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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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New York Times, Politico, Fox News and CBS News
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Tulsi Gabbard under scrutiny for showing up at FBI raid of Georgia election hub
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Associated Press, CBS News and MS NOW
ProPublica:
FBI's Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
FBI's Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
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Associated Press, RedState, Washington Times, Mother Jones, NextDraft, Raw Story, Truthout, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Reuters, MS NOW, The Daily Caller, New Republic, CBS News and 11Alive on YouTube
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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Axios:
Patel defends FBI raid as Georgia officials demand answers
Patel defends FBI raid as Georgia officials demand answers
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Sleepless Trump, 79, Launches Manic 6AM Post-a-Minute Rampage
Sleepless Trump, 79, Launches Manic 6AM Post-a-Minute Rampage
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The Gateway Pundit, The Japan Times 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 Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown — What We're Covering Today — Shutdown Talks: Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government …
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Associated Press:
Democrats poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won't meet demands for ICE reform — Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies Thursday, potentially bringing the government a step closer …
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Politico:
Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say
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NBC News:
Trump sues the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over leaked tax records — The president argued in the lawsuit that the agencies failed to prevent a former contractor from leaking his tax returns from nearly a decade ago to news outlets. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Sues IRS, Treasury for $10 Billion for Tax-Return Leak — President Donald Trump sued the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service for at least $10 billion over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office, potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout.
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Trump sues IRS, Treasury Department over alleged tax return leaks
Trump sues IRS, Treasury Department over alleged tax return leaks
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Wall Street Journal, KARE-TV, KING-TV and Mediaite
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 …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Pizza Cutter and a Fork: A Bizarre Bid to Break Mangione Out of Jail — Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail complex in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione was being held. — A man was arrested on Wednesday evening …
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CBC News:
Carney says he expects U.S. to ‘respect Canadian sovereignty’ after Alberta separatists meet with Trump team — Meeting with premiers in Ottawa was to ‘come together and build,’ PM says — Smith, Carney say they expect U.S. would respect Canadian sovereignty on Alberta separatism
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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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Raw Story and Political 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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Florida's Voice
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump expects Panama Canal court win for “Donroe Doctrine” — The White House expects Panama's Supreme Court on Thursday to cancel a crucial Panama Canal ports contract operated by a firm with ties to China's government, two sources tell Axios.
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NewsMax.com
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump threatens Canada with 50% tariff on aircraft sold in US, expanding trade war — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America's northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands.
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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 »
Annabelle Zhang / The Dartmouth:
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth — The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. — The College approached a student to promote Evergreen.AI — the College's wellness artificial intelligence project …
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 …
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 +
Washington Post:
The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects — and protesters — Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies that federal agents are tapping in their deportation campaign. — Federal immigration officers fanning …
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Politico and Nextgov/FCW
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree
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 …
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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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
House Ethics finds ‘substantial evidence’ of fraud charges against Florida Democrat — A panel of House lawmakers found “substantial evidence” that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who's facing federal fraud charges, committed conduct outlined in the indictment against her.
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The Hill, Orlando Sentinel, NOTUS and Raw Story
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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New York Times:
Trump Weighs New Military Options Against Iran — The plans being weighed by the president go beyond those he considered weeks ago amid widespread protests against Iran's government. — President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options …
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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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Axios:
Mike Johnson braces for conservative revolt over ICE funding deal — As the Senate prepares to kick government funding back to the House, Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down another revolt from his right flank. — Why it matters: While removing Department of Homeland Security funding …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Punchbowl News
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: An early look at the 2026 midterms — Voters prefer Democrats on affordability, Republicans on border security — As the midterm election year gets underway, voters are already drawing clear lines between the Democratic and Republican parties on the issues.
Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Making America Stupider — “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED,” Donald Trump once declared. That was back in 2016, during his first presidential campaign. — Now, a decade later, he and the rest of the MAGA movement have manifested that love into policy, with a series of changes …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Clinton contempt votes will hit the House floor next Wednesday — House GOP leaders are planning votes next Wednesday on a pair of contempt of Congress resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss private planning.
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