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CNBC:
Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban … WATCH NOW  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump planning to pardon Rod Blagojevich … - Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention.  — The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump's legal problems to his own.
Financial Times:
Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
Discussion: The Guardian and Reuters
Associated Press:   With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government's public integrity guardrails
NPR:
Trump pardons disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump Eases Enforcement of Law Banning Overseas Bribes
ProPublica:
The Courts Blocked Trump's Federal Funding Freeze.  Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  When the federal courts first blocked …
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New York Times:
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding
STAT:
Federal judge halts Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams  —  A top Justice official said New York Mayor Eric Adams should not have to face trial given his reelection campaign and the fight against crime and illegal immigration.  —  NEW YORK — The Justice Department …
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Associated Press:
Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
NBC News:
Justice Department orders charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismissed
Discussion: The City
New York Times:
Read the Justice Department Memo About Eric Adams's Corruption Case
Discussion: Reuters
Newsweek:
Donald Trump Declines to Endorse JD Vance as 2028 Republican ‘Successor’  —  said in a preview of his Super Bowl interview on Monday that it's “too early” to endorse Vice President  —  successor.  —  When  —  's Bret Baier asked if he views Vance as his “successor” and the Republican nominee in 2028 …
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senate Advances Gabbard, Signaling Quick Confirmation
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix:
1 dead, 4 hospitalized after two planes crash on runway at Scottsdale Airport  —  The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday  —  SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Officials confirm at least one person has died after an aircraft crash on the runway Monday at the Scottsdale Airport.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says he may withhold aid to Jordan, Egypt if they don't take in Palestinians  —  President Trump said Monday he would consider withholding aid to Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to take in Palestinians as part of a plan for the U.S. to take over and develop the Gaza Strip.
Discussion: Associated Press
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New York Times:
Trump Issues Cease-Fire Ultimatum After Hamas Postpones Release of Israeli Hostages
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory
New York Times:   Trump Says He May Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt if They Don't Take Gazans
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event  —  The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President …
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI  —  The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump removes Government Ethics Office director  —  It's the latest in Trump's efforts to remove people charged with oversight of his administration.  —  President Donald Trump has removed the director of the Office of Government Ethics, an official tasked with ensuring government workers comply …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Tesla Is Elon Musk's Soft Underbelly  —  Tesla's brand is toxic and its sales are in the toilet.  That's how you hurt Musk.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Consequences  —  Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff.  —  This fact is satisfying on moral, spiritual, and psychosexual levels.
NBC News:
Judge extends freeze on Trump's unprecedented plan to get millions of federal workers to resign  —  U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said the pause would continue until he ruled on the legality of Trump's “deferred resignation” plan.  —  A federal judge in Boston on Monday continued …
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
The GOP Says They Love Elon.  Privately, They're Expressing Concerns.  —  REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS HAVE WIDELY praised Elon Musk as he's gone about restructuring and in certain cases eliminating entire parts of the government.  —  But in private, they've expressed quite a different perspective …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.  —  When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
U.S. Department of Defense:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Renames Fort Liberty to Fort Roland L. Bragg  —  While flying aboard a C-17 from Joint Base Andrews to Stuttgart on February 10, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein jailed as flight risk after cryptocurrency hiding claim … A federal judge on Monday ordered leading Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein held in jail without bail after prosecutors warned that the high-stakes poker player is a “serious” flight risk from his criminal tax evasion case.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”  —  Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.  —  A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely …
Discussion: The Register and Gizmodo
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order … - The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order.
Washington Post:
Trump announces fresh round of tariffs on steel and aluminum  —  Additional trade measures are expected as soon as tomorrow  —  President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday imposing 25-percent tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, the latest salvo in his ongoing effort to overhaul …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Judge temporarily reinstalls fired head of whistleblower protection office  —  A federal judge temporarily reinstalled the head of the Office of the Special Counsel, allowing Hampton Dellinger to return to his post after he was fired Friday by President Trump.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Acquires Company Behind Conservative and True Crime Podcasts  —  Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan are among the clients of Red Seat Ventures, which now joins Rupert Murdoch's empire.  —  The Fox Corporation said on Monday that it had acquired Red Seat Ventures …
 
 
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