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12:50 PM ET, February 8, 2026

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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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Politico:
Dems want the Bad Bunny playbook  —  With help from Eli Okun, Irie Sentner and Makayla Gray  —  Good Sunday morning.  This is Ali Bianco and Alec Hernández, co-authoring today's Playbook.  Send us your predictions for the Super Bowl — halftime show or otherwise.
Discussion: Associated Press
David Remnick / New Yorker:   Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight
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, Blaze Media and Newsbusters
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Washington Post:
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny's star turn at the Super Bowl
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’
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 …
David Cohen / Politico:
Massie on Trump's rhetoric: 'He's gone too far' … After that video depicting the Obamas was widely denounced, including by some Republicans, the White House took it down.  —  “He should absolutely apologize.  He's gone too far.  I mean, he's attacked my wife recently online …
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Joseph Ramos / The Bulwark:
Trump 2.0's Most Racist Moments, Ranked
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
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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NBC News:
Tulsi Gabbard responds to senator's criticism over handling of whistleblower complaint
James Rosen / New York Times:
The Secret History of the Deep State  —  On July 1, 1975, under gray skies, two Watergate prosecutors arrived in the office of the White House counsel.  Also present was the deputy national security adviser, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft.  They were gathered for a burial.
Politico:
Top Starmer aide Morgan McSweeney resigns over Peter Mandelson scandal  —  The British prime minister has been under pressure since revelations about Mandelson's relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  —  U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney …
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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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
The disappearing art gallery in your post office … To lift the United States out of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put Americans to work building roads and bridges, conserving forests and rivers, laying sewer pipes, and constructing schools, parks and airports.
Michael Rothfeld / New York Times:
Files Detail Epstein's Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick  —  Mr. Lutnick had claimed to have distanced himself from Jeffrey Epstein even before the disgraced financier was convicted of a sex crime in Florida.  —  Howard Lutnick, President Trump's billionaire commerce secretary …
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Epstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwell's Role in Clinton Circle  —  Jeffrey Epstein's longtime companion helped advise on the kickoff of the Clinton Global Initiative and arranged for $1 million in funding for it, emails show.  —  Jeffrey Epstein's longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota?  Residents Say Don't Be Fooled.  —  Two weeks after Alex Pretti's killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down.  The resistance definitely hasn't.  —  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Top Trump administration officials certainly put …
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Wes Moore suggests race may be why he was not invited to gov dinner with Trump … But the president has specifically blocked Moore and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from the event's black-tie dinner.  —  Moore is the nation's only sitting Black governor and only the third Black governor ever elected …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Wall Street Journal:
How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States  —  Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America's famous antipoverty experiment.  ‘Fraud by design.’  —  When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently …
Sophia Vento / The Hill:
Trump rips Olympic skier over remarks about representing US  —  President Trump ripped Hunter Hess on Sunday after the U.S. skier spoke out against the political climate in his home country at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan earlier this week.  —  “U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess …
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  —  I get leaked docs bigger media don't because I'm not slowed down by corporate bureaucracy.  But this also means I don't have corporate money - I just have readers like you.  Please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work!
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt  —  Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists - could the mayor please do something about the weather?  —  It snowed two weeks ago in New York.  Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing …
Discussion: New York Post
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump wants to run the economy hot, as midterm elections approach  —  The White House bets on AI-driven productivity gains boosting wages without spooking the Federal Reserve.  —  Amid signs that the U.S. economy may be poised to accelerate, Trump administration officials are predicting …
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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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
Why Trump's Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
Discussion: Vox
Madeline Kenney / New York Post:
NBC announcer caught on hot mic calling Olympics' big air finals ‘so boring’
Discussion: Breitbart and Awful Announcing
Bryan Armen Graham / The Guardian:
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Oz alleges Maine ‘looks a lot like Minnesota’ regarding entitlement fraud
Discussion: RedState
Kadia Goba / Washington Post:
Moderate Republican willing to break with party is set to lead ICE hearing
Dustin DeSoto / Vox:
The “boys club” that protected Epstein
Stephen Lezak / New York Times:
MAGA Elites Are Indoor Cats
Washington Post:
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Elderly Lawmakers Won't Step Aside, Prompting New Debate Over Age Limits
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Politico:
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Sam McKeith / Reuters:
Australia's opposition coalition reunites after split over hate laws
Discussion: Bloomberg
Colleen DeGuzman / The Texas Tribune:
Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility
Discussion: El Paso Times
Washington Post:
Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S.
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
Discussion: The Japan Times
 

 
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Reuters:
A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security charges, ending a five-year legal saga

Miranda Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Tow Center probe found that GOP-aligned Metric Media filed 9K+ FOIA requests across the US in the past year, often about culture-war issues like banned books

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more
 
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