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.

Trump's rapid changes in U.S. government stuns, stirs anxiety among federal workers  —  U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have acted with stunning speed to begin removing or sidelining hundreds of government workers, while he has also sought to give himself the power to fire hundreds of thousands more.

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 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.

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.”

Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says  —  Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” in the United States were arrested Thursday and hundreds of others flown out of the country on military aircraft …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

“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 …

Newsom plans to crash Trump's LA wildfire visit  —  The Democratic governor and the Republican president have not spoken since Trump left office in 2020.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had yet to hear from Donald Trump on the eve of the president's planned tour …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts  —  Legal service providers help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings.  —  The seal of the U.S. Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room …

Hegseth's divorce agreement with his second wife includes a non-disparagement clause  —  Pete and Samantha Hegseth's 2018 divorce decree prohibits each of them from engaging in “any public discourse ... disparaging the other party.”  —  Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth testified during …