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Devi Shastri / Associated Press:
First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people  —  A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month.  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday.
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say  —  At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
RFK Jr. Has Horrific Response to Measles Death  —  An unvaccinated child in west Texas died of measles on Wednesday, marking the first time that someone has died from the viral illness in the U.S. in a decade.  —  So far, 18 people have been hospitalized for the disease around Lubbock …
Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade  —  The majority of cases have occurred among unvaccinated people.  —  The MMR vaccine for measles, mumps or rubella at Logan Square Health Center in Chicago in 2019.  —  Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Legendary WaPo Editor Slams Bezos' ‘Disgusting’ MAGA Makeover  —  BETRAYAL  —  Former executive editor Marty Baron told the Daily Beast there was “no doubt in my mind” that Bezos was prioritizing his business interests over The Washington Post.
Cameron Barr / Cameron Barr on LinkedIn:   Today I am ending my professional association with The Washington Post.  Since my decision to step down as senior managing editor in 2023 …
The Guardian:
Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post's opinion section. That's a death knell
Bloomberg:
Musk's Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email  — Ex-employees prevail in challenges to ‘Fork in the Road’ email  — Billionaire has Trump's support using similar tactics at DOGE  —  Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges …
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New Republic:
Trump Press Sec Seethes at Media over Musk as More Bad Econ News Hits … At Tuesday's media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will now decide who attends briefings, an effort to insulate President Trump from tough scrutiny.
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Musk dominates, disparages federal workers at first Trump Cabinet meeting
Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
The Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs in a new memo
NBC News:
Live updates: Trump, joined by Musk, holds first Cabinet meeting
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics are a sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown  —  Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democratic appropriator, urged Republicans to help stop Trump from usurping Congress' spending powers and not to “follow Elon towards a shutdown.”
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Politico:
Senate Republicans say House budget won't fly with them  —  Tuesday's big win for Speaker Mike Johnson might not last long.  —  House Republicans spent weeks in painstaking negotiations before delivering a budget blueprint for “one big, beautiful bill.”  Now Senate Republicans are preparing to tear it apart.
Wired:
DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator  —  Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector.  They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.  —  On February 10 …
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Jesse Coburn / ProPublica:
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:   DOGE Cites ‘DEI,’ LinkedIn Profiles It Doesn't Like In Killing Off HUD Contracts
James Oliphant / Reuters:
White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting  —  The White House on Wednesday denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting in keeping with the administration's new policy regarding media coverage.
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
White House Kicks Out HuffPost Reporter From Press Pool
Whitney Snyder / HuffPost:   Donald Trump's Extraordinary Act Of Weakness
The Guardian:
Trump faces Truth Social backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers  —  Users of president's own social media site criticise video showing reimagined Gaza featuring Trump and Israeli PM sipping cocktails  —  Donald Trump is facing a backlash …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court is in “radical agreement” that a bizarre DEI rule needs to go  —  The proper term for a Supreme Court session where the justices hear verbal presentations by lawyers is an “oral argument,” but Wednesday's hearing in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services hardly qualified as an argument.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court leans toward reviving straight woman's reverse discrimination claim
Washington Post:
Elon Musk's business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding  —  Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk's wealth  —  Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce  —  Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.  —  There are more than 1,200 Social Security field offices across the country.
Jacqueline Sweet / Rolling Stone:
Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?  —  Conservatives have used DataRepublican to spread misinformation about federal agencies.  She's been working at a tech firm that's battled the CFPB … The account, and its alleged findings of mismanaged government agency spending …
Discussion: Blaze Media
Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump's nominee for solicitor general won't rule out ignoring court orders in ‘extreme cases’  —  President Donald Trump's nominee to be solicitor general told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that presidents might rightfully defy court orders in “extreme cases.”
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NBC News:
Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding  —  In court filings, the DOJ contends it will take “weeks” to free the funding that a federal judge ordered to be released almost two weeks ago.  —  The Trump administration …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Neal Riley / CBS News:
American Airlines flight from Boston aborts landing at D.C. airport to avoid departing plane  —  An American Airlines flight from Boston aborted its landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning to avoid another plane that was taking off on the same runway, authorities said.
Pew Research Center:
Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off  —  Findings from the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Findings from the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study  —  Pew Research Center conducts the Religious Landscape Study …
Emma Colton / AOL:
Multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump's HHS  —  FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox News Digital has learned.
Washington Post:
DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of firings, the most widespread yet  —  Records show a Department of Labor component that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent.  —  Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service is barreling toward a fresh round of firings …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“A woman is like a child”: MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power  —  Conservative women believe complicity will save them.  But an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights  —  For decades, the anti-abortion movement has aggressively promoted women into visible leadership roles.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
White House point man at Homeland Security shared ‘martial law option’ post to keep Trump in office  —  The Trump administration's new point man for dealings with the Department of Homeland Security is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for …
Discussion: The Dispatch and Raw Story
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk's team  —  Shortly after becoming Wired's global editorial director in 2023, Katie Drummond acted on an early-morning idea.  With a presidential election coming, the tech-focused news outlet needed a team …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Economists are starting to worry about a serious Trump recession  —  Tariffs on America's neighbours and assault on federal government will hit US economy  —  Donald Trump's assault on the US federal government and the world's interlinked manufacturing system have together reached an economic tipping point.
CNN:
Trump prepares to use controversial 1798 ‘Alien Enemies’ law to speed deportations  —  The Trump administration is preparing to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
Discussion: New Republic
Marni Rose McFall / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Anti-Trump Podcaster Who Dethroned Joe Rogan Wants to Beat Fox News  —  The MeidasTouch Podcast, a progressive, anti-Trump show hosted by three brothers—Brett, Ben and Jordan Meiselas—became America's most popular podcast this month, knocking off
Brian Stelter / CNN:
New book on Biden by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson reports a ‘cover-up’ about his decline  —  The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a focus on former President Joe Biden.
 
 
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Katie Smith / USA Today:
Posts share old video, falsely claiming Obama's birth certificate is fake | Fact check
Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon:
State Department Completes Foreign Funding Review, Identifying 15,000 Grants Worth $60 Billion for Elimination
Benji Jones / Vox:
This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
Richard Salgado / Default:
Skirting Judicial Scrutiny by Mooting and Scooting
Bolts:
Indiana Republicans Move to Ban Student IDs for Voting
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
Trump claims 'we're not going to touch' Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
Michael Andor Brodeur / Washington Post:
Following executive orders, 'The President's Own' Marine Band scraps concert
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court seems poised to lower bar for Whites to sue for job bias
Discussion: Althouse
Ramy Inocencio / CBS News:
Elon Musk appears to be driving Europe away from Teslas
 

 
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CNBC:
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American Journalism Project:
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Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
The Free Press announces Tyler Cowen, Jed Rubenfeld, Matthew Continetti, and Batya Ungar-Sargon as new columnists, with Coleman Hughes bringing his podcast
 
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