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9:25 AM ET, February 8, 2026

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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Foreign Call About Person Close to Trump  —  Call intercepted by U.S. formed a key part of a complaint filed last year against the director of national intelligence  —  A whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
Discussion: NewsNation
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, moved to lock down an intelligence intercept that referred to someone close to President Trump, the report said.  —  Members of Congress were briefed this week …
Discussion: The Guardian and The Independent
NBC News:
Tulsi Gabbard responds to senator's criticism over handling of whistleblower complaint  —  Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., condemned the director of national intelligence for not providing the May 2025 complaint to lawmakers until this month.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
New York Times:
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure  —  Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D'Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.  —  Will Lewis, the embattled chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday.
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Financial Times:
Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts  —  British journalist's tenure was controversial after Jeff Bezos appointed him to turn around the newspaper  —  Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles, Daniel Thomas in London and Anna Nicolaou in New York
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness … On Sunday, Bad Bunny is set to perform in the Super Bowl's halftime show, and President Trump is angry about it.  “I think it's a terrible choice,” Trump seethed recently, referring to the Puerto Rican performer …
Discussion: Deadline
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’
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Joseph Ramos / The Bulwark:
Trump 2.0's Most Racist Moments, Ranked
Discussion: CNN
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:   This Is Just Who Trump Is  —  What motivates President Trump?  —  Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is.
David Nir / The Downballot:
Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup  —  Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result.
Discussion: CBS News and emptywheel
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Quinn Coffman / The Advocate:
Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez wins District 60 seat, replacing Chad Brown  —  Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez won Saturday's special election for State House District 60, defeating Republican Brad Daigle.  —  Martinez, a member of the Iberville Parish Council, earned 62% of the vote against Daigle …
Washington Post:
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia  —  Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.  —  The self-styled democracy party isn't behaving democratically.  Democrats in Richmond are trying to effectively disenfranchise millions of Virginians …
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Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Here is the FBI's Epstein List
Discussion: Raw Story
Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Politico:
‘The sugar high will be short lived’: Trump's big bet on tax refunds might not pay off … “The sugar high will be short-lived if [the refunds], in fact, go toward paying and supporting prices of things like additional health care costs, additional insurance costs, additional electricity costs …
Washington Post:
Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S.  —  The Ukrainian president said the Trump administration was pushing for a June deadline to end Russia's war.  —  KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia's war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi …
The Moscow Times:
Man Suspected of Shooting GRU General Arrested in Dubai, FSB Says  —  A man suspected of shooting and wounding senior Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been arrested in Dubai, Russia's FSB security service said Sunday.  —  The man in his 60s was …
Wall Street Journal:
One Generation Runs the Country.  The Next Cashed In on Crypto.  —  Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn't always fare so well  —  In the depths of Donald Trump's interregnum, his eldest two sons huddled in a Mar …
Ken Klippenstein:
Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users  —  Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like “Budget-Chicken-2425” … Homeland security field agents are scouring the social media site Reddit, monitoring the communications of law-abiding Americans critical of the agency.
New York Times:
For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump  —  A new organization blessed by the president is raising money for events and projects that will put a Trumpian spin on the nation's semiquincentennial.  —  President Trump's allies are offering access to him and other perks …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Elderly Lawmakers Won't Step Aside, Prompting New Debate Over Age Limits  —  Refusal of older officeholders to cede stage to younger faces is prompting fresh calls for a limit on how long they can serve  —  An aging political class in Washington is prompting fresh calls for forcing older officeholders …
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says  —  The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
Discussion: The Japan Times
Colleen DeGuzman / The Texas Tribune:
Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility  —  Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified.  U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many “chronic issues.”  —  TAKE OUR CONTENT — PLEASE!
Discussion: El Paso Times
 
 
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Samuel Benson / Politico:
A MAGA push to erase a Dem House seat is triggering accusations of fraud and violence in Utah
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Exclusive: Democrats reckon with ICE contractor donations
Discussion: IJR
Politico:
ICE surveillance concerns shift Democrats' demands for body cameras
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Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
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Ghislaine Maxwell's Bombshell Filing Raises Questions About Epstein's Hidden Network
 

 
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C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

Michael Williams / CNN:
Entertainment and sports agent Casey Wasserman, who chairs the 2028 LA Olympics coordinating committee, faces calls to resign after appearing in Epstein emails

 
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