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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments  —  A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Associated Press:
Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan  —  Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East.  But after President Donald Trump's …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump goes full colonialist  —  So much for the “non-interventionist mindset.” … 🌍 🪖 🗺️  —  Though he campaigned on keeping the United States out of foreign conflicts, Donald Trump has started his second term with a blizzard of bizarre, violent, and potentially disastrous expansionist threats.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Madness of Donald Trump
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
Washington Post:
White House tries to soften Trump's mass displacement proposal for Gaza
NBC News:
Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems  —  The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
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Reuters:
Musk's DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems  —  Representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where they were granted access to agency systems and technology, CMS said on Wednesday.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee  —  “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.  —  LOADING
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats' phones bombarded with calls to “fight harder” … - Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Axios: “What I think we need to do more is: Put the onus on Republicans, so that the calls that we're getting are directed toward Republicans.”  — “There has definitely been some tension …
NBC News:
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice  —  Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office.  A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Musk's DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials  —  The highly restricted data includes personally identifiable information for millions of federal employees maintained by the Office of Personnel Management.
Discussion: Reuters, NBC News and Bloomberg
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Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest  —  The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
Slate:
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI  —  On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …
Discussion: NPR, CBS News and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos  —  Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime  —  WASHINGTON—A half-dozen of the most senior officials …
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Politico:
Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general
Associated Press:
What to know about the court cases over President Trump's birthright citizenship order
New York Times:
Trump Administration Deepens Pressure on Federal Workers to Resign  —  Rattled civil servants struggled with whether to leave their posts in advance of a Thursday deadline as Elon Musk continued his push through agencies.  —  President Trump's administration deepened its pressure campaign …
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Dell Cameron / Wired:
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’  —  An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”  —  A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Trump's Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing  —  Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.  —  A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end …
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Nico Grant / New York Times:
Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us  —  ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol.  Very, very mad.  And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.  —  Let me explain.  This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Tesla's European Sales Drop in January After Musk Disrupts Politics There  —  The U.S. electric car company's sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk.  —  Tesla's sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January …
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Financial Times:
Tesla's sales plummet across Europe
Discussion: Bloomberg
Wired:
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers  —  Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Democratic polling finds Elon Musk is unpopular  —  House Democrats have a plan to help them win back the working class: turn the world's richest person into their boogeyman.  They've set their sights on holding Elon Musk to account, by attempting to subpoena him and introducing legislation …
Discussion: DNyuz and freebeacon.com
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children  —  The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”
Washington Post:
Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico  —  Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.  Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
New York Times:
White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees  —  The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.  —  The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing …
Washington Post:
Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government  —  The administration plans to close the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice office and remake the Justice Department's environmental division.  —  In a little over two weeks, the Trump administration …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Karl Mathiesen / Politico:
Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund  —  The U.S. had committed the most money to the global fund, which helps over 100 countries grapple with the changing world.  —  The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in U.S. pledges to the world's largest climate fund …
New York Times:
List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits  —  Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws.  But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas  —  Prosecutors in New York had spent years pursuing a case against the conservative group over its role in the theft of a diary kept by Ashley Biden.  —  The Justice Department said on Wednesday …
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide  —  Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech worker, is calling for generational change in Democratic Party.  —  Another chapter in a generational battle over the future of the Democratic Party appears to be taking shape in San Francisco …
 
 
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
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ProPublica:
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New York Times:
To Keep Aid Coming, Ukraine Appeals to Trump Allies: Conservative Christians
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Sara Ruberg / New York Times:
Anti-Trump Protesters Across the U.S. Gather to Condemn White House's Policies
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‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities
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Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation

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