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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Economic Magic Trick Is Coming Undone — The essence of President Trump's pitch to the American people last year was simple: They could have it both ways. — They could have a powerful, revitalized economy and “mass deportations now.” They could build new factories …
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Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid — When ICE agents decided to arrest over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a White House-imposed daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.” It's a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or “awesome.” Another character eventually slaps back: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.
David Lim / Politico:
RFK Jr. warned her not to talk to lawmakers, Monarez says — Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez told Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on Wednesday that she was instructed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop talking to members of Congress.
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Peter Sullivan / Axios:
Ex-CDC director: RFK Jr. planning September vaccine changes
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NBC News:
Susan Monarez hearing live updates: Former CDC director says RFK told her that CDC staffers were ‘killing children’
Susan Monarez hearing live updates: Former CDC director says RFK told her that CDC staffers were ‘killing children’
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Is Undermining Trust in Public Health, Former C.D.C. Officials Testify
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Is Undermining Trust in Public Health, Former C.D.C. Officials Testify
Robert King / Politico:
Monarez says RFK Jr. spoke to the White House about firing her
Monarez says RFK Jr. spoke to the White House about firing her
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Confronting a Fuller Picture of Charlie Kirk's Killer — Attorney General Pam Bondi learned a tough lesson yesterday: There are still some pieties of the old right that conservatives aren't ready to abandon, and bristling at the concept of “hate speech” is one.
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New York Times:
Trump Invokes Kirk's Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents — In the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Fascism Scholar Sounds Alarm: We're Now In ‘Next Phase’ Of Trump Authoritarian Playbook
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
Charlie Kirk's killing is a tragedy — the ‘reckoning’ is a moral panic
Bloomberg:
Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump …
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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president's U.K. visit — Trump, who arrived in the U.K. for a state visit, is scheduled to spend most of Wednesday at Windsor Castle with members of the royal family. — Police in the U.K. arrested four people …
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Reuters:
UK embraces Trump with royal pomp in historic state visit
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The Guardian:
Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor - UK politics live
Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor - UK politics live
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ABC News:
Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources — Prosecutors have not found clear evidence James committed a crime, sources say. — New York State Attorney General Letitia James makes an announcement at the Office …
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Wall Street Journal:
Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial — The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better. — Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation's Attorney General? Progressives have spent years trying to create and define a category called “hate speech.”
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Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters — LATINO VOTERS FLOCKED TO DONALD TRUMP in surprisingly large numbers last November to help him retake the White House. But a year later, the same cohort has soured on his presidency, with many saying they regret their vote.
David Klepper / Associated Press:
Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions — Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.
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Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:
Ronny Jackson to Newsmax: Trans People Need Treatment — Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a physician and former White House doctor, told Newsmax on Tuesday that he believes inpatient mental health facilities should play a role in treating transgender people, whom he said have underlying psychiatric issues.
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Peter Smith / Associated Press:
Suspect in custody after driver rams car into FBI building gate in Pittsburgh — A suspect has been taken into custody after a driver rammed a car into a security gate at the FBI building in Pittsburgh early Wednesday, then removed an American flag from the back seat and threw it over the gate before leaving, authorities said.
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Wall Street Journal:
America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico's New Drug King Cashes In — The Trump administration's war on fentanyl created an opening for ‘El Señor Mencho’ to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton — From a heavily guarded mountain hideout in the heart of the Sierra Madre, 59-year-old Nemesio …
Politico:
Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren't legal … Yoo, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, authored the Bush administration's legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the early years of Bush's war on terror.
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Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
EU unveils plan to hit Israel with tariffs, sanctions amid Gaza war outcry — BRUSSELS — Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas unveiled plans on Wednesday to downgrade trade ties with Israel and sanction top officials over findings of human rights abuses in Gaza, marking a major shift in the bloc's approach to the Middle Eastern nation.
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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Obama calls Kirk murder ‘horrific,’ says a president should ‘pull people together’ — He said President Donald Trump's rhetoric is part of a broader problem. — Former President Barack Obama attends the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington.
Axios:
CDC stops work-from-home disability accommodations — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is no longer allowing remote work for employees with disabilities or those with temporary health issues, including those who've requested to work from home since the Aug. 8 attack on the agency's Atlanta headquarters .
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Freddie Clayton / NBC News:
Lab tests show Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, his wife says — Russian authorities said Navalny died last year after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security Arctic penal colony where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.
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Eleanor Mueller / Semafor:
Dem voters want shutdown fight, poll shows — The Scoop — Democrats have new polling to chew over as they rail against Republicans' government funding bill. It's unlikely to make them more eager to cave. — A new survey from the progressive firm Data for Progress and research firm Grow Progress …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / Vanity Fair:
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause — By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy. — Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults — Republicans in Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at D.C.'s criminal justice system. — House lawmakers voted Tuesday to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults for serious crimes and to treat young people more harshly …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Top Trump Ally May Soon Control TikTok and CNN — Neither of these deals have been realized. But I want to flag something on the horizon that is potentially a very big deal. Yesterday, the Wall the Street Journal broke the news that the White House has negotiated a purchase of TikTok …
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
Fired by Trump, a Former Labor Official Warns Against Politicizing Economic Data — Erika McEntarfer, in her first appearance since she was ousted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cautioned that “economic data must be free from partisan influence.” — When the federal government revealed …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups — Led by a former aide to Senator Harry Reid, the Searchlight Institute is hoping to persuade Democrats to play down causes like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights to appeal to more voters
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Senate Democrat: Patel ‘was testifying really for an audience of one: President Trump’ — Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) rebuffed comments FBI Director Kash Patel made Tuesday during a tense oversight hearing, calling Patel's testimony “a performance.” — “It was a performance.
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Isabella Murray / ABC News:
Schiff proposes reforms to limit Trump's power — The Democrat and Trump foe is unveiling his “Protecting Our Democracy Act.” — In this June 13, 2022, file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff attends a hearing by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol …
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
RFK Jr.'s Crusade Against Vaccines Hits Its Action Phase — His anti-vax-stacked advisory committee is expected to revise rules for life-saving hepatitis B vax. — ∙ Paid — HEPATITIS B IS A HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE, blood-borne disease that's been called a “silent killer” …
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Kris Van Cleave / CBS News:
Spirit Airlines flight warned to move farther from Air Force One over Long Island: “Pay attention. Get off the iPad.” — Air traffic controllers urgently and repeatedly ordered the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight 1300 to turn away from Air Force One Tuesday over Long Island, New York.
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Peachy Keenan / The Federalist:
Anyone Who Blames ‘Both Sides’ After Charlie Kirk's Murder Is A Liar And Coward — Unity with people who hate us and want us dead is suicide. — “I'd like to see [the nation] heal. But we're dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don't play fair, and they never did,” President Donald Trump told NBC News.
Associated Press:
Justice Department says it's suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states — The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has sued Oregon and Maine for failing to turn over their voter registration lists, marking the first lawsuits the department has brought against states …
