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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon … This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to President Trump's vow to dispatch troops into Chicago. Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant, active threat to his Illinois constituents …
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Christopher Wiggins / Advocate:
RFK Jr.'s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once regarded as the nation's premier agency against illness, is now damaged beyond repair, according to one of its most prominent departing leaders.
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Axios, NOTUS, Gay City News, Futurism, Townhall, Wall Street Journal, RedState and Bloomberg
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency — As Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targets the CDC with nonsense, a growing number of Senate Democrats are demanding his resignation. — Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still reeling …
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Reason, CNN, New York Times, The Hill, Associated Press, NOTUS, Fox News and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health
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Reuters, New Republic, Politico, Associated Press and Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / Associated Press:
Will the C.D.C. Survive? — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the agency …
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Techdirt, Newsweek and Washington Times
Adam Cancryn / CNN:
New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines
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Al Jazeera, The National Pulse, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Axios, WATN, Newsweek, CBS News, Washington Post and The Guardian
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
RFK Jr. is bad for your health
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MedPage Today, The Guardian, Washington Post, The Hill, twitchy.com, The Independent, STAT, MSNBC, New York Times and Townhall
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Bessent Warns of US ‘Embarrassment’ If Tariffs Ruled Illegal — Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president's global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
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Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. — Trump has made tariffs a pillar …
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New York Times
Axios:
Most of Trump's sweeping global tariffs not legal, appellate court says — A federal appellate court on Friday upheld a lower-court ruling invalidating the bulk of President Trump's sweeping global tariffs. … - Trump said the ruling would “literally destroy the United States of America” …
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Strategist: ‘MAGA Hunger Games’ Taking Place as Trump Health Slips — POWER GRAB — Vice President JD Vance is allegedly “moving fast” behind the scenes to seize power. — Conservative political consultant Rick Wilson says a “MAGA Hunger Games” is playing out in Washington …
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USA Today and Rick Wilson's …
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say — Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has told confidantes she plans to reveal next week that she won't seek reelection in 2026, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. — Ernst's announcement is scheduled for Thursday, the sources said.
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Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg:
Ernst Is Part of a Bigger Problem for Republicans in Iowa
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Politico:
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power … The White House budget office said Friday morning that President Donald Trump has canceled $4.9 billion in foreign aid by using a so-called pocket rescission — furthering …
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CNN, Associated Press, Reason and New York Post
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Washington Post:
Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Harris that Biden had extended — The move by Trump, who faced Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, comes as the former vice president prepares to travel nationwide for a book tour. — just now — President Donald Trump has revoked the Secret Service detail …
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New York Times and CNN
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Associated Press:
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects — The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Trump Take LEGO — Add LEGO to the list of hobbies that Trump has made more expensive and worse with his tariff policy. Thanks to America's ever shifting trade policies, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada.
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission — Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez - to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
NBC News:
Social Security whistleblower submits ‘involuntary resignation,’ citing ‘intolerable’ work conditions — Charles Borges said he was stepping down as chief data officer for the Social Security Administration because of the agency's “actions against me.” — The Social Security Administration official …
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Government Accountability …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints — from the congress-shall-make-no-law dept — Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101.
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Raw Story, New York Sun and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Judge blocks Trump's broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants — The ruling says the administration's policy violated due process rights as it sought to speed up the president's mass deportation agenda. — Just now — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration …
Associated Press:
Missouri's Republican governor orders redraw of US House districts as redistricting fight expands — Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state's U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans …
United States Department of State:
Trump Administration Reaffirms Commitment to Not Reward Terrorism and Revokes Visas of Palestinian Officials Ahead of UNGA — In accordance with U.S. law, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) …
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