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4:40 PM ET, February 5, 2024

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Politico:
Detention and that border ‘shutdown’: What's really in Biden's bipartisan immigration deal  —  Breaking down 12 major points in the border deal, including the parameters of a border shutdown, increased visas and work permits for asylum seekers.  —  The bipartisan border security deal that's headed …
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Republicans confirm their unseriousness about the border  —  This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  To become one and support our work, please click the button below and sign up.  —  🏙️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏙️
Associated Press:
Senators release a border and Ukraine deal but the House speaker declares it ‘dead on arrival’
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson: Border bill is ‘even worse than we expected’
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
Schumer ‘hopeful’ Senate will pass bipartisan border bill despite opposition from GOP hard-liners
Alexander Burns / Politico:   Why The Border Deal Happened: Republicans Held Europe For Ransom
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Bipartisan Senate National Security Agreement
Politico:
Supreme Court Shocker?  Here's What Happens if Trump Gets Kicked Off the Ballot  —  Legal scholars, national security experts and political analysts imagine the extraordinary fallout that would ensue.  —  “Increase its perceived public legitimacy”  —  “Rip the country apart”
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Garrett Epps / Washington Monthly:
It's Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here  —  As the former president ostentatiously defies the law, Republicans, led by the Texas Governor, rush to flout Constitutional basics, and even the Roberts Court, to declare their own border policies.
Discussion: HuffPost
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Chutkan contemplates Trump trial extending deep into 2024, as case remains in limbo  —  It was the judge's first acknowledgment that Trump's federal trial could could extend into the general election.  —  The judge presiding over Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. criminal case acknowledged Monday …
Discussion: Raw Story and Forbes
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Most Americans want verdict on Trump election subversion charges before 2024 vote  —  Most Americans want to see a verdict on the federal charges former President Donald Trump faces related to election subversion in 2020 before this year's presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Sean Coughlan / BBC:
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says  —  King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace.  —  The type of cancer has not been revealed - it is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate.
Kellyanne Conway / New York Times:
Who Should Be Trump's No. 2?  —  “Who should President Trump choose for V.P.?” is one of the most popular questions among the political cognoscenti right now.  It's understandable: Donald Trump won both Iowa and New Hampshire with more than 50 percent of the vote, after his closest competitors …
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Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Kristi Noem shares vision for America in new book amid speculation about running as Trump's VP
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and DNyuz
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Global Business Empire Is Growing Again
Discussion: Fox News
Reese Gorman / The Daily Beast:
A Major Sign of Trouble in Nancy Mace's Office: Total Staff Turnover  —  Nancy Mace's entire D.C. office has turned over since Nov. 1.  Former staff members described a “toxic” work culture driven by a “delusional” boss. … Add another ignoble credential to Rep. Nancy Mace's résumé.
Rick Reilly / Washington Post:
Look who moved in Nextdoor: another spying, suspicious, paranoid snoop  —  Are you bummed you weren't around when the Stasi ruled?  Do you wish you could've been one of Mao Zedong's millions of neighborhood snitches?  Maybe watch the Red Guards drag off your least favorite aunt?
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Liz Cheney rips Vance after Jan. 6 remarks: Not ‘fit to serve’  —  Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went after Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Monday, saying he is not “fit to serve” after he said he would have chosen not to certify the 2020 election results without pro-Trump electors.
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast  —  The right-wing policy agenda written for a new Donald Trump presidency would “greatly accelerate” efforts to privatize Medicare  —  LAST YEAR, FOR the first time ever, a majority of Americans eligible for Medicare were on privatized Medicare Advantage plans.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Democrats and STAT
Reuters:
Kremlin gives nothing away about why Tucker Carlson might be in Russia  —  Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose arrival in Moscow has fuelled speculation he may become the first Western journalist to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin during the war in Ukraine, kept his cards close to his chest on Monday.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Larry David Breaks Georgia's Voting Law in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’  —  Comedy's crankiest star usually breaks social norms.  This time, he ran afoul of voting legislation passed in Georgia in 2021.  —  Television comedies like “Veep” and “Parks and Recreation” have long poked fun …
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? … Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate.  Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Obama veterans relaunch national security group backing Biden
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden condemns ‘anti-Arab hate’ after Wall Street Journal op-ed labels Michigan city 'America's jihad capital'  —  President Biden called out “anti-Arab hate” against Dearborn, Mich., residents after an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal called the city “America's jihad capital.”
 
 
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Washington Post:
Luxury spending, internal strife leave NRA staggering into 2024 election
Discussion: Bearing Arms
John Binder / Breitbart:
Senate Bill Gives Ukraine 75 Times as Much Funding as U.S. Border Wall
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems invoke George Santos in last-minute ad buy for NY seat
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Donald Trump is the only reason Jim Jordan is subpoenaing Fani Willis
Discussion: Townhall
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
McCarthy wanted a successor. He got a fight.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
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