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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 …
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
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
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” …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
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.
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 …
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Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law
Discussion: The Hill and Semafor
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.
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ in speech to far-right AfD rally
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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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 …
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.
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 …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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.
Discussion: The Guardian
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.”
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anthony Zurcher / BBC:
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 …
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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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 …
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
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 …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
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.
Andrea Margolis / Fox News:
Trump vows to deliver on ‘no tax on tips’ campaign promise during Las Vegas speech: ‘100% yours’  —  Trump visited Nevada to ‘thank’ voters for electing him  —  President Trump visited Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon to discuss his agenda for American workers, stressing a “no tax on tips” …
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Tim Balk / New York Times:
Live Updates: Noem Confirmed for Homeland Security Post; Trump to Speak in Las Vegas
 
 
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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
Jason Alatidd / The Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
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
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Trump Ends Security Details for People Who Get Death Threats Because of Him
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