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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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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.
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
Discussion: Democracy Docket and The Guardian
NBC News:
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
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 and NBC News
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  —  US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of files  —  The US attorney general Pam Bondi attacked and insulted Democrats during a House judiciary committee hearing …
Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Bondi's charade  —  Pam Bondi dropped the ball on the Epstein case a long time ago
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Bondi dodges questions about Lutnick's connections with Epstein
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
Joshua Keating / Vox:
What we know about the mysterious closure and reopening of the El Paso airport
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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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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Jasmine Baehr / Fox News:
Trump directs military to strike new deals with coal-fired power plants: ‘Going to be buying a lot of coal’  —  President touts ‘more reliable power and stronger and more resilient grid power’ while criticizing wind energy as ‘crazy windmills’  —  President Donald Trump signed …
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.
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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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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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Trump agrees to meet at White House with all governors, including Democrats
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 …
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 and MS NOW
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 …
Discussion: The Detroit News
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.”
Discussion: New York Post
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
Discussion: twitchy.com
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
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
CBS Evening News inverts its network's own reporting on ICE arrestees' low rates of violent criminal histories  —  CBS reported that less that 14% of people in ICE custody have charges or convictions for violent criminal conduct, but CBS Evening News distorted the data to suggest the opposite
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems eye protests at Trump's State of the Union
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and NewsMax.com
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
RNC asks Supreme Court to take up Pennsylvania mail ballot fight
Discussion: NewsMax.com, BizPac Review and Votebeat
Reuters:
Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting
Irina D. Manta / The UnPopulist:
Czechoslovakia's Lesson for America: Lawyers are Key to Peacefully Defeating Authoritarianism—Help Them
Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal:
Waldorf Astoria's Chinese Owners Plan to Sell NYC Hotel After Extravagant Makeover
Discussion: NewsMax.com
 Earlier Items: 
Cindy Hernandez / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago man cleared of Bovino murder plot still in detention after judge denies bail
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer pushed for voter fraud evidence from US intelligence agency
Discussion: New York Times
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kennedy Center fundraising in deep turmoil after Trump takeover
Discussion: Daily Mail
Matt Cohen / Democracy Docket:
'DOJ doesn't have authority to run a state's elections': West Virginia's GOP election chief pushes back on voter roll grab
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Lawfare:
Minnesota FACE Off: A Deep Dive Into the St. Paul Church Protest Case
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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