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Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat — Philip Montgomery for The New York Times — It has been quite a week for Chuck Schumer. When I spoke to the Senate minority leader on Monday, we talked about a lot of things: the direction of his party …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Althouse and The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder — Unlike in Trump's first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done, per the NBC News poll.
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Politico, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA, No More Mister Nice Blog, Bloomberg, Fox News and Daily Kos

CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low — The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.

Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change
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New York Post, Axios and Mediaite

Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge's order stopping removal — The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge's order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting …
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US deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order — A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador, hours after a US judge ordered the Trump administration not to do so. — El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media …
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DNyuz, Wall Street Journal, Twitchy, RedState, FOX 32 Chicago, The Gateway Pundit, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Townhall and Associated Press

Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
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The Status Kuo

He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. — Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics. — They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse …
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Raw Story and Saywhat Politics

Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans — The Trump administration's hard stance on tariffs and other international policies has some travelers rethinking where they vacation. — International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump's trade policies …
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The Independent

Trump tapped Kari Lake to run VOA. Then he dismantled it. — Lake had big plans to transform the outlet into a powerful “weapon” to fight an “information war.” Instead, the president has essentially shut it down. — Just now — During his first term, Donald Trump accused Voice …
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CNN, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Politico, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, DNyuz and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »
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Trump moves to close down Voice of America
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Townhall, DNyuz, Twitchy, The Kyiv Independent, The Independent, Associated Press and Committee to Protect …, more at Mediagazer »
Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
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New York Times, LinkedIn, Reason, Associated Press, RedState, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, Reporters Without Borders, WUSA, Semafor, DNyuz, Deadline and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »

Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest — The counties where tariffs could hit jobs, by presidential vote winner — Source: New York Times analysis of data from Lightcast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Note: Vote results are for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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Daily Mail and Fox Business
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Don't Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia — Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime.
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The Guardian, Politico, archive.ph and Associated Press
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David Pozen / Balkinization:
A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
Meghan O'Rourke / New York Times:
The View Inside Trump's Assault on Universities
The View Inside Trump's Assault on Universities
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The Guardian, San Diego Union-Tribune, Fox News and The Intercept

Wall Street hoped Scott Bessent would keep Trump in check. He had other ideas. — The Treasury secretary's muted reassurances to financial markets shows there may be no one in the administration willing to stand in the way of Trump's agenda. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent …
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Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says he's ‘not at all’ worried amid a stock market selloff
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says he's ‘not at all’ worried amid a stock market selloff
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The Hill, Rolling Stone, Reuters, Business Insider, Breitbart and Fox Business

Featured Comment — Bill Clinton enacted his Reinventing Government package of streamlining restructuring (REIGO) in 1993, when he still held legislative majorities. It was passed by a margin of ONE VOTE. Al Gore was the one who actually drafted the plan in writing …

Nita Lowey, first woman to chair House appropriations panel, dies at 87 — A liberal Democrat from New York, she championed women's issues and rose to one of the most influential positions on Capitol Hill during 32 years in Congress. — Nita M. Lowey, a liberal New York Democrat who won …
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The Hill
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Joseph P. Fried / New York Times:
Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87
Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87
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Fox News, DNyuz, One America News Network and New York Post

Surgeon and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge's Order — Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order. — A kidney transplant specialist and professor …
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DNyuz, The Providence Journal and The Boston Globe

‘Not getting the donations’: DC insider notes Kennedy Center decline after Trump takeover — A longtime insider who has been at the center of the Washington, D.C. social scene for decade claims Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center is destroying the venerable institution as ticket sales dry up …
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The Guardian

132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation — A quick take on some of the questions raised by President Trump's ... dubious invocation of a 1798 statute as a basis for arresting, detaining, and removing non-citizens with ties to Tren de Aragua.
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Shipwreckedcrew's Port-O-Call, JURIST, Simple Justice and The White House

A Trump county worries Medicaid cuts could throw them back into opioid spiral — The president has said entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security will remain untouched, even as he pushes for a contraction of federal spending. — HARLAN, Ky. — Candice Fee …

Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning — “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
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Rolling Stone

Trump's Moves Are Boosting Stocks ... Overseas — For years, the S&P 500 soared above the stock indexes of other countries. But since Trump's inauguration, it has fallen 6 percent and is now trailing major markets in Europe and China. — President Trump has promised to create an age …