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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say — American military will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Iran, as it steps up ‘Economic Fury’ — The U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships …
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New York Post, The American Conservative, RedState, Algemeiner.com, NewsMax.com, The Hill, Business Insider and Atlantic Council
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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
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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Politico and NewsMax.com
Axios:
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers — Iran said on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is again closed to traffic following threats of such action if the U.S. continued its blockade of the shipping channel. … - “As long as the United States does not agree …
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New York Times, Associated Press, NBC News, The Mahablog, Human Events, UPI, Forbes, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, Clayton Cramer and The Hill
Taz Ali / The Guardian:
Middle East crisis live: tanker reports attack as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; French soldier killed in Lebanon
Middle East crisis live: tanker reports attack as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; French soldier killed in Lebanon
Sonali Verma / India Today:
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Naval Today, Townhall, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Japan Times and Middle East Monitor
New York Times:
Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz
Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz
Reuters:
Trump says he has ‘good news’ on Iran, no clarity on peace deal
Trump says he has ‘good news’ on Iran, no clarity on peace deal
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Townhall, East Idaho News, The Times of Israel, MeidasTouch News, Associated Press, Bloomberg and The Hill
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday …
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday …
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, Politico, ABC News, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, The Hill, New York Sun, PoliticusUSA, Blaze Media and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business — Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court's now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. — Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic …
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SCOTUSblog
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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, NPR, Townhall, KING-TV, Straight Arrow News, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, The Post Millennial and Breitbart
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Order on Psychedelics to Ease FDA Restrictions
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The White House, New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Sun, KDFX-TV, The Guardian, Semafor, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Al Jazeera, MS NOW, Washington Times and Fox News
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
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STAT, US Food and Drug …, Newsweek, The Daily Wire, Forbes, The Independent, CBS News, Mediaite, UPI, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
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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Associated Press, Mother Jones and New York Post
Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not. … Yet three months later, Americans' views of President Donald Trump's deportations campaign remain broadly negative. — New results from The POLITICO Poll show that even as the spotlight has moved away …
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The Independent, The Hill and Third Way
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
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, Digby's Hullabaloo, Political Wire and Breitbart
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 Epstein Files
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 Hill, Fox News, SpyTalk, The Daily Wire, MS NOW, Raw Story, twitchy.com, IJR, NewsMax.com, TMZ.com, Mediaite, New York Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Independent
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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Associated Press, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Raw Story, KDFX-TV, Mediaite, New Republic, MS NOW, NBC News and Washington Post
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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The Gateway Pundit and MS NOW
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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NewsMax.com, CNBC 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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NewsMax.com, Raw Story, Bank of America, Fox News and Althouse
Paul Krugman:
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary — More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy. Now, suddenly, a much happier occasion. I found her account of how this happened startling …
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Mock Paper Scissors
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
The End Times Customer Service Desk — False prophets, sticky problems, and decent advice on everything from the dire Strait of Hormuz, to fleeing from the world, to aging gracefully when your body has other ideas … Dear Matt, — You've bitched a lot about Trump and the Iran War.
Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump — Zelensky has written off the United States. — For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope—at least publicly—of winning him over. Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia's Vladimir Putin again and again …
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Fox News, France 24, Washington Examiner, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, El País and The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Serge Schmemann / New York Times:
This War Has Not Gone Putin's Way
This War Has Not Gone Putin's Way
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Straight Arrow News, The Independent, France 24 and United States Senate Committee …
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.

