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11:10 PM ET, May 10, 2025

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incident  —  Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility  —  Tricia McLaughlin accused members of Congress of assaulting and even body-slamming ICE officers.  A congresswoman who was present denied the allegation.  —  A spokesperson for the Department …
Greg Norman / Fox News:
Chaotic video shows Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by ‘unruly’ crowd, leading to 2 arrests  —  Mayor of Worcester says the ‘fear of ICE tearing a family apart is the worst nightmare’  —  A tense video emerged of a Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by a crowd of about 25 people …
Holmes Lybrand / CNN:
Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there  —  The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark …
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 127. 5/9/25
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say  —  The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.  —  The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter …
Discussion: Billboard and Daily Mail
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Committee on House Administration:
Morelle's Statement on Abrupt Firing of Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Joe Morelle (NY-25), the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, issued this statement after Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter …
Discussion: Politico
Sena Chang / The Princetonian:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth '03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say.  But how serious is it?  —  “After Card's whisper, Bush looked distracted and somber but continued to listen to the second-graders, joking that they ‘read like sixth-graders,’” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on Diversity Policies With Fresh Order for Review of Library Books  —  The move is the latest denunciation by the Trump administration against anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion.  —  The Pentagon continued its purge of anything related to diversity …
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Republicans' partial tax plan estimated to cost $5 trillion  —  House Republicans released a partial text for the GOP tax bill on Friday and are expected to release the full text on Monday.  —  An early version of the House GOP's tax plan would cost nearly $5 trillion …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Pridgen / SFGATE:
ICE raids have ‘overwhelmed’ coastal California communities ‘We continue to allow double punishment for noncitizens’  —  After a lull in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on California's Central Coast, a rash of raids has reportedly swept through San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties over the past week.
Discussion: The Independent
NBC News:
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine  —  Using the Kremlin's interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.  —  MOSCOW — President Donald Trump's …
Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Trump signs EO offering illegal migrants ‘exit bonus’ in first-ever self-deportation program  —  Homeland Security said earlier this week that migrants would be offered a $1,000 stipend each to leave the US  —  President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order establishing …
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Announces Truce Between India and Pakistan  —  Officials in both countries acknowledged a halt after several days of their most expansive fighting in decades.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire …
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse?  —  CRAZY TALK  —  It takes a degree of insanity to think sharing a picture of yourself as Pope or as Luke Skywalker is somehow helping raise your plummeting poll numbers.  —  OPINION  —  It was the cringiest of times.  It was the craziest of times.
Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports.  Officials haven't seen that since the pandemic  —  On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democratic senator says GOP is trying to woo Fetterman  —  Ruben Gallego said Democrats should keep Fetterman in their tent.  —  BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego said Republicans are trying to pull John Fetterman to the right and argued Democrats should keep …
Discussion: CBS News, Fox News, IJR and Instapundit
Benjamin Lopez Steven / CBC News:
Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals after recount shows candidate won by single vote  —  Liberals now have 170 seats in House of Commons, two shy of a majority government  —  After a judicial recount, the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc Québécois by one vote.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters  —  The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title.  Naturally, this caught his attention.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill  —  Republicans have created impossible restraints on their tax-and-budget package.  —  You might have heard the riddle about the man who must row a fox, a chicken and a sack of corn across a river one at a time.
Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Stakes Rise as U.S. and China Prep for Second Day of Trade Talks  —  The first day of hourslong discussions concluded without an announced deal  —  GENEVA—Marathon conversations here between U.S. and China officials came to an end Saturday, with more talks scheduled for Sunday …
 
 
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The Guardian:
Lawyer who prosecuted Trump hauled in front of House judiciary committee
Ben Jacobs / Politico:
The First Thing George Santos Should Do in Prison
Discussion: The Independent
Ben Johansen / Politico:
DNC chair doubles down on his ultimatum for Hogg
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects
Discussion: The Independent
Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
Kash Patel doesn't seem to be taking his FBI director role seriously
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Experts call Kennedy's plan to find autism's cause unrealistic
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
The Military's K-12 Schools Are Banning Award-Winning Kids' Books To Appease Trump
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
How MAGA centrists blamed a viral racist rant on the ‘woke’
Christl Dabu / CTV News:
‘Canadian Snowbird Act’ proposed in U.S. Congress
Discussion: Canadian Press
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Media Warns Of ‘Material Weakness’ In Financial Controls
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
emptywheel:
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