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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Trump Administration Erases the Government's Power to Fight Climate Change  —  The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being.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 …
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 …
Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’
Discussion: The Independent
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Trump repeals EPA's ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes
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.
Discussion: Washington Times and Newsweek
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.
Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, CNBC, CNN and New York Post
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“If We Don't Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don't Have a Free Country”  —  Donald Trump's attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that's held since 1798.  —  During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as “enemies of the people,” …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now
New York Times:
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hegseth from Punishing Kelly for Video
Discussion: GV Wire
Elena Moore / NPR:
Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon action against Mark Kelly over illegal orders video
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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
Megan Mineiro / New York Times:
Partial Federal Shutdown Shrinks Congressional Presence in Munich
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Congress faces the inevitability of its third shutdown in five months
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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Gigi Douban / NPR:
Trump border czar Tom Homan announces Minnesota immigration surge is ending  —  The Trump administration will end the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota that prompted widespread protests and claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens, border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday.
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Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota
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
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Axios and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.
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 …
Julianne McShane / MS NOW:
Agent investigated in Chicago woman's shooting, her lawyer says  —  The attorney for Marimar Martinez said a prosecutor told him the Border Patrol agent who shot her five times is under criminal investigation. … Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Wonkette
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 …
Associated Press:
Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned five former professional football players — one posthumously — for various crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Discussion: MS NOW
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 …
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.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Jeanine Pirro is filing a personal injury lawsuit against her hometown  —  U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is filing a personal injury lawsuit against her hometown over a trip-and-fall incident.  —  The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia filed a $250,000 injury lawsuit against the city of Rye …
 
 
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Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic:
The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities
Discussion: HotAir
Daily Mail:
Downfall of Trump VP hopeful exiled to construction job: Filthy messages, Oval Office humiliations and tearful feud with Ice Maiden who ‘f***ing hates his guts’
Discussion: The Bulwark
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Prosecutor Says Federal Officials Gave Wrong Information About ICE Shooting
Discussion: Reuters and GV Wire
Ken Klippenstein:
Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite
Liz Essley Whyte / Wall Street Journal:
White House Pushes Shake-Up at HHS Ahead of Midterms
Discussion: Politico, CNN and MLive.com
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Discussion: Canary, New Jersey Online and Wonkette
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
Discussion: Just The News
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
US antitrust chief Gail Slater ousted from Trump justice department
Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed:
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Paul Krugman:
Making America Stagnate Again
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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