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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say — American military will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Iran, as it steps up ‘Economic Fury’ — The U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships …
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Paul Krugman:
Trump Can't Even Surrender Right — When you're losing a war, but it's not an existential defeat, your country, your government can continue pretty much as before. Aside from the humiliation, there's a well-established technique, which is to declare victory and pull out.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump convenes Iran situation room meeting amid renewed Hormuz crisis — President Trump convened a White House Situation Room meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the renewed crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and negotiations with Iran, according to two U.S. officials.
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Axios:
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers
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Sonali Verma / India Today:
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
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Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Naval Today, Townhall, Bloomberg, MeidasTouch News, The Japan Times and Middle East Monitor
New York Times:
Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business — Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court's now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. — Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic …
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Miami Herald:
Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir — In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein's plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York.
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The Epstein Files
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. — You've probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted what he apparently thought was a bible verse but was in fact the faux biblicalism delivered by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Pulp Fiction.
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Associated Press, Mother Jones and New York Post
The White House:
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled …
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Mother Jones, NPR, KING-TV, Straight Arrow News, Associated Press, Townhall, The Daily Caller, The Post Millennial and Breitbart
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Order on Psychedelics to Ease FDA Restrictions
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
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STAT, US Food and Drug …, Newsweek, The Daily Wire, Forbes, The Independent, CBS News, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner, UPI and Washington Post
Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not. … Yet three months later, Americans' views of President Donald Trump's deportations campaign remain broadly negative. — New results from The POLITICO Poll show that even as the spotlight has moved away …
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The Independent, The Hill and Third Way
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Erin Doherty / Politico:
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
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The Dean's Report, Digby's Hullabaloo, Political Wire and Breitbart
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says — Add CBS News on Google — Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump's campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election …
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The Gateway Pundit and MS NOW
The Independent:
White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’ — Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel's alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit — Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs. — Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame — “I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday. — Summary — The Trump administration has urged professional football's leaders …
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Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers — Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February.
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
The End Times Customer Service Desk — False prophets, sticky problems, and decent advice on everything from the dire Strait of Hormuz, to fleeing from the world, to aging gracefully when your body has other ideas … Dear Matt, — You've bitched a lot about Trump and the Iran War.
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Walz in Spain rips ‘feeble-minded’ Trump, Vance over Iran war — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) issued sharp criticism against President Trump over his administration's military operations against Iran at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona on Saturday.
Paul Krugman:
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary — More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy. Now, suddenly, a much happier occasion. I found her account of how this happened startling …
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Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump — Zelensky has written off the United States. — For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope—at least publicly—of winning him over. Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia's Vladimir Putin again and again …
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Washington Post:
D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show — The Florida Republican is the focus of a House ethics probe stemming, in part, from the alleged assault. — Summary — D.C. police were about to arrest Rep. Cory Mills (R-Florida) after a woman accused …
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TMZ.com, Raw Story and Florida Politics
