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New York Times:
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue — The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country. — President Trump has been briefed in recent days …
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The Hill, Politico, Washington Post, GV Wire, NewsMax.com, New York Post and vaticannews.va
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Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options — Speaker of Iran's parliament says country would also target Middle Eastern shipping lanes and Israel — Iran will attack American military bases in the Middle East if the U.S. hits first, the country's parliamentary speaker …
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NewsMax.com, UPI and New York Post
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran warns it will target US troops and Israel if America strikes over protests — Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country's capital and its second-largest city into Sunday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding …
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Politico, Reuters, France 24, israelhayom.com, Bloomberg, CBS News and NewsMax.com
Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options — A rights group said credible reports show hundreds were killed since Iran cut off the internet. The Trump administration is mulling lethal and nonlethal military options. — ISTANBUL — Reports …
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Axios
Reuters:
Israel on high alert for possibility of US intervention in Iran, sources say
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France 24, israelhayom.com and Breitbart
Soroush Pakzad / BBC:
'There wasn't even time for CPR': Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
'There wasn't even time for CPR': Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
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Fox News, Wall Street Journal and HotAir
Daily Mail:
Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation — Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
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Financial Times:
Nato silence on Donald Trump's Greenland threats rattles European allies — Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark — Henry Foy in Brussels and Richard Milne in Oslo — Nato's silence in response …
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New York Times, The Guardian, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Al Jazeera
Washington Post:
Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait — A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection. — The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text …
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The Independent, The Hill and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Trump's ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor — President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. — President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark …
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Los Angeles Times and Newsweek
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries — State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans — The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries …
Chris Hippensteel / New York Times:
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide — Mounting outrage over an ICE agent's killing of a woman in Minneapolis spilled into streets across the country on Saturday, as crowds of protesters mobilized against what they called the excesses of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
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Al Jazeera, Axios, Mother Jones and CBS News
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
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ABC17NEWS, Time, The Guardian, Oregonian, KGW-TV, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Politico, France 24, UPI, MPR News, New York Times, Fox News, The Daily Wire, NewsNation, The Hill and NewsMax.com
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie's Latest Stunt Sent Trump Insiders Into Panic — NOEM MAS! — “I don't know how we recover from this,” an administration official told Politico. — White House insiders are privately panicking that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials are digging ICE into an inescapable hole.
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Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria — The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year. — The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday …
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Fox News, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Task & Purpose, CBS News and The Hill
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Politico:
Day after Minneapolis shooting, Noem ordered new restriction on congressional oversight … “The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities,” Omar wrote on X Saturday after confirming she'd been denied entry to a processing center earlier in the day.
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
Turns Out the Obamacare Subsidy Extension Was Only Mostly Dead — Last week's House vote sets up a big fight in the Senate over relief for millions. — ∙ Paid — THE EFFORT TO RENEW those enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies has come back to life. Again.
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Politico and KFF Health News
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists — A part of the video Jonathan Ross — the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good — took of the shooting has gotten little attention. — Before Renee's wife Becca taunts Ross, “You want to come at us?
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Nobel Institute says Peace Prize cannot be transferred after Machado suggestion — The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred, shared, or revoked, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado suggesting she might give her 2025 award to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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New York Times, Metro.co.uk, New York Post, CBS News and Mediaite
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
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Washington Examiner and CNBC
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Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump declares national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil cash
Trump declares national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil cash
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Inside Climate News, Associated Press, The Independent, Bloomberg, NOTUS and CBS News
