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New York Times:
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor's Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers — Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.
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The Guardian, The Times of Israel, The Independent and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Epstein files latest: photos appear to show former prince Andrew crouching over female — Elon Musk and former UK ambassador to US Peter Mandelson among those named in newly released documents — Epstein wanted Ferguson to release a statement saying he was ‘not a pedo’, documents show
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The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, IJR and Pharyngula
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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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CBS News, Associated Press, CNBC, The Good in Us, NewsMax.com, The Hill, Politico, National Politics, Al Jazeera, MS NOW, Global News, France 24, KING-TV and WCSH
Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Here's What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents
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ABC News, IJR, The Guardian, The Parnas Perspective, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, NewsNation, Roll Call, Washington Post, CBS News, Bloomberg, Axios, Blaze Media and Forbes
Associated Press:
In the latest Epstein files are famous names and new details about an earlier investigation
In the latest Epstein files are famous names and new details about an earlier investigation
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New York Post, Mercury News, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Hackwhackers, Out Magazine and Newsweek
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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Metro.co.uk, Politico, The Independent, BBC, France 24, Meidas+, Associated Press, CNBC, New Republic, Agence France-Presse, El País, The Parnas Perspective, New York Post, New York Times, Democrats, The Guardian and NOTUS
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk expressed interest in visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island, newly released emails show
Elon Musk expressed interest in visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island, newly released emails show
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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Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Metro.co.uk, Fortune, Electrek, Daily Mail, TMZ.com, New Republic, New York Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, 77 WABC, Mediaite and The Guardian
Status:
‘This Is a New Dimension’ … On Friday morning, hours after Don Lemon was apprehended in a Beverly Hills hotel lobby by a team of federal officers, two dozen agents arrived at the Minnesota home of independent journalist Georgia Fort, with a warrant for her arrest.
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Politico:
Don Lemon vows to fight charges in First Amendment showdown with Trump … In an indictment unsealed Friday, a grand jury in Minneapolis approved charges accusing Lemon and eight others of conspiring to deprive congregants at a church of their civil rights and violating the Freedom of Access …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
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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The Hill, HuffPost, Associated Press, The Forward and The American Conservative
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.
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The Guardian, RedState, The Independent and No More Mister Nice Blog
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 Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say. — “You are scaring schools, people and the world,” one student at Valley View Elementary, just outside Minneapolis, wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Exactly a year after President Trump's second inauguration …
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The Japan Times
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
A Minnesota School District Guards Against ICE, From Dawn to Dusk
A Minnesota School District Guards Against ICE, From Dawn to Dusk
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The Portland Press Herald, Chalkbeat, KUSA-TV and ProPublica
MPR News:
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident — {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon …
Washington Post:
Judge denies Minnesota's request for immediate end to immigration crackdown — Minnesota officials had said the immigration crackdown was endangering public safety in their state. — A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge …
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The Hill, CBS News, New York Times and Mother Jones
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Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Won't Stop Federal Immigration Enforcement Surge in Minnesota
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CNBC, The Hill, Scripps News, Washington Times, BusinessDay, masslive.com and MS NOW
Associated Press:
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital — Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.
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Metro.co.uk and Twin Cities
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Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
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NewsMax.com and Reason
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Autocracy in America — A year in, the pattern of democratic backsliding under Trump is undeniable. The rise of authoritarianism feels more like a sprint than a creep. Whereas other authoritarians eroded institutions and asserted control over the course of years, trying to maintain a sense of normalcy …
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The Atlantic
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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
How steep is Trump's democratic backsliding?
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans relearn the lesson that shutdowns go poorly for them — After last year's 43-day shutdown, GOP senators sought to eliminate as much risk as possible for federal funding. — Just two-and-a-half months removed from a painful government shutdown, Republicans have learned a lesson …
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Bloomberg, Fox News, Business Insider and 77 WABC
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Senate Passes Government Funding As Talks Over ICE Continue
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NBC News, The Hill, New York Times, The Verge, Axios, American Prospect, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, Truthout, Newsweek, LARRY VIP and Breitbart
Austin Campbell / The Intercept:
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti's Killing — A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti's death. — LESS THAN 40 MINUTES after federal immigration agents shot …
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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 …
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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Wired:
How to Film ICE — Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn't guaranteed. Here's how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. — In January 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration …
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The Guardian
New York Times:
Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE — ICE agents can stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Now, residents are weighing their rights and their pride against their own safety. — María Pabón Gautier has a new routine when she sends …

