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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump has pulled Fauci's security detail, source says  —  President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN.  It was pulled on Thursday night.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignorance  —  If you feel off-kilter, you're in good company.  The president seems downright bewildered.  —  “I think we're going to do things that people would be shocked at,” President Donald Trump declared on his second day in office.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Crush the Academic Left  —  Last year, Chris Rufo, the influential right-wing strategist who spearheaded the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., initiatives, told me about his ambitions for a second Trump presidency.  He hoped, he said …
Reuters:
Trump says he ended security for former top COVID official Anthony Fauci
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump cuts Fauci's security detail
Vi Nguyen / NBC Chicago:
ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school amid heightened concerns of raids  —  Schools across the Chicago area have released guidance about potential situations after the Trump Administration revoked previous guidance prohibiting immigration arrests at schools, churches and hospitals
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WLS / ABC7:
ICE agents denied entry to South Side elementary school, Chicago Public Schools claims  —  CPS and CTU officials claim ICE agents were denied entry to a school Friday.  —  CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago Public Schools officials claim U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were denied entry …
Financial Times:
Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland  —  US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island  —  Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark's prime minister, according to senior European officials.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis.  RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.  —  New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump's pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U.S. citizens  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka.  —  The incident, which could not immediately …
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City of Newark:
MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA'S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Politico:
State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid  —  The “stop-work orders” appear to apply to US aid for all countries except Israel and Egypt.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days.
Discussion: Financial Times, Reuters, Forbes and DNyuz
Charles Kaiser / Columbia Journalism Review:
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times  —  The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.  —  For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Elon Musk doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt  —  Since Donald Trump's rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right.  —  Be it Laura Ingraham allegedly sieg-heiling at the 2016 Republican National Convention …
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Trump Says States Should Manage Disasters.  Former FEMA Leaders Agree.  —  “I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said.  Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.  —  President Trump plans to tour damage on Friday …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom plans to crash Trump's LA wildfire visit
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump recommends ending FEMA ahead of California fire site visit
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr  —  Wanted to share some information on the RFK Jr. nomination before the Senate.  —  It probably won't surprise you that RFK Jr., along with Tulsi Gabbard, are among the few Trump nominees who might actually not get confirmed.
Walter Olson / The UnPopulist:
Trump's Obscene Jan. 6 Pardons Will Live in Infamy  —  Sanctioning violence is what authoritarians do  —  As Inauguration Day neared, Donald Trump and his associates put out a reassuring message: while the new president would pardon many Jan. 6 rioters, as he had promised supporters, he would do so in a responsible and prudent way.
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Wall Street Journal:
Freed Jan. 6 Convicts Are Back on the Street and Ready to Help Trump
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Post
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
There Is No Resistance  —  To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald …
Discussion: NewsBreak
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration  —  President has thrown weight of justice department behind two politically charged reviews into his personal grievances  —  Donald Trump has tasked the attorney general in two executive orders to conduct far-reaching investigations …
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do  —  Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion.  “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen” … The Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder reportedly promised the administration …
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New York Times:
Sensing Political Support, Abortion Opponents Raise Ambitions  —  The March for Life on Friday will bring together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.  —  Anti-abortion activists are charging ahead with their ultimate mission to end all abortions nationwide …
NBC News:
Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once  —  The new feature, announced by the Office of Personnel Management, aligns with the goals of DOGE.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials …
Discussion: The Root
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CBS News:
Trump administration confuses government workers with email test message
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to hear church-state fight over Oklahoma bid to launch first publicly funded religious school  —  An attempt to authorize the Catholic school was challenged as a violation of the First Amendment, which limits government involvement in religion.
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. skipped meeting where officials planned fight against a future pandemic  —  The session between Trump and Biden administration officials is required of transitions and included other Trump Cabinet nominees.  —  As Biden officials packed up the White House last week …
Jessica Blake / Inside Higher Ed:
Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders  —  The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President Trump's executive …
Punchbowl News:
Inside the room: Where House Republicans are looking to slash … We got our hands on the presentations that House committee chairs made during a closed-door Republican conference meeting this week.  —  They lay out a road map of where the GOP's hunt for spending cuts is heading right now.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and DNyuz
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Two Words and a World of Trouble  —  Let me tell you a story about clowns evolving into velociraptors.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Bill Kristol sat in for Sarah on the Secret Pod today and it was dark.  Just a warning.  If you're not in good head-space to begin with today, maybe skip this episode?
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New GOP bill would let Trump (but not Obama) run for a third term  —  Rep. Andy Ogles' bill to amend the Constitution and empower Donald Trump to seek a third term will inevitably fail.  That doesn't mean it's irrelevant.  —  About a week after Donald Trump was elected to a second term …
Melissa Repko / CNBC:
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat … Target on Friday said it's rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion programs — including some that aim to make its workforce and merchandise better reflect its customers.  —  In a memo sent to its employees …
John Cole / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Fetterman touts new federal rule boosting wages for thousands of federal workers in Pa.  —  Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is hailing a new rule that ends a longstanding pay disparity between hourly and salaried federal workers.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's DEI push doesn't level the playing field. It digs trenches.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The owner of CBS News is talking about caving to Trump
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Far-right pundit Matt Walsh rails against women in law enforcement: 'It's an absurdity!'
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside
 Earlier Items: 
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Trump Tells BofA's Moynihan to Stop Blocking Conservatives
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
LA Times owner on spiking Harris endorsement: 'I knew I'd get pushback'
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Lutnick Lists 800 Firms in Complex Billionaire Ethics Filing
Discussion: New York Times
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Hegseth Told Senator He Paid $50,000 to Woman Who Accused Him of Rape
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
“A pact with the devil”  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest …