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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Small airplane down in Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport  —  A small aircraft is down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and fireboats were on the scene, the Washington fire department said.  —  The airport said late on Wednesday that all takeoffs …
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NBC News:
Live updates: Plane crashes into Potomac River after collision with helicopter near Reagan National Airport  —  A regional jet collided in midair with a helicopter while on approach to Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m., the FAA said Wednesday evening in a preliminary update.
Associated Press:
Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA says  —  A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.  That's according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which says the collision remains under investigation.
Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
American Airlines plane crashes with helicopter near Reagan National Airport  —  Video shows midair collision near Reagan National Airport  —  An American Airlines passenger plane that departed from Wichita, Kansas, and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport Wednesday evening …
Hank Sanders / New York Times:
Live Updates: Plane Crashes Near Washington After Colliding With Army Helicopter  —  The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kan., plunged into the Potomac River, the F.A.A. said.  An Army official said it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter.  —  Here is the latest on the crash.
Amber Anderson / WUSA:
American Airlines plane collides midair with military helicopter, rescue efforts underway  —  According to the FAA, a Black Hawk helicopter collided into a 60-passenger flight landing at DCA midair.  —  WASHINGTON — Police are investigating a plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Freddy Brewster / The Lever:
Before D.C. Airport Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings And Boosted Flights
Discussion: New York Post and WVEC
CNN:
Inside 45 hours of chaos: The brief life and quick death of Trump's federal spending freeze  —  The Trump administration's biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours.  —  A sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans …
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New York Times:
New Administration Highlights: Freeze on Federal Funds Rescinded, and Trump Signs Law to Ease Path to Deportations  —  Where Things Stand  — Grant freeze: The White House pulled back an order on Wednesday that froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans and sparked mass confusion across the country.
Washington Post:
Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants
Washington Post:   The Trump executive orders and actions that are having immediate impacts
Washington Post:
White House regroups as funding freeze chaos recalls first term's travel ban
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Dan Froomkin / Heads Up News:
The lawyers are getting louder - and they're getting results
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Bloomberg:
White House Considers Dozens of New Ways to Seize Spending Power
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
5 takeaways from RFK Jr.'s first Senate hearing  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday to vie for his confirmation as President Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).  —  Kennedy is one of Trump's most controversial nominees.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fetterman: RFK Jr.'s nomination in trouble after rocky hearing
Discussion: The Guardian and Associated Press
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans back RFK Jr. despite years of support for abortion rights
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Questions R.F.K. Jr. About His Stance on Vaccines
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Overhaul Off to a Rocky Start as Kash Patel Prepares to Defend His Vision  —  White House mixes up who is temporarily in charge of agency as Trump loyalist heads into Senate confirmation hearing  —  WASHINGTON—Trump officials tried to start their shake-up of the Federal Bureau …
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David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:   How Kash Patel's Charity Aided Trump, and Patel Himself
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Signs Agreement Calling for Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle Suit  —  The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers that are expected to require Meta Platforms to pay roughly $25 million to resolve …
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Trump's Inaugural Approval Rating Is Historically Low Again  —  Americans divided over whether Trump's pace in addressing major U.S. problems is about right or too fast  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 47%, President Donald Trump's initial job approval rating for his second term is similar …
Discussion: Semafor and Fox News
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Ethan Colbert / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Franklin County woman pardoned for Capitol riot is sentenced to 10 years in fatal crash  —  UNION, Mo. — The Franklin County woman pardoned for her participation in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for her role in a fatal drunk driving crash.
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Washington Post:
Musk team's push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials  —  Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.  —  Billionaire Elon Musk's influence over a traditionally nonpartisan agency …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Denise Cana / Slate:
I Just Got Trump's “Buyout” Offer at My Job.  Let Me Tell You How That's Going.  —  The author is a federal civil servant who has been granted the use of a pen name to protect them and their family from reprisals.  —  The new Trump administration's effort to both get a grip on and dismantle …
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
‘Not a buyout’: Attorneys and unions urge federal workers not to resign
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral  —  A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet.  The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and …
Rachael Levy / Reuters:
USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House  —  Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Tara Copp / Associated Press:
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more  —  The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Firings Could Bring Court Cases That Expand His Power  —  The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump's purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority.  —  President Trump abruptly fired dozens of officials in the past few days …
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Deborah Pearlstein / New York Times:   The Law Is Not Fully Trump's Yet
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Washington Post:
Trump plans to build mass detention camp for deportees at Guantánamo Bay
The White House:
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Parents trust America's schools to provide their children …
Hugh Dougherty / The Daily Beast:
FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign  —  The Federal Aviation Administration's leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit.The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history …
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Denver schools under investigation over all-gender bathroom  —  The Department of Education launched an investigation Tuesday against Denver Public Schools for converting a girl's restroom into an all-gender bathroom.  —  The department's Office for Civil Rights said it is investigating …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Elon Musk rose to the top of video game charts.  Now he has confessed to cheating.  —  The world's richest man has admitted to paying to boost his online warriors into global leaderboards, raising questions about his gaming prowess — and his need for digital praise.
Discussion: Wired and Newsbusters
Nicole Narea / Vox:
How Trump is laying the groundwork for another travel ban  —  Trump's first travel ban was overturned in court in 2017.  His legal strategy may be savvier this time around. … Within days of taking office in 2017, President Donald Trump implemented a blanket ban on entry from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate's reconciliation blueprint is ready to go, Thune says  —  Down in Florida on Wednesday, House Republicans tried to coalesce around a plan to pass “one big, beautiful bill.”  Meanwhile, up in Washington, Senate Republicans are ready to go with their own Plan B. Senate Majority Leader John Thune …
 
 
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump “defends women” by terrorizing them
Discussion: NPR
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
Bloomberg:
Trump Keeps World Waiting on Tariffs, Tries to Hash Out a Plan
New York Times:
Maureen Dowd on Trump the Narcissist, Act II
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Inside Trump's purge at the agency that saves millions of lives
 Earlier Items: 
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Gabbard, RFK Jr., Patel hearings set to consume Capitol Hill
Discussion: Associated Press
John Eligon / New York Times:
Trump's Foreign Aid Freeze Causes Fear of H.I.V. Resurgence in Africa
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Federal Agencies Ordered to End Initiatives That Support ‘Gender Ideology’
Discussion: Reuters and The Daily Signal
John Hyatt / Forbes:
Musk's X Platform Has Given New Life To Alex Jones
Alejandro Serrano / The Texas Tribune:
An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear
Just Security:
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
 

 
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Agence France-Presse:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty head Stephen Capus says the US government turned off satellite services that transmit its Russian-language program into Russia

Ethan Shanfeld / Variety:
Director Carl Rinsch pleads not guilty to fraud and money laundering after allegedly taking $11M from Netflix for an unfinished series; trial is set for Sept. 8

Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
In a new lawsuit, the trustee for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's bankruptcy case says ex-CEO Bill Rouhana neglected “the most basic corporate duties”
 
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