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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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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.
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Stephen Colbert says network lawyers pulled James Talarico interview over FCC equal time fears
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Mirna Alsharif / NBC News:
Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC
Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC
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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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Today in Politics, Bulletin 310. 2/17/26
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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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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Cameron McWhirter / Wall Street Journal:
Jesse Jackson, Civil-Rights Leader and Democratic Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84
Jesse Jackson, Civil-Rights Leader and Democratic Presidential Candidate, 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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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 — Nearly half of Americans would describe President Trump as “corrupt,” “racist” and “cruel” in new polling full of midterm warning signs for Republicans. … - About 47% of those surveyed said they would use “racist” to describe the president.
NBC News:
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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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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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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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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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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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Republican congressman's anti-Muslim remark prompts calls for his resignation
Republican congressman's anti-Muslim remark prompts calls for his resignation
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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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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 …
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power. — A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists. — On July 4 last year, a few hours after sundown, about a dozen left-wing activists …
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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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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
U.S. releases new details on alleged secret Chinese nuclear test — The U.S. government has released fresh intelligence on what it claims was an illicit Chinese nuclear test conducted in 2020. — On June 22 of that year, a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan detected a tiny earthquake.
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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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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Air Force One jets to be repainted in Trump's preferred colors — Air Force One jets are expected to receive a new paint job in President Trump's preferred colors of red, white, gold and dark blue, The Hill's sister network NewsNation has confirmed. — Both the luxury jet donated by Qatar …
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Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Allegations in Epstein files may amount to ‘crimes against humanity,’ UN experts say — Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity …
Austin Kocher:
Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year — Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump administration strikes three more alleged drug boats in the Pacific and Caribbean — The strikes killed 11 people, U.S. Southern Command announced in a post on X. — Listen to this article with a free account — U.S. Southern Command announced that the military launched strikes …
Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
Trump Promises Federal Action to Clean Up Potomac River Sewage Spill — President Donald Trump weighed in Monday on the ongoing sewage crisis on the Potomac River in a Truth Social post promising federal action to fix the situation, while accusing Maryland Gov. Wes Moore of “gross mismanagement.”
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