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NBC News:
House passes sprawling spending package as Democrats split over ICE funding — The House voted separately on DHS funding and another package of bills to avoid a partial shutdown and repeal a law that allows certain GOP senators to sue DOJ for $500,000. — WASHINGTON — A small band …
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Bid to rein in Trump's Venezuela war powers fails in US House — U.S. House of Representatives Republicans narrowly defeated a resolution on Thursday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without the authorization of Congress, days after a similar measure failed in the Senate.
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House approves DHS funding, other final spending bills amid ICE uproar
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dems help GOP pass bills to fund ICE, avert shutdown
House Dems help GOP pass bills to fund ICE, avert shutdown
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NOTUS, The Hill, Scripps News, Washington Times, CNBC and Politico
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Final spending bills move closer to House passage
Final spending bills move closer to House passage
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Times Now
Andrew Solender / Axios:
A small group of Dems looks to break from their party on ICE funding
A small group of Dems looks to break from their party on ICE funding
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Politico, Salon, Washington Times, NewsMax.com, Mock Paper Scissors and Daily Caller News Foundation
Finya Swai / Politico:
Trump: There is ‘probably’ going to be another government shutdown
Trump: There is ‘probably’ going to be another government shutdown
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The Hill, One America News Network and NewsMax.com
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest — Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration — The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested …
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Newsweek, The Wrap, New York Post, MeidasTouch News and Raw Story
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Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Magistrate judge rejects charges against Don Lemon over anti-ICE protest in Minnesota church — Add CBS News on Google — A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday …
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Associated Press:
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says — A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday. Bondi announced the arrest …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
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NOTUS, Raw Story and The Independent
Noah Hurowitz / The Intercept:
White House Doctored Photo With Google AI to Make It Look Like an Activist Was Sobbing During Perp Walk
White House Doctored Photo With Google AI to Make It Look Like an Activist Was Sobbing During Perp Walk
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates — The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.
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Twin Cities
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Breanne Deppisch / Fox News:
Jack Smith says Trump ‘willfully’ broke the law, blasts DOJ ‘retribution’ in second term — As expected, Smith's hearing quickly descended into a heated partisan shouting match — Former special counsel prosecutor Jack Smith vigorously defended the decisions he made in investigating President Donald Trump …
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April Rubin / Axios:
Jack Smith expects to be indicted by Trump DOJ
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Ally Heath / Straight Arrow News:
Special counsel Smith tells House Trump broke the law in first public testimony
Special counsel Smith tells House Trump broke the law in first public testimony
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New York Times, The Hill, Reuters, Newsweek, Raw Story, Deseret News and Al Jazeera
6abc:
Slavery exhibits at President's House in Philadelphia removed after Trump administration directive — PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Crews dismantled plaques telling the stories of the nine enslaved people who lived in the President's House in Philadelphia, and were owned by George Washington.
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TikTok:
Announcement from the new TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC — TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC Established in Compliance with U.S. Regulatory Requirements — Today, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25 …
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Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
ICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old — Columbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
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Reuters:
ICE has detained four children from Minnesota school district, officials say
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Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
ICE detention of children in operations targeting parents sparks backlash
ICE detention of children in operations targeting parents sparks backlash
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MPR News, The Parnas Perspective, Fox News, Townhall, Salon, MS NOW, Truthout, Alpha News MN and The Pendragon Cycle
New York Times:
Few Voters Say Trump's Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds — A majority of voters said that Mr. Trump had focused on the wrong priorities and that they disapproved of his handling of top issues, but the president still enjoys strong support from Republicans.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump
The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump
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Strength In Numbers, Mediaite, New York Magazine, New Jersey Online and Fox News
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Target of Viral Botched ICE Raid Was Already in Prison — WHEN ICE AGENTS DETAINED U.S. citizen ChongLy Thao in Minneapolis this weekend—breaking down his door and escorting him half-naked into the snow—administration officials claimed they'd been looking for a pair of sex-criminal migrants at the address.
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New York Times:
A Year Inside Kash Patel's F.B.I. — Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe. — When he returned to office last year, President Trump called the F.B.I. a “corrupt” agency in need of overhaul.
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CNBC:
Trump sues Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase over debanking the suit calls ‘political’ … President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday for closing accounts belonging to Trump and related entities in early 2021, in what the lawsuit calls political actions.
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Jacob Rosen / CBS News:
Judge skeptical of Trump's arguments he has proper authority to build White House ballroom — Add CBS News on Google — A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration's claims that it has the proper authority to continue construction on the East Wing site that was demolished last year.
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Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News, NewsMax.com, The Independent, Raw Story and New York Times
STAT:
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations — Chair of federal panel stresses need to protect individual rights over public health — The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday …
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NewsMax.com
Andrew Solender / Axios:
“Go f*ck yourself”: Jack Smith hearing rocked by angry altercation — A House hearing with former Trump special counsel Jack Smith was disrupted Thursday when a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 confronted a vocal 2020 election conspiracy theorist.
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Politico, New York Daily News, Fox News, Times Now, Mediaite, twitchy.com, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill and Townhall
G.S. Hans / Balls and Strikes:
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It — The revocation of Emily Suski's offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors who take positions that Republican culture warriors do not like.
New York Times:
Musk's Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show — Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok …
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The Guardian, The Japan Times, Business Insider, The 19th and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
Trump administration orders review of federal funding in more than a dozen Democratic states — The Trump administration has ordered a review of federal funding sent to more than a dozen Democratic-led states, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NOTUS, Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
Delano Massey / Axios:
Leaders warn of authoritarian threat, urge action in 2026 — A year into President Trump's second term, civil rights leaders say the nation is entering a more volatile phase for civil rights enforcement and democratic norms — and they're no longer waiting for signals from Washington.




