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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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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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The Hill, Israpundit, Daily Mail and Washington Examiner


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 …
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Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory — US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel — Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” …


Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’ — The president wants Egypt and Jordan to accept more Palestinian refugees — President Donald Trump endorsed the idea of relocating Palestinians in Gaza, proposing to send refugees to Jordan and Egypt to “clean out” the Gaza Strip.


Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences
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Scoop: Trump lifts Biden's hold on 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
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VINnews, Chicago Tribune, Breitbart, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York Post and Reuters


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 …
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Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its ‘Bottom Line’ — “When they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?” — Vice President J.D. Vance attacked …
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Axios and New York Post
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‘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.


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 …


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.
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Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ in speech to far-right AfD rally
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Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event
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‘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 …
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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.”


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 …
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CNBC, Politico, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Daily Mail, RedState, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit


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.


The 12 Democrats who make the most sense for 2028 — There's a vacuum atop an adrift Democratic Party. Here's who could fill it. — Democrats are adrift. — The 2024 election was closer than many people realize — and a lot closer than President Donald Trump claims.
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The Guardian


‘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 …


The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now — The new administration is extreme, but that is not an excuse to say “there's no point.” Also: The Trump administration has already started to take action at SCOTUS. — It has been a week to remind us of what it means to live during a Trump administration.


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 …
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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 …
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9to5Mac, Reuters, RedState, TechCrunch, The Post Millennial and The Verge, more at Techmeme »


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 …
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Raw Story


Trump says Keir Starmer doing ‘very good job’ — US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a “very good job thus far” and that the pair have a “very good relationship”. — Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir …
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Business Insider, The Independent, Politico, The Guardian, Daily Mail and Bloomberg


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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