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MPR News:
Live updates: ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life,’ kills woman in south Minneapolis  —  Editor's note: ICE officials say a woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car.  Witnesses dispute ICE's version of what happened.
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New York Times:
Watch Live: Updates on Fatal Shooting Amid Minneapolis ICE Crackdown  —  The woman was killed in a car by federal officials, the authorities said.  Gov. Tim Walz asked for calm as protesters gathered at the site of the shooting.  —  Video  —  Here's what to know.
Associated Press:
ICE agent shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown
New York Times:
Venezuela Live Updates: U.S. Forces Seize Two Tankers, One Under a Russian Flag  —  The U.S. military intercepted a Russian-flagged tanker as part of its pressure campaign against Venezuela, escalating a conflict with Moscow after ousting its ally, Nicolás Maduro.  —  Here's the latest.
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia Sends Submarine to Escort Tanker the U.S. Tried to Seize Off Venezuela  —  Move raises the stakes over the Trump administration's attempt to seize the Bella  —  Russia has sent a submarine and other naval assets to escort an empty, rusting oil tanker that has become a new flashpoint …
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
US forces board Venezuela-linked sanctioned oil tanker in North Atlantic, US official says
James Bikales / Politico:
Wright: US will sell Venezuelan oil ‘indefinitely’
Elena Giordano / Politico:
Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens  —  “I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM,” says American president.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast fresh doubt on NATO's reliability, saying he was not convinced the alliance would come …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Europe and Rest of World Try to Come to Terms With Trump the Imperialist  —  Needing U.S. support to fend off Russia in Ukraine, European leaders have been cautious about criticizing President Trump on Greenland, Iran, Venezuela and much else.  —  It had the makings of one of the most awkward trans-Atlantic meetings in a long time.
New York Times:
Buy Greenland?  Take It?  Why?  An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand.  —  Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will.  —  President Trump has ridiculed Denmark's dog sled teams in Greenland.
Reuters:
European allies working on plan should US move on Greenland  —  Allies including France and Germany are working closely on a plan on how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, as Europe seeks to address U.S. President Donald Trump's ambitions in the region.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Rubio says he will meet with Denmark about Greenland next week
CNN:
Trump says Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to US  —  Investing Oil & gas South America Donald Trump  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States …
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Paul Krugman:
The Emperor's New Oil Wealth  —  The truth behind Trump's black, sticky fantasy  —  When George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, he claimed that the goal was to establish a democratic regime.  Some members of his administration may even have believed that.  But many leftist critics insisted that it was all about seizing Iraq's oil.
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump says Venezuela to give up to 50 million barrels of oil to U.S.
Tristan Lee / Decoherence Media:
Elon Musk's “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis  —  One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor  —  Grok, the chatbot run by the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is generating nonconsensual pornographic images of women with their clothes removed …
Discussion: Futurism
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Wired:
Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Justin Weinberg / Daily Nous:
Texas A&M Bans Plato  —  Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course.  You have a day to decide.  —  That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today …
Discussion: Reason
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Military Isn't MAGA  —  The Uniform Code of Military Justice should not suppress free speech.  —  Mark Kelly will probably be fine.  The senator and Navy veteran isn't likely to be cowed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's lawless attempt to silence him by seeking to demote him post-retirement.
Discussion: KPNX
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid  —  The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.”  —  The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J. Trump said today to House Republicans.  “I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy.  They don't.  They have a horrible policy.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Bulwark
Popular Information:
DOJ admits it has still not released 99% of Epstein files, violating law  —  The DOJ said it is still reviewing millions of Epstein files, after previously claiming it completed the review in July  —  In an extraordinary letter sent to a federal judge Monday evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi admitted …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Inside Democrats' plans to stop Trump from raiding more countries  —  House Democrats are scrambling for levers to block the Trump administration from reprising its Venezuelan incursion across Latin America and beyond. … - Democrats' plans include war powers votes, efforts to choke off funding …
Caroline Haskins / Wired:
New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub's corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.”  Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.  —  This story contains graphic imagery.
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated  —  Darren Michael, associate professor at Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Discussion: RedState and New York Post
The Atlantic:
The Wrath of Stephen Miller  —  Stephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls—yes, even on Saturdays—less like a government adviser and more like a wartime general.  His is the dominant voice, as he plays the role of browbeater, inquisitor, and bully.  He accepts no excuses, entertains no dissent.
Discussion: The Independent
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration … History is replete with times when an army in fighting retreat draws a line, digs in, and then counterattacks.  The Russians in WW2 took world-historic losses, before turning the tide with a massive counteroffensive around Stalingrad.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Comer threatens subpoenas for Walz, Ellison in Minnesota fraud scandal  —  House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer could take legal action to compel congressional testimony from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison about the ongoing federal probe into social services fraud in their state.
Discussion: Fox News, NewsMax.com and MinnPost
Just Security:
Congress, the President, and the Use of Military Force in Venezuela  —  This is part of Just Security's Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers.  —  On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump ordered a military operation that bombed Venezuelan air defenses and other targets in the country …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Life Under a Clicktatorship  —  What happens to government when everything is content?  —  One of the strangest moments to emerge from the U.S. kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro was the flurry of images posted by President Trump on Truth Social.  It felt a bit like a student who can't decide …
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🌈 Subscribe to PN 🌈  —  On Monday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut itself down.  —  Defunded by Congress and fearing …
Financial Times:
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela  —  Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers  —  Polymarket is disputing that the mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an invasion and said it will only settle …
Ruby Mellen / Washington Post:
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho  —  Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.  —  At first glance, there was nothing out of the ordinary about Saturday's wind forecast for Camas Prairie, Idaho.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Musician Béla Fleck is the latest to cancel Kennedy Center performances after Trump's renaming  —  The Grammy-winning banjo player said the venue had become too “political,” while the arts center chair accused him of caving to the “woke mob.”  —  Grammy-winning banjo player Béla Fleck …
Emily Peck / Axios:
Trump administration tells 5 states their child care funds have been frozen  —  The Trump administration sent out letters Tuesday night to five blue states, freezing about $10 billion in funding for child care and social services programs pending a “thorough review,” citing concerns over “systemic fraud.”
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
RFK Jr.'s strange ringtone revealed when health secretary's phone disrupts White House briefing  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's phone unexpectedly ringed Wednesday while he was taking questions at a White House briefing announcing new federal food guidelines.
 
 
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Don Bacon / New York Times:
After Removing Maduro, Trump Needs a New Venezuela Plan
Discussion: Raw Story
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Warren cuts checks to state Democratic parties
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
Rubio Has Long Dreamed of Changing Latin America. Embracing MAGA Opened the Door.
Discussion: Reuters
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump endorses candidate running against a lawmaker he pardoned
Jan-Werner Müller / The Guardian:
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state
Warren P. Strobel / Washington Post:
Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation amid tensions over Trump policy
Mark Gongloff / Bloomberg:
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House GOP faces internal divisions, challenges on agenda and questions from Trump
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