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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around — Organizers want this to be largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement? — Millions of Americans are expected to turn out on Saturday for mass demonstrations against President Trump …
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NBC News:
Third round of ‘No Kings’ protests are expected to be the largest so far, organizers say — Demonstrators across the country and the globe will protest against President Donald Trump on Saturday at over 3,000 planned events. — Millions are expected to gather across the country and around …
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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Minnesota staging flagship ‘No Kings’ protest against Trump, with rallies in Europe, DC — Organizers of Saturday's “No Kings” rallies across the country are predicting that the protests against the actions of President Donald Trump and his administration could add up to one of the largest demonstrations …
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Liz Crampton / Politico:
'He's lied about everything': Iran war puts Trump on shaky ground with young MAGA men … Bolick is part of a cohort of young MAGA loyalists who are increasingly frustrated with Trump over the war in Iran. While Trump's decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has rallied war hawks …
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
MAGA's eruption has so far kept Trump from endorsing in key Senate race
MAGA's eruption has so far kept Trump from endorsing in key Senate race
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Raw Story, NewsMax.com, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Marin Scotten / New Republic:
CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment
CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment
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Associated Press:
How the Homeland Security deal unraveled and split Republican leaders in Congress — For several hours Friday, in the stillness before dawn, the Senate appeared to have finally figured out how to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security before it faced the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history.
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Mike Johnson's Institutional Betrayal — Who holds the power of the purse? Congress or the President? Mike Johnson has a clear answer: it's Trump. Our constitutional scheme of governance is less important than enforcing our new personalist regime. And if Trump needs to break a law …
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Wild Ultimatums and ‘Bombing Our Little Hearts Out’: A Portrait of Trump at War — President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects. — President Trump was fresh off the golf course, and his fury was building.
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Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Trump's conflicting messages sow confusion over the Iran war
Trump's conflicting messages sow confusion over the Iran war
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Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Names Names and Demands ‘Accountability’ for Those Who ‘Pushed’ Trump Into War
Megyn Kelly Names Names and Demands ‘Accountability’ for Those Who ‘Pushed’ Trump Into War
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Kash Patel's push against Democratic lawmaker raises concerns within FBI — The FBI director seeks to post documents on Rep. Eric Swalwell despite no public evidence of wrongdoing, officials said. — FBI Director Kash Patel is pressing to release a decade-old investigative file involving …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Said to Dig Up Old Investigative Files on Democratic Lawmaker — The urgent instructions at the Trump administration's behest to gather and relay the files on Representative Eric Swalwell have alarmed some career law enforcement officials. — Trump administration officials …
NBC News:
Russia took satellite images of U.S. airbase in days before Iranian attack, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says — Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News it would be a “mistake” if American-made missile interceptors bound for Ukraine were diverted to Gulf countries being attacked by Iran.
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BBC:
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis launch missile at Israel for first time since war began
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Yemen's Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack on Israel as war in Middle East intensifies
Live updates: Yemen's Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack on Israel as war in Middle East intensifies
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera and Reuters
Financial Times:
Global markets recoil as Marco Rubio warns war in Iran could stretch for weeks — Comments from US secretary of state come as oil jumps to $114 and Wall Street stocks slide — Marco Rubio warned of enduring disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz and said the war in Iran could stretch …
Radley Balko / The Watch:
You can't hide your lying ICE — I'm currently working on a new edition of my first book, Rise of the Warrior Cop. It will have an updated introduction, plus at least two — and likely three — new chapters that will bring the police militarization narrative through the Biden years …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Stephen Miller's Latest Low — The latest front in Stephen Miller's personal and political war on the 14th Amendment, which began last January with President Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship, centers on the equal protection clause. — In 1982, in Plyler v. Doe …
Adam Wren / Politico:
Why some Democrats want to shut off Hasan Piker's ‘megaphone’ … Piker's rise as a Democratic influencer and surrogate coincides with the party's long search for a path out of the wilderness, particularly in recapturing young men. — Piker is scheduled to appear on a livestreamed …
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Mediaite and New York Times
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
‘The alarm bells are going off’: Air travel hits new lows … Even investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board en route to LaGuardia Airport to investigate the crash there were not immune to the chaos: One specialist was stuck in an hourslong Transportation Security Administration line …
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Yahoo News
Steve Mollman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Impeachment: Democrat Warns President's GOP Support Cracking — George Conway, a former Republican lawyer turned one of President Donald Trump's most outspoken critics who is now running for Congress as a Democrat, said on Friday that the president's grip on his own party is weaker …
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National Review and Fox News
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