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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:
Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships — Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service members across multiple ships and even multiple branches.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says USS Lincoln's deployment was ‘not nearly long enough’ — President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed claims that families of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have concerns about conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, which has been deployed for nearly nine months supporting operations in the Middle East.
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Trump dismisses families' concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions — The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea has been deployed for nearly nine months. — President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the concerns of military families about worsening conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Dismisses Reports About Dire Conditions Aboard U.S. Aircraft Carrier — Asked whether the deployment of the Abraham Lincoln had gone on too long, the president said its deployment had lasted “not nearly long enough.” — President Trump on Friday dismissed concerns …
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ABC News, MS NOW, NBC News, The Hill, NOTUS, TMZ.com, Task & Purpose and National Politics
Associated Press:
Trump says USS Lincoln's record time at sea during Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’
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The Hill, UPI, The Atlantic, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, CNBC and CBS News
MS NOW:
‘The boat is finally getting to me’: Wife of USS Abraham Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard shares texts
‘The boat is finally getting to me’: Wife of USS Abraham Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard shares texts
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Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post:
DeSantis says he doesn't support Republican Rep. Cory Mills in Tuesday's primary — The congressman is running for a third term under a cloud of controversy. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday he does not support Rep. Cory Mills (R-Florida), who faces three GOP challengers in a primary Tuesday.
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Florida Politics and Politico
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis says he doesn't support embattled Florida Rep. Cory Mills
DeSantis says he doesn't support embattled Florida Rep. Cory Mills
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Washington Examiner, NOTUS, Washington Times, Breitbart, Blaze Media, Joe.My.God. and Florida Politics
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity — A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light. — If corporations become more powerful than national governments, we are all in trouble. The reason for this is straightforward: Corporations are not real objects. They do not exist in nature.
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industriall-union and Electrek
Washington Post:
Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch — Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said. — Summary — Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources …
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The Guardian and New York Times
US Department of Justice:
Massachusetts Mayor Charged with Pandemic Loan Fraud and Money Laundering — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts — BOSTON - The Mayor of Lawrence, Mass. was arrested and charged today with fraudulently obtaining over $1.5 million in COVID small-business loans …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Boston.com and WBUR
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Michael Casey / Associated Press:
Massachusetts mayor accused of using a pandemic loan to fund election campaign and pay his taxes
Massachusetts mayor accused of using a pandemic loan to fund election campaign and pay his taxes
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The Daily Wire, Fox News and Washington Times
NBC News:
FBI reports record decrease in violent crime in 2025 — Both the violent crime and murder rates have decreased annually since spiking in 2022, the agency has found. — Statistics released Friday by the FBI showed record decreases last year in both the national estimated violent crime rate …
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Associated Press, Jeff-alytics, Modern Diplomacy, NewsMax.com, MS NOW and Fox News
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Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Violent crime plummeted in 2025, with murder rate hitting 20-year low, FBI says
Violent crime plummeted in 2025, with murder rate hitting 20-year low, FBI says
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Straight Arrow
Finya Swai / The Hill:
Mark Kelly on aircraft carrier catapult order: ‘Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff’ — Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
BBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suit — The BBC is seeking to subpoena President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
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Forbes and Newsweek, more at Mediagazer »
ProPublica:
How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart — It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota's U.S. attorney's office, received an urgent email from Washington. — The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases …
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Fox News, The Preamble, Votebeat, twitchy.com, American Immigration Council and Acacia Center for Justice
Are you f'ng kidding me?:
Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud — Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House. — Good. — The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth …
Associated Press:
Reform UK's Nigel Farage beats a slate of fringe candidates in election boycotted by major parties — Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce.
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Anna Gross / Financial Times:
Farage won in Clacton. But there are bigger tests to come
Farage won in Clacton. But there are bigger tests to come
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Neil Irwin / Axios:
Consumer sentiment dips, especially among Republicans — Public opinion about the economy appears to be souring further this month, per the preliminary release of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index. … - The index fell to 51, from 55.2 in July.
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Quartz, KQTV-TV, Forbes, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
The unexpected issue dividing parties and midterms candidates … Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence. — You can see it in candidates of both major parties trying …
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Axios and NewsMax.com
Media Matters for America:
Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are “privileged little shits” who need “somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them” — Giuliani: “Well who cares if they're squeezing? Their grandparents felt the Depression and were pro-American. They don't have anything like the Depression.
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Joe.My.God.
Casey Michel / The Atlantic:
A Green Light for Crooks — The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption. — Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country.
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The Contrarian, Axios, The Bulwark and New Republic
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Attorney General Blanche appears to endorse GOP candidate in latest politicization of DOJ — Less than a week after Senate Republicans confirmed him as U.S. attorney general, Todd Blanche spoke at a political rally and appeared to endorse a Republican candidate for New York governor …
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Gothamist
The Guardian:
Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ — Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’ — The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK …
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Al Jazeera, Daily Mail and The Times of Israel
Politico:
Trump-appointed regulator OKs banking license for Trump-linked crypto firm — The Trump administration has granted preliminary approval for a cryptocurrency venture backed by President Donald Trump's family to operate a federally chartered trust bank, over the objection of Democrats …
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CNBC, more at Techmeme »
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory — President Trump claimed during remarks on Long Island, N.Y., on Friday that he will make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, despite the fact that Oman and Iran share jurisdiction of the waterway.
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NOTUS, Al Jazeera, Fox News, The Guardian, Joe.My.God. and France 24
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's war on juries — Jurors are being told that their careful work doesn't matter. — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — It's no secret that President Donald Trump doesn't really believe in the justice system. For him, it serves only two purposes: protecting himself and hurting others.
Seth Klamann / Denver Post:
‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor — In the days after December meeting, several agencies in attendance announced cuts or adverse actions against the state — In mid-December, an assistant to President Donald Trump summoned officials …
Politico:
U.S.-Iran ceasefire set to expire with talks at a standstill — The fragile monthlong ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears set to expire Monday absent a last-minute deal to extend it and potentially end the war between the two nations. — A senior White House official …
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Reuters
Politico:
The solar super PAC's next target — EXCLUSIVE: A clean energy group made waves by spending big to help oust Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) in last week's primary. Now they've settled on their next line of attack. — The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, backed by solar executives and investors …
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Washington Post and NewsMax.com
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Trump DOJ fails to convince full Sixth Circuit to resurrect Michigan voter roll loss — The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected the Trump administration's request to reconsider a ruling that denied the Department of Justice's demand for Michigan's unredacted statewide voter file …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola Pushes Back Against Endorsement From Kamala Harris — The campaign of Mary Peltola said it was focused on issues important to Alaska and did not approve a message of support from Ms. Harris. — For former Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat …
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FactCheck.org, Anchorage Daily News, Townhall and FairVote
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Fifth Circuit Cites A Ruling Calling Mail-In Ballots “Vital” To Falsely Claim They “Jeopardize Democracy Itself” — from the judicial-citation-laundering dept — You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham …
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Mother Jones
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Little Thefts, Big Charges: Trump's Justice Dept. Targets Lesser Fraud — As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.
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Wall Street Journal
Will Leitch / Washington Post:
Trump's attack on a think tank is an affront to the First Amendment — Think tanks help make America exceptional. — Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank and punish its corporate donors over research the White House didn't like …
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NOTUS and Blaze Media
Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Senior White House National Security Aide Andy Baker to Exit — White House deputy national security adviser Andy Baker plans to leave his post in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter, depriving the Trump administration of one of its foreign policy decision makers.
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Axios, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Vic Verbalaitis / The Daily Beast:
Drunk Trump Aide Busted Playing With Sex Toy in Bizarre Video — NOT SAFE FOR WORK — The longtime Trump aide was caught having a little too much fun. — A deputy assistant to President Donald Trump was caught on camera drunkenly playing around with a sex toy hours after attending a children's hospital benefit gala at Mar-a-Lago.
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Daily Mail
