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New York Times:
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia  —  The defense secretary's instructions, which were given before President Trump's blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
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CBS News:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused cyber offensive against Russia  —  Multiple U.S. officials tell CBS News that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
NBC News:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia  —  Russia has intensified cyber operations against Ukraine and NATO countries, according to previous U.S. intelligence and private sector reports.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command …
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign  —  Zelensky's stubbornness has badly hurt Ukraine.  —  On Thursday, President Donald Trump was publicly pledging to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regain Russian-occupied territory at the peace table.
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Jakub Krupa / The Guardian:
Zelenskyy says minerals deal is ready to be signed as he seeks to move conversation on from White House spat - live  —  Keir Starmer announces additional £1.6bn package for Ukraine, allowing it ‘to buy more than 5,000 air defence missiles’  —  ‘We understand the importance of America,’ Zelenskyy says
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Johnson says Zelenskyy may need to resign
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
RFK Jr says Texas measles outbreak a ‘call to action’  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the measles outbreak in west Texas is a “call to action,” as he encouraged parents to consider whether to get their children vaccinated.
Discussion: Fox News
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   Measles outbreak continues to spike with nearly 150 reported cases
Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:   Federal Officials Underplaying Measles Vaccination, Experts Say
Rolling Stone:
FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink  —  The Federal Aviation Administration directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell Rolling Stone … However, on Friday, FAA officials ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Wes Davis / The Verge:
FAA staff reportedly ordered to find funding for deal with Musk's Starlink  —  Discussions about the deal, which could upend a $2.4 billion Verizon contract with the US, have happened verbally, reports Rolling Stone. … Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered staff …
Francesca Ebel / Washington Post:
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow's vision, Kremlin says  —  Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”  —  MOSCOW — The Trump administration's rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia …
Discussion: The Guardian, Axios and Reuters
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Playbook: Democrats in despair  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Sunday.  You have roughly eight hours to catch up on Oscars movies before the big awards show begins tonight at 7 p.m. Drop me a line: [email protected].  —  DRIVING THE DAY
Discussion: New York Post
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Adam Wren / Politico:   Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests
David French / New York Times:   Trump Is Breaking Things We Can't Just Fix
Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg:
Zelenskiy Signals He Would Meet With Trump If Invited Back  — Ukrainian leader is ready to sign natural resources deal  — Says he's convinced his clash with Trump will blow over  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he's willing to meet Donald Trump if the US president invites him again …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Reuters
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Brian Melley / Associated Press:
UK pledges export financing for air defense as world leaders discuss ending war in Ukraine
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Crypto Prices Jump After Trump Announces Five Tokens for Strategic Reserve  —  Bitcoin, ether, solana, Ripple-linked XRP and cardano will be in the stockpile  —  Crypto prices surged Sunday after President Trump said he would move forward on a U.S. crypto strategic reserve that would include bitcoin …
Discussion: Raw Story, CoinDesk and New York Post
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio's emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked “emergency authorities” …
Kai Kupferschmidt / Science:
Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science  —  Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats  —  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is gutting a landmark project designed …
Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Public remains negative on Trump ahead of address to Congress  —  The American public's view of Donald Trump's presidency and the direction he's leading the country is more negative than positive just ahead of his first formal address to Congress since returning to office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Democrats Invite Fired Federal Workers to Trump's Congressional Address  —  The move comes as lawmakers hear from constituents over President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending and cull the civil service ranks.  —  Rather than boycott President Trump's address …
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Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Thinks U.S. Should Leave NATO And The United Nations  —  Elon Musk has been tasked with cutting government spending.  —  Elon Musk, who holds no official cabinet position in the administration, wrote on social media that he agrees the United States should leave NATO and the United Nations.
Politico:
Crowds protest JD Vance at Vermont ski resort  —  The vice president was set for a family vacation.  —  WAITSFIELD, Vermont— Crowds protesting Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Office blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday near a Vermont ski resort where he planned a weekend vacation with his family.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Gotti would have OK'd the Trump-Vance mob hit on Zelensky  —  The late American architect Philip Johnson is famous for his iconic 20th-century skyscrapers and also less well-known — while fascinating his biographers — for a 1930s flirtation with rising global fascism during …
Jenna Deml / PortlandTribune.com:
Wyden to skip Trump's first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead  —  Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump's first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.  —  During his constitutionally-required address …
Discussion: Associated Press and NPR
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
‘Democrats have been playing dead for too many years’  —  Bernie Sanders rejects a strategist's advice to Democrats to make “strategic political retreat.”  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday sharply rejected veteran Democratic strategist James Carville's suggestions for the Democratic Party to make a …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Reuters:
Canada PM Trudeau says protecting independence is his priority in talks with King Charles  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his priority in talks with King Charles on Monday will be protecting his country's sovereignty after U.S. President Donald Trump recently suggested making Canada the 51st U.S. state.
Discussion: Agence France-Presse and CBS News
 
 
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Senior USAID official ousted after detailing problems providing lifesaving aid
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
New York Times:
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Troops, Cartels and China: What Mexico Is Doing to Stave Off Tariffs
Discussion: Bloomberg and CNBC
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests
Discussion: UPI, USA Today and Washington Examiner
Aimee Green / Oregonian:
‘If you just came here to yell, I can leave,’ Trump-supporting Oregon congressman tells crowd of angry rural voters
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
The Countries Fueling America's $1.2 Trillion Goods Trade Deficit, in Charts
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Blaze Media
Ayaz Gul / Voice of America:
Taliban refute Trump's claim of Chinese control over Afghan base as ‘emotional’
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says
Discussion: The Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
AP Editor Speaks Out About Battle With Trump White House: It's Not About ‘Gulf of America,’ It's About ‘Something So Much Bigger’
Discussion: Newsbusters
Washington Post:
How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
New York Times:
Israel Halts All Aid Into Gaza as Cease-Fire Expires
Financial Times:
Putin ally pushes deal to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
AOC calls Elon Musk a ‘leech’ on the public as their tit-for-tat feud continues
New York Times:
DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
Discussion: New York Times and FactCheck.org
 

 
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Sources: Sewell Chan's departure from CJR comes as the magazine has been running under tight budgetary constraints and was beginning a fundraising campaign

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of TKO CEO Ari Emanuel, as he builds a live events business; sources: Emanuel is in talks to buy the Miami and Madrid Open tennis tournaments for $1B+

 
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