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NBC News:
No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers — None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration's pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the military …
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The Hill, Mother Jones and Raw Story
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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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Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
Pirro Enlists Dance Photographer-Lawyer in Lawmaker Video Case — Washington's US Attorney Jeanine Pirro tapped a dance photographer who worked for her decades ago as one of the prosecutors who tried—and failed—to convince a grand jury to indict six Democratic lawmakers Tuesday, said two people familiar with the situation.
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New York Sun, The National Pulse, The Hill, BizPac Review and Washington Times
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Pam Bondi hearing devolves into shouting matches with Democrats over Epstein and DOJ prosecutions — The attorney general made her appearance hours after the Trump administration tried and failed to indict Democratic lawmakers over a social media video. — Listen to this article with a free account
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New Jersey Online, RedState, The Parnas Perspective, New York Sun, NewsNation and CBS News
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Tillis pans ‘political lawfare’ after grand jury declines to indict Democratic lawmakers — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis slammed the Justice Department's push to criminally charge Democratic lawmakers who last November urged military servicemembers to disobey illegal orders in a video …
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CNN, Associated Press, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox News, New Republic, NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
NBC News:
Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in ‘illegal orders’ video
Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in ‘illegal orders’ video
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrats try to shut down SOTU disruptions
House Democrats try to shut down SOTU disruptions
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The Message Box
Associated Press:
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights — The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport. A notice posted on the FAA's website …
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and party balloon shoot-down, sources say — Add CBS News on Google — The unexpected but brief airspace closure in the Texas border city of El Paso stemmed from disagreements between the Federal Aviation Administration and Pentagon officials …
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CNN:
FAA lifts El Paso airspace closure, citing ‘no threat,’ but there's widespread confusion about what prompted it — Federal agencies Aviation news Air travel safety Mexico — The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the temporary shutdown of airspace over El Paso, Texas, just a few hours after it was imposed.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: F.A.A. Lifts Closure at El Paso Airport
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El Paso Matters:
FAA lifts unprecedented El Paso airspace restrictions after seven hours; 14 flights canceled
FAA lifts unprecedented El Paso airspace restrictions after seven hours; 14 flights canceled
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Alex Fitzpatrick / Axios:
Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days
Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days
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NBC News:
Poll: Trump's ratings on immigration tumble as Americans lose confidence in his top issue — Immigration has been one of President Donald Trump's strong suits, but the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll shows his numbers falling to the same level as his overall approval. — Listen to this article with a free account
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The Hill, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, Newsweek and Editorial Board
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
House Is Set to Vote on Canceling Trump's Canada Tariffs — Republican leaders have blocked challenges to President Trump's trade war for a year, but dissent in their own ranks will force a vote. — The House is set on Wednesday to consider a Democratic-written measure …
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Lizzy Lawrence / STAT:
STAT+: Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application — WASHINGTON — Top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency's reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna's application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned.
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Washington Post:
National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities — The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump's show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon. — The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops …
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NewsMax.com and The Independent
The Atlantic:
What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve? — The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries. — she wanted to be governor of Arizona. She wanted to be a senator from Arizona. She wanted to run Voice of America, to be MAGA's broadcaster to the world.
FIRE:
FIRE sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity — The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public. — The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.
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Washington Examiner
Paul Krugman:
The Banality of MAGA Evil — Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick … There's a longstanding tradition in American politics of what Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style - a way of thinking that sees conspiracies lurking everywhere.
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Raw Story
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees — In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
Progressive Win in New Jersey Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing
Progressive Win in New Jersey Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing
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New Jersey Online
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump tries and fails to extort Canada — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🇨🇦 Subscribe to PN 🇺🇸 — On Monday, the president took a break from ranting about Bad Bunny's “affront to the Greatness of America” …
Washington Post:
IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS — The tax agency only recently discovered the mistake and is working with other federal agencies on a response. — The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals …
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The Independent
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. payrolls rose by 130,000 in January, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.3% — Job growth was stronger than expected to start 2026, providing some relief to concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market. — Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 for January …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
JD Vance vies for the gold medal in coarseness and flippancy — The vice president has a knack for late — very late — adolescent naughtiness. — Spurning the rich subtleties of the English language, JD Vance has a penchant for words that he perhaps thinks display manly vigor, and express a populist's rejection of refinement.
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Althouse
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
Reuters:
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says — U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
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Bloomberg
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us — On Oct. 4, Marimar Martinez, a teacher's assistant in a Montessori school, was driving in Chicago when she observed federal immigration agents on patrol. She had begun to honk her horn to warn her neighbors about their presence when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle.
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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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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden's Economy — Here's what they're worried about. — ∙ Paid — 1. Unemployment — Yesterday Peter Navarro went on Fox Business and warned Panicans not to freak out over the jobs numbers that would come out this morning. Why?
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The Independent, New Republic, Newsweek and The Hill
Dell Cameron / Wired:
CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ — US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet. — United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 …
Joyce Vance / The Contrarian:
DOJ Can Give the Survivors Answers — In September 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel testified to Congress that there was “no credible information” that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone besides himself. “There is no credible information. None.
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Just Security and IJR
Evan Gorelick / New York Times:
Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms … The Department of Homeland Security has hired a social media manager from the Department of Labor for a key communications job, despite posts he made on Labor Department media accounts that raised internal alarms over possible white-nationalist messaging.
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
CBS Evening News inverts its network's own reporting on ICE arrestees' low rates of violent criminal histories — CBS reported that less that 14% of people in ICE custody have charges or convictions for violent criminal conduct, but CBS Evening News distorted the data to suggest the opposite
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Daily Caller News Foundation
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say — Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware — The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot …
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Yale E360 and Inside Climate News
Washington Post:
EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach — If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law. — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday is expected to announce what he describes as the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
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HotAir, The Hill, NPR, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Independent, Inside Climate News, One America News Network, Scripps News and Crooked Media
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released. As Herb Scribner of Axios explained, the documents are available from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on computers …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Privately Weighs Quitting USMCA Trade Pact He Signed — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — President Donald Trump is privately musing about exiting the North American trade pact, people familiar with the matter said …
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Joe.My.God., E&E News and Reuters


