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Wall Street Journal:
Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud — The director of national intelligence is leading an administration-wide effort to hunt for proof of tampering in the election that Trump lost — Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating …
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Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
Bondi Hands St. Louis Prosecutor Nationwide Election Fraud Remit — The St. Louis-based US attorney overseeing the FBI search warrant executed on Fulton County's election office Wednesday received a special appointment by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate election integrity cases nationwide …
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CBS News and Election Law Blog
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Sleepless Trump, 79, Launches Manic 6AM Post-a-Minute Rampage — TRIGGER HAPPY — The perennially online president started out his Thursday with a bombardment of posts that sometimes came just seconds apart. — Donald Trump has kicked his morning off bright and early with an almost post-a-minute rampage on Truth Social.
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ProPublica:
FBI's Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn — The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump's breaking of democratic norms.
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CBS News:
What we know about the FBI raid at a Georgia elections office
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Warner: ‘Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County?’
Warner: ‘Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County?’
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump's Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not.
Trump's Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not.
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Esquire, Mock Paper Scissors, Election Law Blog, The Independent and NewsMax.com
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump's Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump's Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous
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The Status Kuo, The Moderate Voice and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Search Election Center in Fulton County Over 2020 Election
F.B.I. Agents Search Election Center in Fulton County Over 2020 Election
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump hosts Cabinet meeting as Democrats threaten partial government shutdown — President Donald Trump has gathered his Cabinet for a video broadcasted meeting that's expected to be another lengthy, praise-heavy affair. Since returning to office, the president has used …
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Washington Post:
Funding vote fails in Senate ahead of potential government shutdown — Democrats continue to negotiate with the White House on new accountability policies for the Department of Homeland Security after the killing of Alex Pretti. — A procedural vote to advance a government funding package failed …
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Associated Press:
Democrats poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won't meet demands for ICE reform
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
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The Daily Wire
pbump:
ICE's excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested — From the earliest months of Donald Trump's second term in office, federal immigration officers have conducted their raids and arrests while concealing their identities, a notable deviation from the way in which law enforcement has long been conducted in the United States.
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Pew Research Center:
Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans — Rising share of Democrats want their party's congressional leaders to stand up to Trump — This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about Trump's job performance …
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Political Wire
The Atlantic:
Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland Security — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night …
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources — Mangione is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. — Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson …
Associated Press:
Justice Department charges man who squirted vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis. The man arrested for Tuesday's attack, Anthony Kazmierczak …
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CNN:
Appealing to Jeff Bezos — With widespread layoffs expected at The Washington Post in the coming weeks, teams of reporters are sending impassioned letters to Jeff Bezos, urging him not to shrink the newsroom. — This morning, I obtained a letter from the newspaper's White House reporters.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground
CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Haaretz:
IDF Accepts Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll of Over 71,000 Palestinians Killed During the War — Although many international experts have accepted the Health Ministry's data as reliable, and even conservative relative to the true death toll, Israel had refused to accept the Health Ministry's count until now
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
Videos Show Alex Pretti in Confrontation With Agents 11 Days Before His Death — More than a week before federal agents killed Mr. Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their S.U.V.
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Politico:
Carney urges US not to meddle in Alberta independence movement … Carney said talk about separatist movements in Alberta or Quebec has not come up in his talks with Donald Trump. Accusations of foreign interference between the U.S. and Canada have seeped into trade talks …
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Portland Press-Herald:
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest — Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history. — Community: — 4 min readFont size +
Olivia Little / Media Matters for America:
Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired — Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti's killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Senate: A Couple of Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans Still Favored Overall … KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Despite facing what is likely to be a difficult national political environment this fall, Republicans remain favored to hold their Senate majority.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree — Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine formally asked the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate and provide details on many of the surveillance technologies being used by Customs and Border Protection …
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Jim Puzzanghera / The Boston Globe:
ICE ending Maine surge, Senator Collins says — US Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced Thursday morning that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has informed her the agency will end the immigration enforcement surge in the state. — “While the Department …
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John Publius / Wired:
ICE Pretends It's a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed — WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. — As a veteran of the war on terror, I have spent the past year watching Immigration …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump hears updates from his Cabinet...but skips right over embattled Noem — The Secretary of Homeland Security was snubbed at first Trump cabinet meeting of 2026 — President Donald Trump has always loved hearing fulsome praise from his hand-picked cabinet at meetings that can run …
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