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Bill McCarthy / Barron's Online:
Trump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African ‘Genocide’  —  US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.  —  Mixed into the deck of papers he unveiled …
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New York Times:
Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers.  It Didn't.  —  During a meeting with South Africa's president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution.  A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
Reuters:
Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID ‘devastating’  —  President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its aid programs worldwide have been “devastating.”  —  Speaking beside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during …
Discussion: Undark Magazine
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump ambushes South Africa's president with video footage in Oval Office
Washington Post:
Trump confronts South African president, pushing claims of genocide
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President and South African Leader Meet at White House
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
South African President Calls Out Trump: 'I'm Sorry I Don't Have a Plane to Give You'
House Budget Committee Democrats:
CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts  —  Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law  —  “This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades.  The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear …
Discussion: CBO Publications, Politico and KDFX-TV
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Washington Post:
Trump and GOP's tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says
Politico:
House Republicans tee up floor action on Trump's megabill
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Politico:
House GOP's Medicaid revisions aim to please hard-liners
Discussion: Semafor and American Prospect
Politico:
Moderate Republican balks over IRA rollbacks in megabill
Discussion: USA Today
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   Republican Bill Sets Stage for a New Global Tax Fight
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP renames $1000-per-baby MAGA Accounts to “Trump Accounts”
Discussion: New York Times
Associated Press:
‘Unquestionably in violation’: Judge says US government didn't follow court order on deportations  —  The White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic African nation of South Sudan, a federal judge said Wednesday …
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New York Times:
Judge Finds U.S. Violated Court Order With Sudden Deportation Flight to Africa  —  Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan.  People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.
New York Times:
How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’  —  A Maryland man's deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.  —  A mistake had been made.  That much was clear.
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
CNN:
Two Israeli Embassy staff members killed outside Jewish museum in Washington, DC  —  Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.  —  “Two Israeli Embassy staff …
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NBC4 Washington:
2 Israeli Embassy staff shot and killed in front of Capital Jewish Museum in DC … A man and woman were shot and killed in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Northwest D.C. Wednesday evening.  —  The victims were Israeli Embassy staffers, sources familiar with the investigation said.
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
2 Israeli Embassy staff killed near Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., officials say
Zach Blackburn / New Jersey Globe:
Judge dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors  —  Prosecutors announced the decision to drop trespassing charges against the mayor earlier this week  —  A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related …
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New York Times:
U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump  —  The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.  —  The United States has accepted a 747 jetliner as a gift from the government of Qatar …
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Al Weaver / The Hill:   Senate GOP blocks Schumer attempt to pass Qatari jet bill
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed.  Only a day before, he was a welding foreman …
Discussion: Magnolia Tribune and Newsweek
NBC News:
White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website  —  The White House told NBC News it has decided to post only videos.  There still is one transcript remaining online, however: Trump's inaugural address.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has removed official transcripts …
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
Trump Hands Putin Another Victory  —  For years, President Donald Trump has bragged that he, and only he, could bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.  “I'll have that done in 24 hours,” he said repeatedly during his most recent presidential campaign.  Once back in the White House …
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The Atlantic:
The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  “Fuck you!  Fuck you!  Fuck you!”  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouting at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month …
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘The View’ Told to Tone Down Trump Bashing by ABC News Boss  —  COOL IT  —  Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Disney and ABC News have asked the hosts …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon  —  The event was held in the Pentagon's auditorium during working hours and featured Mr. Hegseth's pastor.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon's auditorium on Wednesday morning …
Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery  —  Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker.  Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.  —  Wesley Lowery—the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award …
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Wired:
FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season  —  Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.  —  Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season …
Discussion: KDFX-TV and WBUR
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:   FEMA rescinds strategic plan less than 2 weeks before hurricane season
Signal Messenger:
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall  —  Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.  This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11.
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:
Larry Krasner Easily Wins in Philadelphia, Reinforcing Network of Reform DAs  —  Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a national figurehead of the so-called progressive prosecutor movement, survived impeachment proceedings initiated by Republican lawmakers soon after he began his second term in 2022.
 
 
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
GOP bill raises fears of major reduction in home care for seniors, disabled
Discussion: KQED
Associated Press:
Former Florida Republican congressional candidate gets 3 years for threatening primary opponent
Discussion: The Hill
Lorie Konish / CNBC:
Food stamps face 'biggest cut in the program's history' under GOP tax bill
Discussion: ABC7, The Hill and MSNBC
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Trump Administration's Favorite Answer
Arizona Republic:
They showed up to immigration court in Phoenix. Then ICE agents surrounded them
Discussion: New Republic and Newsweek
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Firings of Rights Watchdog Board Members Were Illegal, Judge Rules
Discussion: Politico and Federal News Network
Reuters:
Trump Organization breaks ground on $1.5 billion golf club in Vietnam
Justin Dennis / The Hill:
Adult accused of enrolling as teen at Ohio high school
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
A Jan. 6 rioter convicted of assaulting police scored a visit to the White House
Discussion: Washington Times
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Justice Department is investigating NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo over testimony to Congress
Fred Wellman / On Democracy with FPWellman …:
UPDATED - BREAKING: The Constitution at the DOD
Molly Taft / Wired:
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
US Department of Justice:
The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Dismisses Biden-Era Police Investigations and Proposed Police Consent Decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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