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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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
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The Guardian, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, Fox News and Mediaite
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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CNBC, The Hill, Mediaite, Axios, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, The National Pulse and Raw Story
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
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 …
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Caleb Ecarma / Musk Watch:
Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors — With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors …
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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Erin Schumaker / Politico:
States sue Trump administration over health research grant cuts
States sue Trump administration over health research grant cuts
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Bloomberg, American Prospect, NC Newsline, The Democracy Labs, The Bulwark and Letters from an American
Robert Reich:
The end of law? — He is the most lawless president in American history. — He's allowed Musk's rats unfettered access to the Treasury's payments system. Banned birthright citizenship. Refused to spend money appropriated by Congress. Closed U.S. AID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
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Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog and NBC News
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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, The Daily Wire, Raw Story and ZeroHedge News
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power — President Trump's early moves to slash the federal government and expand American territory represent significant ideological swings from his first term. — For all of the shock and awe of President Trump's first weeks back in office, much of it should come as little surprise.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer warns of ‘Trump shutdown,’ lays out 4-pronged plan for Democrats
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats launch portal for whistleblowers in Trump administration
Senate Democrats launch portal for whistleblowers in Trump administration
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Reuters, Washington Examiner, UPI, RedState, PoliticusUSA and MeidasTouch News
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
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
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 …
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight — Senate Democrats are detailing how they plan to fight back against President Donald Trump's administration — but it won't include sparking a government shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a “Dear Colleague” …
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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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Off Message and Grabien
New Republic:
Musk's Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury — Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump's allies over the losses that Trump's agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him. It's gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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Raw Story, CBS News, Reuters, Business Insider and The Status Kuo
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 …
Nicole Narea / Vox:
Trump's Guantánamo plan is an old idea — with an ugly history — President Donald Trump is looking to vastly expand immigrant detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. — Trump hopes to eventually detain up to 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo, which would require …
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Jon Queally / Common Dreams:
'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo
'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo
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New York Times, NPR and The Independent
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 …
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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New York Times and Scripps News
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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Bloomberg
Jack Detsch / Politico:
Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies — The president said that schools like West Point had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology. — President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military's service academies …
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 Independent, The Guardian and Reuters
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit — Hampton Dellinger, who led an ethics enforcement office, said his firing is illegal. — A federal ethics enforcer swept up in a spree of firings President Donald Trump carried out Friday night is suing to get his job back.
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Associated Press and NPR
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.

