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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 — One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds. — When President Trump took office for his second term one year ago, he was — at least compared with his usual polling — relatively popular.
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New Republic and Raw Story
The Bulwark:
Old Europe. New Backbone. — A lesson in standing up to bullies from across the pond. — The bad polls just keep coming for Your Favorite President. The latest New York Times/Siena poll finds that only 32 percent of Americans believe the country is better off than a year ago, compared to 49 percent who believe it's worse off.
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Vox and Washington Post
Elizabeth Shockman / MPR News:
Federal ICE agents detain 5-year-old Minnesota boy — The Columbia Heights Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials — Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday …
Kimberlee Speakman / People:
ICE Detains 5-Year-Old Boy and His Father Returning Home from Preschool, then Uses Boy ‘as Bait’ to Find Relatives — “Why detain a 5-year-old? You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” said Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik
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Associated Press:
Jack Smith is set to testify at a public hearing about his Trump investigations — Republican lawmakers are poised to grill former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday at a congressional hearing that's expected to focus fresh attention on two criminal investigations …
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Hayes Brown / MS NOW:
Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments
Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 attend Jack Smith hearing
Officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 attend Jack Smith hearing
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jim Jordan launches his attacks on Jack Smith
Jim Jordan launches his attacks on Jack Smith
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says — Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained …
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Orin S. Kerr / Reason:
Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant? — The Associated Press reports: … The memo is here. The specific subject is what are known as Form I-205 Warrants, which are signed by immigration officials and not regular judges.
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Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower — With Donald Trump's actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. — Imagine you were Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke …
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Paul Krugman:
Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald — On Tuesday Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister, gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In effect he announced, calmly and lucidly, that Canada is filing for divorce from the Pax Americana:
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Politico:
‘Our American Dream is dead’ — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray — Good Thursday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, nervously eyeing the weather forecast and ordering bottled water, canned beans and plastic sleds for the kids. Send me your best snow storm tips.
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Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side
‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump says rare earths are part of his Greenland deal. It's ‘completely bonkers’ — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he reached a framework for a deal with NATO over the future of Greenland that will include rights to rare-earth minerals. — “They're going to be involved in mineral rights …
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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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Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds — Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys. — An autopsy commissioned by the family of Renee Good …
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Kelsey Ables / Washington Post:
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal — Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government's Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
Josephine Walker / Axios:
U.S. murder rate hits lowest level since 1900, report says — Murders fell 21% last year in 35 large U.S. cities — the biggest one-year drop ever and likely the lowest rate since 1900, Axios-reviewed data shows. … - Nine offenses declined by 10% or more.
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Fox News and The Atlantic
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Meera Navlakha / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Proof Trump, 79, Has Reached ‘Dementia Con 5’ — ‘BUCKLE IN, FOLKS!’ — The president's confusion between Greenland and Iceland is another sign that his cognitive abilities are declining, says the late-night host. — Jimmy Kimmel says Donald Trump has reached …
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Popular Information:
DOGE staffer signed deal to share Social Security data with election deniers — After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that staffers affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) misused Social Security Administration (SSA) data.
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Democrats Abandoned the Clintons Over Jeffrey Epstein — Democratic lawmakers don't want Republicans to turn Epstein files into political weapon against them — Democrats attempted to turn the page on the Clinton era Wednesday, delivering a stunning rebuke of the power couple that dominated their party for more than two decades.
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Politico:
After Alina Habba's exit, more drama in New Jersey prosecutor's office … Each of the three do part of the job that Habba was doing, an unusual arrangement known as the “executive office.” — None have been confirmed by the Senate. — Defense attorneys immediately challenged the setup …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is ‘probably’ a bubble, expects correction in coming years … Bret Taylor, co-founder of the artificial intelligence startup Sierra, said Thursday that AI “probably” is a bubble that is causing both “smart money” and “dumb money” to fund competitors at every layer of the tech stack.
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Former Iowa superintendent expected to plead guilty to false citizenship claim — Former Des Moines, Iowa, schools Superintendent Ian Roberts is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to charges he made false citizenship claims in employment and illegally possessed firearms.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport — San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle. — Boras said it was a paper work issue …
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Washington Post:
White House fences off park as Trump begins new building project — The work at Lafayette Square is expected to stretch through May, a White House official said. — President Donald Trump's quest to remake the nation's capital has found its next target: Lafayette Square …
Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year — After ousting Venezuela's leader, the Trump administration is searching for Havana insiders who could cut a deal to end Communist rule … Emboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro …
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Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee's death as a homicide — The report comes the same day a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two fellow detainees who said 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos was killed. — The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp …
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Trump budget office orders review of funds to Democratic-controlled states — President Donald Trump said his administration would cut off federal resources to “sanctuary cities” on Feb. 1. — The Trump administration has ordered Cabinet agencies to review federal funding for a group …
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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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Raw Story and Vanity Fair
Helen Branswell / STAT:
U.S. makes exit from the WHO complete — Health experts fear the move comes with enormous risks — The United States' withdrawal from the World Health Organization became official Thursday, formalizing a fissure between the Trump administration and the Geneva-based global health agency that dates back
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Reuters, Breitbart, Politico and The Japan Times
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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