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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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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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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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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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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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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Rep. Jason Crow asks Pirro to preserve evidence related to failed indictment
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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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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Lawmakers Question Bondi Over Justice Dept. Under Her Watch
Lawmakers Question Bondi Over Justice Dept. Under Her Watch
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit … Growing interest costs and spending on safety-net programs drives the expanding gap between how much money flows into federal coffers each year and how much is doled out. — Debt compared to economic output is also on track to soar in the coming years.
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns
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
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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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” …
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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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years — Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. — The company said starting this year …
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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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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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Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules — Lucy Harrison died after being shot in chest by alcoholic Kris Harrison while staying at his home in US last year — A Cheshire woman who was shot dead by her “reckless” father while visiting …
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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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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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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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Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Trump Posts Spectacular Self-Own in Bid to Claim He's Not Racist — OWN GOAL? — The president took to social media in an apparent effort to bolster his credentials with the Black community. — President Donald Trump has embarked on a bizarre posting spree touting his friendship …
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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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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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Politico:
Johnson says he has urged Florida Republican to stay in Congress — Speaker Mike Johnson says he has asked retiring Rep. Neal Dunn to serve out his term amid concerns the Florida Republican might resign early. An early exit from Dunn, 72, would deal Johnson another massive blow as he tries to maintain his narrow majority.
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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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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Budget Hole Set to Deepen by Trillions — Interest costs on growing debt soak up bigger share of spending, CBO forecast says — WASHINGTON—The U.S. budget deficit will remain roughly flat for the next two years and then widen over the next decade as interest costs consume …
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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

