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9:35 AM ET, January 26, 2025

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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’  —  President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries …
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New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza  —  President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan's leader and planned to call Egypt's on Sunday.  Most of Gaza's two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting.  —  President Trump said he told King Abdullah II …
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
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 …
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Sends 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Weighs in on Refugees
Discussion: Reuters
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.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Bloomberg
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Reuters:
Trump says he may consider rejoining World Health Organization
Discussion: Politico, Twitchy and Associated Press
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Live Updates: Noem Confirmed for Homeland Security Post; Trump to Speak in Las Vegas
Fox News:
Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Department of Homeland Security secretary
Associated Press:
Trump leans into his pledge to eliminate taxes on tips at a Las Vegas rally
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 …
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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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ in speech to far-right AfD rally  —  The tech billionaire and Trump adviser has drawn rebukes for repeatedly endorsing the AfD in the leadup to Germany's snap election next month.  —  Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative …
Discussion: The Guardian, VINnews and Raw Story
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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 …
Washington Post:
Trump's first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat.  —  It was all part of a plan to begin with a bang and follow a detailed policy blueprint, although key administrative posts remained stuck in a hiring bottleneck and many of his directives lacked immediate effect.
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Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Exclusive: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok  —  The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app's global operations …
Wall Street Journal:
Meta's Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue  —  Social-media giant's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk  —  When Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins  —  A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.'s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.  —  The C.I.A. has said for years …
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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 …
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year  —  Americans can continue to expect high prices for eggs this year, new estimates show, due to the ongoing avian flu outbreak and inflation.  —  Egg prices are estimated to increase about 20% in 2025, compared to about 2.2% for food prices in general …
Politico:
Trump's executive actions have more muscle this time around, but many are just posturing  —  The president's early actions are already enacting sweeping changes across the federal government.  But not all of them are likely to result in tangible change.  —  President Donald Trump's first week …
David Zucchino / New York Times:
They Were Waiting for Flights.  Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.  —  An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.  —  Nasir, a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war …
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.
Jason Alatidd / The Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history  —  An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.  —  “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history,” Ashley Goss …
Tony Czuczka / Bloomberg:
House Speaker Invites Trump to Address Congress on March 4  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, seeking to set the stage for his first major speech to lawmakers since he returned to the White House.
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Discussion: The Independent
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Twitchy
New York Post:
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Tara Copp / Associated Press:
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
Discussion: Reuters and CBS News
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans try to look ‘forward,’ but Trump forces them back to Jan. 6
Fallon Roth / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A Montgomery County official mimicked Elon Musk's controversial ‘salute,’ sparking outrage online and her resignation from the local library and a nonprofit
New York Times:
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