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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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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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Washington Examiner, The Hill and CNN
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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Straight Arrow News, NBC News, Atlanta News First, Townhall and CBS News
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 — The lawyers represent more than 200 alleged Epstein victims. — Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
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The Parnas Perspective, The Guardian, NewsMax.com and Straight Arrow News
New York Times:
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files — The photos, which showed young women or possibly teenagers with their faces visible, were largely removed after The New York Times began notifying the Justice Department. — The Justice Department published dozens …
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Salon, New Republic, Mediaite, Associated Press and Raw Story
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials
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Raw Story and New York Post
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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New York Times, CBS News, New Republic, The American Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and The Independent
MJ Lee / CNN:
Epstein victims' lawyers ask judges to force takedown of released Epstein files, citing ‘thousands of redaction failures’
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) — Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks.
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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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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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Media Matters for America and CBS News
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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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Sebastian Starcevic / Politico:
Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys
Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys
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Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
‘Loser Behavior’: Trump Roasted Over His Post-Grammys Freak-Out
‘Loser Behavior’: Trump Roasted Over His Post-Grammys Freak-Out
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Out Magazine, Syracuse Post-Standard, The Guardian, American Thinker, Daily Mail, HuffPost and TMZ.com
J. David McSwane / ProPublica:
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting — The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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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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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE halts “all movement” at Texas detention facility due to measles infections — Add CBS News on Google — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted “all movement” at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had …
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Max Rego / The Hill:
DHS locks down detention center hit by measles outbreak
DHS locks down detention center hit by measles outbreak
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Washington Examiner and Fox News
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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New York Post, Just Jared and Variety, more at Mediagazer »
Aidan Sadovi / 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 someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
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 …
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to ‘Amazing’ Epstein — FANBOY — The embattled chairman of Paul Weiss has now had his embarrassing emails to Jeffrey Epstein exposed. — The chairman of a major law firm that sparked backlash by caving to President Donald Trump …
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New York Post, Financial Times and Bloomberg Law
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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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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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
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations — A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution. — The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency — Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they're cheering it. — A PANIC PERVADES the internet: terrified talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors …
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.
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Bondi quietly installs ex-White House legal aide Stuart McCommas as DOJ chief of staff — EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration has selected former White House legal aide Stuart McCommas to work as Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff, filling a powerful role that had gone publicly unaddressed …
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MS NOW and NewsMax.com
Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release — Scholarship was set up in name of former US senator who brokered Belfast Agreement — The release of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has prompted the removal …
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The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News
Financial Times:
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email — Former Barclays chief has insisted he had no recollection of what Disney character reference was about — Jeffrey Epstein asked an unidentified woman to buy a Snow White costume just weeks before he and former …

