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2:45 PM ET, January 26, 2025

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Associated Press:
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip …
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory
Discussion: Bloomberg
New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza
Discussion: Politico
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’
Discussion: VINnews and Reuters
Associated Press:
Trump orders tariffs, visa restrictions on Colombia over rejection of deportation flights  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was ordering tariffs, visa restrictions and other retaliatory measures to be taken against Colombia after its government rejected two flights carrying migrants.
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Reuters:
Trump says US will impose sanctions against Colombia over repatriation flights  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would impose wide-ranging sanctions and impose tariffs against Colombia over its refusal to accept U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported.
New York Times:
Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights  —  Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.  —  Colombia refused to accept military …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Graham says ‘a good chance’ Supreme Court sides with Trump on birthright citizenship  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he believes there is a “good chance” that the Supreme Court sides with President Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship.  —  Graham joined NBC's “Meet the Press” …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences … - Trump jammed through confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, fired at least a dozen inspectors general, proposed killing FEMA, and scolded LA officials. … - It's stunning to veterans of Trump's first West Wing.
Discussion: CNN, Alternet.org and Associated Press
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was ‘a mistake’  —  In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said of the president's decision to pardon those convicted of violent crimes: “I think that's a mistake.”
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Get to Decide What the Constitution Means
Discussion: The Independent
CNN:
Trump wiped January 6 convicts' records clean.  Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters' crimes from the internet  —  As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters' attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘People Will Be Shocked’: Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency  —  Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.  —  On his first full day back in the White House …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘Look in the Mirror’: New Catholic JD Vance Lectures Church Leaders on Faith  —  Vance, who converted to the Catholic Church five years ago, called on a group of bishops to “do better” after they criticized the White House's immigration policies.
Discussion: New York Post, CBS News and Twitchy
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea's Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges  —  President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law.  —  South Korea's impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol …
Discussion: The Korea Herald
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Rachel Ramirez / CNN:
Trump's gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities  —  Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”
Discussion: Inside Climate News
NBC News:
White House tells Republicans to get behind Trump's nominees — or face political ‘consequences’  —  More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel.
Ian Aikman / BBC:
Trump says he believes US will ‘get Greenland’  —  President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland, after showing renewed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory in recent weeks.  —  “I think we're going to have it,” he told reporters on Air Force …
Greg Evans / The Independent:
SNL comedian uses five words to explain why ‘Elon Musk is not a Nazi’  —  The billionaire was accused of making a fascist salute during an inauguration celebration for Donald Trump  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech …
Discussion: Breitbart, TMZ.com and The Independent
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Musk tells far-right Germany party “past guilt” gets too much focus … - Musk in 2023 faced backlash for endorsing an antisemitic post, as 164 Jewish rabbis and activists upped their calls to companies to stop advertising on the Musk-owned X.  — He's also failed to stop the posting or amplification of pro-Nazi content on X.
CBS News:
Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 26, 2025  —  The following is the full transcript of an interview with Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 26, 2025.  —  MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Vice President, if you're ready, we'll dive right in.
New York Times:
In 2024 Elections, Most Races Were Over Before They Started  —  A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures.  —  Competition is an endangered species in legislative elections.
Discussion: Global News
Politico:
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies  —  “I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go,” said one staffer.  —  President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy …
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and Twitchy
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Associated Press:
Trump says inflation isn't his No. 1 issue. So what will happen to consumer prices?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Esha Dey / Bloomberg:
Wall Street's Big Hope Is Trump Pulls His Punches on Immigration
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Officials Waste No Time in Justice Department's Rightward Shift
Fox News:
Trump's federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now
Wall Street Journal:
Meta's Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue
Politico:
Trump's executive actions have more muscle this time around, but many are just posturing
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The 12 Democrats who make the most sense for 2028  —  There's a vacuum atop an adrift Democratic Party.
Discussion: The Guardian
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
Discussion: Twitchy
Jason Alatidd / The Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet”

 
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