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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.
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 …
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Posts Video Online Depicting Obamas as Apes
New York Times:
Trump Shares Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
Discussion: Bloomberg
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash
Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Trump revives racist imagery once seen as disqualifying
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 and The Daily Beast
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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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
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 …
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 and Truthout
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
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Senate Democrat knocks TrumpRx: ‘Glorified coupon book’  —  Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted the direct-to-consumer (DTC) TrumpRx platform launched by the administration on Thursday, denouncing it as a “glorified coupon book.”  —  The Trump administration launched its DTC discount drug portal TrumpRx.gov on Thursday evening.
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New York Times:
Trump's Online Drugstore Opens for Business
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.
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
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.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Washington Times
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0  —  Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry's early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts  —  The Trump administration has greenlighted its first new bank …
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
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.
Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. public defenders are on a win streak as Trump's Justice Department charges activists  — 12 min Click here to listen to this article  — L.A. public defenders have secured several acquittals defending activists charged with assaulting federal officers during immigration protests.
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 …
Haley Britzky / CNN:
Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006  —  Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is named on a flight manifest found among millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that have been released in recent months …
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Trump has never accepted election results and he is only getting worse  —  Let's be honest.  He is getting worse.  —  Recently, Donald Trump has stood before an audience of religious leaders and declared that the 2024 election was rigged.  He sat down for an interview with NBC News …
Discussion: American Prospect
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 …
 
 
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported
Washington Post:
NYC's small landlords say they won't survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
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Financial Times:
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Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner and E&E News
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American Decency Still Lives
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‘Gang Stuff’ and ‘Illicit Trysts’: How Epstein Sought Leverage With the Wealthy
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Financial Times:
Sources: WaPo is losing about $100M per year but aiming to break even by the end of 2026, which could unlock fresh funding from Jeff Bezos

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Amazon's spending on content, including music, sports rights, and licensed and produced TV and film, rose 10% YoY to $22.4B

The Guardian:
The UK raises the TV license fee, the BBC's main funding source, from £174.50 to £180 a year from April 1, saying it gives the BBC a “stable financial footing”
 
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