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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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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory — President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials …
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Reuters, Townhall, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News and The Independent
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump to Loosen Enforcement of US Law Banning Overseas Bribes
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CBS News, USA Today, Political Wire and Grabien
Washington Post:
Trump says Palestinians displaced under U.S. proposal would not return
Trump says Palestinians displaced under U.S. proposal would not return
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BBC, Axios, The Independent and NPR
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
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Scripps News, The Guardian, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, UPI, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, Mediaite and Fox News
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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Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet — Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say — In another weekend takeover of a federal agency's operations …
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, Axios, CNBC, The Hill, American Thinker, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, The National Pulse and Raw Story
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Bloomberg, Axios, Associated Press and The Guardian
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump administration seeks urgent end of ‘impermissible’ court order blocking access to Treasury systems — The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism. — The Trump administration is making an urgent push to end a court order barring top officials' access …
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New Republic, Roll Call, Raw Story, The Daily Wire and ZeroHedge News
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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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CBS News, Fox News, Daily Mail, New York Post, Raw Story, The Independent and NBC4 WCMH-TV
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Defense Sec orders immediate “pause” on trans medical “procedures,” trans military recruits — On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate “pause” on gender-affirming “medical procedures” for current transgender service members and on allowing transgender people to join the military.
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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Hegseth moves to implement Trump's ban on transgender troops
Hegseth moves to implement Trump's ban on transgender troops
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ABC News, Breitbart and The Post Millennial
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts — The United States is sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis. Not only has the Trump administration seized for itself extraconstitutional powers, but yesterday, it raised the specter that, should the courts apply the text of the Constitution …
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New Republic
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
House Democrats create a Trump-focused ‘rapid response task force’ — House Democrats are ramping up their efforts to respond to President Donald Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government by creating a task force that could lead to lawsuits against the administration.
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Off Message, Axios, Breitbart, RedState and Grabien
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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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Fox News, Salon, Raw Story, Axios, New York Daily News, ZeroHedge News, CBS News, American Thinker, Twitchy, Frontpage Mag and CNN
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
STAT:
22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments — 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 …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Has a ‘List’ of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal — The president dismissed the head of the Archives last week. The rest of the nonpartisan institution is preparing for more — In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit
Trump's power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit
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Reuters, Associated Press, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and NPR
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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship — And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯 — Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.
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Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast — Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks — It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.
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American Prospect
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 …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again — The president's suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority. — Standing inside the Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy — George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy. — Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts …
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Alternet.org
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI must disclose more info about Trump classified docs case, judge rules — The judge noted that while the dropped charges against Trump reduced his criminal exposure, they “ironically” made him more susceptible to public scrutiny. — The dismissal of criminal charges against Donald …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze — The judge ordered the administration to “immediately restore frozen funding.” — A federal judge says the Trump administration has been violating his order to resume funding federal grants that the White House attempted …
April Rubin / Axios:
Russia-U.S. relations “balancing on the brink of a breakup,” Kremlin warns … - Russian authorities will not end the war until Putin's terms outlined last year are met, which include Ukraine dropping its NATO ambitions and withdrawing troops from Russian-controlled regions.
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NBC News, The Hill, The Guardian, Reuters and The Independent
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting how many eggs people can buy — New York CNN — Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting the number of eggs customers can buy because of a shortage caused by the avian flu. — “Due to ongoing issues with the supply of eggs, we are currently limiting egg purchases …
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The Daily Dot, Fox Business, WXIA-TV, New York Post and ABC7
Wall Street Journal:
DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort — Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division — WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers …
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Reuters, New York Times and Scripps News


