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11:00 PM ET, February 13, 2025

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New York Times:
Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case  —  The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.
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NBC News:
Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after being told to drop Adams charges  —  Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in a statement that does not refer to the DOJ directive.  —  Danielle R. Sassoon …
New York Times:
Read Danielle Sassoon's Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi  —  Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan's acting U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
New York Times:
How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams  —  A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams's legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the mayor of America's largest city.  —  President Trump had just taken office when lawyers …
New York Times:
Read the letter from Emil Bove accepting Danielle Sassoon's resignation  —  A letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan's acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams. … Around the New York Region
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and ABC7
New York Post:
Prosecutors were prepping to charge Eric Adams with destroying evidence, Manhattan US attorney's resignation letter reveals  —  Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI …
Washington Post:
Trump administration directs agency heads to fire most probationary staff  —  Terminations should happen within two days, according to four people familiar with internal conversations.  —  The Trump administration has directed agency heads to fire most trial period and probationary staff within two days …
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Adrian Horton / The Guardian:
Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover  —  Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president  —  Donald Trump's takeover of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington …
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Washington Post:
Kennedy Center staff describe climate of fear as events drop from calendar  —  Issa Rae became the first major artist to publicly cancel an upcoming show at the center after President Trump took over its board and leadership.  —  The fallout from President Donald Trump's takeover …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip  —  The offer triggered alarm among Pentagon officials concerned about the military being dragged into partisan warfare.
The White House:
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission  —  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.  American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries …
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:   The Truman Commission showed Americans why Congress must not ignore the world's wealthiest “dollar a year man” at DOGE
Ashley Harrell / SFGATE:
‘Honestly terrifying’: Yosemite National Park is in chaos  —  California's beloved national park is on the brink of disaster  —  Yosemite National Park is in trouble.  Hamstrung by President Donald Trump's hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs …
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
There's a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing  —  How regime change happens in America  —  despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency.  DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication …
Washington Post:
Trump insults McConnell over RFK Jr. vote, casts doubts on polio diagnosis  —  ‘I have no idea if he had polio,’ Trump said when asked about the 82-year-old Kentucky senator's decision to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
McConnell on RFK Jr.: ‘I will not condone the relitigation of proven cures’
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
HHS splurged more than $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups  —  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses …
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Alana Mastrangelo / Breitbart:
Report: HHS Squandered More than $22 Billion on Migrants for Vehicles, Home Loans, Startups
Discussion: IJR
Emily Woodruff / The Advocate:
Louisiana Department of Health ends mass vaccinations, bans seasonal vaccine promotion  —  Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent a directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination clinics and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines …
Discussion: Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza  —  First lady's documentary deal with Amazon, president's legal settlements and other transactions near $80 million so far; Trump library a major beneficiary  —  | Illustrations by Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
Matthew Gault / Gizmodo:
The $400 Million Armored Tesla Story Is a Fake Scandal In a Sea of Real Graft and Horror  —  The State Department does a lot of business with a lot of different companies and has bought Tesla's before.  But freaking out and editing a spreadsheet when it's pointed out is weird.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Defiance in New York  —  The acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, has submitted her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi, an implicit refusal to seek the dismissal of charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, as Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered her to do on Monday.
Ben Walsh / The Bender:
Did Secret Data Doom Biden?  —  Why Politico Is Wrong About the Biden Boom  —  You might remember that in mid-November, there was an idea that Donald Trump won the 2024 election because the economy wasn't very good.  Sure unemployment was low and wages were up.  But egg prices!
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Plane carrying Secretary of State Rubio forced to return to Washington ahead of Europe trip  —  An Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
Trumponomics and Rising Inflation  —  The President calls for easier money even though consumer prices keep rising.  Does he want even higher prices?  —  Does President Trump understand money?  Not money as in cash, but the supply of money, the price of money as measured by interest rates, and their impact on inflation?
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
White House terminates top federal prosecutors amid DOJ, FBI purge  —  Numerous U.S. attorneys announced their departures during a period of extreme upheaval at the Justice Department, an institution long criticized by Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House terminated multiple U.S. attorneys …
Irina Ivanova / Fortune:
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government  — World's richest man and government official Elon Musk accused federal workers of unfairly getting rich off the taxpayer's dime, citing …
Discussion: WPR and Reuters
Politico:
Elise Stefanik's UN posting is on ice  —  Senate Republicans are holding back on her confirmation amid concerns about the tight House majority.  —  Senate Republicans are keeping Rep. Elise Stefanik's United Nations ambassador nomination in limbo amid concerns from the White House …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico  —  President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years …
Discussion: American Thinker and Al Jazeera
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman collides with ship in Mediterranean Sea  —  There are no reported injuries, nor is there flooding aboard the carrier.  —  The US warship USS Harry S. Truman is pictured anchored in The Solent, Oct. 8, 2018, near Portsmouth, England.
Yashar Ali / The Reset:
Exclusive: Matt Schlapp, CPAC Chairman, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar, witnesses say.  —  Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the CPAC convention, allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a restaurant …
Politico:
Judge orders Trump administration to restore funds for foreign aid programs  —  A U.S. district judge said the administration failed to account for the extraordinary harm caused by the broad-based halt.  —  A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for hundreds …
 
 
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