: new lawsuit
Discussion: GovExec.com
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
Washington Post:
Trump expected to order a crackdown on D.C. crime, homeless encampments
Discussion: NOTUS
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Musk alleges FEMA reimbursed NYC hotels $59 million for housing illegal immigrants
Beege Welborn / HotAir:
Now That There's No $ From USAID, Romania May Get the Guy They Voted for the First Time
 Earlier Items: 
Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI must disclose more info about Trump classified docs case, judge rules
Discussion: New Republic
Rolling Stone:
Trump Has a ‘List’ of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal
Discussion: AHA and Raw Story
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy
Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship
Discussion: Reuters
 

 
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