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Andrew Solender / Axios:
What Jamie Raskin saw in the unredacted Epstein files — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up “more than a million times.”
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
House Dem identifies ‘wealthy, powerful men’ DOJ redacted in Epstein files — Rep. Ro Khanna took to the House floor Tuesday and read aloud the names of six “wealthy, powerful men” whose names were originally redacted in the Jeffrey Epstein files. It comes after Khanna, a California Democrat …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
GOP senator on Epstein files: ‘Now I see what the big deal is’ — Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Monday she now understands “what the big deal is” after reviewing unredacted files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. — “I've not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue …
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Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Democratic congressman Ro Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files - live — Khanna, who co-sponsored the Epstein transparency act, named six people including Victoria's Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner on the House floor — Republican congressman says he is ‘still investigating’ Bad Bunny lyrics he could not understand
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Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:
Major Update: Trump Mentioned in Epstein Files ‘More than One Million Times’ as FBI Scrubbed Files Before Giving them to DOJ
Marcie Jones / Wonkette:
Drip Drip Drop Little Epstein Files
Drip Drip Drop Little Epstein Files
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Associated Press:
Governors won't hold Trump meeting after White House only invited Republicans — The National Governors Association will no longer hold a formal meeting with President Donald Trump when the group of state leaders meet in Washington later this month after the White House planned to invite only Republicans.
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New York Times:
Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated From Election Denier in Trump White House — A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
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Politico:
Justification unsealed for FBI's seizure of 2020 Fulton County ballots … Evans' affidavits confirm that the criminal investigation originated with a referral from Kurt Olsen, an ally in President Donald Trump's quest to subvert the 2020 election, who was named by Trump in October as the White House's …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein's Actions — Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document. — After it became known that Jeffrey Epstein …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What Happens When Trump Loses? — A guide to the chaos ahead. — ∙ Paid — 1. Winter Is Coming — Yesterday the White House published an “article” attempting to reassure some unnamed people that Donald Trump was winning. — At the risk of being obvious, when you're winning you don't have to explain why.
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Daniel Klaidman / CBS News:
A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics — Add CBS News on Google — Wilder, Idaho — When Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue described the October raid on a popular community horse racing venue here …
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Pro-Trump Town Stunned After ICE Raids Leave It “Nearly Destroyed”
Pro-Trump Town Stunned After ICE Raids Leave It “Nearly Destroyed”
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The Marshall Project
Leah Feiger / Wired:
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next … BY LEAH FEIGER — BYE BYE BRANDING — OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware — A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
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Annabella Rosciglione / The Daily Beast:
Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump — HIDDEN HORROR — The woman and her father got into a “big argument” about Trump the day she was fatally shot. — A woman was shot dead by her alcoholic father after the pair argued about President Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada — A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson says it's full steam ahead on tariff vote ban — Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday he will push ahead an afternoon vote to ban challenges to President Donald Trump's global tariffs over committed internal GOP opposition. Language tucked into a procedural measure …
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
House Republicans Again Seek to Stop Time to Avoid Vote on Trump's Tariffs
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Rule vote postponed amid tariff backlash
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet — America, it's time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring. — Video — At Sunday's Super Bowl, Ring advertised “Search Party,” a cute, horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood …
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie — Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America. … This week, Congress is debating what reform might be acceptable for the masked fascist secret police currently occupying major American cities in Democratic-run states …
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Meg Tirrell / CNN:
FDA refuses to review Moderna's application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says — Vaccines Respiratory viruses Federal agencies — The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday …
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Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
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Ryan King / New York Post:
Indicted Dem asks ICE acting director Todd Lyons whether he thinks he's ‘going to hell’ — WASHINGTON — Indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) accused the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of having blood on his hands Tuesday, and suggested that he would go to hell during …
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Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What? — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick clearly wasn't forthright about the extent of his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, the child sex trafficker. — In a New York Post podcast interview in October …
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
How ICE defies judges' orders to release detainees, step by step … A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees across the country shows judges increasingly furious and exhausted by the Trump administration's tactics. — “There has been an undeniable move by the Government …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy
Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy
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New Republic
Reuters:
US Vice President Vance's office backtracks after statement on ‘Armenian genocide’ — The White House on Tuesday deleted a post from Vice President JD Vance's account that commemorated massacres of Armenians as a “genocide,” saying the message that was likely to irk U.S.-allied Turkey was posted in error.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum — The Department of Health and Human Services' new AI nutrition chatbot will gleefully and dangerously give Americans recommendations for the best foods to insert into one's rectum and will answer questions about the most nutrient-dense human body part to eat.
Hanna Ziady / CNN:
The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global corruption index — The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople. — The world's most powerful democracy …
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UPI, The Times of Israel and France 24
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
The New York Times manufactures consent for ICE — Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regime's lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldn't know that from reading two recent New York Times articles that center the views of Republicans rather …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Navarro says expectations for monthly jobs numbers must be reduced ‘significantly,’ citing deportations — White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro cautioned the public to lower expectations ahead of Wednesday's monthly jobs report, citing the Trump administration's deportations of immigrants working in the country illegally.
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Republicans alleging obscenity demand FCC investigate Bad Bunny halftime show … - “Had he said these lyrics — and all of the other disgusting and pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous,” Fine said on X.
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Jacqueline Sweet / Zeteo:
The Trump Admin Arrested an Antifascist for Shit-Talking a Fascist — A supposed ‘antifa domestic terrorist’ was arrested for ‘cyberstalking’ a controversial right-wing agitator who showed up at a reporter's home to threaten him. — ∙ Paid — Donald Trump's administration made a show …
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Trump Has Lost The Culture — Democrats were slow to mount opposition to Donald Trump, because they got it in their heads that his popular vote plurality was tantamount to a lasting public verdict on MAGA cultural politics. — All Trump had to do was yoke his abuses of power …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against Trump's election bill, with a warning to her party — The Alaskan reminded her fellow Republicans that they claimed to oppose any new federal election laws just a few years ago, insisting that the issue should be left to states. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Tom Polansek / Reuters:
USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep staff losses …


