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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories — The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday. — WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic …
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CNN:
Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, sources say — Federal agencies Congressional news January 6th US elections — During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen …
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns — In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to limit at-birth hepatitis B shots to babies whose mothers are infected with the virus.
Washington Post:
CDC panel makes most sweeping revision to child vaccine schedule under RFK Jr. — The panel voted to eliminate a long-standing recommendation for every newborn to receive a hepatitis B shot, excluding those born to mothers testing negative. … ATLANTA — An influential vaccine advisory panel …
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NOTUS, Reuters, Diane Ravitch's blog, The 19th, Associated Press and CBS News
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
RFK Jr.'s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
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New York Sun, Gizmodo, Washington Times, The National Pulse, Techdirt, Ars Technica, KDFX-TV, The Hill, The Independent and New York Times
CNN:
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn't radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers — Pete Hegseth Congressional news — The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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New York Times:
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks — Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
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Washington Post:
Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say
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CNBC:
Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal … Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.
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About Netflix:
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) — Transaction Unites Warner Bros.' Iconic Franchises and Storied Libraries with Netflix's Leading Entertainment Service, Creating an Extraordinary Offering for Consumers
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NBC News:
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed — Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
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CNN:
Grand jury declines to reindict Letitia James
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CNN:
Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents
Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents
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Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org and The Atlantic
Associated Press:
Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James
Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James
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Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources — The FBI director's use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he's “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.” — FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting …
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Paul Krugman:
MAGA's Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse — And Trump's numbers will continue to slide — Long ago, probably in a long-forgotten hotel room, I watched a 1974 movie called The Internecine Project — now available, as you'll see if you follow the hyperlink, on YouTube. In truth, it's a pretty bad movie.
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Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
Trump's Affordability “Con Job”
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Lincoln Square, Democrats and Raw Story
Kylie Mohr / SFGATE:
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people — Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth — The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks …
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document — U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration blame the EU and migration for what they say is imminent, total cultural unraveling in Europe. — The explosive claim is made in the U.S. National Security Strategy …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump reveals what he wants for the world
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Andrew Childers / Axios:
Trump's “Monroe Doctrine” bashes immigration and globalization
European Commission:
Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act — Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ …
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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Hassett Backs Call for Fed Presidents to Come From Districts — National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett backed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call for a new residency requirement in the appointment of presidents of Federal Reserve banks. — “The reason we have all these regional Feds …
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New York Post, DNYUZ and Politico
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair
Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair
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Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Newsweek and Fortune
New York Times:
Trump's Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour — The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating. — After months of holding steady, President Trump's approval rating has taken a dip over the past several weeks …
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Newsweek, Strength In Numbers, New York Magazine, New Jersey Online and Salon
Isabel Van Brugen / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Deteriorating Health — DROWSY DON — Insiders say the president spends days obsessing over reports comparing him to “Sleepy Joe.” — President Donald Trump is raging over snowballing reports on his apparent cognitive and physical decline.
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Alternet.org, DNYUZ and Zeteo
Financial Times:
‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Donald Trump's pardons upend US justice system — Releases of drug traffickers and fraudsters puzzle allies and send shockwaves through legal circles — It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine.
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America, America, New York Daily News, The Hill and Fox News
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers — Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.
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HotAir, TechCrunch, The Verge and Meta Newsroom, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say — The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week …
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Bloomberg, Politico and LewRockwell
Adam Rhodes / Prism:
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says — Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism's mission and the humans behind it.
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NPR, LGBTQ Nation and PinkNews
Associated Press:
Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies — When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who had been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned.
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Bondi orders US law enforcement to investigate ‘extremist groups’ — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar “extremist groups,” and asked the FBI to compile a list …
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The Guardian, Bloomberg Law, The Hill and Daily Caller News Foundation
Sarah Isgur / New York Times:
Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan — Critics of the Supreme Court have argued that it has too often deferred to the Trump administration and that the conservative justices are under the sway of suspicious propositions like the unitary executive theory and the major questions doctrine.
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SCOTUSblog, Christian Science Monitor and New York Sun
Albert Sun / New York Times:
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record — The federal deployments that have swept through major cities as part of President Trump's immigration crackdown have led to thousands of arrests. But they have been less effective at apprehending immigrants …
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