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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
Politico:   Next stop: Mexico
NBC News:
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
Politico:
Senate heads into doomed DHS votes
Associated Press:
House faces showdown vote over Trump's tariffs on Canada
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House passes GOP elections overhaul
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.
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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
Discussion: Axios, Washington Examiner and CBS News
Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota  —  The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday.  “As a result of our efforts here Minnesota is now less …
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: Joe.My.God., The Atlantic and MS NOW
Sean Morales-Doyle / New York Times:   Trump Can't Cancel Elections. He Could Undermine Them.
Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Bondi's charade  —  Pam Bondi dropped the ball on the Epstein case a long time ago  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared today before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files.  —  In her opening statement, Bondi said …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Democrats rip Bondi over handling of Epstein case in rowdy House hearing
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'You're a washed-up loser lawyer': Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein
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: 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
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
Discussion: Axios, NBC News and Althouse
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.
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.
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.
NBC News:
Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans  —  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is dramatically expanding …
Discussion: The Independent and NewsMax.com
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 …
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 …
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 …
Paul Krugman:
Making America Stagnate Again  —  Deportations don't create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans.  Who knew?  —  Yesterday's employment report was widely expected to be weak.  As it turned out, it was unexpectedly strong, with an estimated 130,000 jobs added.
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 …
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 …
Reuters:
U.S. judge rejects BBC's stay application in Trump defamation case  —  A U.S. judge has rejected the BBC's application to stay discovery in the $10 billion lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump over its editing of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, court documents showed on Thursday.
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Americans think everyone is corrupt
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
ICE Is on a Dark Path. Congress Must Act Now.
AP-NORC:
About 6 in 10 think Trump has gone too far when it comes to deploying federal immigration agents in major U.S. cities.
Aigerim Turgunbaeva / Reuters:
Kyrgyzstan moves to purge allies of ousted security chief
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
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Kennard / NOTUS:
Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal
Discussion: The Japan Times
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems eye protests at Trump's State of the Union
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
Discussion: New York Post
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna's Flu Vaccine
TMZ.com:
New Nancy Guthrie Note, Sender Demands 1 Bitcoin for Info On Kidnapping Suspect
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Detroit News
 

 
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