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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.
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump's Political Fight
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Why the Federal Reserve has historically been independent of the White House
Why the Federal Reserve has historically been independent of the White House
NBC News:
Trump denies involvement in the DOJ's investigation of the Federal Reserve
Trump denies involvement in the DOJ's investigation of the Federal Reserve
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Bloomberg, CBS News, Business Insider, The Hill, Townhall, Salon, ABC News, Media Matters for America and New Republic
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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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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The Independent, Raw Story and The Japan Times
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:
Trump Suggests Renee Good's ‘Disrespectful’ Attitude Justified Fatal ICE Shooting — President Trump suggested that Renee Good's “highly disrespectful” attitude toward law enforcement played a role in her fatal shooting by an ICE agent. — President Trump has added another justification …
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LGBTQ Nation, The Daily Wire, Data For Progress, New Republic, Advocate and The Independent
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
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twitchy.com, The Contrarian and New Republic
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Answers Simple Question With Bizarre Word Salad
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, TechCrunch and Democrats
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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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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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
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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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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, NewsMax.com, Associated Press, Reuters and Electrek
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
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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The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Independent, Raw Story and Mediaite
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Minnesota sues Trump to block ICE agent surge in Minneapolis … “Being free from unlawful seizures, excessive force and retaliation are not a list of aspirations Minnesotans deserve; these are rights enshrined within state and federal laws,” the lawsuit says.
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, CBS News and twitchy.com
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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, Washington Times and LGBTQ Nation
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Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image
Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image
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Mississippi Free Press:
Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect Tells Judge, ‘Jesus Christ Is Lord’ — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email — Stephen Pittman beamed into federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris' Jackson courtroom from his hospital bed on Monday, his IV visible on a TV screen …
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Washington Examiner, Jewish Insider and Associated Press
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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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Rachel Schilke / Washington Examiner:
House Transportation Committee employee federally indicted over phone theft scheme
House Transportation Committee employee federally indicted over phone theft scheme
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Fox News
Politico:
Admin works to flip Republicans on war powers vote — The White House is working behind-the-scenes to defang GOP concerns about its Venezuela strategy and flip at least two of the five Republicans who voted to advance a resolution that would require President Donald Trump to get congressional sign-off …
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RedState
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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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The Guardian, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Hill and NewsMax.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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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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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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