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Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war — The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president's allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war. — WASHINGTON — Each day since the start of the war in Iran …
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Politico:
Trump's ‘absurdly incoherent’ Iran pleas leave allies befuddled — European countries have ruled out helping secure the Strait of Hormuz until the conflict is over — but also haven't received any specific requests for assistance from the U.S. — EXCLUSIVE
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Financial Times and France 24
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Cannot See That the Opposition Is Real — If you can set aside both the unconstitutionality and the immorality of President Trump's unprovoked war on Iran and focus on the operation itself, it is hard not to be bewildered by the utter lack of real planning, or even basic strategic thinking, that has gone into it.
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Axios:
“They'll get mowed down”: Trump rebuffed Netanyahu idea to call for Iran uprising — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to call on Iranians to flood the streets to protest their government last week, but President Trump told him it was just too risky, two U.S. officials and an Israeli source said.
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New York Times, NewsMax.com, NPR, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
DOJ to pay ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn $1M to settle malicious prosecution suit: Sources — Flynn pleaded guilty to charges of lying to FBI agents during the Russia probe. — Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn looks on before President Donald Trump delivers remarks …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.
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Associated Press:
Justice Department settles lawsuit from Trump ally Michael Flynn for $1.2 million, AP source says — The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican's …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
DOJ Reached Deal to Pay Ex-Trump Adviser Michael Flynn — The US Justice Department has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, a conservative activist and former official in the first Trump administration who sought millions of dollars from the government for what he alleged was a wrongful prosecution effort.
Jacob Rosen / CBS News:
Justice Department reaches financial settlement with former Trump adviser Michael Flynn
Justice Department reaches financial settlement with former Trump adviser Michael Flynn
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Mediaite
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds — Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered …
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Washington Post:
Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says — The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith's probes. — President Donald Trump showed a classified map …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
DOJ inquiry into John Brennan intensifies after House sends classified transcripts — House Republicans voted behind closed doors Tuesday evening to send classified transcripts tied to former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department, a move that signals the Trump administration …
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NBC News, Punchbowl News, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, NewsMax.com and Washington Times
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top Republican attacks Pentagon for not providing details on Iran … It's a notable rebuke from a senior GOP defense hawk who has backed President Donald Trump's decision to attack Iran — and a warning that the administration could lose support for the nearly month-old war if it can't adequately make the case to Congress.
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NOTUS, The Hill, Newsweek, Mediaite, Washington Times, Semafor, The Guardian, Jewish Insider, Forbes, One America News Network, New Republic and Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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CNN:
Iran building up defenses of Kharg Island to protect against potential US ground attack, sources say
Associated Press:
Live updates: Iran dismisses US ceasefire plan and issues its own counterproposal
Live updates: Iran dismisses US ceasefire plan and issues its own counterproposal
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Americans, some lawmakers skeptical of possibly escalating Iran war
Americans, some lawmakers skeptical of possibly escalating Iran war
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Politico:
Special election shocker has Florida Republicans nervous about redistricting … “I think the Legislature needs to be very cognizant of the fact that if they get too aggressive ... you could put incumbent members at risk,” GOP Rep. Greg Steube said. Some seats that Republicans previously won …
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Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, Truthout, Newsweek, The Hill, Straight Arrow News, Election Law Blog, WTOP News, WFMD AM and Florida Politics
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Politico:
Post Mar-a-Lago flip, Florida and national Democrats dream big for midterms … Added Howard Richman, the chair of the Palm Beach County Democrats: “I think we're in the middle of a big, big wave.” — The reverberations of wins by Emily Gregory in the state House and Brian Nathan …
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Warning signs flash red for Republicans as Iran war drives up gas prices and Florida district flips
Warning signs flash red for Republicans as Iran war drives up gas prices and Florida district flips
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Newsweek and The Preamble
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Graham vows to plow ahead with reconciliation for defense, homeland funding — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that his panel is moving “expeditiously” to unlock Senate Republicans' ability to fund defense and homeland security priorities without Democrats' help.
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Jewish Insider, Breaking Defense, NewsMax.com, NBC News, The Hill, Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal
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Cameron Peters / Vox:
How Trump is complicating TSA funding
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Jarvis DeBerry / MS NOW:
ICE agents don't need to wear masks. And Trump just admitted it.
ICE agents don't need to wear masks. And Trump just admitted it.
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Reuters, Breitbart, New Republic and Raw Story
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Homeland Security Talks Hit Snag as Democrats Demand ICE Restrictions
Homeland Security Talks Hit Snag as Democrats Demand ICE Restrictions
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New York Magazine, Roll Call, Fox News, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Deseret News, MS NOW, The Daily Signal, Semafor, WTOP News, CBS News and NewsMax.com
Justin Papp / CNBC:
Republicans balk at Senate Democrats' DHS shutdown counteroffer
Republicans balk at Senate Democrats' DHS shutdown counteroffer
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Axios, New York Post, NOTUS, Politico, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, NewsMax.com, The Daily Signal, The Hill and FOX 26 Houston
Quinnipiac University Poll:
More Voters Think War With Iran Will Make The World Less Safe, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Healthcare Costs Top List Of Financial Concerns For Voters — mail_outline — With the Iran war in its fourth week, a plurality of voters (42 percent) think the war with Iran …
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New York Times, ABC News, Politico, Bloomberg, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Newsweek and NewsMax.com
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Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal:
Postal Service to Impose First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages — The 8% fee will be applied to packages, but not mail, according to people familiar with the matter — The U.S. Postal Service will impose its first-ever surcharge on packages to cover the rising cost of fuel, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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New York Times, Raw Story, FOX 26 Houston, Fox Business and NewsMax.com
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New York Times:
Trump to Delay Nominating New C.D.C. Director — The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines. — The White House plans to delay naming a candidate to head the Centers …
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The Atlantic, Raw Story and Axios
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Margaret Manto / NOTUS:
CDC Acting Director Tells Staff He's Had ‘Scientific’ Disagreements With RFK Jr.
CDC Acting Director Tells Staff He's Had ‘Scientific’ Disagreements With RFK Jr.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: US links security guarantees to Ukraine giving up Donbas, Zelenskiy says — The U.S. has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.
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Milena Wälde / Politico:
Trump pressuring Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, Zelenskyy says
Trump pressuring Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, Zelenskyy says
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Ukrainska Pravda, France 24, NewsMax.com and Fox News
Associated Press:
Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud — Investigating voter fraud claims, Harry Wait requested the ballots of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent. — A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Exclusive: ‘Some people should never be allowed to vote’: California sheriff who seized ballots pushes extreme anti-voting rhetoric online — When Chad Bianco, the sheriff of California's Riverside County, seized more than 650,000 ballots from the state's 2025 redistricting referendum, it raised some big questions.
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., CalMatters and MS NOW
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Gallego: Merrick Garland was a ‘coward’ over Jan. 6 — Sen. Ruben Gallego on Wednesday called former Attorney General Merrick Garland a “coward” over his handling of prosecuting Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Speaking at an event with Economic Liberties, the Arizona Democrat said it …
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New York Sun and Reason
Justin Weinberg / Daily Nous:
Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict — Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told …
Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests — Agents never had permission to hunt immigrants at court appointments, says the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District for New York. — Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email — Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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New Republic, Bloomberg, The Independent, Newsweek and Washington Examiner
Vaughn Hillyard / MS NOW:
Trump housing chief Bill Pulte seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James — After the Department of Justice failed to convict New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of mortgage fraud last year, the Trump administration's federal housing chief, Bill Pulte …
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CNN, NOTUS, CBS News and The Gateway Pundit
Justin Baragona / Zeteo:
Bari Weiss Is ‘Rolling Out the Red Carpet’ for Pete Hegseth — Not even Fox or Newsmax have had the defense secretary on. Plus, what a new study says about Fox, white viewers, and a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory. — ∙ Paid — Hello, and welcome to this week's ‘Ragebait’!
Stephen M. Lepore / Daily Mail:
Vince Vaughn rips late night hosts Colbert and Kimmel for preaching politics: ‘It stopped being funny’ — Vince Vaughn said late night comics have become unfunny and inauthentic for constantly preaching politics. — The Wedding Crashers star appeared on Theo Von's podcast where he appeared …
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
Where Are All the Campus Protests? — Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent. — The events of the past three months seem almost perfectly engineered to spark campus unrest. In January, mass-deportation operations led …
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HotAir and FOX 32 Chicago
Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
Florida targets NFL's ‘Rooney Rule’ promoting minority coaches … The move by Uthmeier aligns with ongoing attempts by Florida's conservative leaders to rid the state of diversity, equity and inclusion-aligned policies, from public schools to colleges and now even local governments.
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Fox News, Florida Politics, The Federalist, The Capitolist and Newsweek
Eric Niiler / New York Times:
Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump's Attack on Science — Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House. — Kate Marvel, a widely known climate scientist and author …
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Scientific American
