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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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Associated Press:
Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates  —  President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Posts Wildly Racist Video of the Obamas  —  The president shared an election conspiracy video that included a clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes  —  President Donald Trump went on a wild social media posting spree late Thursday night and into Friday morning …
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 …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump at the Pearly Gates  —  Donald Trump posts a lot of election conspiracy theories online, and he posts a lot of racist memes, too.  But it's not every day that he makes an elections-conspiracy-theory post that is also insanely racist.  Yesterday, he shared a one-minute video alleging that mysterious …
Discussion: Politico
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.
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash
Lucy Campbell / The Guardian:
White House takes down Trump's racist video about Obamas after outrage over ‘vile, unhinged’ post - live
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: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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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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
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.
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.
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 …
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Faster, Higher, Stronger — Together?
Discussion: Jewish Insider
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: Raw Story
Molly Castle Work / MPR News:
Kidney recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says  —  A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a kidney transplant recipient who may not have access …
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: Raw Story
Lindsay Kornick / Fox News:
JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says  —  The vice president celebrated his mother's 10th year of sobriety in April  —  New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was right to have attempted to sell him for drugs in a Bluesky post on Wednesday.
Discussion: KTSA, IJR and Althouse
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
‘Ignore It.’ How the Elite Consoled Jeffrey Epstein Over His Crimes.  —  Newly released emails show Noam Chomsky, Richard Branson and Steve Bannon commiserated with Epstein about his legal troubles and bad press  —  Since Jeffrey Epstein's death, a parade of powerful people who associated …
Discussion: New York Post
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Key participant in 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack that killed 4 Americans is in custody, Bondi says  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in their deaths …
Madina Touré / Politico:
Senate education chair blasts Mamdani over revocation of antisemitism executive orders … Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, argued the rollback of the IHRA-related order risks “misalignment” with federal antisemitism policy, which requires agencies to consider that definition of antisemitism when enforcing civil rights protections.
Michelle R Smith / The Guardian:
Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak  —  Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines.  US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show  —  Over two days of questioning during …
Paul Krugman:
American Decency Still Lives  —  If you want to accomplish anything in politics, you have to have realistic expectations about voters.  Ordinary people aren't deeply informed about policy or politics.  They have jobs to do, children to raise, lives to live.
Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Understanding Epstein's Crimes  —  “I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an ‘offender’ ... It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011.  —  Epstein compared raping a 13-year-old girl to stealing a bagel.  Let that sink in.
NBC News:
Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules  —  The government dropped its case against Marimar Martinez but her lawyers say it has refused to correct the record after calling her a “domestic terrorist.”  —  Listen to this article with a free account
New York Times:
Trump's Online Drugstore Opens for Business  —  TrumpRx is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy medicines.  But researchers who study drug pricing warned that many patients could pay too much if they use the site.  —  President Trump announced the debut of a website …
Politico:
Elections overhaul takes center stage in House as hard-right pressure mounts … The issue almost tanked a massive government funding package this week and threatened to extend a four-day partial government shutdown — until Trump intervened and ordered House Republicans to pass the bill without attaching the elections legislation.
NBC News:
How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets  —  Witnesses describe an expansion of biometric surveillance as immigration agents use facial scanning and photography to track targets and bystanders.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Inside Trump's Takeover of D.C.'s Golf Courses  —  In early spring, the founders of the National Links Trust met with a White House adviser to talk about the future of golf in Washington, D.C.  —  The White House adviser, William Doffermyre, who was set to become the solicitor general …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and E&E News
New York Times:
‘Gang Stuff’ and ‘Illicit Trysts’: How Epstein Sought Leverage With the Wealthy  —  Jeffrey Epstein drafted letters to men like the retail billionaire Leslie Wexner in which he hinted at shared secrets.  —  Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious sex offender, was drafting a letter to Leslie Wexner …
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 …
U.S. Department of State:
The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control  —  Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio  —  During the Cold War, few negotiations proved as complex as those between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit and reduce their vast nuclear arsenals.  They required trust between adversaries …
Financial Times:
Donald Trump's policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector  —  Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%  —  Eva Xiao in New York, Stephanie Stacey and Peter Campbell in London  —  International travel to the US …
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
MLK III accuses National Park Service of ‘sanitizing’ history  —  Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused the National Park Service on Thursday of “sanitizing history” amid reported changes at a Mississippi house museum commemorating civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:
Mamdani Invokes the Bible, Buddhism, and Islam in His Latest Anti-ICE Rant  —  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order on Friday requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to get a judicial warrant before entering NYC buildings — a law that's already been in place since Eric Adams' administration.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
What Americans actually want done about ICE  —  In a letter sent on Feb. 4, 2026, Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer laid out their 10 key demands for the current fight in Washington over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and thus Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Discussion: Navigator Research
 
 
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Washington Post:
NYC's small landlords say they won't survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
DOT crackdown pulls hundreds of English-illiterate, illegal immigrant truckers off roads as crashes mount
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Bloomberg:
White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders
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Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. public defenders are on a win streak as Trump's Justice Department charges activists
New York Times:
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Michael Thwing / STAT:
I treated children for rotavirus in Denmark. The Danish vaccine schedule is no model for the U.S.
Associated Press:
U.S. cuts ties with Polish speaker of parliament over ‘insults’ against Trump
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
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Oren Cass / New York Times:
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let's Start Treating It That Way.
Josephine Walker / Axios:
DOJ omitted communication from Bondi, Patel in Epstein files, watchdog says
Discussion: The Hill
Regina Medina / MPR News:
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