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New York Times:
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search — The phone conversation was arranged by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who met with the agents a day after the search for reasons that remain unclear, The New York Times has learned.
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections … The president repeatedly insisted that he won the 2020 election “in a landslide,” alleging without evidence that people “voted illegally” in the election. He also nodded to the FBI's raid in Fulton County, Georgia, teasing that …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’ — President Donald Trump urged Republicans …
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Reuters:
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ voting in at least 15 places
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ voting in at least 15 places
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority — Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump's foes. — Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of the bulk of his expansive responsibilities …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump's one-time weaponization chief is expected to depart Justice Department in coming weeks — Ed Martin, who has been working inside the Trump Justice Department for over nine months after failing to secure a confirmation as US attorney in Washington, DC, is expected to leave …
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CNN:
Justice Department expected to ramp up efforts to deliver on Trump's ‘weaponization’ priorities
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ed Martin out as leader of DOJ's ‘weaponization’ group, sources say
Ed Martin out as leader of DOJ's ‘weaponization’ group, sources say
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Wall Street Journal:
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency — Congress hasn't seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community's watchdog office — WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
How Mike Johnson is scrambling to keep the shutdown short — Speaker Mike Johnson is planning to meet with Rules Committee Republicans shortly before the panel convenes this afternoon to take up a massive shutdown-ending funding package, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the private plans.
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Will Republicans kill the filibuster to pass Trump's voter suppression bill?
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NBC News:
House eyes Tuesday vote to reopen the government and end brief shutdown
House eyes Tuesday vote to reopen the government and end brief shutdown
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Florida Republican: Immigration efforts needed ‘course correction a long time ago’
Florida Republican: Immigration efforts needed ‘course correction a long time ago’
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New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits … Donald Trump appears in deep denial about how widely hated his ICE raids have become. He let out a strange, rambling tirade to reporters about how the “silent majority” is still behind what ICE is doing …
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Patrick Moore / nrtoday.com:
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting — Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning's alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon State Police, Simmons had contacted their office before at least one shot was reportedly fired nearby.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Clintons Capitulate on House Epstein Inquiry, Agreeing to Testify — Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the ex-secretary of state, agreed to depositions they had long resisted days before the House was to vote to hold them in contempt. — Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed …
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Bill and Hillary Clinton now agree to testify before Congress
Bill and Hillary Clinton now agree to testify before Congress
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The Wrap:
CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links | Exclusive — In newly released emails, the wellness guru made crude jokes in chummy correspondence with the late convicted sex offender — CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia …
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Associated Press:
Father of 5-year-old detained in Minnesota disputes government assertion he abandoned the boy — The father of a 5-year-old boy who was detained by immigration officers and held at a federal facility in Texas denied government accounts Monday that he abandoned his son last month while being pursued by authorities.
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Sydney Carruth / MS NOW:
School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat
School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Jeffrey Epstein's island — President Donald Trump called the joke, which Noah made at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, “false and defamatory,” again insisting he has never visited the convicted sex offender's island. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Marcie Jones / Wonkette:
EPSTEIN FILES MEGA-DUMP: Trump Just Keeps Looking More And More Disgusting
EPSTEIN FILES MEGA-DUMP: Trump Just Keeps Looking More And More Disgusting
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE — Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’ — A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump's immigration crackdown targeted only …
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Jake Lahut / New York Magazine:
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay — “Something's broken. The motherboard's fried. We're short-circuiting somewhere.” — Right up until she lit the fire, some of Representative Nancy Mace's own staff and advisers didn't know what she was going to say on the House floor in February 2025 …
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pbump:
Where are ICE and Border Patrol agents coming from? — ProPublica has identified the Border Patrol agents who shot and killed Alex Pretti as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, both of South Texas. There have been numerous reports that the federal agents who've blanketed Minnesota …
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Thea Felicity / International Business Times:
ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises — Staff claim promised bonuses and insurance have failed to materialise, with some reporting they cannot afford medical care for sick children — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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Daily Mail:
Man, 24, sparks evacuation at French hospital after doctors find 8ins-long live WW1 artillery shell in his rectum — A man sparked an evacuation at a French hospital after doctors discovered an eight-inch-long live World War I artillery shell in his rectum.
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive — Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court's inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees. — In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump …
New York Times:
We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can't Wish Away the Fourth Amendment. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant. James Percival, the general counsel …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump says he won't tear down the Kennedy Center arts venue but it needs to be closed for repairs — President Donald Trump said Monday that he won't tear down the Kennedy Center but said it needs to be closed for about two years for work that cannot be done with patrons coming and going for shows and other performances.
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New York Times:
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance — The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment to the government, The New York Times has learned. — President Trump has backtracked …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files — The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday's dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Washington Post:
Inside Musk's bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator — Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern. — Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Greene: MAGA ‘was all a lie’ — Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump's Make American Great Again slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year back in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters. — “I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people.
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Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Billie Eilish faces calls to return mansion to Native American tribe after ‘stolen land’ remark at Grammys — Lefty pop star Billie Eilish is facing calls to hand over her ritzy Los Angeles digs to a Native American tribe or illegal immigrant after she declared “No one is illegal on stolen land” …
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Politico:
Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities … The judge's action comes several weeks after three Democratic lawmakers were blocked from visiting the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis to survey conditions amid …
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Anna Orso / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly DA Larry Krasner says 'don't be a wimp' after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis — Philadelphia's bombastic district attorney, Larry Krasner, is no stranger to opposition from within his own party, but the anger directed at him last week after he said ICE agents are …
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Politico:
Judge lifts order to preserve evidence in Alex Pretti shooting … “Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti's shooting during the life of this case …
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Trump ally Pirro threatens jail for anyone bringing a gun into D.C. — U.S. Attorney and President Trump ally Jeanine Pirro warned Monday that anyone who brings a gun into Washington, D.C., would face “going to jail.” … - “I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care …
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Mann Vipas / The Daily Caller:
Anti-ICE Activists Cosplay As American Marines With Somali-Style Flag — Anti-ICE activists are under fire for recreating the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph — substituting the Minnesota state flag for the American flag — in a video posted to X on Monday.
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