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New York Times:
Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry  —  The White House press secretary had dismissed criticism of the clip's racist content as “fake outrage.”  But later Friday, the clip disappeared from the president's social media feed.  —  President Trump posted a blatantly racist video …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump shares racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys  —  The White House defended Trump's post, saying it was “from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle.”  —  Listen to this article with a free account  —  President Donald Trump shared a video clip …
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Posts Video Online Depicting Obamas as Apes  —  Sen. Tim Scott calls it 'the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House'  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump posted a video online that included imagery depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, prompting swift backlash from Democrats and Republicans.
CNN:
Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes on Truth Social, then removes it amid bipartisan outrage
Associated Press:
Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates
CNBC:
Trump takes down racist Truth Social post showing Obamas as apes after blowback
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dem Leader Jeffries: “F*** Donald Trump”
April Rubin / Axios:
Racist video of Obamas removed from Trump's social account
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump at the Pearly Gates
Discussion: New York Times
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash
Cassandra Buchman / Straight Arrow News:
Scott: Video of Obamas shared by Trump 'most racist thing I've seen' out of White House
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump  —  Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.  —  The Trump administration has sought …
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Jonathan Karl / Associated Press:
Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say  —  Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump's offer.  —  President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building …
Brian Niemietz / Las Vegas Sun:
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar  —  Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue's customers.  —  Days after being removed from his post in Minneapolis …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and Advocate
Ryan Nobles / NBC News:
Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week  —  Members will be able to review the files on computers at DOJ beginning Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.  They can take notes, but cannot have electronic devices.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Members of Congress will have access to unredacted Epstein files
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
White House excluding Dems from its annual governors meeting … NGA is meeting this year from Feb. 19 to 21.  —  The NGA said in a Friday email to people involved in planning that the association's leadership has decided the White House meeting will no longer be an association event.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:   Trump Is Hosting Governors at the White House, but Only Republicans
Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her  —  Federal prosecutors say the public release of text messages sent by the Border Patrol agent who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez last fall could only serve one purpose: to “sully” his reputation.
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NBC News:
Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Nevada Republican Mark Amodei to retire … Amodei's 2nd District is Republican-leaning and would likely remain in GOP hands even in a tough year for the party overall.  He's the only Republican in the state's congressional delegation.  —  Amodei's decision comes just three months …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade  —  A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department's nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning …
Discussion: Oregonian
STAT:
STAT+: TrumpRx claims to offer the lowest prices.  But many drugs have cheaper generics  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said his administration's new TrumpRx website will offer the cheapest prices in the world for 43 brand-name drugs, and counting.  But about half of them are already available as generics, usually for much less.
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New York Times:
Trump's Online Drugstore Opens for Business
NBC News:
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school  —  A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas.  Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public view.
Discussion: Washington Post
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?  —  In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week's big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement.  Also, the anti-trans mob's latest target: tight clothing.  —  Pocket … Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a new book coming out.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
John Phelan, Trump's Navy secretary, listed in Epstein flight logs  —  The documents indicate that Phelan was a passenger on Epstein's Boeing 727 for two transatlantic flights in 2006.  —  John Phelan, the billionaire art collector whom President Donald Trump appointed to oversee the U.S. Navy …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Haley Britzky / CNN:   Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006
Chris Polansky / Connecticut Public:
DeLauro to pressing clergy: ‘I will not vote to abolish ICE’  —  A Friday roundtable discussion with faith leaders and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro grew contentious at times, with some clergy calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE …
Julianne McShane / MS NOW:
Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family  —  Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.” … The Department of Homeland Security unsuccessfully sought …
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
CNN Data Guru Reveals Trump's Catastrophic ‘Failure’  —  LOSING FORMULA  —  The animated numbers wiz said Trump has a “formula that equals failure.”  —  CNN's data guru foresees that the president's “failure, failure, failure” will defeat the GOP in the midterms.
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Molly Castle Work / MPR News:
Kidney recipient arrested by ICE may now have meds  —  A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents is a kidney transplant recipient who did not have his life-saving medication when he was initially arrested.  —  The Department of Homeland Security said late Friday …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts  —  The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’ … Also helping, though less important: The law's expanded breaks for businesses research and development expenses.
Victor Tangermann / Futurism:
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines  —  Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving taxis across the United States, with active services in ten major metropolitan areas.
Ireland Owens / The Daily Caller:
Trump Admin Suspends 111,620 ‘California Borrowers’ For Allegedly Committing Billions in Pandemic-Era Fraud  —  Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced Friday her agency has suspended 111,620 borrowers in California over alleged fraud related to pandemic-era loan programs.
Washington Post:
NYC's small landlords say they won't survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent  —  New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.  —  NEW YORK — In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.
Discussion: Fox News
Les Carpenter / Washington Post:
Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team.  Not even JD Vance's motorcade.  —  Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.  —  MILAN — The start of the women's short program at the Olympic figure skating team event …
John Stoehr / Editorial Board:
Donald Trump is trying to crush a religious uprising against him  —  In Washington yesterday, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller.  —  “In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.
Emily Burack / Town & Country:
International Olympic Committee Asks Fans to Not Boo JD Vance at the Opening Ceremony  —  The U.S. delegation will be led by the Vice President and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.  —  Leading the U.S. delegation in Milan for the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony will be Vice President JD Vance …
Punchbowl News:
Progressive Mejia on brink of N.J. upset  —  Analilia Mejia is on the precipice of a huge political upset and notching a major progressive victory in the New Jersey Democratic political machine's home turf.  —  Despite being heavily outspent by other candidates and groups …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement  —  The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in maga media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.  —  Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur.  Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds …
Discussion: Mediaite
US Department of Justice:
Third Coconspirator in Fatal Benghazi Attacks in U.S. Custody, Charged in Washington D.C. with Murder and Terrorism Counts  —  For Immediate Release  —  Zubayar Al-Bakoush, an armed coconspirator in the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November … But a Democratic takeover of the Senate would be a political earthquake — and neuter his last two years in office. … - Operatives say they've reviewed polling that shows the GOP facing competitive Senate races not just in traditional battlegrounds …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
 
 
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