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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Mike Waltz out as national security adviser, but Trump says he'll be ambassador to U.N. — National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their departure.
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Politico:
Trump ousts Mike Waltz as national security adviser — Names for a replacement have been discussed around the West Wing for weeks. — President Donald Trump ousted Mike Waltz, who has lost the confidence of other administration officials, from his national security adviser position on Thursday.
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Axios:
Why Trump's White House turned on Mike Waltz — Mike Waltz has been a dead man walking for the past month, and the outgoing national security adviser started to act like it, Trump administration sources tell Axios. — Why it matters: “Signalgate” badly damaged Waltz, but it wasn't his only problem.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — The decision followed a report that Waltz placed a reporter on a sensitive Signal chat about bombing the Houthis in Yemen — WASHINGTON—President Trump is replacing national security adviser Mike Waltz roughly a month after he put …
Fox News:
Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers out in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak
CNN:
Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz expected to depart administration, sources say
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Mike Waltz expected to leave post as Trump national security adviser
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under the Alien Enemies Act — A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was “unlawful.”
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CNN:
Trump-appointed judge says president's use of Alien Enemies Act is unlawful in first-of-its-kind ruling — A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled that the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act and blocked the administration from quickly deporting some alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
Reuters:
Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, judge rules
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New York Times:
There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump's Power Grab — The first 100 days of President Trump's second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts …
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case — The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president's executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients. — When big law firms attacked by President Trump decided …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Microsoft drops a law firm that appeased Trump, hires firm that's fighting Trump
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Spooked By Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’ — Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before Trump's tariffs cause prices to skyrocket … Well, many Americans aren't listening to that advice, according to survey data this year …
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Town Hall Bursts Into Laughter When He Says He Hasn't Made Any Mistakes
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Trump is Terrified of Tariff Blowback
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump Officials Are Now Hoarding Supplies Thanks to Their Boss
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Harshita Meenaktshi / Reuters:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
RFK Jr. changing new vaccine testing to include placebo
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept. — Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said. — A top Trump appointee in the Justice Department ordered …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Haagen-Dazs and Buddha: Elon Musk waxes philosophical on his time with Trump — Musk reflected on what it has been like at the center of the U.S. DOGE Service. At times, the man running the show wondered aloud how the show even started. — Elon Musk sat down in the Roosevelt Room late Wednesday afternoon …
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Jonathan Swan / New York Times:
Looking Back at 101 Days, Elon Musk Sounds Less Confident
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Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health — Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.
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Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:
What the First 100 Days Taught Us About Resisting Trump — FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration and the damage it has been doing—from reckless firings and cuts, to a lawless deportation regime, to democratic backsliding toward authoritarianism—the first hundred days …
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Paul Krugman:
It's Trump's Economy Now — Many people have complained about New York Times headlines, with reason. All too often an equivocating, sanewashing headline belies the excellent reporting that follows. But yesterday the Times got it right about the first-quarter decline in GDP …
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Alexander Tin / CBS News:
HHS redirects $500 million to Trump appointee's vaccine project, bypassing reviews — The Department of Health and Human Services has transferred $500 million from research into next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, redirecting the money to a single vaccine project linked to the Trump …
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he warned Americans during his campaign of a tariff ‘transition period’ — President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that he warned during his 2024 campaign that his tariffs would require Americans to experience a “transition period.”
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Washington Post
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire — via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: … Below I list the 17 states where CVS/Aetna is pulling out of the ACA market. — IMPORTANT: I've included my estimate …
Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
The last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving. The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun — New York CNN — Some of the last cargo ships carrying Chinese goods without crippling tariffs are currently drifting into US ports. Come next week, though, that will change.
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Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it ‘illegal DEI’ — A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
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O. Rose Broderick / STAT:
STAT+: Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry — SEATTLE — Michael VanPelt spent several weeks recently glued to his telephone, dialing doctors who might be able to get his 3-year-old son in for an autism evaluation. The music teacher ran out of providers …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He's Refurbishing a Qatari Plane — The luxury plane is being outfitted in Texas for Trump's use as his frustration mounts with Boeing — President Trump is done waiting for Boeing . — Frustrated by delays on Boeing's work to deliver a new Air Force One …
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Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics … A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble … WATCH NOW — Initial unemployment claims posted an unexpected increase last week in a potential trouble sign for the wobbling U.S. economy. — First-time filings for unemployment insurance totaled …
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump — The White House has launched a new Drudge Report-like website devoted to promoting pro-Trump news stories. — Why it matters: The site, called White House Wire, represents the administration's latest effort to circumvent …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive — The left has dictated culture for decades. Jonathan Keeperman is trying to change that. — Ross Douthat: There's been a lot of talk about a vibe shift since Donald Trump's election and return to office …
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
At a Dubai Conference, Trump's Conflicts Take Center Stage — A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the beginning.”
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
A small Montana town has thrived on federal jobs. Now come Trump's cuts. — In this pocket of red America, locals worry that the losses at Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Bitterroot National Forest could have dire consequences. — HAMILTON, Mont. — In an era of rural decline …
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Jack Herrera / New York Times:
For One Texas County, Arresting Migrants Made Big Money — Kinney County, along Texas' border with Mexico, collected some $1.7 million in bail from migrants who were deported before they could make their court appearances. The money was never returned. — Kinney County has collected large amounts …
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The Hill:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to end deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, the administration's latest plea for the justices to intervene in President Trump's sweeping immigration agenda.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories — Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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