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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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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Detroit News
NBC News:
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
Politico:   Next stop: Mexico
Associated Press:
House faces showdown vote over Trump's tariffs on Canada
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House passes GOP elections overhaul
Politico:
Senate heads into doomed DHS votes
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.
Discussion: CBS News, The Federalist and MS NOW
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New York Times:
Trump's Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier  —  Even in a government full of conspiracists, Kurt Olsen stands out.  He made a key referral in the Fulton County, Ga., election case.  —  One of the more extraordinary aspects of President Trump's second term is this …
Discussion: The Atlantic and MS NOW
Sean Morales-Doyle / New York Times:   Trump Can't Cancel Elections. He Could Undermine Them.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer pushed for voter fraud evidence from US intelligence agency
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'You're a washed-up loser lawyer': Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein
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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Sara Braun / The Guardian:
Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years  —  Public opinion polling agency says decision 'solely based on Gallup's research goals and priorities'  —  Gallup, the public opinion polling agency, will stop tracking presidential approval ratings after almost nine decades, a spokesperson confirmed.
Discussion: Axios, Althouse and NBC News
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024.  Not Anymore  —  The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else.  Trump has flattened the engagement gap. … In 2024, the voters who knew the least about politics …
Discussion: The Bulwark
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
A year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better
Discussion: The Independent and BizPac Review
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  —  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 …
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.
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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David Gilbert / Wired:
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders  —  While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials.  Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.
Beret Leone / CBS News:
Border czar Tom Homan says Minnesota ICE surge is concluding  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday the surge of federal immigration officers in Minnesota is concluding, with a drawdown set to occur over the course of next week.
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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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 …
The Bulwark:
‘Zionism’ Is Splitting MAGA in Two  —  Except it's not really ‘Zionism’ per se.  —  Thirteen years ago today, Marco Rubio gave a cotton-mouthed GOP response to Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address, at one point awkwardly breaking his flow to lean out of frame for a quick drink of water.
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.
Reuters:
Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting  —  The suspect in a deadly school shooting in western Canada was an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues who killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking her former school, police said on Wednesday …
Bethany Mandel / New York Post:
The media need to stop gaslighting us about the reality of trans mass shooters  —  Another mass shooting, and another devastated community.  —  And once again, elites in the media class and public officials are so terrified of offending that they don't dare ask the obvious question …
Gil Duran / The Nerd Reich:
Palantir for Governor?  —  In December, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public hangings in the United States.  The Texas-based billionaire, a longtime associate of Peter Thiel, is a major Trump supporter who believes the 2020 election was stolen and the “deep state” …
Discussion: Politico and East Bay Times
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and KFTC-TV
New York Times:
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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Media Matters for America:
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. ... They have to be imprisoned.”
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
The Money Line Dividing The Democratic Party
Discussion: NBC News
NBC News:
Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Stephanie Liebergen / Scripps News:
Census data reveals growing financial struggles for seniors, renters and rural Americans
NBC News:
Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
Discussion: NewsMax.com
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
We are all passengers in Trump's death cab
Emily Kennard / NOTUS:
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems eye protests at Trump's State of the Union
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and NewsMax.com
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
Discussion: New York Post
TMZ.com:
New Nancy Guthrie Note, Sender Demands 1 Bitcoin for Info On Kidnapping Suspect
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kennedy Center fundraising in deep turmoil after Trump takeover
Discussion: Daily Mail
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
In a call, Tim Davie says the BBC plans to cut ~10% of its costs in the next three years, leading to job and programming cuts; 2025's operating costs hit £2B+

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A CBS News producer quits, saying stories may now be evaluated “on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations”, causing self-censorship

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted “leftist outlets” and suppressed conservative ones

 
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