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Trish Bendix / New York Times:
Colbert Doesn't Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS — “And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this,” Stephen Colbert said after CBS canceled a Texas congressman's appearance on Monday's “Late Show.” … ‘FCC You’
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Stephen Colbert says network lawyers pulled James Talarico interview over FCC equal time fears — Late-night host Stephen Colbert said his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was pulled from Monday night's broadcast over network fears it would violate regulatory guidance …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance — I was cranking out the newsletter in Tuesday's pre-dawn darkness when we learned that the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who'd been our greatest living bridge to the civil rights heroics of the 1960s and '70s, has died at age 84.
Tom Tapp / Deadline:
Stephen Colbert Defies CBS, Says Network Banned Him From Interviewing James Talarico On ‘The Late Show’
Stephen Colbert Defies CBS, Says Network Banned Him From Interviewing James Talarico On ‘The Late Show’
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Matt Webb Mitovich / LateNighter:
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Colbert Slams Trump Administration After CBS Pulls Senate Candidate Interview
Colbert Slams Trump Administration After CBS Pulls Senate Candidate Interview
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
American Principles in the Age of MAGA Nihilism
Peter Applebome / New York Times:
Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84 — An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”
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Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Trump honors civil rights icon Jesse Jackson: ‘Good man’ — President Donald Trump posted a lengthy statement defending his record with the black community as he memorialized the death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. — Jackson, 84, died on Tuesday morning, weeks after the civil rights icon …
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ABC News:
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies at 84 — Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. — Rev. Jesse Jackson poses in the Rainbow Push headquarters in Chicago, August 4, 2011. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, Baptist minister …
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Char Adams / NBC News:
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, dies at 84
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Andrew Stiles / The Washington Free Beacon:
Jesse Jackson, Activist Who Threatened To Castrate Barack Obama, Dead at 84
Jesse Jackson, Activist Who Threatened To Castrate Barack Obama, Dead at 84
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Politico:
DHS spokesperson to leave Trump administration amid agency turmoil … Noem released her own statement saying “McLaughlin has served with exceptional dedication, tenacity, and professionalism.” — But the news led House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to say, “Another MAGA extremist forced out of DHS.
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NBC News:
Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say — Some early decisions by the Homeland security secretary, including to divert Coast Guard resources from a search-and-rescue mission to the deportation of migrants, set the tone early.
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump's immigration approval hits new low, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll — U.S. public approval of Donald Trump's immigration policies fell to the lowest level since his return to the White House, amid signs he is losing support among American men on the issue, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
“Corrupt,” “cruel”: Americans send Trump, GOP a midterm warning
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Washington Post:
Trump picks his White House assistant for panel reviewing ballroom — Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and the president's longtime executive assistant, is set to be sworn in Thursday. — When Congress created the Commission of Fine Arts more than a century ago …
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump Sought Vast Budget Cuts. Congress Granted Few. … Shortly after returning to office, President Trump embarked on an aggressive campaign to pare back the core functions of the federal government, unveiling a budget that proposed some of the steepest spending reductions in U.S. history.
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Trump's Cabinet huddles on midterms messaging
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Nick Bednar / Lawfare:
The Constitutionality of the Civil Service
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Armed man wearing tactical vest arrested outside the U.S. Capitol, police say — Police also discovered a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask inside the suspect's vehicle, which was parked near the building. — Listen to this article with a free account — WASHINGTON — An 18-year-old man …
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United States Capitol Police:
USCP Officers Stop & Arrest Man with Loaded Shotgun Outside the U.S. Capitol
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Police arrest suspect with apparent gun near U.S. Capitol
Police arrest suspect with apparent gun near U.S. Capitol
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Hegseth forces ouster of senior Army spokesman in latest internal clash — It marks the defense secretary's latest move to force out an officer who worked for retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, a target of President Donald Trump's. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has forced the ouster …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Hegseth Is Said to Have Ordered Pentagon Spokesman's Firing
Hegseth Is Said to Have Ordered Pentagon Spokesman's Firing
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan — Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month. In the ad, Barr speaks directly to the camera and declares, “It's not a sin to be white.”
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Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
MAGA White Supremacists Are a Bunch of Pathetic Losers
MAGA White Supremacists Are a Bunch of Pathetic Losers
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems eye forced vote to censure Randy Fine — House Democrats are discussing a forced vote to censure Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doesn't take action, Axios has learned. … - While the increasingly irreverent and partisan use of censure in recent years …
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Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings … Days before, Vitello was informed that the use of force in the first two weeks of March alone had quadrupled compared with the same timeframe the year before, per another email.
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Garrett Shanley / Miami Herald:
‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general's $100k teaching job at UF — Within months of Gov. Ron DeSantis handpicking him as Florida's new attorney general last winter, James Uthmeier landed a lucrative side gig: a $100,000-a-year teaching assignment at University of Florida's law school …
Associated Press:
Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can't be re-detained by immigration authorities — Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Meghan Blonder / The Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Media Outlets Refuse To Call Rhode Island Shooter ‘Transgender’ As Number of Transgender Killers Grows — Liberal media outlets have refused to identify the perpetrator who went on a shooting spree at a Rhode Island youth hockey game on Monday as transgender.
Axios:
Zelensky says Ukrainian public won't let him hand Russia territory — The Ukrainian people would reject a peace deal that involves Ukraine unilaterally withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region and turning it over to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios in an interview Tuesday.
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap — Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests. — One morning last month, a Minneapolis resident, whom I'll call Anna, was pulling into the parking lot at work …
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Jasmine Wright / NOTUS:
'It's Chaos': How Trump's Pardoning Process Keeps Changing — Alice Marie Johnson was set to bring her latest list of pardon recommendations to President Donald Trump in a meeting just before Christmas last year, an exclamation point at the end of a year marked by the reemergence of a muscular pardoning operation at the White House.
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