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New York Times:
Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video — The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes. — Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed on Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in ‘illegal orders’ video — President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior” after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
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The Guardian, Raw Story and Newsweek
Washington Post:
D.C. grand jury declines to indict six Democratic lawmakers
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Reuters and The Independent
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Slotkin slams Trump admin after grand jury refuses to indict Dems
Slotkin slams Trump admin after grand jury refuses to indict Dems
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CBS News, Politico, Raw Story, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and MS NOW
Washington Post:
FDA won't review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine — The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals. — The Food and Drug Administration has declined to review Moderna's application …
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Associated Press:
Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology, the company announced Tuesday. The news is the latest sign …
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Fox News, Balloon Juice, Civil Eats and STAT
New York Times:
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine — The vaccine maker's shots involve the successful Covid vaccines' RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects. — The vaccine maker Moderna said on Tuesday …
Rachana Pradhan / KFF Health News:
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin's ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin's ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’
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Ars Technica
Meg Tirrell / CNN:
FDA refuses to review Moderna's application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says
FDA refuses to review Moderna's application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says
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NOTUS and Ars Technica
Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
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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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.”
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Justice Department releases names of 3 people the FBI once called Jeffrey Epstein ‘co-conspirators’
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USA Today, The Parnas Perspective, Raw Story, The Columbus Dispatch, Signal Ohio, Mercury News, NOTUS, Straight Arrow News, Mediaite and New Republic
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
Major Update: Trump Mentioned in Epstein Files ‘More than One Million Times’ as FBI Scrubbed Files Before Giving them to DOJ
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Meidas+
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
GOP senator on Epstein files: ‘Now I see what the big deal is’
GOP senator on Epstein files: ‘Now I see what the big deal is’
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NewsNation, The Week, New Republic, BizPac Review, CBS News and Newsweek
Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian:
Who are the six men named in the unredacted Epstein files?
Who are the six men named in the unredacted Epstein files?
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New Republic, NewsNation, Scripps News, The Bulwark, The Independent, National Politics, WOUB Public Media, Washington Examiner, Blaze Media, Zeteo and The Hill
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Person detained for questioning in connection with Nancy Guthrie abduction: Official — Earlier Tuesday, the FBI released images of a masked figure. — LIVE — This image provided by the FBI Feb. 5, 2026, shows a missing person Nancy Guthrie. — FBI
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NBC News:
Nancy Guthrie search live updates: Police conclude search of property in Arizona
Nancy Guthrie search live updates: Police conclude search of property in Arizona
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KUSA-TV, MS NOW, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, UPI, Forbes, Straight Arrow News, Associated Press, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, NewsNation, CBS News, Axios, TMZ.com, New York Times, Megyn Kelly, NPR, Fortune, Raw Story, Plain Dealer, The Verge, Fox News and KSTP-TV
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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NPR, SpyTalk, MS NOW, BY GLENN KESSLER, Democracy Docket, Fox News, Washington Post, Civil Discourse …, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Courthouse News Service, All Rise News, Raw Story, Scripps News, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Mediaite, Lawfare, CBS News and Joe.My.God.
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Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump instructs spy agencies to provide intelligence to his ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer
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The Independent, Mediaite and MS NOW
Politico:
GOP revolt sinks effort to block votes on Trump's tariffs — House Speaker Mike Johnson's bid to block future votes on President Donald Trump's tariffs failed Tuesday after an internal GOP revolt. Three Republican lawmakers, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Kevin Kiley of California and Don Bacon of Nebraska …
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MS NOW, Punchbowl News, NOTUS, Modern Diplomacy, CBS News, Raw Story, Political Wire and Semafor
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Thune: ‘Not even close’ to enough votes to change filibuster rule to enact voting reform
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Roll Call, New York Sun, Deseret News, Politico, NewsMax.com, CNBC and Washington Examiner
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
House Defeats Republican Bid to Block Votes on Trump's Tariffs
House Defeats Republican Bid to Block Votes on Trump's Tariffs
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The Daily Caller, Cafe Hayek, The Hill, Deseret News, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Axios, Fox News, Semafor, CNBC, Politico, Erick Erickson's Show Notes, NewsNation, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
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.
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump to Direct Pentagon to Buy Coal Power to Revive Industry — President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain US coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel. — The marquee initiative …
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MPR News, Associated Press and Common Dreams
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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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Sky News, New York Sun, New Republic and The Independent
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Jonny HumphriesNorth West / BBC:
Dad shot daughter after ‘arguing about Donald Trump’
Dad shot daughter after ‘arguing about Donald Trump’
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New York Post and Raw Story
CBC News:
10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. — 6 victims found dead inside local high school, police say — 10 dead, including suspect, after mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. — Ten people are dead, including a suspect, after an active shooter incident in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., according to RCMP.
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New York Times, Telegraph, Washington Examiner, CNN, Fox News, Associated Press, New York Post, Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel, RedState, Townhall, Breitbart, France 24, UPI and The Japan Times
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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Newsbusters, Bangor Daily News, Raw Story, The Marshall Project, Mother Jones and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Activist Investor Pushes Warner to Walk Away From Netflix Deal — Ancora builds a roughly $200 million stake in Warner Bros. Discovery and favors a deal with David Ellison's Paramount Skydance — Activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a roughly $200 million stake in Warner Bros. Discovery …
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NewsMax.com, The Wrap, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times and Semafor, more at Mediagazer »
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla's Kimbal Musk, emails show — Elon Musk's younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013 — Jeffrey Epstein engineered an intimate relationship between a woman in his network and Kimbal Musk …
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KUSA-TV and Denver Post
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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Associated Press, The Hill, Politico, The Independent, Fox News, NOTUS, Washington Times, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, PBS NewsHour, Pluribus News and Mediaite
Degenerate Art:
Building the camps — The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it. — More and more news reports are popping up, describing warehouses the administration is acquiring, with plans to convert them to detention facilities. ICE has spent nearly three-quarter …
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New York Sun and El País
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
'It's despicable': Republicans question how long Lutnick can survive his Epstein crisis — The News — Howard Lutnick's Jeffrey Epstein problem may be getting worse. — Republicans on Capitol Hill are getting more unsettled about revelations that the Commerce Secretary's ties to Epstein were closer than he acknowledged.
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The Bulwark, The Hill, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Forbes and New Republic
Evan Bush / NBC News:
EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health — Known as the endangerment finding, the decision is the legal framework that allows the EPA to regulate emissions. Its reversal could upend many climate change policies. — Listen to this article with a free account
Chicago Tribune:
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martínez in Chicago, evidence shows — A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martínez by an immigration agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz …
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New York Times, CBS News, Raw Story and WBEZ
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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New York Post, NewsMax.com, Tallahassee Democrat, WATN, Raw Story, Townhall, MS NOW, Washington Times, RedState, Joe.My.God., The Independent, Breitbart and BizPac Review
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat — Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail — A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Los Angeles protester …

