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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump photo seems to reference Kennedy Center demolition amid legal battle over closure … A new photo shows President Donald Trump eyeing a poster that appears to reference the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts being demolished, hours after he warned that the building …
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Elleiana Green / Politico:
Trump administration says Kennedy Center closure is ‘temporary’ after Trump alludes to broader shutdown  —  The Trump administration told a federal court on Thursday that the current closure of the Kennedy Center was a “temporary” one, despite the fact it came a day after the president …
New York Times:
Who Will Win the Midterms?  Republicans Are Reeling. … The political environment has worsened for Republicans as they try to defend control of Congress, though the party has a big cash advantage over Democrats.  Alex Kent/The New York Times  —  In Georgia, Republican strategists …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Florida Republican criticizes Trump on immigration in campaign ad  —  Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) forcefully pushed back against President Donald Trump's deportation agenda in a campaign ad released on Thursday, a rare rebuke of the White House's aggressive immigration policy from inside the Republican Party.
Politico:
White House pulls stalled ICE director nominee  —  The White House on Thursday withdrew the nomination of Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a Republican blocked his confirmation hearing.  —  Schroyer's nomination stalled …
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The White House:
Withdrawals Sent to the Senate  —  WITHDRAWALS SENT TO THE SENATE:  —  Jeffrey Anderson, of Georgia, to be Representative of the United States of America on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with the rank of Ambassador, which was sent to the Senate on January 13, 2026.
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump's Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns … Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in his courtroom.  A former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, he does not have the profile of a jurist likely to engage in a high-stakes standoff with the executive branch.Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Voting for a Texas Democrat  —  Bo French's bigoted tweet after a football game is part of a long and ugly pattern.  —  It was a moment every student in Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium will remember for life.  Forty-one seconds into the final quarter on Saturday …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Why Karl Rove, a father of the modern Texas GOP, is voting for a Democrat
Alexis Cortez / KASW-TV:
Longtime Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl dies following dementia diagnosis  —  PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A longtime Arizona Republican congressman has died, months after he announced his dementia diagnosis, according to reports.  —  Jon Kyl, who served in the U.S. House from 1987 to 1995 and the Senate from 1995 to 2013, died Thursday.
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Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump ‘I did that’ stickers pop up on gas pumps, four years after Biden got the same treatment  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is on the receiving end of some sticker shock.  —  Detractors of the president have slapped decals faulting Trump for high gasoline prices on pumps across the country as the war with Iran grinds on.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Hasan Piker on “The Axios Show”: America worse than al-Qaeda “pound for pound”  —  OPEN EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM CDN.JWPLAYER.COM … - “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker said in an exclusive interview for a new episode of “The Axios Show.”
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Carney to Trump: No one tells Canadians what to do  —  “Nobody is going to tell us about what language to speak, no one is going to dictate our culture, or with whom we can strike agreements,” Canadian PM says.  —  STRASBOURG — Canada's warming relationship with the EU “is a positive” …
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Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Carney says Canada will decide its own partnerships after Trump calls EU proposal ‘laughable’
Riley Beggin / Washington Post:
Mike Pence says he has ‘no plans’ to run for president in 2028  —  The former vice president previously challenged his former running mate, President Donald Trump.  —  Former vice president Mike Pence said he has “no plans” to run for president in 2028.  —  The conservative's policy …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Michigan 2026 Poll: El-Sayed and Rogers Locked in Close Election  —  Jocelyn Benson Takes Significant Lead Over John James in Governor Race  —  A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media Michigan poll finds 48% of Michigan voters support Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, and 46% support Republican Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate.
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Bayliss Wagner / New York Times:
Jewish Leaders in Michigan Urge Support for El-Sayed's Senate Bid  —  The public petition comes after other Michigan Jews registered their discontent with Abdul El-Sayed, the state's Democratic Senate nominee.  —  A group of Jewish voters in Michigan is urging support for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
UN report: U.S. may have committed war crimes in Iran  —  The U.S. may have committed war crimes in two airstrikes in Iran, including a mass-casualty strike on a school for which Washington has yet to claim responsibility, a UN fact-finding mission said Thursday.
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Emmy Martin / New York Times:
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior  —  The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.  —  OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes …
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Shapiro slams RFK Jr. as not ‘connected or grounded in reality’ on measles outbreak  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) accused Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday of not taking adequate steps to address a growing measles outbreak in the U.S.
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Tom Bartlett / The Atlantic:
Pennsylvania's Measles Outbreak Is Enormous
Micah Lee / micahflee:
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials  —  This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera.  404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it.
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
You'll Never Guess Who's Saving the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal  —  Nearly two years after an unnoticed amendment to a water resources bill mandated the sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building—a government structure facing the National Mall that contains precious murals by Ben Shahn …
Discussion: Washington …
NBC News:
Democratic senators request Pentagon provide ‘bare minimum’ on cost of Iran war  —  Sen. John Fetterman was the only Senate Democrat who declined to sign a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly the entire Democratic caucus in the Senate is demanding …
Gillian Brockell / American Prospect:
Alligator Alcatraz's Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier  —  This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security released a scathing report last Friday about the shuttered Florida …
Discussion: Palm Beach Post
Colby Smith / New York Times:
The Fed, After Raising Rates, Grapples With What Comes Next  —  Kevin M. Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, on Wednesday left open-ended how much more interest rates may have to rise to tame inflation.  —  After four months of talking tough about inflation, Kevin M. Warsh finally followed through.
Tom Schaller / Public Notice:
Retire in peace  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🏛️ Subscribe to PN 🏛️  —  Mitch McConnell is unfit to serve in the US Senate and should resign immediately — that is, presuming he's lucid enough to wittingly make that decision.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Fantasizes About Dipping Iwo Jima Memorial in Gold  —  The president remains laser-focused on desecrating Washington, D.C.'s most venerated structures  —  ADD US AS A GOOGLE PREFERRED SOURCE  —  The war against Iran is continuing, the affordability crisis is worsening …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say  —  China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen's Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed group's military blitz in the past week, according to three Iranian sources familiar with the matter.
Mira Bhakta / The Hill:
Judge gives Blanche deadline, warns of possible contempt charges over Epstein files  —  A federal judge gave Attorney General Todd Blanche a deadline to comply with court orders Wednesday regarding the release of certain information in the Epstein files, threatening contempt charges for failure to comply.
Discussion: The Washington Sun
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Kim introduces bill to eliminate long waiting periods for disability benefits  —  Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Thursday introduced legislation to phase out waiting periods for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare benefits.  —  Kim's bill, the Stop the Wait Act …
Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico:
JD Vance faces test in White House meeting with Israel-backing radio host  —  NEW YORK — Vice President JD Vance will hit a key hurdle in his fence-mending effort with Jewish Republicans on Thursday when he hosts a popular conservative radio host at the White House.
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)  —  The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
The Washington Sun:
Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services  —  Trump administration officials are preparing to launch an AI-driven website as a clearinghouse for Americans to get services from the federal government.  The functions being discussed for the new website include allowing Americans …
Padraic Halpin / Reuters:
Irish PM worried over hostility to politicians after lawmaker assaulted  —  Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Thursday condemned an assault on an independent politician as “an attack on democracy” and said the country needed to take very seriously a rise in hostility to those in office.
Discussion: Politico
Ed Augustin / The Guardian:
Trump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba's assets if regime falls  —  Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions  —  Spanish hotel chains.  A Canadian mining firm.  European shipping giants.
Jill Lawrence / MS NOW:
Why Joe Manchin's endorsement of Susan Collins is so infuriating  —  When Democratic Sen. John Fetterman introduced his Republican colleague Doug McCormick at the GOP midterm convention, I could only roll my eyes.  But now former Sen. Joe Manchin has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins, and that's infuriating.
 
 
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