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Politico:
‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address … “Two, three weeks, definable objectives. ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ — and we are hanging around a couple of weeks to conquer some more — maybe even then a ceasefire, while reiterating …
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Financial Times:
Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition — Nato's top official urged key alliance members to offer help to US to reopen key waterway — Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a …
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Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato — Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy — Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.
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Telegraph:
Trump interview: The King would have stood by me over Iran
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The Hill, The Guardian, The US Sun and The Independent
Steve Holland / Reuters:
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
Trump Will Lose the Birthright Citizenship Case. But in a Way, He's Already Won. — If anything was clear during Wednesday's Supreme Court oral argument in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, it's that President Trump is going to lose. The justices' questions were skeptical enough …
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DeLong's Grasping Reality and Fox News
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's grip on the Supreme Court seems to be slipping … President Donald Trump seems to be losing his grip on the Supreme Court. … Arguments at the high court Wednesday suggested another loss may be looming over his attempt to end birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants and foreigners on short-term visas.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments — Live oral arguments from the Supreme Court of the United States as justices hear arguments over President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship and its compatibility with Constitution's 14th Amendment.
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Justices Express Skepticism Over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in the First Place
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Landmark Challenge to Birthright Citizenship
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Landmark Challenge to Birthright Citizenship
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere
Trump's Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Inside the Supreme Court, as Trump faced the justices he's criticized
Inside the Supreme Court, as Trump faced the justices he's criticized
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The Atlantic:
Public Anger Is Rising — Even TMZ is channeling the national discontent. — For a brief moment last week, Congress started to do something productive. The Senate, after weeks of bickering and fruitless negotiations, unanimously approved legislation to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security …
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Kevin Frey / MS NOW:
Mike Johnson caves on Senate's DHS deal, paving way to end shutdown — Just days after labeling the Senate deal to end the record-breaking shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security a “crap sandwich,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appears ready to swallow it whole.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate and House Republicans Strike Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown
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Politico:
House GOP relents on DHS funding plan after Trump weighs in
House GOP relents on DHS funding plan after Trump weighs in
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
The D.H.S. shutdown is the longest in history.
The D.H.S. shutdown is the longest in history.
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Washington Post:
Risky commando plan to seize Iran's uranium came at Trump's request — A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran's nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime. — The U.S. military has given the president …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
'I Don't Care About That': Trump Says Iran's Enriched Uranium Is Not a Concern — President Trump's statement was the second time in 24 hours that he had declared that the nuclear problem with Iran had been solved, despite all evidence to the contrary. — For more than a decade President Trump …
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New Republic, Israpundit, Ace of Spades HQ, The Independent and Associated Press
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Has Discussed Firing Attorney General Pam Bondi — President Trump has not made a final decision, but he has floated the idea of replacing Ms. Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator. — President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days …
Jim Pattiz / More Than Just Parks:
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service — Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency's 121-year history.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
Donald Trump faces deep public skepticism about Iran war ahead of White House speech, CNN poll finds — The Middle East Donald Trump Election polls — Just one-third of the public believes President Donald Trump has a clear plan to handle the situation in Iran, according to a new CNN poll conducted …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours — President Trump has been dealt his fourth legal loss in less than 24 hours, as the federal judiciary rebukes his various abuses of presidential powers. — On Tuesday evening, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump's claim …
Julia Métraux / Mother Jones:
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's Death Was a Homicide — County medical examiners announced the ruling on Wednesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating. — On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office announced that it ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam …
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Reuters and NY State Attorney General
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported — The top official in charge of the federal government's disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he's experienced “teleportation” - an experience he insists was real …
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents — EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees …
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Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
DHS reverses Noem's controversial contract approval policy … Democrats celebrated the reversal. — “Just last month, Oversight Democrats called on the Department of Homeland Security to scrap the policy forcing the Secretary to sign off on contracts over $100,000, a setup that opened …
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Associated Press:
'Bob's Burgers' actor Eugene Mirman rescued from fiery crash by New Hampshire governor's detail — “Bob's Burgers” voice actor and comedian Eugene Mirman suffered serious injuries after crashing his car into a toll plaza and being pulled from the fiery wreckage by a state trooper assigned to protect the governor of New Hampshire.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Actual Danger of Trump's Phony Vote-by-Mail Executive Order — Sometimes it's the chaos, not the cruelty, that's the point. — That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump's second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday. The order purports, among other things …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records … - The law, passed in the post-Watergate era as a hedge against government corruption, states that every official record regarding a president's decisions or policies belongs to the U.S. government, not the president.
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TMZ.com:
30 Members of Congress In Scotland On Taxpayers' Dime Amid Shutdown — 2:40 PM PT — We've ID'd another legislator in the Edinburgh Castle crowd ... Michigan's Rep. Bill Huizenga is the guy in the blue jacket sitting against the wall. His spokesman told local outlet, Michigan Advance …
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Raw Story
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way — Can't a president go watch his justices? — Subjects! — Yes, I am here watching the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. What of it? Can't a sitting president come watch an oral argument …
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East — Almost 750 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023, an analysis by The Intercept has found. But the Pentagon won't acknowledge it.
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