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Wall Street Journal:
Behind Trump's Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears — The president's impulsive style has never before been tested during a sustained military conflict; ruminating on Jimmy Carter — It seemed like Donald Trump's appetite for risk had run out, and his fears were ramping up.
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The Times of Israel
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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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PressTV, NewsMax.com, France 24 and Politico
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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NewsMax.com, Mediaite and The Mahablog
NBC News:
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial — Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. … Donna Gustafson had a harder time than usual shaking off …
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STAT
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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Civil Discourse …, The Gateway Pundit and MS NOW
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Washington Post:
Trump's fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds — The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year. — Summary — President Donald Trump had just begun a Jan. 9 meeting at the White House with oil …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Construction on Trump's White House ballroom can continue for now, US appeals court says — A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue building a $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling a day after a lower court judge continued to block above-ground construction on the site of the former East Wing.
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WUSA, Digby's Hullabaloo and CBS News
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Appeals Court Again Allows Ballroom Construction to Go On, for Now
Appeals Court Again Allows Ballroom Construction to Go On, for Now
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The Guardian, NBC News, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, The Hill and Reuters
Advocate:
A forceful opening — The opinion opened with unusually blunt language, calling out the case as a broader test of the rule of law. — “Unserious leaders are unsafe. There is nothing more serious than our leaders' dedication to the rule of law so that we might maintain the integrity of our constitutional democracy,” Kasubhai wrote.
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 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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The Independent, SpyTalk, Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire, The Hill, twitchy.com, HuffPost, Raw Story, IJR, Mediaite, MS NOW, TMZ.com, NewsMax.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Raw Story and Associated Press
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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Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Althouse
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray — Good Saturday morning. This is Irie Sentner, taking the helm. Get in touch. — DRIVING THE DAY — The latest battle in the 2026 redistricting wars …
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Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not.
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The Independent and The Hill
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 and Political Wire
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.
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Breitbart, twitchy.com, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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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ABC News, Al Jazeera, KDFX-TV, Techdirt, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, NBC News and Washington 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, IJR, NPR, Associated Press, KARE-TV, Straight Arrow News, Townhall, The Post Millennial and Breitbart
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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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