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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.
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Paul Krugman:
Trump is Venezuelifying the United States — So federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair. In his statement in response, Powell, to his credit, didn't dignify the obviously spurious accusations by protesting his innocence.
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Johanna Treeck / Politico:
Global central bankers speak up for beleaguered Fed Chair Powell — The International brotherhood of monetary mandarins is up in arms about what they see as a political attack on an upstanding colleague. — Global central banks rallied behind Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday …
Politico:
Trump may have damaged the case against Jerome Powell before it's even begun
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Politico:
Dimon, Wall Street heavyweights rally around Powell
Dimon, Wall Street heavyweights rally around Powell
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Wall Street Journal:
Lawfare for Dummies, Monetary Edition
Lawfare for Dummies, Monetary Edition
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Why Powell Isn't Flinching At Trump's Attack
Why Powell Isn't Flinching At Trump's Attack
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry — The couple denounced the efforts by Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, to force them to appear, setting the stage for a legal battle. — Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday …
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Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House GOP moves to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress in Epstein probe
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New York Times:
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Clintons defy subpoena to testify in Epstein investigation, risking being held in contempt
Clintons defy subpoena to testify in Epstein investigation, risking being held in contempt
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ABC News, The Guardian, The National Pulse, twitchy.com and National Politics
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
3 Prosecutors Quit After 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, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
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KARE-TV, MPR News and The Independent
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 …
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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.
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOJ's top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes
DOJ's top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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.
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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 …
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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.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
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twitchy.com, New Republic and The Contrarian
Shikha Dalmia / The UnPopulist:
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans' Safety and Freedom
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans' Safety and Freedom
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Axios
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 …
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses 2,000, activists say, as chaos recalls 1979 revolution — The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran surpassed 2,000 people on Tuesday, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during …
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Elwely Elwelly / Reuters:
Iranian MP warns of greater unrest, urging government to address grievances
Iranian MP warns of greater unrest, urging government to address grievances
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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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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 …
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Mizy Clifton / Politico:
US State Department threatens UK over probe into Elon Musk's X — Official Sarah B. Rogers said “nothing is off the table” if X is banned in the U.K. — LONDON — The U.S. Department of State's Sarah B. Rogers says “nothing is off the table” if the U.K. government makes good on its threat …
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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 …
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Jon Collins / MPR News:
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists — {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"When Judy Levy got a message on Tuesday from a member of her book club telling her that ICE agents appeared to be staging in a nearby parking lot …
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error — Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police. — A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details …
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) …
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 …
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ProPublica:
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing — Immigration agents have put civilians' lives at risk using more than their guns. — An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy's neck …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court is about to confront its most embarrassing decision — Judges rarely complain openly about the Supreme Court, for the same reason that most people do not publicly chastise their bosses. Attacking your boss is a good way to ensure that your own work will be discounted — or worse.
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
Mike Johnson criticizes Trump's 10% credit card cap — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) threw cold water on President Trump's push to cap credit card interest rates at 10% Tuesday, questioning the policy merits of the idea and signaling Congress would be unlikely to act on it.
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Young Americans Are Turning Antisemitic — A recent survey shows a clear shift toward anti-Jewish sentiment—and it's worst on the far right. — SATURDAY'S DEVASTATING ARSON ATTACK on the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, has been the latest in a string of reports that highlight …
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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.
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Washington Examiner
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 …
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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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Bloomberg:
America Doesn't Need Greenland. It Needs a Reality Check — For all the bluster and juvenile memes surrounding American ambitions in Greenland, the White House has yet to offer a good explanation for why the US needs to control the massive Arctic territory. That's because there isn't one.
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Expensive food, rents lift US consumer prices in December — U.S. consumer prices increased in December, lifted by higher costs for rents and food as some of the distortions related to the government shutdown that had artificially lowered inflation in November unwound, cementing expectations …
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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 …
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People:
Timothy Busfield's Location Remains Unknown, U.S. Marshals Step in to Assist Police 3 Days After Arrest Warrant Issued — Albuquerque Police confirmed to PEOPLE that they are working with the U.S. Marshals Service to locate and arrest Busfield — The U.S. Marshals Service has stepped …
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Florida Rep. Neal Dunn to retire — Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) is retiring, he announced Tuesday in a post on social media, becoming the latest House Republican to call it quits ahead of what is expected to be a punishing midterm election year for the party in power.
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