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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
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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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The.Ink, Lawyers, Guns & Money, NewsNation and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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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 …
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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
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New York Post, twitchy.com, Washington Examiner, IJR, RedState, NewsMax.com and New York Times
Cate Brown / The Guardian:
NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
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Canary, PoliticusUSA and The Parnas Perspective
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 …
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Deadline
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Washington Post:
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny's star turn at the Super Bowl
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Bloomberg, CBS News, The Borowitz Report, New York Times, The Guardian, Plain Dealer, Mashable, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor and MS NOW
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’
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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 …
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The Daily Wire
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Reaction to Trump's Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics — With the midterm elections nearing, President Trump has found himself in the uncomfortable position of backtracking, even if only by degrees, at key moments. — President Trump has seemed immune to the usual rules of politics.
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Raw Story, Al Jazeera, The Post Millennial, CBS News, Associated Press and ABC News
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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 …
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David Nir / The Downballot:
Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup
Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup
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CBS News and emptywheel
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 …
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New York Times, more at Techmeme »
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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Election Law Blog and Cardinal News
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Stephen Lezak / New York Times:
Republican Leaders Used to Camp and Hunt. Now They Golf and Meme. — It was the most consequential camping trip in American history: In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, asked the naturalist John Muir to guide him into the wilderness of California's Yosemite Valley.
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 …
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NewsMax.com, Al Jazeera, Associated Press and Reuters
Miami Herald:
Who were the other men in the Epstein files? This is the FBI's own list — After the Justice Department shut the door on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files in July 2025, FBI agents worked on drafts of a 21-page presentation of all the evidence the FBI had gathered in the case, including a summary of allegations against 11 men.
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Denver Post, The Next Gen Business, The Parnas Perspective, Agence France-Presse, The Wrap and Raw Story
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Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club
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Plain Dealer
Dustin DeSoto / Vox:
The “boys club” that protected Epstein — Millions of files, zero accountability? … The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million files tied to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The rollout has been chaotic. — Many documents were heavily redacted …
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MS NOW
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 …
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.
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The Japan Times
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass — 8 min Click here to listen to this article — L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman jumps in the race for mayor, challenging former ally Karen Bass in the June primary.
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 …

