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Iona Cleave / Telegraph:
Mormon church gunman was Marine ‘who supported Trump’ — Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, killed by police after ramming truck into Michigan church and opening fire on worshippers — The gunman who rammed his truck into a Mormon church and opened fire on worshippers was an Iraq war veteran who had previously shown support for Donald Trump.
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Detroit Free Press:
Michigan church shooting suspect went on anti-LDS tirade, political candidate said — Andrea May Sahouri Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press — This story has been updated with additional information. — When Burton City Council candidate Kris Johns heard that someone shot churchgoers …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Says MAGA Shooter Just Hated Mormons — SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS — Trump's press secretary made the claim as officials continue to probe the motive. — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed on Monday that the Mormon church shooter “hated” members of the faith.
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Newsweek, New York Times, NBC News, Deseret News, The Daily Caller, Fox News, al.com, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Independent
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House
Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House
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The Guardian, New Republic, Bridge Michigan, GB News, Not the Bee, Al Jazeera, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Michigan Advance
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty …
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New York Times:
'I'm From Here!': U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump's Dragnet — As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens. — U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody …
Axios:
Scoop: Schumer floats shutdown fix … He and Senate Democrats are also starting to think about how to get out of one. — A 7-10 day spending bill would require unanimous consent in the Senate, which could put pressure on Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Republicans to abandon their plans for a seven-week bill.
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Vox, The Hill, Bloomberg, Politico, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, The 19th, Breitbart and The Daily Signal
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MSNBC:
Democratic voters are furious with party leaders. And that disaffection has a cost.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
CNBC:
'We're headed to a shutdown,' Vance says after Trump meeting with leaders ends
'We're headed to a shutdown,' Vance says after Trump meeting with leaders ends
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The Hill, NBC News, NewsNation, The Guardian, ABC News, RedState, Mediaite, Politico, Scripps News and Fox News
Associated Press:
Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown
Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown
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Politico, Washington Examiner, CBS News, The Hill, Washington Times, The Parnas Perspective, Associated Press, CNN, Raw Story, Times Now, ABC News, HotAir, Deseret News and WTOP News
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Democrats refuse to cave on health care before meeting with Trump on government shutdown
Democrats refuse to cave on health care before meeting with Trump on government shutdown
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GovExec.com, The Hill, Bloomberg, CBS News, ABC News, France 24, PoliticusUSA, NOTUS and New York Sun
New Republic:
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It. — What if we told you that Donald Trump is a really unpopular president? Would that surprise you? It's not something you hear much in the media. Yet in recent days new polls from the Associated Press, Gallup …
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Gizmodo and LGBTQ Nation
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Pete's ‘Manic’ Meltdowns Exposed by Aides — PRESSURE COOKIER — The former Fox News host is reportedly spiraling out of control. — Pete Hegseth is crumbling under the pressure of leading the Pentagon. — The defense secretary—who prefers the moniker “Secretary of War” …
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Trump would head Gaza ‘board of peace’ in new postwar plan — President Trump would chair an international “board of peace” to govern and reconstruct the Gaza Strip as part of a 20-point plan released Monday by the White House, describing an end to the war between Israel and Hamas and a transition toward peace.
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Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
READ IN FULL: Trump's 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump and Netanyahu agree on a plan to end Gaza war and await Hamas to accept terms
Live updates: Trump and Netanyahu agree on a plan to end Gaza war and await Hamas to accept terms
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MSNBC:
How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting — A former associate of Trump's border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail. — Tom Homan, the White House border czar, became entangled in an FBI sting last year …
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Raw Story
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Bombshell Report Says Tom Homan Investigation Began After ICE Colleague Bragged He Was For Sale
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump — Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms — WASHINGTON—YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit …
pbump:
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left — It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. This is not really contestable and rarely seriously contested.
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown
Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown
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Blaze Media and Louder With Crowder
Associated Press:
Video gamer Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest-ever private equity buyout — Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats — Exclusive: Miller's homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say — Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes …
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New Republic and Salon
New York Times:
Americans' Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds — A majority of American voters now oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, a stunning reversal in public opinion since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. — Nearly two years into the war in Gaza …
Robert Reich:
Again: Why isn't the media reporting on Trump's growing dementia? — Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that …
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Media Matters for America, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Letters from an American, The Wrap and Straight Arrow News
CBS News:
Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter's truck — The Village of Broadview said they've launched a criminal investigation after a CBS News Chicago reporter had a projectile fired at her vehicle by an ICE agent late Sunday morning.
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Chicago Tribune
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Mack Liederman / Block Club Chicago:
ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; ‘Unprovoked’ Attack Under Investigation
ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; ‘Unprovoked’ Attack Under Investigation
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Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune
Dan Zaksheske / OutKick:
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Finebaum ‘Considering’ Leaving ESPN To Pursue U.S. Senate Seat As A Republican — SEC Network host and analyst Paul Finebaum says he is “considering” leaving ESPN to run for the U.S. Senate. And he would run on the republican ticket. — In an exclusive interview …
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The ADL Defended Elon Musk's ‘Awkward Gesture.’ Now He Calls It a Hate Group — “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group,” Musk tweeted Sunday. — READING TIME 4 MINUTES — Read Later Read Later — When Elon Musk gave two Nazi-style salutes the day President Donald Trump …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire — A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary — Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced …
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New Republic, Washington Examiner, MSNBC, Raw Story and The Mahablog
Kayla Huynh / Journal Sentinel:
Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison — International freshman enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has dropped to its lowest level in at least a decade, according to recently released admissions data for the fall semester.
Tom Tugendhat / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's latest power grab points in a clear direction — His SpaceX deal could fundamentally alter the relationship between a state and its citizens. — Tom Tugendhat is a Conservative member of Parliament in Britain and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute.
David Swindle / Algemeiner.com:
X Acted on Just 12% of Top Antisemitic Conspiracy Posts, Study Finds — A new year-long study released on Monday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) reveals the extent to which X has allowed an epidemic of antisemitic invective …
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CNN and Jewish Insider
Fox News:
Editorial overhaul: Washington Post's new opinion chief feels the weight of the challenges ahead … But that's the situation 33-year-old Adam O'Neal has found himself in at The Washington Post. — “I just feel a tremendous responsibility to get this right,” O'Neal told Fox News Digital …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
Axios:
Democrats turn up heat on Johnson over Epstein files vote delay … But she has to be sworn in first. — Grijalva was elected in a landslide last Tuesday in the race to succeed her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), in Congress. — She has accused Johnson of dragging …
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MSNBC and The Independent
Andreas Kluth / Bloomberg:
Trump Has Lost Credibility Worldwide, at Huge Cost — By confusing friends and foes, strategy and personal chemistry, posturing and resolve, the American president has made everyone less safe. — Credibility, like trust and a good reputation, is hard to earn, easy to lose.
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Raw Story
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Is Trump keeping all his promises? This MAGA couple doesn't think so. — Eight months into his second term, the president is facing some difficulties living up to the high expectations of his supporters. — Just now — SWAINSBORO, Ga. — Jessie Meadows told her mother-in-law not to panic …
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Raw Story
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
HHS looks to block Harvard from federal funding — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it is looking to exclude Harvard University from federal funding because of alleged inaction on campus antisemitism. — HHS said it is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings.
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Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg


