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New York Times:
Release of Three Million Epstein Pages Falls Short, Survivors Say — Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, told reporters on Friday that “there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.”
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Frank Landymore / Futurism:
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island — Somehow, Elon Musk's infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age both incredibly well and incredibly poorly. — Trump, as you're probably well aware by now …
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New York Times:
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Planned Trip to Epstein's Island — Prominent people have been scrutinized for their visits to Jeffrey Epstein's island in the Caribbean. Mr. Lutnick's visit had not been previously disclosed. — Howard Lutnick, the billionaire businessman who serves …
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Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Here's What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled that this would be the last major release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. — The Department of Justice on Friday released the largest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files to date …
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk expressed interest in visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island, newly released emails show
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Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal
Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
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The Guardian:
Epstein files updates: survivors say new documents expose victims' names ‘while men remain protected’ - as it happened
Epstein files updates: survivors say new documents expose victims' names ‘while men remain protected’ - as it happened
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
New documents reveal the breadth of Jeffrey Epstein's orbit
New documents reveal the breadth of Jeffrey Epstein's orbit
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Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
Lutnick Sought Visit to Epstein's Island, DOJ Files Indicate
Lutnick Sought Visit to Epstein's Island, DOJ Files Indicate
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Wall Street Journal:
What We Know So Far About the Latest Release of Epstein Files
What We Know So Far About the Latest Release of Epstein Files
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Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
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NBC News:
Senate passes bill to resolve shutdown clash, punting on DHS for two weeks — The House is not in Washington and plans to vote when it returns Monday. That means a government shutdown this weekend, which will have little impact if it remains brief. — WASHINGTON — With time running …
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Senate Passes Government Funding As Talks Over ICE Continue
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Associated Press:
Journalist Don Lemon is charged with federal civil rights crimes in anti-ICE church protest — Journalist Don Lemon has been charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous — One year in, the Trump administration has amassed a startling record of hostility toward open public discourse—including barring journalists from the White House press pool, evicting any less-than-sycophantic reporters from the Pentagon …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
January 30, 2026 — As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrative to shore up their softening base and silence their opponents.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take — Liam Ramos, 5, isn't the only Minneapolis child sitting in a Texas detention center. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents. — COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. - The hallways at Valley View Elementary School used …
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New York Times:
ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters. — “You are scaring schools, people and the world,” one student at View Valley Elementary, just outside Minneapolis, wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Exactly a year after President Trump's second inauguration …
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Washington Post:
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial — The president is eying a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site. — The White House stands about 70 feet tall.
Owen Gleiberman / Variety:
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner's First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia — There's no drama to a film that should have been called “Day of the Living Tradwife.” — “Melania” is a documentary that never comes to life. It's a “portrait” …
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Nick Hilton / The Independent:
Melania review - First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda — Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump's Pick for Fed Chair Pops Up in Latest Epstein Files — Donald Trump's nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, appeared in the government's Friday release of additional Jeffrey Epstein tiles. — Warsh's name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
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Pete Gannon / Axios:
Gold and silver prices plunge following Trump's Fed pick announcement
Gold and silver prices plunge following Trump's Fed pick announcement
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New York Times:
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants — An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene. — Amid tensions over President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota and beyond …
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Laura Barrón-López / MS NOW:
ICE eyeing Ohio next, where it is expected to target Haitian immigrants — The Trump administration is eyeing Ohio for immigration enforcement operations that could begin as early as next week, according to four people familiar with the discussions. — The operation is expected …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Officials Bypass Congress to Push Billions in Weapons Aid to Israel — The move was the third time the Trump administration has tried to expedite arms shipments to Israel by going around the review process for weapons sales. — The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning …
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Jane Clark Scharl / Plough:
My Childhood Friend, Renee Good — Long before a federal agent shot her and she became a headline and a symbol, Renee was the best singer - and listener - in my church youth group. — I grew up with Renee Good - Renee Ganger, as I knew her. We lived in Colorado Springs; she was two years older than me.
Vox:
Trump's polls are tanking. What does his base think? — Every good political journalist needs a good MAGA guy in their back pocket — someone you can call when things are looking messy in President Donald Trump's GOP orbit. And my MAGA guy is John Fredericks.
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Draft Epstein Indictment Accused Him of Crimes Against More Than a Dozen Girls — Jeffrey Epstein, who ended up pleading to a much lesser state charge, told one victim that bad things could happen to her if she talked, the 2007 document said. — A draft indictment against Jeffrey Epstein prepared …
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Here's what federal programs are headed for a (possibly brief) shutdown — Government funding is set to lapse at midnight Friday for the military and many domestic programs, but cash will continue to flow at a slew of federal agencies Congress already funded.
The Athletic:
Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show — Share full article — Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants chairman and co-owner Steve Tisch with multiple women, according to newly released emails, and Tisch received scouting reports …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:
Trump's Profiteering Hits $4 Billion — In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned. — At the start of Donald Trump's first term, he promised that he and his family …
