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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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Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico:
France has ‘trouble understanding’ US halt on cyber operations against Russia — PARIS — French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrot voiced his confusion over reports that the United States' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a halt of offensive cyber operations against Russia.
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.
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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.
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
RFK Jr. urges people to get vaccinated amid deadly Texas outbreak … - He has previously repeated debunked claims about vaccines and provided elusive answers to senators on his stance on vaccinations ahead of being confirmed. … - Kennedy wrote that before the introduction of the measles …
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens
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Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
Federal Officials Underplaying Measles Vaccination, Experts Say
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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
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Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg:
Zelenskiy Says He'd Meet Again With Trump But Not at Any Cost
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Reuters
Nayla Razzouk / Bloomberg:
Macron Tells Figaro France, UK Working on Ukraine Truce Plan
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The Kyiv Independent, RTÉ, Reuters, Politico and Metro.co.uk
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 …
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The Daily Caller, Catkora and Associated Press
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 …
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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 …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Trump announces US crypto reserve
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Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
Crypto prices jump as Trump touts national crypto reserve
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CoinDesk and Daily Mail
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Senior USAID official ousted as he details problems providing lifesaving aid — The memo contradicts claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that he has put in place a functioning system for exempting lifesaving assistance from the aid freeze. — just now
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
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Reuters
David French / New York Times:
Trump Is Breaking Things We Can't Just Fix — President Trump is doing damage to America that could take a generation or more to repair. The next election cannot fix what Trump is breaking. Neither can the one after that. — To understand the gravity of the harm Trump has inflicted …
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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.
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's 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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Hartford Courant
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Senate Democrat says White House is ‘arm of Kremlin’
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Mediaite, Twitchy, Axios, The Post Millennial, Raw Story, RedState, The Independent and Breitbart
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” …
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National Review, Fox News, Breitbart, PBS NewsHour and Reuters
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 …
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Johnson says Zelenskyy may need to resign — Speaker Mike Johnson said Zelenskyy either needs to “come to his senses” or step down to end the war in Ukraine. — Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy might need to resign to bring peace …
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
GOP Sen. James Lankford defends Zelenskyy as Trump officials question his leadership
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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 …
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Jan Ransom / New York Times:
N.Y. State Police Investigate Death of Another Inmate at Upstate Prison — A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers. — The State Police are investigating the death of a prisoner …
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New York Post
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 …
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The Mahablog and Rolling Stone
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Has Glossed Over High Prices. Republicans Worry It Will Cost Them. — The president talks more often about federal workers, diversity programs and foreign policy than the price of eggs — WASHINGTON—President Trump promised during the campaign to lower prices on day one of his presidency.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests — The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry. — President Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log.
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