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6:25 PM ET, January 26, 2024

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NBC News:
Verdict reached in E. Jean Carroll's defamation damages trial against Trump  —  The verdict comes after a dramatic day in court that included the former president storming out of the courtroom during Carroll's closing argument.  —  The jury in E. Jean Carroll's defamation damages trial …
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New York Times:
Trump-Carroll Defamation Trial  —  Jury Orders Trump to Pay Carroll $83.3 Million for Years of Defamation  —  The jury found Donald J. Trump had acted maliciously in persistently attacking E. Jean Carroll.  He was found liable last year of sexually abusing her.  —  Jury orders Trump to pay Carroll damages for defamation.
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Judge Threatens to Send Trump Lawyer Alina Habba ‘in the Lockup’ at E. Jean Carroll Trial  —  The blockbuster remark came moments before closing arguments in Trump's second trial in a case brought by E. Jean Carroll  —  A federal judge threatened Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba with jail time on Friday …
NBC News:
Trump trial live updates: Closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll case begin  —  Former President Donald Trump attended today's closing arguments briefly before storming out of court.  The judge presiding over the trial also lashed out at his lawyer for being late.
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Donald Trump storms out of closing arguments in E Jean Carroll trial  —  The former president continued to attack the woman suing him for defamation after his testimony on Thursday  —  Why is Donald Trump back in court against E. Jean Carroll?  —  Roughly 20 minutes after walking into the courtroom …
The Hill:
Judge threatens to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail over interruptions  —  U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the federal judge overseeing former President Trump's defamation trial brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, threatened to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail after she interrupted him during Friday's proceedings.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
‘Oath-breaking insurrectionist’ Trump is ineligible for office, Colorado voters tell the Supreme Court  —  The justices hear arguments next month on whether Trump can be barred from office for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results that culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Trump Must Pay $83.3 Million to E. Jean Carroll for Defamation
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump storms out of courtroom during closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll's defamation damages trial
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
E. Jean Carroll book mentioned in Trump trial soars to $2,100 a copy
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Trump's border power play is a push for civil war  —  Donald Trump wants Congress to refuse to do any deal until he can win and create the “PERFECT” border  —  Donald Trump is having a rolling hissy fit that's escalating by the day.  From courtrooms to rallies to incoherent interviews …
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Tess Owen / VICE:
Trump Calls on ‘All Willing States’ to Send National Guard Soldiers to Texas  —  Sorry, were you expecting the former president to tell everyone to chill out?  —  Like pouring water on a grease fire, former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the escalating standoff between the federal government and Texas.
Tess Owen / VICE:
Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’  —  Experts say that the Christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to the standoff between Texas and the Federal Government.  —  A trucker convoy of “patriots” is heading to the U.S. border with Mexico next week …
Discussion: The Messenger, Wired and Raw Story
PBS NewsHour:
Border standoff between Texas, feds intensifies as governor defies Supreme Court ruling
The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Can—and Should—Take Over the Texas National Guard
Discussion: modernity
Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
GOP lawmakers back Texas' defiance of Supreme Court's ruling on the border
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Trump's Court-Appointed Monitor Tells Judge Company Gave ‘Incomplete’ and ‘Inconsistent’ Disclosures with ‘Errors’  —  Court monitor Barbara Jones sent her letter to Justice Engoron, who will determine whether to ban Trump from New York real estate for life  —  JWPlayer
Discussion: MeidasTouch
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Haley calls Trump ‘totally unhinged’ after donor ban, RNC move  —  Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called former President Trump “totally unhinged” during an interview Friday on Fox News Friday, referencing the recent threat he made to blacklist donors who give to Haley.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Sununu: Trump ‘nervous’ because ‘money is coming’ to Haley
Discussion: Breitbart
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. pauses funding to UNRWA after 12 staffers accused of involvement in Oct. 7 attack … - State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the U.S. is “extremely troubled by the allegations” and the administration has “temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review …
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United States Department of State:
Statement on UNRWA Allegations
CNN:
Biden needles Trump in hopes of pushing him off message  —  Three words from Joe Biden's somber speech about Donald Trump had one man in the back of Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church the most excited: “He's a loser.”  —  The man, cracking up, poked the woman next to him with a “Can you believe it?” expression on his face.
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
White House halts enormous natural gas projects in victory for environmentalists
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Ex-coal CEO who called himself ‘Trumpier than Trump’ launches Democratic Senate bid in West Virginia  —  A former CEO of a coal company who once said he is “Trumpier than Trump” has launched a bid for Senate as a Democrat in West Virginia.  —  Don Blankenship, who previously ran …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Mainstream media bloodbath: News outlets slash jobs as business suffers  —  Nearly a dozen mainstream media companies are gutting staff and scrambling to rescue their struggling businesses. … But an ongoing bloodbath is decimating news outlets nationwide.
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
White House sets new guidelines for Cabinet notifications after Austin's secret hospitalization  —  The White House is laying out a new set of guidelines to ensure it will be informed any time a Cabinet head can't carry out their job after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Scott hammers Democratic opponent as ‘liar’ over abortion attack  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is up for reelection this fall, says his Democratic challenger is a “liar” after she accused the first-term senator of supporting a national abortion ban, a charge that Democratic candidates …
Discussion: The Messenger
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Missouri GOP Lawmaker Floats Rule Change to Bring Back Duels  —  A senator could challenge another to mortal combat if the first's “honor is impugned.”  —  Bitter divisions between Republicans in the Missouri Senate culminated in a proposed rule change that would allow senators to settle …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Guardian
 
 
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
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John Frank / Axios:
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Phil Prazan / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Texas senator who voted to acquit Paxton calls to reopen impeachment trial
Discussion: Fox News and Daily Kos
Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Meet the Texas Billionaire Quietly Becoming the New George Soros
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Decision to Pause Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
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Steve Bannon Admits Bank Account May Have Evidence of Fraud
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