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Steve Robinson / The Maine Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins Backs SAVE AMERICA ACT — But Won't Break Filibuster — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is throwing her weight behind the House-passed SAVE America Act, saying the revised bill strikes the right balance between election security and voter access …
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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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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Ramping Up Election Attacks, Trump Does Not Let Reality Get in His Way
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Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
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Finya Swai / Politico:
Trump pushes voter ID ‘whether approved by Congress or not!’
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Politico:
Republicans worry shutdown will overshadow Trump's State of the Union … “It doesn't exactly scream ‘a functioning GOP trifecta,’” said one House Republican granted anonymity to speak candidly. — Asked whether postponing the address was under discussion, a senior White House official said Friday, “Not as of yet.”
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Washington Post:
Much of DHS runs out of money after ICE negotiations falter — Democrats refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigration agents. — Much of the Department of Homeland Security ran out of money Saturday morning after negotiations stalled between the White House …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down
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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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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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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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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Meet the YOLO Republicans: Lawmakers with nothing to lose are threatening Trump's grip on Congress
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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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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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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
Samuel Oakford / Washington Post:
The Don Lemon indictment: Video appears to contradict key claims
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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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Reuters:
Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations — The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far …
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
Chris Marquette / Politico:
Gateway gets $30M in frozen funds, with more to come … “We have received an initial disbursement of $30 million from the federal government and expect to receive the full $205 million in reimbursement funds,” she said in a statement. “Construction remains paused for now …
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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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