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Rachel Scully / The Hill:
Trump touts six-month mark: US is now ‘hottest’ and ‘most respected country anywhere’ — President Trump marked his six-month anniversary of his second term in office by touting that the United States is the “hottest” and “most respected country anywhere in the world.”
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Anthony Salvanto / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds support for Trump's deportation program falls; Americans call for more focus on prices — After six months that included a string of achievements on President Trump's legislative goals, views of his second term are increasingly defined by the difference between his political base …
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Rolling Stone, USA Today and New York Post
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Consumed by Epstein, Trump has lost ground on the economy and immigration — When he was sworn in, Trump promised a new “Golden Age.” It's clear that, six months into his presidency, the public isn't buying all the hype. — Just now — President Donald Trump spent much of last week trying …
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump survived many scandals, but the Epstein story poses a new test
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein
Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein
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New York Sun, Mediaite, Raw Story, New York Post, Newsweek and The Independent
Zack Stanton / Politico:
Playbook: Six months in
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Trump once hosted party for ‘young women’ where Epstein was the only guest, says report — President under pressure to release all files related to his former friend Epstein — Donald Trump once hosted a party with “young women” where the disgraced late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein “was the only other guest,” according to a report.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Klobuchar rebuffs Trump's efforts to fault Dems in Epstein case
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twitchy.com, Townhall, The Hill and USA Today
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Amy Klobuchar ‘feeling better and better’ about Democratic prospects in future elections
Amy Klobuchar ‘feeling better and better’ about Democratic prospects in future elections
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The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
New York Times:
An Accuser's Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files … Maria Farmer in August 2019. Ms. Farmer said in an interview with The New York Times that she twice told the F.B.I. about a troubling encounter she had with Donald J. Trump, and about how close he was with Jeffrey Epstein.Andrea Morales for The New York Times
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Mediaite, The Independent, Salon and Eschaton
Associated Press:
Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways — After a Seattle immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against a Colombian man — exposing him to expedited removal — three people sat with him in the back of the courtroom …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers
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Fox News, Vanity Fair, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
Americans largely oppose Trump's ramp-up of deportations, CNN poll finds
Americans largely oppose Trump's ramp-up of deportations, CNN poll finds
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Strength In Numbers and Newsweek
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Push Behind Trump Agenda Has Congress in an Uproar … Republicans' relentless marathon to force President Trump's agenda through Congress over objections from Democrats and some in their own ranks is taking a toll on the institution and its members, prompting tempers to boil …
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Associated Press:
Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders — At least 85 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach food at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.
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New York Times, Reuters, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, RTÉ, The Hill, israelhayom.com and Semafor
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
GOP Senator Blames ‘Radical’ Leftists for Trump's Cankles — CHOLESTEROL? NO, COMMUNISM! — Tommy Tuberville says even at the ripe old age of 79, the president's only ailing because every day's “almost like a fistfight” with pesky liberals. — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville thinks it's not age …
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Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Tuberville says Trump health issues exacerbated by ‘fighting the radicals’
Tuberville says Trump health issues exacerbated by ‘fighting the radicals’
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Washington Examiner
Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI — As many of you know by now, Senator Dick Durbin penned a letter to Pam Bondi two days ago asking questions about information his office received from a protected whistleblower. The letter read, in part: … This letter was made public right after I had filed …
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NewsNation
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton sent ‘warm and gushing’ letter for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday - as Trump sues over claim he also wrote a ‘bawdy’ note for paedophile's half-century — Bill Clinton wrote a ‘warm and gushing’ letter which was included in Jeffrey Epstein's infamous 50th ‘birthday book’, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Sunday Pages: “Superman” — I first saw the trailer for the new James Gunn Superman a few months ago, during the NBA playoffs. My first reaction was an eye-roll and a dismissive, “Do we really need another Superman? Really? Why?” — Seriously: why do we keep recycling the same old tired movie franchises?
Tomas Weber / Financial Times:
What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth? … In January, at a US Space Force Base in the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs, an operator received an unusual email. It was an alert — but not one triggered by the military's network of space-based sensors.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another — It's a tense time in the Jewish family group chats. The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews. Anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism.
Axios:
“He's a madman”: Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes — As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control. … He bombs everything all the time," one White House official told Axios, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
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Mediaite and New York Sun
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids — Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear — The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday …
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Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and CBS News
David French / New York Times:
Trump's Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase — President Trump's Justice Department is turning civil rights enforcement upside down. — Last week, Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked a federal judge to sentence a former Louisville police officer named Brett Hankison to one day in prison.
Chris Feliciano Arnold / The Atlantic:
Naturalized Citizens Are Scared … On a bookshelf near my desk, I still have the souvenir United States flag that I received during my naturalization ceremony, in 1994. I remember a tenderhearted judge got emotional as the room full of immigrants swore the Oath of Allegiance and that …

