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Politico:
Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS … Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the outcome “unfortunate” Friday.  —  “The Dems wanted reforms.  We tried to work with them on reforms.  They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day,” he said.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate agrees to fund DHS, except ICE and Border Patrol, in bid to end 40-day shutdown  —  The measure, passed unanimously early Friday after a marathon session, is expected to have President Donald Trump's support but faces an uncertain future in the House.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
‘Not a done deal’: Johnson stays mum as House GOP steams over DHS deal  —  Speaker Mike Johnson declined to say Friday whether he will keep the House in over the weekend to pass the Department of Homeland Security funding agreement the Senate approved hours earlier.
NOTUS:
House Republicans Reject Senate's DHS Funding Deal  —  House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain told NOTUS that the deal the Senate sent over Friday was “garbage” and that the House would not be voting on it.  — Copy  —  House Republican leadership said Friday that they will not vote …
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Two More Giant Ls for Trump  —  The war in Iran is going badly, and the PR war to sell it at home isn't faring much better.  RealClearPolitics's polling average on the subject finds Trump an average of 9.9 points underwater when it comes to the war, with 41 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving.
Discussion: Axios
Zeteo:
First Draft: About that ‘Gay Ayatollah’ Story...  Team Trump cooked up a psyop about Iran's new supreme leader, sources tell Zeteo.  Plus, the president decides to pay TSA agents, and why Trump wants to keep attacking Iran on weekends.  —  ∙ Paid … Good morning!
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Approves Funding for Most of DHS, Moving to End Airport Crisis
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Effort to fund TSA, most of DHS shifts to House
New York Times:
Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion …
Jake Traylor / MS NOW:
‘Just drinking the Kool-Aid’: Inside the White House divide on Iran  —  Senior aides describe a widening internal divide over a conflict the president has grown bored with — and a communications strategy some call embarrassing.  —  Nearly one month after the U.S. began strikes on Iran …
Reuters:
Iran-linked hackers claim breach of FBI director's personal email; DOJ official confirms break-in  —  Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and his purported resume to the internet.
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Politico:
FBI confirms hackers targeted Kash Patel's personal emails
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Sam Sabin / Axios:   Iran-linked group claims hack of FBI Director Kash Patel
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Daily Mail:
Jill Biden's Secret Service agent shoots himself while accompanying former first lady through Philadelphia airport
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive: Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said.
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The Guardian:
Saudi Arabia urging US to ramp up Iran attacks, intelligence source confirms
Discussion: CNBC
Washington Post:
U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon  —  More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon's limited supply.  —  The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles …
Financial Times:
How Iran is seeking to cash in on Strait of Hormuz  —  Tehran suggests system of charging fees and limiting passage to ‘non-hostile’ ships could endure beyond the war  —  Iran is working to establish a system of approved passage for ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a tightening of control …
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Washington Post:
As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next
Discussion: Bloomberg and Fox News
Lawrence Solum / Legal Theory Blog:
Six Thoughts on Originalism and the Birthright Citizenship Clause  —  the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara.  Much of the debate about the clause has focused on the original meaning of the first Clause of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment:
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years  —  The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.  —  Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts …
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering  —  We can say this much about Donald Trump, his advisers, and their many servants in other branches of government: They are prolific coverup artists, but poor craftsmen.  —  This became evident in Trump's first term—indeed even in his first campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Sun
Chris Bradford / New York Post:
Ex-MMA thug who assaulted woman during Barron Trump FaceTime call learns fate  —  The “jealous” Russian ex-MMA fighter convicted of beating up his ex-girlfriend on a January 2025 FaceTime call with President Trump's son, Barron, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
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Michael Holden / Reuters:   Russian jailed in UK for attacking woman after Trump's son alerted police
New York Times:
Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.  —  Early last year, New York flipped a switch on an audacious system to charge drivers entering Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the first of its kind in the United States.  Passenger cars with an E-ZPass had to pay $9 …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Poll: 1 out of 8 Trump voters has buyer's remorse about 2024  —  Programming note: I have a pressing family event this Saturday so there will be no Sunday roundup this weekend.  I will also probably miss out on producing a crowdsourced estimate of the third No Kings demonstrations …
Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
Powerful House Republican Joins Retirement Wave  —  Transportation chair Sam Graves says he is ready for ‘next chapter,’ pulls re-election paperwork  —  WASHINGTON—Republican Rep. Sam Graves, the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, is pulling his plans to seek re-election …
Samuel Larreal / NOTUS:
Democrats Say Rep. Eric Swalwell Personally Pitched His Political AI Startup to Lawmakers  —  Getting a business pitch from Swalwell is “surprisingly universal,” in some Democratic circles, one source told NOTUS.  — Copy  —  Rep. Eric Swalwell of California repeatedly peddled the services …
ProPublica:
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish  —  Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. … Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children.
Discussion: The Dispatch and The Hill
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly  —  It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear that Donald Trump's war in Iran is going sideways.  After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee appeared shaken.
Axios:
Vance's greatest challenge: Making peace with Iran  —  Vice President JD Vance is preparing to take on the most important assignment of his career: steering U.S. efforts to end a war he'd been concerned about waging in the first place. … He's expected to be the top U.S. negotiator in potential peace talks.
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and Mediaite
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Robert Mueller's tragic fall from grace and the damage he left in his wake  —  The former FBI director's final undertaking will forever stain his legacy.  He committed a grave disservice to the nation  —  Sometimes beneath the noble exterior, human imperfection is exposed, and a sturdy reputation is shattered.
Discussion: The Federalist
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's Signature Is Set to Be Added to America's Currency  —  President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.  —  President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say … During these episodes, the current and former officials said they saw Lyons break out into a full sweat, with his face turning deep red.  They also attributed the source of the pressure to ramp …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
What do you do when you can't trust the government?  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  We're a month into President Donald Trump's increasingly disastrous Iran war, and we have no idea what's really going on.
New York Times:
Oil Prices Continue to Climb After Trump Delays Bombing Threat  —  Oil prices rose on Friday despite President Trump's decision to back away from an imminent deadline to begin attacking Iran's power grid.  Global stock markets mostly moved lower.  —  On Thursday, after oil jumped …
Discussion: CNBC, UPI and Talking Points Memo
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, put in bald language the change in the world order instigated by President Donald J. Trump.  —  “For 80 years,” Balakrishnan explained, “the US was the underwriter for a system …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Nothing Works in Trump's America—Except for Racism  —  In this week's Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores Trump's stunning incompetence.  Plus: baseball is back—for now.  —  Pocket … LaGuardia stopped functioning this week.  On Sunday night, an Air Canada plane crashed into a fire truck …
 
 
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