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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Administration Erases the Government's Power to Fight Climate Change — The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change — Watch in our video player above. — The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined …
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US EPA:
President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History — Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, off-cycle credits, start-stop feature — WASHINGTON - Alongside President Trump in the White House's Roosevelt Room …
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Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding
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Associated Press, Washington Times and Yale Climate Connections
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’
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Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
EPA No Longer Believes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Public Health
EPA No Longer Believes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Public Health
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Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Trump repeals EPA's ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes
Trump repeals EPA's ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes
Dharna Noor / The Guardian:
Trump's EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
Trump's EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
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Wall Street Journal:
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner — Substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn't known — WASHINGTON—The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
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New York Times:
Intelligence Dispute Centers on Kushner Reference in Intercepted Communication — A whistle-blower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of blocking distribution of a report that Jared Kushner's name came up in an intercepted communication about Iran.
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Rob Copeland / New York Times:
Goldman's Top Lawyer Departs Amid Revelations About Her Ties to Epstein — Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed she had a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender, spanning many years.
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Raw Story and New York Post
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Financial Times:
Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign over Epstein links — Attorney to depart Wall Street bank on June 30 after new documents revealed extent of her ties to the sex offender — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she will resign this summer after documents released …
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Axios, CNN and New York Post
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota — More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began in November, according to the Department of Homeland Security. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE — Listen to this article with a free account
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Gigi Douban / NPR:
Trump border czar Tom Homan announces Minnesota immigration surge is ending
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Associated Press:
What independents think of Trump's recent immigration actions, according to a new AP-NORC poll
What independents think of Trump's recent immigration actions, according to a new AP-NORC poll
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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Trump immigration officials shown video of Alex Pretti's death in tense Senate hearing
Trump immigration officials shown video of Alex Pretti's death in tense Senate hearing
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now … A federal judge on Thursday enjoined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from censuring Sen. Mark Kelly over the Arizona Democrat's participation in a video reminding American military service members of their right to refuse illegal orders.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“If We Don't Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don't Have a Free Country”
Politico:
House leaders say lawmakers can't attend Munich Security Conference as official delegation … The possibility some lawmakers won't attend the conference represents a major break with the yearslong precedent of bipartisan groupings joining a summit that offers unique perspective into high-level thinking in Washington and among allies.
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
DHS shutdown all but certain after failed Senate vote
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Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Congress faces the inevitability of its third shutdown in five months
Congress faces the inevitability of its third shutdown in five months
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Megan Mineiro / New York Times:
Partial Federal Shutdown Shrinks Congressional Presence in Munich
Partial Federal Shutdown Shrinks Congressional Presence in Munich
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Wall Street Journal:
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem's Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS — Secretary, with close adviser Corey Lewandowski, faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations — Kristi Noem knew she needed a reset.
CNN:
House speaker condemns Trump Justice Department monitoring of lawmakers' Epstein document review — Federal agencies Epstein files Congressional news Donald Trump — Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal's search history of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files …
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore — Two notes: First, this is a special article with insights from Strength In Number's recent polling with Verasight. We just finished writing our February poll, and will publish the results in two weeks.
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Axios and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Politico:
Trump-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson drops out of Arizona governor's race … In a statement ending her campaign, Robson cited the need to avoid “a divisive Republican primary that drains resources and turns into months of intraparty attacks.” — “With so much on the line in 2026 …
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Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Top Republican Ends Bid for Arizona Governor, Showing MAGA's Power
Top Republican Ends Bid for Arizona Governor, Showing MAGA's Power
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Pam Bondi Threw an Insolent Tantrum Before the House Judiciary Committee — And she did so to dodge a simple question about the Epstein files. — Attorney General Pam Bondi met the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and she did a great job. She blustered. She filibustered. She shouted.
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Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a climate activism group for questioning last week …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Even Trump's own appointees are ruling against ICE's mass detention strategy … Even judges Trump appointed are largely against him: 44 of them have ruled against the administration in mass-detention cases. Twenty Trump-appointed judges have signed off on the policy.
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Axios, Austin Kocher and Washington Examiner
Molly Parks / Washington Examiner:
Hawley calls on Minnesota attorney general to be indicted over fraud reports: ‘You ought to be in jail’ — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight.
Michael S. Derby / Reuters:
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs — Americans are shouldering almost all of President Donald Trump's import tax surge, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday. — The bank said 90% of the tariffs imposed by the president …
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Media Matters for America:
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. ... They have to be imprisoned.” — Fuentes: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. ... So they go to the gulag first.
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Celisa Calacal / KCUR:
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts — Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part …
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Slate, Spotlight PA, American Prospect and Mother Jones
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January — Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts — Elon Musk's longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted …
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MS NOW
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Candace Owens Gets Inside TPUSA's Head — TURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week. — In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Ends Deportation Case for Mexican Father of 3 U.S. Marines — The arrest of Narciso Barranco, who was detained by federal agents while landscaping outside an IHOP in Southern California last June, garnered national attention. — An immigration judge has terminated the deportation case …
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Associated Press, NextDraft, Los Angeles Times and NewsMax.com
Jana Winter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Arizona sheriff blocks FBI access to evidence in Nancy Guthrie abduction, source says — An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of U.S. television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump met with David Ellison days before saying he's ‘not involved’ in Paramount's Netflix battle — Donald Trump Media Corporate news Tech news … Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meet privately with President Donald Trump, amid Paramount's ongoing hostile takeover bid …
