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Alayna Treene / CNN:
Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say — Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn't let go. — He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned …
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Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Trump vows voter ID requirements for the midterms, ‘whether approved by Congress or not’
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Meet the YOLO Republicans: Lawmakers with nothing to lose are threatening Trump's grip on Congress
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Steve Robinson / The Maine Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins Backs SAVE AMERICA ACT — But Won't Break Filibuster
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Ramping Up Election Attacks, Trump Does Not Let Reality Get in His Way
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Finya Swai / Politico:
Trump pushes voter ID ‘whether approved by Congress or not!’
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Reuters:
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show — The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief …
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Politico:
ChatGPT cuts in action — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.
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Washington Post:
With Congress gone, much of DHS is set to run out of money after midnight — Democrats have refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigrations agents, including requiring them to wear body cameras and tighter rules on warrants. — Much of the Department …
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Republicans worry shutdown will overshadow Trump's State of the Union
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down
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Adam Duxter / CBS News:
Don Lemon pleads not guilty on St. Paul federal church protest charges — Add CBS News on Google — Several people charged in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church whose pastor served as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official are set to be arraigned Friday afternoon in a Minneapolis federal courtroom.
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Samuel Oakford / Washington Post:
The Don Lemon indictment: Video appears to contradict key claims
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
New York Times:
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts — The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.
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Associated Press:
Feds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis — Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis last month.
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Politico:
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting … Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis - assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. … Local law enforcement and prosecutors are also investigating the incident.
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Washington Post:
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers — Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration's controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE reveals $38B plan for immigrant mega-jails
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C. Frances / The Intercept:
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. — MINNEAPOLIS — The struggle that killed Alex Pretti began with a shove. It ended with gunshots. — In the final moments before he was shot and killed by federal authorities in Minneapolis …
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US judge orders Trump administration to facilitate deported college student's return — A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Honduran college student who was deported in violation of a court order, a step the government had previously refused to take.
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CNN:
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth's crackdown on ‘biased’ schools — Pete Hegseth Federal agencies US military Student life — Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Dems tell DOJ to “immediately cease” Epstein files “spying” — A trio of top House Democrats wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that the Department of Justice “immediately cease” cataloguing members' searches of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal:
The Battles Inside Kristi Noem's DHS: Five Takeaways From the Journal's Investigation — Criticism of the Homeland Security secretary's tactics exploded during the Minnesota immigration enforcement surge — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has for months been the headline-grabbing …
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Wired:
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE — The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions. — Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information …
Washington Post:
White House, RFK Jr. shake up health leadership after controversies — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health department is undergoing a major leadership overhaul. — The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department's leadership team ahead of the midterms …
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Casey Wasserman Is Putting His Talent Agency Up for Sale After Epstein Fallout — Wasserman has said he ‘never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein’ and told staff he felt that he had ‘become a distraction’ to the firm's work — Casey Wasserman is putting …
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Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention — A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine. — Listen to this article with a free account
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash — Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial law-enforcement technology company.
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Financial Times:
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich — US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’ — US secretary of state Marco Rubio has skipped a meeting with European leaders on the war in Ukraine, in a move seen …
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
HHS shaking up top personnel to push Trump, MAHA priorities ahead of midterms — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced a reshuffling of top staffers in his department as the Trump administration looks to shore up health wins that can boost GOP success in the upcoming midterms.
Washington Post:
New images of White House ballroom show clearest look yet at Trump project — The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades and is advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.
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ProPublica:
What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI's Seizure of Election Records in Georgia — The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, has taken part in meetings since last fall with lawyers tasked by President Donald Trump to reinvestigate his loss to Joe Biden.
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New York Times:
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses — In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release. — Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people …
Jacqueline Sweet / The Guardian:
Four men in unredacted files named by Ro Khanna have no ties to Epstein — Men appeared in photo lineup assembled in New York and had no apparent connection to late sex offender — Ro Khanna, a California Democratic representative, read a list of six names on the House floor earlier …
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
South Carolin's Mark Sanford eyes a comeback — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is considering three paths to political redemption — a run for his old House seat, a campaign for the governor's mansion he once occupied or a primary bid against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
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Collin Anderson / The Washington Free Beacon:
Former Penn President Liz Magill, Who Resigned in Disgrace After Disastrous Anti-Semitism Testimony, Named Dean of Georgetown Law — Liz Magill, the former University of Pennsylvania president who resigned in disgrace after arguing that calls for the genocide of Jews could be permissible under campus rules …
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