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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠 — Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump posted a short video which included a horrifically racist …
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Punchbowl News:
2/9/26☀️ AM: … Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out on Friday. Just like any good shutdown deadline, this one is bumping up against the weeklong Presidents Day recess. You'll hear a lot of threats in the coming days about canceling the recess …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power — time we stop falling for their hoaxes
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Karlin Lillington / The Irish Times:
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September — Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record — An Irishman living in the United States for more than 20 years has been held by US Immigration …
Axios:
1 big thing: Trump's crypto revolt … - Why it matters: Crypto joins a growing number of segments of the Trump coalition — from Epstein-focused populists to farmers to Latino men — now questioning whether his return to power has delivered as promised. — 🔎 Zoom in: The hyper-online …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Crypto revolt exposes fragility of Trump's coalition
Washington Post:
Trump leaves Republicans guessing on midterms plans as outlook darkens — The president is said to be eager to increase his involvement, but on some days sounds detached and noncommittal. — Republicans looking to the White House to lead in the face of the party's dimming prospects …
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Emily Ngo / Politico:
New York GOP's midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump
New York GOP's midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump
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Reuters:
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts — Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.
New York Times:
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump's Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho — Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community. — People in Wilder, Idaho, didn't give much thought …
Eric Todisco / Page Six:
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance — A rocking start to the Super Bowl. — Green Day performed during the opening ceremony of Super Bowl LX that celebrated generations of Super Bowl MVPs including Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, and Peyton and Eli Manning.
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Wall Street Journal:
Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy — Trade groups are raising alarms about aggressive immigration enforcement hurting businesses in the region — WESLACO, Texas—At Monte Cielo, a new housing development in this growing region of South Texas, half-built homes are sitting empty.
Holly Otterbein / Axios:
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group … - Former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, ex-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will serve as president. — The group describes itself as a “hub for center-left policy and advocacy.”
Kevin Baxter / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home — 5 min Click here to listen to this article — Olympic skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Hunter Hess are among the athletes who've talked about the political situation in the U.S. while at the Milan-Cortina Games.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump lashes out at American Olympian who expressed negative view of US politics
Trump lashes out at American Olympian who expressed negative view of US politics
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Mica Rosenberg / ProPublica:
The Children of Dilley — ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next. — Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez …
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New York Post:
GOP's Bruce Blakeman to tap upstate NY sheriff as running mate against Gov. Hochul — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman will tap an upstate sheriff known as tough-on-crime policies and a staunch pro-gun rights stance as his running mate, sources told The Post Sunday.
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Marvin Kalb / Washington Monthly:
Dateline Moscow: The Cuban Missile Crisis — Never miss an article! — On October 28, 1962, a Sunday of crushing tension, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent an urgent letter to President John Kennedy reluctantly agreeing to “dismantle the arms, which you describe as offensive, and crate and return them to the Soviet Union.”
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Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
How Japan's Leader Rescued Her Party from the Abyss — Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win. — Last summer, Japan's long-dominant political force, the Liberal Democratic Party, faced a crisis.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Fulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows ‘callous disregard’ for constitutional rights … Boulee said unsealing the affidavit was appropriate due to “the importance of the public's access to judicial proceedings,” but he said he will allow Justice Department lawyers to redact the names of …
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CBS News:
Transcript: Rep. Tony Gonzales on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb. 8, 2026 — Add CBS News on Google — The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Wall Street Journal:
Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime — 'We're still here,' Puerto Rican superstar says in Spanish while spiking a football — Bad Bunny delivered a pointed message in Spanish to millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl on Sunday night: “We're still here.”
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Europe is holding its Epstein creeps accountable. Why can't we? — The slow drip of the U.S. government's still grossly incomplete release of its files on late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has nonetheless become a who's who of Planet Earth's rich and famous …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Border czar warned immigration operations should be targeted to ‘keep the faith of the American people’ — In an exclusive interview for an upcoming book, Tom Homan warned that public support for aggressive immigration tactics could falter. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Financial Times:
Iran arrests leading reformist politicians — Tehran faces growing pressure over its brutal crackdown on recent unrest as talks with US are set to continue — Iran's security forces have arrested at least four senior reformist politicians on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Islamic system …
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Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Epstein's lawyers asked CIA for records that could show affiliation with agency — Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers filed records requests to the National Security Agency and the CIA, according to documents released by the Justice Department. — Attorneys for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed requests …
