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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 …
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Katherine Mangu-Ward / New York Times:
Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump — Libertarians can be annoying, with our constant bellyaching about privacy and taxes, our obsession with the First Amendment and our fearmongering about jackbooted thugs. — But in light of how the past year has unfolded, consider cutting your friendly neighborhood libertarian some slack.
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. — The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable. … Ever since the United States entrusted its presidency to a would-be insurrectionist in January 2025, many Americans have feared for the integrity of their nation's future elections.
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
They've Always Known He is A Racist... Why did it take Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) until Friday, after Trump had posted a video portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a hard-bitten racist?
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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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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power — time we stop falling for their hoaxes
Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power — time we stop falling for their hoaxes
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows — Add CBS News on Google — Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House …
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Ghislaine Maxwell avoids answering questions in House deposition — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.
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NBC News:
Oversight chair says Maxwell invoked 5th Amendment, refused to answer questions in Epstein investigation
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Fox News:
Ghislaine Maxwell told lawmakers Trump, Clinton ‘innocent of any wrongdoing’ regarding Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell told lawmakers Trump, Clinton ‘innocent of any wrongdoing’ regarding Epstein
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Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims — Dozens of asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly rescheduled and recategorized over the weekend, according to four lawyers interviewed by NPR. — NPR has learned that lawyers across …
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
UK's Starmer fights for survival as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just 19 months in office.
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Watched Bad Bunny Halftime Show at His Own Super Bowl Party — It appears that President Trump didn't even bother to tune into Turning Point USA's alternative, anti-immigrant “All-American Halftime Show.” — Footage taken from inside Trump's Super Bowl party at his Mar-a-Lago golf club showed …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime
Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime
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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 …
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Grant Schwab / The Detroit News:
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, ‘no discipline’ on record … “TJ, we got your back,” United Auto Workers Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a Washington, D.C., speech Monday morning. She was referencing TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old UAW Local 600 line worker at the factory who called Trump a “pedophile protector.”
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he appeared in a recent batch of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) …
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Emily Ngo / Politico:
New York GOP's midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump … That race and several other New York swing districts will be crucial in determining control of the House and the fate of Trump's final two years in the White House. — New York Republicans' misery is fueling Democratic elation.
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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.
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New York Times and Futurism
Chris Lau / CNN:
Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing's transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub.
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Mica Rosenberg / ProPublica:
The Children of Dilley — Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed to get inside to meet her. The staff brought everyone in the visiting room a boxed lunch from the cafeteria …
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Lautaro Grinspan / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April — Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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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