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5:05 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 …
Discussion: WAGA-TV, WLT Report and Raw Story
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’  —  President Donald Trump urged Republicans …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
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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Brian Beutler / Off Message:   The Goal Must Be Removal
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Gabbard aides attack WSJ as ‘utter trash’ over whistleblower report
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: NBC News and Raw Story
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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 …
CNN:
Justice Department expected to ramp up efforts to deliver on Trump's ‘weaponization’ priorities
Discussion: New York Sun and New Republic
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: HotAir and Raw Story
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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
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.
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 …
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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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 and New Republic
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Oversight Chairman Rejects Clintons' Offer for Epstein Testimony  —  Bill Clinton agreed to an interview he had long resisted, but Representative James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, signaled he would go forward with holding the former president in contempt.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks  —  Face-coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.  —  Masked men with guns are swarming through American cities.  They are doing so in the name of enforcing immigration 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.
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.
Discussion: Townhall, WLT Report, HuffPost and Mediaite
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S.-Iran nuclear talks planned for Friday amid military buildup  —  White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet on Friday in Istanbul together with representatives of several Arab and Muslim countries to discuss a possible nuclear deal …
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 …
Discussion: New York Sun
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Gavin Newsom is very similar to Kamala Harris  —  Two San Francisco local elected officials who successfully ran statewide in CA  —  In 2004, Gavin Newsom was inaugurated as mayor of San Francisco.  He won re-election in 2007 and served until 2011, when he became lieutenant governor of California.
Discussion: The Free Press
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
Not one celebrity ever wore a pin for Laken Riley or anyone murdered by illegal immigrants  —  Hollywood convened on Sunday night for its latest gathering of decadence and self-indulgence at the 68th annual Grammy Awards.  Recognized throughout the entertainment industry as music's biggest night …
Discussion: NBC News
 
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $26B, driven by Zootopia 2 and a record $10B revenue from Experiences; streaming operating income rose 72% YoY to $450M

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney's board is aligning on promoting theme park division chairman Josh D'Amaro to CEO; Disney says “the board has not yet selected the next CEO”

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Amazon's Melania documentary opens with $7M at the North American box office, above pre-release estimates of $3M to $5M; Amazon spent $75M on the documentary

 
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