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Annie Karni / New York Times:
House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump's Claims of Fraud — The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through. — The House on Wednesday passed …
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP-Led House Rejects Trump's Tariffs on Canada — The vote in the chamber is a significant but largely symbolic repudiation of the president's signature economic policy — WASHINGTON—The GOP-led House passed a resolution Wednesday designed to roll back President Trump's tariffs on Canada …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon — In addition to providing regular comic relief, President Trump's eruptions over imagined slights provide opportunities for his advisers to engage in rank, devious manipulation. This may be happening with Trump's latest tirade …
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Politico:
Next stop: Mexico — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco, Irie Sentner and Makayla Gray — Good Thursday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, slowly realizing that the Great Thaw of 2026 actually just means roadside slush mountains, sodden sidewalks and monster puddles for ever more.
Associated Press:
House faces showdown vote over Trump's tariffs on Canada
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Politico:
Senate heads into doomed DHS votes
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House passes GOP elections overhaul
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NBC News:
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
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Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:
6 Republicans join Democrats to rebuke tariffs on Canada in blow to Trump
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Megan Messerly / Politico:
White House expects ‘substantial’ GOP defections on Canada tariff vote in House
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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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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Democrats rip Bondi over handling of Epstein case in rowdy House hearing — House Democrats took the opportunity in Attorney General Pam Bondi's congressional hearing to attack her over a lack of prosecutions in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid — The newly revealed White House employee says he is fighting ‘pure evil’ — Clay Parikh does not want to talk about who he is working with inside the White House.
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New York Times:
Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser — People familiar with the episode said the use of the technology was not coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials targeted what they thought was a drug cartel drone, but turned out to be a party balloon, they said.
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and party balloon shoot-down, sources say
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
What we know about the mysterious closure and reopening of the El Paso airport
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Strengthening United States National Defense with America's Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet — Section 1. Purpose. The United States must ensure that our electric grid — upon which military installations, operations, and defense-industrial production depend …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House — Federal judges had appointed Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York after the Trump administration's nominee was found to be serving unlawfully.
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:
U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna's Flu Vaccine — The F.D.A.'s refusal to examine the company's mRNA shot drew widespread criticism from doctors and was divisive within the agency. — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday backtracked on its refusal …
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
Three Million Reasons to Facepalm — So. — The image above was given to us by Deb Milbrath, a freelance cartoonist in Atlanta. I love it. — Here's something I don't love: — I just was shown a government document listing the 2025 salaries of Washington Post employees …
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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Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
Two U.S. Navy Ships Collide in Waters Near South America — Two personnel report minor injuries after ship-to-ship refueling — Two people reported minor injuries Wednesday when a U.S. warship and a Navy supply vessel assigned to the military buildup in the Caribbean collided during a ship …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Anthropic Puts $20 Million Into a Super PAC to Counter OpenAI — Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation. — Silicon Valley's dueling artificial intelligence start-ups now have dueling super PACs.
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Stephanie Liebergen / Scripps News:
Census data reveals growing financial struggles for seniors, renters and rural Americans — Five-year American Community Survey reveals troubling economic trends for vulnerable populations. — New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows certain groups of Americans are falling behind financially …
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit. — Listen to this article with a free account
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics — The San Francisco Bay Area is home to at least one-third of the value of the entire U.S. stock market. Late last year, you couldn't escape a chilling billboard campaign, meant to be cheeky, from an artificial intelligence start-up: “Stop Hiring Humans.”
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Trump Says He Will Now Invite Democrats to Governors' Meeting — Even as he reversed course on excluding Democrats, the president repeatedly attacked a Republican governor who had planned to oversee the meeting. — Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma told Democratic governors on Wednesday …
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David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
We are all passengers in Trump's death cab — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 💬 Subscribe to PN 💬 — Nearly 13 months into Trump's second term, the most terrifying attribute of his regime is its utter contempt for the United States …
TMZ.com:
New Nancy Guthrie Note, Sender Demands 1 Bitcoin for Info On Kidnapping Suspect — There's a new note in the Nancy Guthrie case, but this one doesn't seem to be from the kidnapper ... instead, it's from someone offering to give up information on the kidnapper. — ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS LETTER
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems eye protests at Trump's State of the Union … - “Last year didn't really work as envisioned,” Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told Axios. — Another senior House progressive, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
IRS improperly disclosed immigrant tax data to DHS: Report — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly disclosed confidential tax data of thousands of people to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of the Trump administration's push to crack down on immigration enforcement measures across agencies.
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