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Dasha Burns / Politico:
‘Pulte got really scared’: Inside the White House debate over Trump's elections speech  —  President Donald Trump's Thursday night speech was far tamer than some of his closest aides feared.  —  Acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte, a favorite of the president's …
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New York Times:
Trump's Election Claims and SAVE Act Push Find Muted Response From G.O.P. Lawmakers  —  Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president's claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.
Maggie Miller / Politico:
Trump's rhetoric is more dangerous than voting machine flaws, experts say  —  Election officials are warning that President Donald Trump's assertion that America's voting machines aren't safe is far more dangerous than the vulnerabilities he highlighted in his Thursday night address.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Low-T, High Chair
Discussion: Althouse
Associated Press:
Trump says these documents prove his false claims of election fraud. Here's what they really say
New York Times:
They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents.  The Cases Are Crumbling.  —  The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.  —  In its nationwide immigration crackdown, the Trump administration …
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital.  And He Intends to Spend It.  —  Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times  —  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is riding high.  In an era when the public is sour on politics, recent polls show him actually becoming more popular among New Yorkers.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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Sally Goldenberg / New York Times:
Mamdani Says He May Still Order Netanyahu's Arrest  —  Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an interview with The New York Times that he was in “an active conversation” with New York City's Law Department on whether he had the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.
Discussion: Haaretz
Politico:
Trump administration activates never-before-used ‘alien terrorist’ deportation court  —  The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘Insane’: Republicans Push To Punish Canada For Wildfires  —  “We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and other Republicans on Friday threatened to punish Canada as smoke …
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Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Trump fumes over Canadian wildfire smoke and issues tariff threat
Senator Moreno:
Moreno Announces Bill to Sanction Canada for Wildfire Pollution Emergency
Politico:
'It's scary': Scandal sends Wisconsin Dems into freakout mode over governor's race  —  LAKE TOMAHAWK, Wisconsin — Sara Rodriguez had a prime opportunity this past Saturday to show voters gathered for a gubernatorial candidate forum in Wisconsin's rural Northwoods that she was the person …
John Hendel / Politico:
‘Mr. Carr, please say even crazier autocratic stuff’: Inside the GOP backlash to the FCC chair … Brendan Carr's use of the Federal Communications Commission to punish President Donald Trump's critics is lighting a fire among old-school conservatives who dream of abolishing the agency — or at least clipping its wings.
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Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report  —  Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.  —  Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after warning …
Discussion: Al Jazeera and MS NOW
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:   Did Trump fire someone trying to stop IRS abuses?
Andrew Dorn / The Hill:
Could the ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite affect grocery prices?  —  (NewsNation) — A cyclospora outbreak that health officials have linked to lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in five states is raising a new question for grocery shoppers: Could it affect produce prices?
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Forbes:
Taylor Farms Recalls Iceberg Lettuce Traced To Farm In Mexico Amid Cyclosporiasis Outbreak
Alix Martichoux / The Hill:
GLP-1 insurance change impacts millions of Americans: What to know, how to tell if you're covered  —  (NEXSTAR) - Insurance coverage just changed for as many as 56 million Americans when it comes to the popular GLP-1 medications used to promote weight loss.  —  Medicare announced …
Wall Street Journal:
The New Washington Temptation: Inside Information and a Prediction Market Account  —  White House officials are grappling with how deeply political betting has worked itself into fabric of government  —  WASHINGTON—Alarm bells went off inside the White House Counsel's Office earlier this year …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir  —  After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller all threw the weight of the U.S. government behind a far-right conspiracy theory that says Trump and his loyalists are defending the United States of America against a communist takeover.
NPR:
Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies  —  The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who allegedly fatally shot a Colombian man in Maine on Monday was prone to violence and held racist beliefs, according to some of the people who were close to him.
Discussion: New York Times and Forbes
Amy Fried / MS NOW:
The ICE shooting in Maine upended Susan Collins' re-election race  —  Graham Platner's exit had dominated the contest, but the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero starkly shifted Mainers' attention.  —  Nothing has absorbed Maine politics like the candidacy of Graham Platner.
Astead Herndon / Vox:
How the Michigan Senate primary became a battle for Democrats' soul  —  The Democratic Party is at war with itself, and nowhere is the fight clearer than the Michigan Senate primary.  On one side: Rep. Haley Stevens, backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the establishment …
Discussion: The Hill and NOTUS
Bryan Walsh / Vox:
The most important thing about the big new federal housing law  —  Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the universe.  After the better part of a century, they're still looking.  But social science, improbably, may have beaten them to it.
Nancy Lapid / Reuters:
Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members age 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness.
Jesse Sarles / CBS News:
Employee of Aurora ICE Processing Center arrested, accused of shooting Colorado protester  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  An employee of a group that operates a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment center in Aurora, Colorado, was arrested after police said he shot and wounded a woman Thursday night.
Jay Willis / Balls & Strikes:
Anti-Trans Activists Know What the Supreme Court Will Let Them Do Next  —  In the paragraph that follows, I am going to briefly subject you to something that, if I were not writing a newsletter, I would not ask my worst enemy to read: insights from the mind of Riley Gaines …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
AIPAC drops online donations to Dems who backed Israel aid cut  —  The campaign finance arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is curtailing online contributions to House Democrats who voted to cut Israel aid this week, in the latest rift between the party and the influential advocacy group.
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Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Oil Prices Rise to Highest Level in a Month as Shipping in the Persian Gulf Nears a Halt
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Washington Post:
Energized voters could be key to Democratic victories in midterms, poll finds
Washington Post:
Cambridge chose ideology over public safety. Now a city worker is dead.
Discussion: HotAir
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Trump's War on Journalists
Lexi Churchill / ProPublica:
How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
David Gelles / New York Times:
How Companies Have Abandoned Their Climate Goals and Let Themselves Off the Hook
Erik Uebelacker / Courthouse News Service:
ICE makes arrests at NYC immigration court despite court ban
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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The Bulwark:
Trump Voters Say JD Vance Gives Them the Willies
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Judge rules OMB can't retroactively nix grants based on new rules
Samuel Benson / Politico:
We Went to a Yacht Party for the Most Pro-Deportation People in DC
New York Times:
Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars
Discussion: NPR, Wall Street Journal and New Yorker
 

 
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
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Reuters:
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