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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump Gutted Key Aviation Safety Committee Before D.C. Plane Crash  —  Last week, just days after his inauguration, Donald Trump eliminated the membership of a key committee that handles aviation security.  And on Wednesday night, a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.
Discussion: Deseret News and Daily Kos
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CBS News:
Plane crashes in D.C.'s Potomac River with 64 on board after midair collision with Army helicopter — live updates  —  What to know about the Washington, D.C., plane crash  — Search efforts continue in the Potomac River after an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers and four crew …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Seeks, Without Evidence, to Blame D.E.I. and Democrats for the Crash  —  President Trump's remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump lashes out at Biden, DEI efforts after D.C. plane crash … President Donald Trump on Thursday blasted former President Joe Biden and Democratic diversity measures after a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter above Washington, D.C., the night before.
Washington Post:
No survivors expected after midair D.C. plane crash, Trump speaks from White House  —  Officials believe that all passengers and crew onboard American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided midair Wednesday evening with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, were killed.
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.
Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:
Trump's Plane Crash Response Is as Cheap as You'd Expect
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump blames DEI for weakening FAA in aftermath of Reagan National plane crash
Discussion: NewsNation
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against ‘shockingly dim’ Trump White House  —  The Trump White House this week sparked chaos across the nation when it issued an executive order that resulted in Medicaid portals getting shut down in all 50 states.
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Ashley Parker / The Atlantic:
The Memo That Shocked the White House
Washington Post:
Musk team's push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Washington Post:
White House regroups as funding freeze chaos recalls first term's travel ban
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Trump unleashed chaos by freezing and unfreezing $3tn in federal grants and loans. Why?
Discussion: The Nation and New York Times
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House rescinded funding memo after GOP senators ‘hit the ceiling’
Discussion: KSN-TV
Bloomberg:
White House Considers Dozens of New Ways to Seize Spending Power
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kash Patel declines to detail his grand jury testimony in Trump documents case  —  Kash Patel, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, declined to tell senators what he testified about when he appeared before a grand jury investigating Trump's handling of classified records after his first term ended.
Discussion: New York Times
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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Overhaul Off to a Rocky Start as Kash Patel Prepares to Defend His Vision
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Kash Patel hammers ‘grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Dems amid fiery FBI confirmation hearing
Discussion: Forbes and Louder With Crowder
Washington Post:
Kash Patel breaks with Trump on Jan. 6 clemency, defends record
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 …
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Hugh Dougherty / The Daily Beast:
FAA Administrator Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Discussion: The Verge and New Republic
Andrew Tangel / Wall Street Journal:
FAA Lacks Administrator as Agency Probes Air Disaster
Discussion: Axios, Washington Examiner and Gizmodo
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Tense Call, Governors Push Schumer to Fight Harder Against Trump  —  On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump's nominees and to do more to block his agenda.
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Democrats to boycott committee vote on OMB nominee  —  Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee say they will boycott Thursday's scheduled vote on Russ Vought's nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget.  It won't affect the panel's ability to send Vought's nomination to the Senate floor …
Discussion: Axios and The Guardian
Ramsey Touchberry / Washington Examiner:
RFK Jr. gets tentative support from key GOP senator after first Senate hearing
Newsweek:
Former USDA Inspector General Defies Trump Order, Escorted from Her Office  —  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 dismissal by the Trump administration, according to Reuters.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Despite media reports, Trump has not offered federal employees a “buyout”  —  Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration …
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Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence  —  Editor's Note: This story includes descriptions of violent crimes and sexual abuse involving both adults and children that may be disturbing to readers.  —  On his first day in office …
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class  —  A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.  —  One of the hallmarks of Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
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: The Guardian, Semafor and The Hill
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
See what Tulsi Gabbard deleted from her Senate Intel opening remarks … - The opening remarks Gabbard first provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee included lines later removed from the final version that she delivered at Thursday's hearing, according to both copies obtained by Axios.
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
5 things to know about the fatal crash near Reagan National  —  An Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane collided Wednesday night near Reagan Washington National Airport.  Officials say a recovery mission is underway for the 60 passengers and four crew members onboard the flight …
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Becca Longmire / People:
‘Several Members’ of U.S. Figure Skating Team Onboard American Airlines Plane That Crashed Over Washington, D.C.
Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard refuses to call Edward Snowden a “traitor” … “So, was Edward Snowden a traitor?”  — Gabbard would not give a yes or no answer, saying only that she is “committed if confirmed as Director of National Intelligence to join you in making sure that there is no future Snowden-type leak.”
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Ogles: ‘Did DEI play a role’ in fatal DC plane crash?  —  Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is questioning whether diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) played a role in the fatal plane crash at Reagan Washington National Airport outside of Washington, D.C.  —  Ogles, in an interview …
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 …
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
RFK Jr. Says Trump Gave Him 1 Directive On The Abortion Pill  —  The drugs are used for 63% of abortion care and have been widely deemed safe by scientists.  —  LOADING  —  Abortion came up several times during the first of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearings for health secretary …
Amy Maxmen / KFF Health News:
Trump Administration's Halt of CDC's Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies  —  The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States.  —  One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians …
Discussion: Texas Standard
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 …
Discussion: ABC News and New York Times
 
 
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New Republic:
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Donald Trump talks so much that even his White House stenographers are struggling to keep up
Associated Press:
Justice Jackson punches out her frustrations with the conservative Supreme Court in the boxing ring
Discussion: Reason
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump's mission: Discrimination and destruction
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump Kicks Congress to the Curb, With Little Protest From Republicans
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David Gilbert / Wired:
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump “defends women” by terrorizing them
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New York Times:
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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