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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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Mediaite, New Republic, IJR 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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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jim Jordan launches his attacks on Jack Smith
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Hayes Brown / MS NOW:
Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller
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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NBC News:
FBI and Homeland Security arrest two protesters who disrupted Minneapolis church service — Several organizers of the protest were calling for the resignation of a church pastor who they said works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — Federal agents with Homeland Security and the F.B …
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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 …
Associated Press:
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Judge rejects Justice Department's initial attempt to bring charges against Don Lemon
Judge rejects Justice Department's initial attempt to bring charges against Don Lemon
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TMZ.com and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
CNBC:
Trump sues Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase over alleged ‘political’ debanking … President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday for closing his and related entities' accounts in early 2021 after decades of being customers of the bank, allegedly for political reasons.
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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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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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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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Politico, Axios, Financial Times and New York Times
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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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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, Reuters and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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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Reason, Bloomberg, Raw Story, Inside Climate News, NPR, MS NOW and The Daily Caller
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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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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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.
WLS / ABC7:
Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation — MINNEAPOLIS — The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good were released Wednesday evening. — It has been two weeks since Good was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The Guardian, Advocate and Chicago Sun Times
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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 in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds
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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.
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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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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Associated Press, Fox News, IJR and The Daily Caller
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 …
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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The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent, New York Times, Raw Story, Reality Tea, Mediaite and New Republic
Maddy Varner / Wired:
ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves — The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime. — Last week, a website called ICE List went viral …
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
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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