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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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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 …
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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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Politico:
Trump may have damaged the case against Jerome Powell before it's even begun
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies and Officials Fear Blowback From Powell Probe
Trump Allies and Officials Fear Blowback From Powell Probe
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Politico, Bloomberg, NBC News, PoliticusUSA and Esquire
Financial Times:
Central bank chiefs ‘stand in full solidarity’ with Jay Powell
Central bank chiefs ‘stand in full solidarity’ with Jay Powell
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Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and Fortune
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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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Mediaite and Executive Functions
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a “mess”
Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a “mess”
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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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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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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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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New York Times:
Trump Suggests Renee Good's ‘Disrespectful’ Attitude Justified Fatal ICE Shooting
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New Republic, American Greatness, Data For Progress, The Daily Wire, LGBTQ Nation, Advocate and The Independent
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
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twitchy.com, New Republic, The Contrarian and Political Currents
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
We're all just content for ICE — Four days on the ground in Minneapolis
We're all just content for ICE — Four days on the ground in Minneapolis
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Ken Klippenstein
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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CBS News:
Republican congressman proposes bill to make Greenland 51st state
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland
House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland
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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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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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New York Post, Twin Cities, The Independent and Raw Story
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and twitchy.com
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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NewsNation, Bloomberg, Townhall, Daily Caller News Foundation and twitchy.com
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Punchbowl News:
Frontliners erupt at DNC's Martin … The tense exchanges show a wide gulf between Democratic Frontliners and the man charged with rebuilding the party following 2024's setbacks. — Martin attended a meeting of Democratic Frontliners on Dec. 18, where many of the vulnerable lawmakers …
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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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Raw Story
New York Times:
Judge Strikes Down Trump's Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind Project — The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now. — A federal judge on Monday ruled that construction could resume …
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CNBC, Politico, NewsMax.com, The Hill and Electrek
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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 …
Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR:
Today is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House — The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express “improper ideology.”
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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HUMINT, NewsMax.com, New York Post and israelhayom.com
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs state restrictions on transgender student-athletes — The conservative-majority court hears arguments on challenges to laws in West Virginia and Idaho that bar transgender students from participating in girls' or women's sports. — WASHINGTON — Diving …
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The Hill, NPR, Fox News, Mother Jones, CBS News, Raw Story and New York Times
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Julian Mark / Washington Post:
A West Virginia teenage trans athlete's case goes to the Supreme Court
A West Virginia teenage trans athlete's case goes to the Supreme Court
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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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Los Angeles Times:
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, 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 …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order — The Trump administration has tried to eliminate funding for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. Appropriators in Congress have had other ideas. — Lawmakers from both parties and houses of Congress …
NBC News:
Former special counsel Jack Smith to testify publicly about Trump probes — The House Judiciary Committee hearing, scheduled for Jan. 22, comes after an eight-hour closed-door deposition before the same Republican-led panel. — WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify publicly …
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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, New Jersey Online and FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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.
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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Nathaniel Rodriguez / The Hill:
Cruise ship out of Florida hit by norovirus outbreak; 94 affected — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A cruise ship that departed Florida has been hit by a norovirus outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). — The CDC reported that 94 people fell ill …
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USA Today, The Daily Caller and New York Post
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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Defense News:
Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed …
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Associated Press, Washington Times, Military Times, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg and NewsNation
