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Wall Street Journal:
A Border Security Bill Worth Passing  —  The Senate bill has reforms Trump never came close to getting.  —  Do Republicans want to better secure the U.S. border, or do they want to keep what has become an open sore festering for another year as an election issue?
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The GOP's True Priority  —  The Republicans who won't take yes for an answer  —  Sometimes, a negotiation produces a deal.  —  Sometimes, a negotiation reveals the truth.  —  Negotiators in the Senate have produced a draft agreement on immigration and asylum.  The deal delivers on Republican priorities.
Washington Post:
Border-for-Ukraine deal on life support as GOP opposition mounts  —  House speaker calls it ‘DEAD’ while GOP senators start to defect en masse ahead of Wednesday vote  —  A bipartisan package of border reforms and funding for Ukraine and Israel appeared close to collapse on Monday …
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
In Huge Reversal, GOP Poised To Kill The Border-Ukraine Package It Demanded  —  Republican Sen. James Lankford, who spent months negotiating the border provisions the GOP demanded, said he may vote against his own bill this week.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans …
Nicole Narea / Vox:
Democrats are trying to pass a right-wing border bill, but the GOP won't let them  —  Senate negotiations revealed what some Democrats are willing to give up on immigration in 2024.  —  A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators has reached a $118 billion deal that trades sweeping border security measures …
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Trump Now Falsely Claims He Didn't Endorse Immigration Bill Co-Author  —  Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, who helped draw up the immigration bill that Trump hates, received Trump's “Complete and Total Endorsement” in 2022.  —  Donald Trump said during an interview Monday that he did not endorse …
Politico:
Our border deal whip count: It's halfway to getting blocked
Discussion: Associated Press
Politico:
Detention and that border ‘shutdown’: What's really in Biden's bipartisan immigration deal
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Nikki Haley Asks for Secret Service Protection After Increase in Threats  —  Former South Carolina governor is final hurdle between Trump and the Republican presidential nomination  —  AIKEN, S. C.—Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has applied for Secret Service protection …
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NBC News:
Trump says he wants to debate Biden  —  The Republican National Committee decided in 2022 to withdraw from the quadrennial events set up by the Commission on Presidential Debates.  —  Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he wants to debate President Joe Biden ahead of November's general election.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump meets with Ronna McDaniel — then says he'll be recommending RNC changes
Politico:   Dems gear up for final stretch on judges — worrying they won't catch Trump
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.
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Matt Honeycombe-Foster / Politico:
King Charles III has cancer
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Biden appears to mix up Macron with French president Mitterrand, who died in 1996  —  President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996.  —  The apparent mix-up took place during …
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The White House:
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Event | Las Vegas, NV
Discussion: HuffPost and New York Post
Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
Senate Investigation “Casts Fresh Doubt” About the Validity of Harlan Crow's Yacht Tax Deductions  —  In their extensive probe, Senate investigators found evidence to suggest Crow has made repeated misrepresentations to the U.S. government.  ProPublica revealed the tax maneuvers in a previous story.
Marcus Baram / ProPublica:
Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York  —  “We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos said.  —  Co-published with Documented
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Kari Lake's leaked recording is causing trust issues in the Arizona GOP  —  The Senate candidate was booed by the party faithful after a secret tape forced out the party chair.  Republican officials say they assume they are being recorded when speaking with her.
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Chris Christie predicts ‘huge personnel problem’ if Trump is reelected to ‘vendetta presidency’  —  In an exclusive interview, the former governor warned of “absolute mayhem.”  —  Former New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie speaks with George Stephanopoulos from ABC News, Feb. 5, 2024.
Jordan Rubin / MSNBC:
Why Jack Smith wants to ‘clear the air’ in the classified documents case  —  Donald Trump “paints an inaccurate and distorted picture of events,” the special counsel tells Judge Aileen Cannon.  Will she care?  —  Though the classified documents case is playing out partly behind closed doors …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
House Dem Brutally Hits Back at Marjorie Taylor Greene's Gross Bathroom Claim  —  The MAGA lawmaker was seemingly upset about Rep. Jim McGovern likening her to a clown.  —  A House Democrat got into a wild war of words with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday involving mutual accusations …
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Rasmussen Reports:
59% See Biden in Mental Decline
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Larry David Breaks Georgia's Voting Law in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Rick Reilly / Washington Post:
Look who moved in Nextdoor: another spying, suspicious, paranoid snoop
Garrett Epps / Washington Monthly:
It's Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here
Discussion: HuffPost
 

 
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