MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA'S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT  —  “Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant.

Tennessee Republican proposes amendment to allow Trump to serve third term  —  Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Trump Says States Should Manage Disasters.  Former FEMA Leaders Agree.  —  “I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said.  Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.  —  President Trump plans to tour damage on Friday …

Trump's DEI orders may halt progress for disabled workers … - At the same time there was a big push within the federal government to hire folks with disabilities. … About 9.4% of the federal workforce were disabled in 2022, up from 8.9% in 2014, per federal data.

White House says migrant deportation flights with military aircraft have begun  —  The Trump administration has started flying immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally out of the country using military aircraft, a White House spokesperson said Friday.  —  White House press secretary Karoline …

Trump Defenders Try Evasive Maneuvers  —  The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.  —  To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald Trump freed the January 6ers, briefly return to the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign.

Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times  —  The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.  —  For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense.

Trump staff ‘furious’ after Musk trashes AI project  —  “It's clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said one ally of the president.  —  Some of President Donald Trump's key aides and allies are furious with Elon Musk for publicly trashing his $500 billion artificial intelligence mega-deal.

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts  —  Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.  —  Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred …

Elon Musk doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt  —  Elon Musk's Nazi trolling exposes the collapse of America's guardrails against some of history's foulest ideas. … Since Donald Trump's rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right.

Democratic Sen. Heinrich passes on governor's race  —  THE SCOOP  —  Martin Heinrich was pretty close to running for governor of New Mexico.  In the end, though, staying in the Senate won out.  —  The third-term Democrat told Semafor in an interview on Thursday that he will not pursue …

“A pact with the devil”  —  David de Jong on oligarchs getting in bed with fascists.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest and most powerful executives explicitly on his side.  That was evident this week as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos …

Sensing Political Support, Abortion Opponents Raise Ambitions  —  The March for Life on Friday will bring together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.  —  Anti-abortion activists are charging ahead with their ultimate mission to end all abortions nationwide …

RFK Jr. applauds Trump's order to declassify RFK, JFK assassination files  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said on Thursday he supports President Trump's executive order to declassify files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.

“Excluding Indians”: Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court  —  The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship  —  In the Trump administration's arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship …

The AP establishes style guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States, to revert to the name Mount McKinley.

Trump's budget pick, Russ Vought, is starting to upend Washington  —  The president's nominee for the Office of Management and Budget aims to slash spending and regulation — and push the limits of presidential power to achieve Trump's agenda.  —  Even before he takes the reins …

Trump 2.0 softens on China … - Trump held a phone call with Xi just days before inauguration to discuss trade, fentanyl and TikTok — the Chinese-owned app that the president is now seeking to protect from a U.S. ban.  — Beijing's readout of the call was exceedingly warm …

Women, gays, transgender and queer Americans serve in the military because men won't  —  When I worked on the 1st Marine Division's staff back from 2004-2007, I was part of a team that had to “find” officers and senior enlisted Marines to send to Iraq.  Later, I was part of a team …

Biden embraced diversity efforts.  Trump has moved to demolish them.  —  Trump and Biden have long been on opposite sides of America's issues with racism, the fight against discrimination and for diversity, equity and inclusion.  —  Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden couldn't be further apart …

Trump's White House Press Secretary Reveals Her Failed Campaign Spent $200K in Illicit Contributions  —  On Thursday, Karoline Leavitt's failed congressional campaign amended every FEC filing it had ever made to reveal that she failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars …

Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers' ‘sexual texts’  —  The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.