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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, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Washington Post, Politico, The Wrap, Axios, GV Wire, NewsMax.com, New York Post and vaticannews.va
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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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Washington Examiner, Politico, New York Sun, Jacobin, MPR News, France 24, Reuters, Bloomberg, CBS News, israelhayom.com, Al Jazeera and NewsMax.com
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options
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NewsMax.com, UPI and The Gateway Pundit
Reuters:
Israel on high alert for possibility of US intervention in Iran, sources say
Israel on high alert for possibility of US intervention in Iran, sources say
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Fortune, France 24, israelhayom.com and Breitbart
Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options
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Axios and israelhayom.com
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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Mediaite
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Thomas Zimmer / Steady:
When the State Terrorizes the People — The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism's violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society. … Renee Nicole Good, mother of three children, died mere blocks away from where she lived with her wife and her youngest son, who is 6 years old.
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David French / New York Times:
Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again. — President Trump is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States. — There are few things in American life more divisive than controversies over police violence. The racial reckoning of 2020 and the protests and riots …
Chris Hippensteel / New York Times:
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide
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Al Jazeera, Axios, Mother Jones and CBS News
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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Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek
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:
Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments — When the National Portrait Gallery replaced a portrait of President Trump this week, it took down a biography of his first term. — The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery removed wall text that referred to President Trump's two impeachments …
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 …
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Bloomberg, U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, The Hill, Fox News, RedState, One America News Network, Mediaite and emptywheel
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.
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding …
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding …
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The Hill
New York Times:
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78 — His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band's sound as it became an American institution. — Bob Weir, a guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of the Grateful Dead …
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Politico:
States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting … Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week. But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states.
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
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Minneapolis mayor says there's a ‘deep mistrust’ of federal investigation of ICE shooting — Mayor Jacob Frey said he didn't have preconceived notions about an investigation, but accused federal officials of saying things that are “not true.” — Add NBC News to Google
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Politico
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump threatens Cuba: Negotiate “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE” … - But after backing off Colombia and facing allied pushback over Greenland, Havana has emerged as the hemispheric target du jour. … - The U.S. strike in Venezuela put allied Cuba, already strained by a sagging economy …
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Guardian, Reuters, 19FortyFive and The Atlantic
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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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
The Dream of a Florida Retirement Is Fading for the Middle Class — The Sunshine State used to be where all walks of life could afford to retire. That's changing as it grows pricier. — SARASOTA, Fla.—Michele Butler and Wells Chapin moved to the west coast of Florida from Michigan …
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Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
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?
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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The Hill, 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, Reuters, Associated Press, The Independent, Bloomberg and NOTUS

