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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
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Jason Morris / CNN:
Fulton County expected to sue over FBI's seizure of 2020 election records
Fulton County expected to sue over FBI's seizure of 2020 election records
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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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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Gabbard aides attack WSJ as ‘utter trash’ over whistleblower report
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti — According to ProPublica, the CBP goons Stephen Miller paid to invade Minnesota, where they murdered Alex Pretti, are two Latinos from South Texas. … Jacqueline Sweet identified pictures of both men (Ochoa, Gutierrez).
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ProPublica, Advocate, New York Daily News, KARE-TV, No More Mister Nice Blog, Townhall, The Independent, The Guardian and Krassencast
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.
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James Hill / Associated Press:
Epstein victims' lawyers ask court to order DOJ to take down Epstein files website
Martha McHardy / The Daily Beast:
DOJ Makes Bizarre Attempt to Redact Trump's Face in Epstein Files Photo
DOJ Makes Bizarre Attempt to Redact Trump's Face in Epstein Files Photo
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The Independent, New York Times, New Republic, CBS News, The American Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
MJ Lee / CNN:
Epstein victims' lawyers ask judges to force takedown of released Epstein files, citing ‘thousands of redaction failures’
Epstein victims' lawyers ask judges to force takedown of released Epstein files, citing ‘thousands of redaction failures’
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NOTUS, New Republic, NewsMax.com and Straight Arrow News
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials
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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 …
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again)
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again)
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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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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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NBC News
Sebastian Starcevic / Politico:
Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys — Donald Trump said he will launch legal action against comedian Trevor Noah after the comedian joked about the U.S. president visiting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island.
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Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
‘Loser Behavior’: Trump Roasted Over His Post-Grammys Freak-Out
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Jeffrey Epstein's island
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Jeffrey Epstein's island
Cate Martel / The Hill:
Trump threatens lawsuit over Epstein joke at Grammys
Trump threatens lawsuit over Epstein joke at Grammys
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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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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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Daily Mail, The Independent, New Republic, Raw Story, Mediaite and HuffPost
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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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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The Guardian:
How the depth of Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein came to light — Here are details that have emerged about the ex-minister's relationship with the convicted child sex offender — Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour party over his links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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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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Raw Story and New Republic
The Daily Illini:
‘Fell the enemies’: Illini Republicans support ICE amid Minnesota killings — In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to the head of someone bearing a physical resemblance to Alex Pretti, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” …
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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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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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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Raw Story
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Stars slam ICE in speeches and on pins at Grammys … - Meanwhile, Justin and Hailey Bieber and Joni Mitchell joined Eilish and Kehlani and others in wearing pins protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. … - “We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens.
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Sydney Carruth / MS NOW:
School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat — The Minneapolis school district attended by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the Ecuadorian preschooler who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Jan. 20, shut down Monday after receiving a bomb threat.
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New York Times:
What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump — A little more than a year into President Trump's second term, his executive power grabs have been arrestingly similar to ones pioneered by an iconic predecessor liberals revere: Franklin D. Roosevelt. — Yet this comparison …
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New York Sun
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects — The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of New York State. The Trump administration had ordered work to stop in December. — A federal judge on Monday struck …
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Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy — The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft. — Pocket — Donald Trump is not given to regret, but he does get rueful when he thinks about how modest his corruption was in the first term.
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