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‘Hands Off!’ protesters across US rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk — Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a …
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Mandy Taheri / Newsweek:
Trump-Stronghold The Villages in Florida Holds Large ‘Hands Off!’ Rally — Nearly 2,000 residents of the retirement community known as — , 20 miles south of Ocala, Florida, joined thousands across the United States in a “Hands Off!” protest against President
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It's Everywhere. — It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Manhattan on Saturday seemed to capture the mood of this weekend's …
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protests erupt against Trump and Musk
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Associated Press:
DOJ places attorney on leave after struggling in Maryland migrant case — Pam Bondi said DOJ lawyers must “zealously advocate” for the administration. — Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders — Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
DOJ suspends attorney who said Maryland man's deportation was a mistake
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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Second measles death reported in Texas — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to attend the child's funeral, which is scheduled for Sunday. — Another child with measles in Texas has died, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed late Saturday night, though the exact cause of death is under investigation.
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Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas — It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status. — 2 MIN READ — How Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated Child — ADVERTISEMENT — Got a Tip?
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Reuters:
Second child dies of measles in Texas, media reports — A second child with measles has died in Texas as hundreds of cases of the infectious disease have been recorded in recent weeks, prompting U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to visit the state, media outlets reported on Sunday.
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Washington Post:
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad — Since Trump took office, the park service — an agency charged with preserving American history — has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Doge's attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says — Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse — Office closures, staffing and service cuts, and policy changes at the Social Security Administration …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: how the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat — Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making — Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz included a journalist …
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Faisal Ali / The Guardian:
Washington revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row — State department accuses east African country of ‘taking advantage of the United States’ — The US is revoking the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders and will stop any more of its citizens entering the country.
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump administration to markets: Don't expect a rescue — If there was one consistent message from Trump administration economic officials Sunday morning, it was this: We're not worried about the stock market plunging, and the cavalry isn't coming to save you from tariffs, either.
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Robert Ilich / CNN:
Elon Musk hopes for ‘zero-tariff situation’ between US and EU — Elon Musk, the world's richest man and the face of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, said Saturday that he hopes for a “zero-tariff situation” between Europe and the United States.
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Emma Bubola / New York Times:
Musk Says He Hopes Europe and U.S. Move to a ‘Zero-Tariff Situation’
Musk Says He Hopes Europe and U.S. Move to a ‘Zero-Tariff Situation’
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Barry Levitt / The Daily Beast:
James Carville Reveals New Way to Shame Trump ‘Collaborators’ — HALL OF SHAME — The Democratic strategist warned that history won't be kind to those complicit in the president's “anti-patriotic” power grab. — James Carville has had enough. — On the latest episode of his Poltiicon podcast …
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Pieter Haeck / Politico:
Starmer vows to ‘shelter British business from the storm’ of US tariffs — British prime minister promises to “turbocharge” plans to improve the U.K.'s competitiveness this week. — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government is ready to use industrial policy to mitigate the impact …
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Pieter Haeck / Politico:
France suggests targeting Big Tech's data use in response to US tariffs — French Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard has suggested striking back against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs broadside by more strictly regulating U.S. Big Tech's use of data.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Bondi on lawsuits against Trump's actions: 'That's the real constitutional crisis' — “It's basically a game of whack-a-mole with these District Court judges around the country who have a tremendous amount of power, they believe they do,” Bondi said. — Attorney General Pam Bondi …
The Atlantic:
The Cabinet Secretary Who Likes His Cookies Freshly Baked — The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House. — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum likes chocolate-chip cookies—preferably freshly baked and still warm.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says — The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said.
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Valerie Gonzalez / Associated Press:
Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted — Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel's bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
David French / New York Times:
Don't Roll Your Eyes at Due Process — Last month a federal court of appeals judge made a startling assertion. “Nazis,” she said, “got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act” than people suspected of being members of a Venezuelan gang. — You might think those words …
