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8:40 PM ET, February 2, 2026

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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 …
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’  —  President Donald Trump urged Republicans …
Discussion: The Bulwark and LGBTQ Nation
Reuters:
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ voting in at least 15 places
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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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 …
New York Times:   Justice Dept. Sidelines Ed Martin as Chief of Weaponization Group
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ed Martin out as leader of DOJ's ‘weaponization’ group, sources say
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
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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New York Times:
Deal to Reopen Government Is on Shaky Ground in the House
Discussion: CNBC, Reason and The Hill
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 …
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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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump ICE Rants Get Truly Weird as Crushing Fox Poll Hits
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Bill and Hillary Clinton now agree to testify before Congress … Although both have said they had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes, they have maintained that the subpoenas were not tied to a legitimate legislative purpose, rendering them invalid.  They also complained the GOP-led exercise …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Clintons Capitulate on House Epstein Inquiry, Agreeing to Testify
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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Amelia Benavides-Colón / NOTUS:
White House Reveals Details of Trump's Kennedy Center Renovation
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and New Republic
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Immigration Officers in Minneapolis Will Wear Body Cameras, Noem Says  —  The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos.  —  All immigration officers on the ground in Minneapolis …
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says
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
Discussion: Newsweek
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Federal News Network
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Hill, RedState and MS NOW
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 …
Discussion: One First and HotAir
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Senator James Lankford:
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Discussion: NewsNation and NewsMax.com
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Trump ally Pirro threatens jail for anyone bringing a gun into D.C.
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Fox News
BBC:
Met Police reviewing misconduct allegations after files suggest Mandelson sent government information to Epstein
Finya Swai / Politico:
Turning Point USA announces Kid Rock as rival headliner to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show
Ken White / The UnPopulist:
The Fashionable Notion of ‘Free Speech Culture’ Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically
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
Discussion: Fox News
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
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Laura Belin / Bleeding Heartland:
NYT report: Chuck Grassley helped end FBI careers
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
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