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Jack Goldsmith / Executive Functions:
A Dishonorable Strike  —  Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Roundup—brief daily summaries of news developments and commentary related to executive power.  —  One can imagine stretching Article II of the Constitution to authorize the U.S. drug boat campaign.
Discussion: To the Contrary, Reason and DNYUZ
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emptywheel:
Murder  —  In the last few days, we've got allegations of murder against two men who worked in counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, Whiskey Pete Hegseth and Rahmanullah Lakanwal.  —  We don't yet know why Lakanwal drove from Bellingham, WA, across the country, to allegedly ambush two members …
BBC:
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88  —  Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the UK's best-known playwrights, has died aged 88, his agents have announced.  —  Sir Tom, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, “died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family”.
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Claire Armitstead / The Guardian:
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88  —  A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter  —  The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled …
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:
F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals  —  The agency's top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children's deaths to the Covid vaccine.  But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
FDA to tighten vaccine rules after memo ties COVID-19 shot to child deaths
Politico:
Trump orders the closure of Venezuelan airspace … But Trump's move to close the airspace “in its entirety” goes further than the FAA's decision, signaling the U.S. now views Venezuelan skies as an active security threat, not just a risky transit zone.  —  The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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New York Times:
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
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José Olivares / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth denies that he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’  —  Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military  —  The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has declared recent reporting that he may have illegally ordered …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Inside Trump's Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible … As President Trump took a stroll on the White House roof in August, generating headlines and questions about what he was up to, the man walking beside him was little noticed.  —  Wearing his signature bow tie …
Discussion: HuffPost
New York Times:
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans  —  They were the latest restrictive changes to the immigration system after this week's shooting of two National Guard members.  —  The United States on Friday paused all asylum decisions and stopped issuing visas to people …
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Washington Post:
U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals
Associated Press:
Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees. Experts say many are already in place
Lauren Gardner / Politico:
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines … “You're playing with fire, because I think that we could seriously lose small vaccine manufacturers,” said Richard Hughes, a vaccine lawyer and former executive at vaccine maker Moderna.
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's Watch  —  Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible.  President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.
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Associated Press:
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
José Luis Granados Ceja / Drop Site News:
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Since Trump's Return, Bets on His Brand Have Soured  —  Stocks and cryptocurrencies tied to the president and his family have tumbled amid a broader rout of riskier assets  —  Stocks and cryptocurrencies linked to President Trump are in a deep slump, leaving some of the president's biggest fans with steep losses.
Discussion: Raw Story
Delano Massey / Axios:
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress … - $3.4 billion in grants for HBCUs, public health research and Black entrepreneurs have been cut or frozen, according to the Blackout Report, from the nonprofit Onyx Impact.  — 6,769 federal datasets have been deleted …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
As Trump's popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump's mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump's people are trying to grab all they can, while they can.  —  A source has told The Telegraph that Trump …
 
 
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Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
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Tal Axelrod / Axios:
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Trump Says He Is Canceling Biden Executive Orders Signed With Autopen
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Reuters:
Airbus issues major A320 recall, threatening widespread global disruption
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort
 
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