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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.
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 …
Reuters:
Trump says he ended security for former top COVID official Anthony Fauci
Evelyn Holmes / ABC7:
US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents: officials  —  Chicago Public Schools officials claimed they denied ICE entry to Hamline Elementary School Friday morning  —  Live streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming.
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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
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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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Facing FBI investigation that Trump could halt, Andy Ogles proposes allowing third term for president  —  The Tennessee congressman, who was effusive in his praise of President Trump, faces an FBI investigation over allegations of fraud in reporting a $320,000 personal loan to his campaign.
Discussion: CNBC
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New GOP bill would let Trump (but not Obama) run for a third term
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.
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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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.
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 …
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Jessica Blake / Inside Higher Ed:   Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders
Washington Post:
Supreme Court to weigh whether states can allow religious public schools  —  The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country  —  The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether …
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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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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.
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 …
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 …
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Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
Trump pardons anti-abortion activists who blockaded clinic entrances
Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans  —  Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar  —  Banks are getting ready to sell billions of dollars in debt borrowed by Elon Musk's X, bringing Wall Street a step closer to exiting …
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 …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive  —  Locked out of power in Washington, the party is struggling to agree on a unified message of opposition.  Some of its lawmakers are even telling Republicans they want to work together.  —  As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape …
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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 …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The immigrant crackdown has begun.  Its first target might surprise you.  —  Trump is not just going after foreigners who break the law.  —  Donald Trump promised to crack down on illegal immigration, a vow many Americans support.  But so far, his administration has been much more fixated …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun, RTÉ and CBS News
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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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump recommends ending FEMA ahead of California fire site visit
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.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide  —  Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.  —  The Trump administration has halted disbursement …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats worry a repeat loser will ruin their chances in a Michigan battleground  —  Some Democrats are worried the third time will not be the charm for a failed congressional candidate.  Carl Marlinga, a septuagenarian former judge and attorney, is telling Michigan Democrats that he plans …
Discussion: Raw Story
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside  —  A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.”  It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.
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?
 
 
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Associated Press:
Senate is preparing to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary in late evening vote
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump's DOJ asks Supreme Court to freeze cases on student debt, environment
Mia Cathell / Townhall:
Trump DOJ Dismisses Case Against Doctor Who Exposed ‘Trans’ Surgeries at Texas Children's Hospital
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's DEI push doesn't level the playing field. It digs trenches.
Discussion: HotAir and ClearanceJobs
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The owner of CBS News is talking about caving to Trump
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
John Cole / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Fetterman touts new federal rule boosting wages for thousands of federal workers in Pa.
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Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Far-right pundit Matt Walsh rails against women in law enforcement: 'It's an absurdity!'
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
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
DOJ asks judge to drop order barring Oath Keepers from visiting Capitol
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
“A pact with the devil”  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest …