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1:45 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
Discussion: Associated Press
The Guardian:
As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump
Discussion: Fox News
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: Blaze Media, Deadline 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 …
Discussion: Salon
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Joseph Ramos / The Bulwark:
Trump 2.0's Most Racist Moments, Ranked
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
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 …
Orestes Georgiou Daniel / Associated Press:
Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence by seven years  —  Copyright Javad Parsa/Javad Parsa / NTB  —  Supporters of Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, said she had been on hunger strike since 2 February.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration's new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until they are deported.
Discussion: Newsweek and HuffPost
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Colleen DeGuzman / The Texas Tribune:
Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility
Discussion: El Paso Times
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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NBC News:
Tulsi Gabbard responds to senator's criticism over handling of whistleblower complaint
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.
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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Associated Press:
FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn't running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show  —  The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein's bank records and emails.  It searched his homes.  It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world's most influential people.
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
Meidas+:
EXCLUSIVE: READ RO KHANNA LETTER ON GHISLAINE DEPOSITION  —  As Ghislaine Maxwell prepares to invoke the Fifth, Rep. Ro Khanna submits the exact Epstein-related questions he wants answered, and demands they be preserved in the official record.  —  MeidasTouch Network
Discussion: TMZ.com
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 …
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!
 
 
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Sophia Vento / The Hill:
Trump rips Olympic skier over remarks about representing US
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump wants to run the economy hot, as midterm elections approach
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
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Discussion: New York Post
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
 Earlier Items: 
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
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Elderly Lawmakers Won't Step Aside, Prompting New Debate Over Age Limits
Politico:
‘The sugar high will be short lived’: Trump's big bet on tax refunds might not pay off
Washington Post:
Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S.
 

 
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