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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump launches trade war against Canada with with 25 per cent tariff on most goods — U.S. president slaps 25% tariff on most Canadian goods — Canada braces for threatened U.S. tariffs — President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff …
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Canada Poised to Retaliate Against Trump Tariffs, Rethink US Reliance — Freeland, a candidate for PM, calls for tariffs on Tesla cars — Levies will first hit goods easy to substitute, minister says — Canada is set to introduce escalating retaliatory counter-tariffs to try …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Dumbest Trade War in History — Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason. — President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They'll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%.
Jason Lalljee / Axios:
Trump tariffs will cost U.S. households $830 a year, study says
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WTOP News and Washington Examiner
Eric Reinhart / New Republic:
The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the Los Angeles Times Didn't Want You to Read — Editors note: As The New Republic reported on Friday, the Los Angeles Times—currently in a race to the bottom with The Washington Post to determine which of the two venerable institutions can sell out to Donald Trump the hardest …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daring Fireball, Techdirt and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Ken Martin wins election as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee — The DNC's chair election marks a first step for a party looking to fill a void of leadership after the 2024 election. — Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the state Democratic Party organization in Minnesota …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Who Is Ken Martin, the New Leader of the D.N.C.?
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Pentagon to swap traditional media with pro-Trump outlets under new rotational program for Defense Department workspace — One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night.
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Amanda Terkel / NBC News:
Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations in new ‘rotation program’
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Alex Galbraith / Salon:
Defense Dept. evicts NBC, NPR, NYT from Pentagon offices to make way for Breitbart, OANN
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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
The Truth About Democrats, According to Amy Klobuchar — Let's skip the happy talk: Democrats are in a dark place. It's not merely that Donald Trump has rolled back into Washington with an everything-everywhere-all-at- once approach to grabbing power. The new president is buoyed by eager …
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators …
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Verge, NPR, RedState, The Hill, Politico, Bloomberg and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
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Lois Henry / SJV Water:
Trump's emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes — The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response to President Trump's Jan. 24 executive order mandating …
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OutsideTheBeltway, Digby's Hullabaloo and Politico
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government — Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now — I've long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country …
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Strike averted at Costco as Teamsters reach a tentative deal — Some 18,000 employees across the country were poised to walk out after union negotiations stalled — A strike that would have seen some 18,000 workers at Costco around the US walk off the job at midnight was averted on Saturday …
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Red states love Trump—and mooching off the federal funds he wants to cut — West Virginia is one the nation's most reliably Republican states, as is Louisiana. Voters there overwhelmingly pulled the lever for Donald Trump in 2024, striking a decisive blow against former Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
The GOP's Unreliable Cutter-in-chief
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘There will be many casualties’: Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talks — On the ground in Panama City ahead of Marco Rubio's first trip as secretary of State. — PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio's weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years …
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Raw Story, Fox News, Florida Politics, Breitbart, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Blaze Media and Bloomberg
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Rubio embarks on mission impossible: Retake the Panama Canal
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Raw Story, NPR, Associated Press, Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Scripps News, Reuters and CBS News
Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended — A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names …
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
N.Y. Hospital Stops Treating 2 Children After Trump's Trans Care Order — The hospital canceled their appointments the same week an executive order from President Trump threatened to punish doctors and hospitals for offering gender-affirming care. — A leading New York City hospital system …
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CBS News:
Trump says he ordered precision military air strikes on ISIS leaders in Somalia — The U.S. military conducted coordinated airstrikes against ISIS operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Trump's second term. — Mr. Trump said Saturday in a post …
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The United States Senate Committee on Finance:
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System — In New Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent, Wyden Warns That Political Meddling in Treasury Payments Risks Severe Economic Damage, Calls Out Dangerous Conflicts …
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Truthout, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Reuters, DNyuz, New York Times, Althouse, Mediaite, Salon, New Republic, Digby's Hullabaloo and Ars Technica
Rolling Stone:
Air Traffic Control Offices Are in Chaos in Trump's New Administration — Sources say air traffic control offices have been in a state of Trumpian despair since he took over — and that was before the plane crash near D.C. — Almost as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in late last month …
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DNyuz, Reason and The Post Millennial
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Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid — Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work. — Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut …
National Press Club:
National Press Club Statement On Pentagon's Decision to Remove Media Organizations from Workspaces — WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — National Press Club President Mike Balsamo today issued the following statement in response to the Defense Department's decision to revoke dedicated workspace …
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Greene suggests throwing out foreign outlets: ‘American media first’ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) suggested throwing out foreign news outlets of the White House briefing room as she appears to have taken an issue with a reporter's accent during a press briefing on Friday.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale — Over the last few days, as I've struggled with everyone else to stay on top of all this, I've tried to balance two things. One of those is trying to keep people focused on what an opposition can actually do and what it can't.
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