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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Caution White House on Inflicting Shutdown Pain — Some GOP lawmakers have warned the president's aides against mass layoffs and sharp cuts to government assistance — WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior GOP lawmakers have quietly advised the White House …
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Democrats say even missed paychecks for US troops won't be enough to end shutdown alone — Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if Republicans do not agree to their health care demands - and not even a missed paycheck …
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Washington Examiner, CalMatters, Axios and Associated Press
Axios:
Scoop: Senate Republicans eye piecemeal government reopening
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Washington Examiner and CBS News
NBC News:
Senate Democrats clash with House Speaker Mike Johnson over government shutdown and Jeffrey Epstein
Senate Democrats clash with House Speaker Mike Johnson over government shutdown and Jeffrey Epstein
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Straight Arrow News, CNN, The Guardian, NewsNation, NOTUS, Associated Press, Newsweek, The Hill, New York Times, HuffPost, Politico, UPI, Fox News, CBS News, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Capitol agenda: Trump muddies the GOP shutdown message
Capitol agenda: Trump muddies the GOP shutdown message
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NOTUS, Daily Mail, The Independent, Forbes, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, E&E News and New Republic
Samy Magdy / Associated Press:
Israel and Hamas agree to ‘first phase’ of plan to end fighting and release hostages, Trump says — Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
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Ashley Carnahan / Fox News:
Trump says ‘whole world came together’ to secure Israel-Hamas peace deal after months of deadlock — Nearly 50 hostages remain in Gaza as Netanyahu prepares government approval — President Donald Trump credited “luck” and “talent” for playing a role in getting a peace deal between Israel and Hamas after months of deadlock.
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The Hill, BBC, NewsNation, CBS News, The Times of Israel, IJR, Townhall, Jewish Insider, RedState, New York Post, JNS.org, Daily Mail, The Forward, The Japan Times, France 24, Washington Examiner, WTOP News and israelhayom.com
Reuters:
Live Updates: Israel-Hamas Deal Paves Way for Gaza Cease-Fire
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The Times of Israel and Lawyers, Guns & Money
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment
With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment
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Associated Press, IJR, The Last Refuge and HotAir
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump tells Axios he's “likely” going to Israel for speech after Gaza deal
Trump tells Axios he's “likely” going to Israel for speech after Gaza deal
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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel, France 24, One America News Network, NewsMax.com, Fox News and Semafor
Reuters:
National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders — Trump threatens to jail mayor of Chicago, Illinois governor — National Guard troops gather outside Chicago despite local opposition — Ex-FBI chief Comey pleads not guilty in case Trump pushed for
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Talking Points Memo:
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach — This is your TPM evening briefing. — A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the Chicago area accused of assaulting law enforcement, the latest in a shocking string of failures by the Trump Department of Justice.
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Bloomberg Law, Law and Chaos, Chicago Sun Times, Block Club Chicago, The Independent, Raw Story, MSNBC and New Republic
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
ICE May Not Be a Secret Police, but They Sure Look Like One
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Raw Story
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades
The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades
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Forbes
Washington Post:
Jack Smith's lawfare and James Comey's arraignment on pathetically weak charges — Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward. — Just now — Anyone surprised by the news that former special counsel Jack Smith collected …
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pbump:
Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument — A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was “arguably worse than Watergate” — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential malfeasance.
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New York Post, The Federalist and One America News Network
Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth / Bloomberg:
Norway on Edge Over Trump Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize Verdict — Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader.
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Ronny Reyes / New York Post:
Gazans join Israelis in chanting Trump's name over cease-fire: ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’
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Metro.co.uk, Mediaite and The Independent
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots — With an accidental social-media post, Trump showed how much had changed since his first term — WASHINGTON—In his second term, President Trump has taken control of the Justice Department in ways he could have only dreamed of during his first.
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Civil Discourse …, The Atlantic, Raw Story, emptywheel, Mediaite and Semafor
Holly Baxter / The Independent:
Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you're imagining — Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid of freedom of speech’
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Harry Cockburn / The Independent:
Jimmy Kimmel says he would ‘love’ to have Trump on his show: 'I'll ask him'
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Bloomberg, NewsMax.com and The Independent
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents' Pleas for Help
PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents' Pleas for Help
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BBC, The Guardian, NOTUS, The Post Millennial and RedState
Associated Press:
Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say — The Trump administration has yet to provide underlying evidence to lawmakers proving that alleged drug-smuggling boats targeted by the U.S. military in a series of fatal strikes …
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NBC News:
Trump to get a ‘routine yearly’ medical check-up — his second in 6 months — The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility. — President Donald Trump will sit for a “routine yearly check up” …
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IJR, UPI, The Independent, HuffPost, The Hill, Washington Times and Reuters
Pavan V. Thakkar / The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump's Compact — The Trump administration's authoritarian offensive is accelerating. — It is now openly persecuting opponents, bullying media to silence critics, and sending masked security forces to terrorize cities, and the president recently told …
New York Times:
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration … Robert E. Primus, the first Black board chairman of the federal regulator responsible for approving railroad mergers, at first thought there was something wrong with his work phone. When he couldn't unlock it he switched …
Politico:
‘Get out of my f—king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video … “You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot,” Porter said. — The staffer, whom POLITICO is not identifying out of privacy concerns and who was not the source of the video, declined to comment.
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans' Job Ratings of Six Key U.S. Agencies Worsen — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' ratings of six prominent federal government agencies have deteriorated markedly since last year. The job ratings of each of these agencies — the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Elissa Nadworny / NPR:
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled — The device is about the size of a AA battery, and it has the potential to help a baby or infant heart keep beating in the face of failure. — It's called the PediaFlow, an implantable artificial heart for the littlest, most vulnerable humans.
NBC News:
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say — A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
Bloomberg:
Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump's Deportation Push — The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump's deportations and said it would dismiss anyone …
Julia Métraux / Mother Jones:
Brace For the Single Largest Spike in Health Insurance Premiums—Ever — The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits. — As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress' failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the government …
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The Daily Signal and New York Times
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals — The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Wednesday, sets a 10-year deadline for the change to take place. — A new law will make California the first state to phase some ultraprocessed food out of school meals.
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New York Times, Bloomberg, CalMatters, Governor of California, Bangor Daily News and Los Angeles Times

