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Politico:
‘Freaked out’ about the bond market: White House reels from Powell probe … The inquiry, which blindsided many White House aides, is renewing fears over the future of the central bank's independence and offering fresh fodder for concerned Senate Republicans, many of whom will be needed to confirm the next Fed chair.
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a “mess” — A perturbed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told President Trump late Sunday that the federal investigation into the Federal Reserve chair “made a mess” and could be bad for financial markets, two sources familiar with the call told Axios.
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Politico:
GOP angst grows over Powell investigation — A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing unease with the Justice Department's move to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a sign that the probe could become a major inflection point over GOP lawmakers' concerns about central bank independence.
Colby Smith / New York Times:
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump's Political Fight — The Justice Department's decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Why the Federal Reserve has historically been independent of the White House
Ali Bianco / Politico:
GOP flinches on the Fed
GOP flinches on the Fed
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The Hill, Financial Times, HuffPost, NBC News, PoliticusUSA, Al Jazeera, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, Reuters and The Independent
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Take the Masks Off — For his entire second term, Donald Trump has been grousing …
Take the Masks Off — For his entire second term, Donald Trump has been grousing …
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Axios, Associated Press, Business Insider, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Signal, Metro.co.uk, Executive Functions and Townhall
Max Zahn / ABC News:
Stocks fall after Trump's DOJ opens criminal probe into Fed Chair Powell
Stocks fall after Trump's DOJ opens criminal probe into Fed Chair Powell
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Jason Furman / New York Times:
Trump's Attack on the Fed Is Already Backfiring
Trump's Attack on the Fed Is Already Backfiring
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Raw Story, We Got This Covered, Foreign Policy, Wonkette, Fortune and CNBC
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson on Powell investigation: DOJ ‘not being weaponized’
Speaker Johnson on Powell investigation: DOJ ‘not being weaponized’
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CBS News and Florida Politics
New York Times:
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane — Even accepting the Trump administration's claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.” — The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane …
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Raw Story and The Japan Times
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution — In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show. — For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency …
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The Hill, Raw Story, twitchy.com and TechCrunch
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case — The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey …
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Washington Post, NOTUS, Washington Examiner, CBS News, ABC17NEWS, The Guardian, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland — A House Republican on Monday introduced legislation that would give President Trump the authority to annex Greenland and turn it into a U.S. state. … - Lawmakers in both parties have brushed off the notion of invading Greenland …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Has Complained About Pam Bondi Repeatedly to Aides — The president has privately criticized his attorney general as weak and ineffective in recent weeks — President Trump has complained to aides repeatedly in recent weeks about Attorney General Pam Bondi, describing her as weak …
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Raw Story, The Independent, The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Benjamin Storrow / Politico:
Judge reverses Trump order halting Revolution Wind … Trump, a longtime critic of offshore wind, bragged about stopping construction of wind farms during a meeting with oil executives Friday. Those types of statements appeared to hurt the government's case in court.
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New York Times, Axios, The Hill, Electrek, Reuters and Associated Press
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Bloomberg:
Orsted Wins Ruling to Resume US Wind Project Halted by Trump — A US judge ruled Orsted A/S can resume building a wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island while it challenges the government's latest stop-work order, a major win for the Danish energy giant in an ongoing fight with the Trump administration over renewable energy.
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The Providence Journal, Reuters, Washington Examiner, CT Mirror, Associated Press and Raw Story
Fine, Randy:
Congressman Fine Introduces Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act to Strengthen U.S. National Security and Put Our Adversaries on Notice — Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, landmark legislation focused …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and RedState
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim's Possible Ties to Activist Groups — Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized. — Federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
FBI: Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire targeted house of worship because of its ‘Jewish ties’ — A suspect in an arson fire at a historic Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the house of worship because of its “Jewish ties” and was turned in to authorities by his father …
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Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Minnesota sues federal government to try to end deployment of immigration agents — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called the deployment a “federal invasion of the Twin Cities.” — Add NBC News to Google — Officials in Minnesota are suing the federal government to stop …
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The Guardian, NOTUS, CNN, The Hill, Townhall, Sahan Journal, MS NOW, The Daily Signal, KGW-TV, We Got This Covered, ABC17NEWS and Twin Cities
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Minnesota and Illinois Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Deployments
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Axios, Washington Examiner, Scripps News, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Block Club Chicago, Wired, Chicago Sun Times, Evanston Now, The State of Illinois …, ABC7 and NewsMax.com
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Minnesota sues Trump to block ICE agent surge in Minneapolis
Minnesota sues Trump to block ICE agent surge in Minneapolis
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New York Times, CBS News and twitchy.com
Statement / Statement on the Federal Reserve:
Statement on the Federal Reserve — The Federal Reserve's independence and the public's perception of that independence are critical for economic performance, including achieving the goals Congress has set for the Federal Reserve of stable prices, maximum employment, and moderate long-term interest rates.
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Associated Press:
Crowd yells ‘cowards!’ after federal agents crash into a car and fire tear gas in Minneapolis — Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents …
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Straight Arrow News and FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Dell Cameron / Wired:
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good — The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe's own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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New Republic, LGBTQ Nation and Washington Times
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’ — President Trump's comments were a blunt distillation of his administration's racial politics, which rest on the belief that white people have become the real victims of discrimination in America.
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Raw Story, Plain Dealer, Daily Mail, Wonkette and Salon
US Department of Justice:
Former Congressional Employee Arrested, Indicted in Theft of 240 Cell Phones — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia — WASHINGTON - Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested Friday and charged in a federal indictment unsealed …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, NBC News, KGW-TV, New York Times, Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Washington Times
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Trump threatens 25 percent tariff on ‘any country’ that trades with Iran … The threat follows reports from human rights groups that hundreds of people have been killed in a brutal crackdown on protests against the Iranian regime that intensified over the weekend.
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People:
Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: ‘I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent’ (Exclusive) — “It really creeps me out that those are my neighbors — that that's the kind of people I live next to,” the Chaska, Minn., resident tells PEOPLE.
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
We're all just content for ICE — Four days on the ground in Minneapolis … MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The frontline of America's slow-moving civil war has come to Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security doubled down on their occupation of the state following last week's murder of Renee Nicole Good.
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Ken Klippenstein
New York Times:
Two Hours, Scores of Questions, 23,000 Words: Our Interview With President Trump — Four New York Times reporters pressed Mr. Trump about a range of topics in a nearly two-hour interview. Here is a transcript of their conversation. — President Trump spoke to four New York Times reporters …
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Breitbart, New York Post, The Bulwark, The Hill, The Post Millennial, The Independent, Politico, Democracy Docket and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair … Meta on Monday announced it has appointed Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman. — Powell McCormick joined Meta's board in April but resigned in December, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Spencer Ackerman / FOREVER WARS:
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods — Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end — THERE IS NO reforming this. — There is no re-training in deescalation tactics, no reequipping with less-lethal weapons …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project — Jeff Bezos' ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.” — On Monday, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $45 million to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth.
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Advocate, The Trevor Project, Fortune and CBS News
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents — More independents lean Democratic than Republican, giving Democrats edge in party affiliation for first time since 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-high 45% of U.S. adults identified as political independents in 2025 …
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Embracing Impeachment — THE TIME HAS COME to get serious about impeachment. Donald Trump himself expects it if Democrats win the House in this year's midterms, and we've already had previews. Scores of House Democrats voted to advance impeachment articles against Trump last month …
Samuel Freedman / Liberal Currents:
Return of the Silver Shirts — In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past. — Early on a Friday evening in July 1938, several hundred concerned Minneapolitans streamed into a rented auditorium for what had been promoted as a gathering of “Christian American Patriots.”
Spencer Gustafson / NewsNation:
NYC Council employee detained by ICE during ‘routine’ appointment: Officials — 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! — NEW YORK (WPIX) — A New York City Council employee was detained …
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The City, New York Daily News, New York Post, Raw Story, Gothamist and Newsweek

