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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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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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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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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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Live Updates: F.A.A. Lifts Closure at El Paso Airport — The agency had said that no flights would be allowed to or from the airport until Feb. 20 under an order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.” — Here's the latest. — The Federal Aviation Administration lifted …
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Alex Fitzpatrick / Axios:
Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days — A 10-mile ring of airspace centered on El Paso, Texas, is effectively closed to aircraft for the next 10 days after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a surprise restriction late Tuesday night for “special security reasons.”
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Robert Moore / El Paso Matters:
FAA suddenly drops unprecedented air restrictions over El Paso
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Paul Schulz / KVIA-TV:
Rep. Veronica Escobar criticizes FAA over sudden El Paso airspace closure
Rep. Veronica Escobar criticizes FAA over sudden El Paso airspace closure
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CNN:
FAA lifts El Paso airspace closure, citing ‘no threat,’ but there's widespread confusion about what prompted it
FAA lifts El Paso airspace closure, citing ‘no threat,’ but there's widespread confusion about what prompted it
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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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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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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrats plot barrage of anti-tariff votes … - Johnson's procedural maneuver to stop Democrats from forcing votes to end Trump's tariffs under the National Emergencies Act failed 214 to 217, with Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) breaking away.
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Politico:
GOP revolt sinks effort to block votes on Trump's tariffs
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
House Is Set to Vote on Canceling Trump's Canada Tariffs
House Is Set to Vote on Canceling Trump's Canada Tariffs
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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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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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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump tries and fails to extort Canada
Trump tries and fails to extort Canada
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Michael Isikoff / SpyTalk:
Gabbard's Claim of “Foreign” Interference in Georgia Election Takes a Hit — Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI's claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe — When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed up last month for the FBI's seizure …
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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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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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Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added 130,000 Jobs in January, Starting Year Off on Stronger Footing
U.S. Added 130,000 Jobs in January, Starting Year Off on Stronger Footing
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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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Investigators searching a location in Arizona in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
Investigators searching a location in Arizona in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
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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.
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
Politico:
Canada's Muscular New Anti-Trump Strategy Debuts in Greenland … On Friday, Canada's consulate opened in the unassuming building, a permanent diplomatic outpost sharing modest digs with Iceland — previously one of the only countries with a formal presence in the territory.
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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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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns — President Trump has reshaped the country's economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire. — In the first year of his second term, President Trump has tried to radically reshape America's economy.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit
US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit
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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
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.
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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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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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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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 …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
GOP Senators rail at FDA after closed-door briefing on abortion drug — Some Senate Republicans emerged disappointed from a closed-door briefing Tuesday with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, saying the agency is not taking a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone seriously and calling …
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