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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow  —  Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak  —  The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before Federal Reserve subpoenas  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week …
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting  —  At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the administration's handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis …
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting  —  Six lawyers from US attorney's office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ's civil rights division  —  A wave of federal prosecutors in Minnesota and Washington DC have resigned in protest …
Discussion: Reuters, The Daily Wire and NewsNation
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams
Discussion: We Got This Covered and Townhall
Matt Sepic / MPR News:
Minn. fraud prosecutor quits over ICE shooting probe
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Top prosecutors in D.C., Minneapolis leave amid turmoil over shooting probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Jedeed / Slate:
You've Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting.  The Truth Is Far Worse.  I'm the Proof.  —  What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets?  We're all finding out.  —  The plan was never to become an ICE agent.
Discussion: Jacobin and Raw Story
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry  —  The couple escalated their battle with Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, who said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress.  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday …
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New York Times:
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer  —  Lawyers for Bill and Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, on why the couple would not testify in the House's Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House GOP moves to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress in Epstein probe
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
Whistleblower drops ‘largest ever’ ICE leak to unmask agents: ‘The last straw’  —  A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach  —  INTERNAL REVOLT  —  A DHS whistleblower appears to have exposed data on federal immigration workers after the shooting of Renee Good.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE …
ProPublica:
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Discussion: WBUR
New York Times:
Blowback Builds Over Criminal Investigation of Powell  —  Trump allies fear that the inquiry into the Fed chair could complicate the process of replacing him this year.  —  The investigation of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, has prompted fierce blowback from Republicans …
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Johanna Treeck / Politico:
Global central bankers speak up for beleaguered Fed Chair Powell
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue  —  Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses 2,000, activists say, as chaos recalls 1979 revolution
Los Angeles Times:
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says  — 7 min Click here to listen to this article  —  A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round …
New York Times:
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss's Bumpy Revamp at CBS  —  Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes.  —  Bari Weiss's message to the “CBS Evening News” team was blunt.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Resistance Libs Were Right  —  For the last decade there's been a debate, among people who don't like Donald Trump, about whether he's a fascist.  —  The argument that he isn't often hinges on two things.  First, when Trump first came to power, he lacked a street-fighting force …
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Majority Of Voters Think Fatal Shooting Of Minneapolis Woman By ICE Agent Was Not Justified, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 57% Of Voters Disapprove Of The Way ICE Is Enforcing Immigration Laws  — mail_outline  —  Days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error  —  A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large number of active police investigations around the country because they have failed …
Discussion: ArkansasTimes
CNN:
Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome  —  Federal agencies US military National security  —  The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators …
Julia Harte / Reuters:
Video of Minneapolis shooting convinced these Trump voters it was justifiable  —  Video of a U.S. immigration agent fatally shooting a Minneapolis mother in her car on Wednesday has divided the nation, becoming a political Rorschach test that elicits different verdicts depending on who views it.
James Saunders / GB News:
US promises to unleash ‘full range of tools’ against Keir Starmer to protect free speech in Britain  —  ‘Nothing is off the table’ to open up ‘authoritarian, closed societies’ which censor the internet, the State Department's Sarah B Rogers told GB News  —  The US has promised to unleash a …
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Lauren Coates / Variety:
Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Dies at 68  —  Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer.  He was 68. … Adams started writing blog posts praising Donald Trump in 2015 …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Organizing bodies have grappled with gender issues, pleasing few.  —  In two cases, the court's conservative majority showed little inclination to strike down laws barring transgender girls from girls' and women's teams.  —  Here's the latest.  —  The Supreme Court's conservative majority …
Preston Mizell / Fox News:
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US  —  Several thousand Somali nationals currently living in the US must leave the country by March 17  —  FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia …
New York Times:
Initial Obamacare Enrollment Drops by 1.4 Million  —  That number could increase significantly as more consumers are faced with higher bills brought on by expiring premium subsidies.  —  About 1.4 million fewer people have enrolled in Obamacare coverage this year in the face of soaring premiums …
Duncan Hosie / The Atlantic:
How the Supreme Court Broke Congress  —  In the name of protecting the balance of powers, the Court is radically refashioning that balance.  —  Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government.  The first, which is quite well known, is Congress's decline.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
NPR:
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions  —  When Emma Brennan and Lauren Wright got married last year, the couple began weighing seriously whether or not to have a child.  “A lot of people our age are not having kids, or are waiting, and they have a great life regardless,” Brennan said.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Over 50 House Dems sign onto Kristi Noem impeachment articles  —  Over 50 House Democrats have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios has learned. … - Reps. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), Al Green (D-Texas) and Haley Stevens …
Discussion: MS NOW
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident  —  How many Americans actually want a race war?  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Numbers  —  During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport every illegal immigrant who was a rapist, murderer, or thief.  He also promised to deport 20 million immigrants.
Rhodium Group:
Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2025  —  Based on preliminary economic and energy activity data, we estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions.
Steph Brawn / The National:
New Ukip logo slated over ‘similarities to Nazi symbol’  —  A NEW party logo proposed by the UK Independence Party (Ukip) has been slammed for being strikingly similar to a Nazi symbol.  —  The party has bid to replace its purple and yellow logo featuring a gold pound sign with a black …
Discussion: PinkNews
Axios:
Scoop: Trump has been texting with Mamdani  —  President Trump has a surprising phone pal: He and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have texted back and forth recently, two sources familiar with their conversations tell Axios. … - It also suggests that the good vibes …
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
GOP unveils plan to cut deficit by $1 trillion with second ‘big, beautiful bill’  —  The legislation could cut the federal deficit by $1 trillion, Republicans say  —  The House GOP's largest caucus released a plan for a second “big, beautiful bill” on Tuesday morning, which the group …
Discussion: The Hill and Deseret News
 
 
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
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Shikha Dalmia / The UnPopulist:
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans' Safety and Freedom
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The Supreme Court is about to confront its most embarrassing decision