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Washington Post:
Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout  —  As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement. … Officials in Congress and the Pentagon …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jeffries says not to expect Dems to pursue Hegseth impeachment  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) signaled Monday that Democrats are unlikely to pursue impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over alleged follow-up strikes against boats in the Caribbean.
Discussion: twitchy.com, Mediaite and CBS News
Spencer Ackerman / FOREVER WARS:
Pete Hegseth And Adm. Mitch Bradley Belong In Prison  —  MORE THAN a decade ago, Adm. Eric Olson, then the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), warned that his elite forces were “fraying around the edges.”  It had already been nearly a decade of relentless deployment across …
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say  —  Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.  —  The Trump administration on Monday defended the legality …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges  —  Are Republicans really about to exercise real oversight on President Trump's reprehensible bombings of alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea?  They're talking a good transparency game in response to the jarring news …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now  —  A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.  —  Presidents have always sent people to lead the Pentagon who respect the institutions and personnel of the armed forces, not least because Americans tend to bristle at any sign …
Wall Street Journal:
White House Says Second Strike on Alleged Drug Boat Was Legal  —  Press secretary says admiral who ordered strike, which is reported to have killed survivors of initial attack, was acting under Hegseth's authority  —  WASHINGTON—The White House attempted to defuse a growing controversy …
Filip Timotija / NewsNation:
Pressure grows on Hegseth amid boat strike fallout  —  Want to see more of NewsNation?  Get 24/7 fact-based news coverage with the NewsNation app or add NewsNation as a preferred source on Google!  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing pressure over a Washington Post report …
New York Times:
For Trump, Hegseth's Take-No-Prisoners Approach Is a Growing Liability  —  Investigations are mounting into the legality of strikes that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been a political problem for President Trump since …
Discussion: The Hill
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: House Democrat eyes articles of impeachment against Hegseth
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Jeffries: ‘Real evidence’ of ‘extrajudicial killings’ is a stain on America
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Here are all of Hegseth's boat strikes near Venezuela that we know about
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
White House confirms Hegseth authorized second strike on drug boat
Max Boot / Washington Post:
No wonder Trump is outraged by warnings about illegal orders
Discussion: USA Today
NBC News:
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs  —  The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.  —  Costco Wholesale has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Costco sues Trump admin seeking tariff refunds before Supreme Court rules if they're illegal … Costco sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out.
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:   Costco sues Trump administration over tariffs, seeks full refund
Axios:
Mike Johnson's red alert on members quitting Congress  —  Members of the House of Representatives are quitting Congress at a record rate, with Republican retirements and resignations outpacing Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio in the first 11 months of the year. … - Call it the congressional JOLTS rate.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Politico:
Senate barrels toward failure on health care … Instead, the most likely outcome is that Senate Democrats put up a bill that has little GOP support for a vote, if any, while Republicans offer a competing bill of their own.  And even those partisan proposals remained in flux as lawmakers returned to Washington from a weeklong recess.
Discussion: NOTUS, NewsMax.com and Punchbowl News
Joel Rose / NPR:
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools as part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on the U.S. trucking industry.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:   Trump Administration Revokes Licenses of Thousands of Training Centers for Truckers
Josh Funk / Associated Press:
Federal review finds 44% of US trucking schools don't comply with government rules
Discussion: RedState, Los Angeles Times and IJR
Ana Ley / New York Times:
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York  —  The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month.  —  The Trump administration fired eight immigration judges in New York City on Monday, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee  —  Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday.  —  The updated ID has been required since May, but passengers without …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: The letter behind Trump's pardon of Honduras' ex-president for drug trafficking  —  From a U.S. prison cell, Honduras' ex-president secured a likely pardon for drug trafficking thanks to a letter he penned praising President Trump — whom he called “Your Excellency” …
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Faith Wardwell / Politico:
White House defends pardon of ex-Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
Emily Peck / Axios:
FEMA reinstates workers put on leave for criticizing the White House  —  The 14 FEMA employees who signed the so-called Katrina declaration went back to work for a little while Monday — but the Department of Homeland Security now says that should never have happened.
Discussion: New York Times and New York Sun
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Gabe Cohen / CNN:   Suspended FEMA workers who criticized Trump administration got their jobs back — until DHS leaders found out
NBC News:
At least 9 Indiana Republicans were targeted in swatting attacks amid redistricting pressure from Trump  —  The threats came after Trump publicly called on state lawmakers to pass new congressional maps that would benefit Republicans.  —  At least nine elected Republicans in Indiana …
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine  —  Surging trans-Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America  —  Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and HotAir
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Jill Lawrence / History Keeps Happening:
The American Revolution I Didn't Know  —  We all heard in school about the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the grit that created our nation.  But The American Revolution, the latest and hopefully not last PBS production from Ken Burns, is provocative in unexpected ways.
 
 
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