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NBC News:
Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if automakers raise prices due to tariffs, says he believes it will make people buy American-made cars  —  In an interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump also said he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat.
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NBC News:
Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if foreign automakers raise prices due to tariffs  —  In an interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump also said he wouldn't fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat.  —  President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview Saturday …
Discussion: Reuters and New York Post
Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University's Knowledge  —  In a developing story, it appears the Trump administration is quietly targeting even more students for deportation and doing so in a way that is taking universities and the students themselves completely by surprise.
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Lubna Kably / Times of India:
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism  —  Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism.
Adam Geller / Associated Press:   Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
White House Correspondents' Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner  —  The group's board unanimously decided it would no longer feature a comedic performance, WHCA President Eugene Daniels wrote in an email Saturday  —  The White House Correspondents' Association …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
White House Correspondents' Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinner  —  The White House Correspondents' Association is reversing course and canceling its plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline this year's annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
White House Correspondents' Association drops Amber Ruffin from 2025 dinner
Michelle Del Rey / The Independent:
JD Vance admits that he wasn't entirely sure why Trump wanted Greenland in the first place  —  Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance visited the territory for just a few hours … Vice President JD Vance told U.S. service members at a Greenland base that he only recently realized what they were doing there.
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
Prime minister of Denmark to visit Greenland in wake of Vance's trip
Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Trump releases powerful video highlighting US-Greenland bond after deadly Nazi attack
Discussion: RedState and The Hill
Washington Post:
DOGE fires nearly all staff at U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters  —  Employees who worked at the headquarters of the institute, founded and funded by Congress, received late-night termination notices, though most of its overseas staff were left in place.  —  Just now
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Associated Press:
Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing  —  Most employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, received email notices of their mass firing …
Discussion: The Hill
Aishvarya Kavi / New York Times:
Many at U.S. Institute of Peace Fired as Trump Seeks Nonprofit's End
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
CNN:
Over 200 ‘Tesla Takedown’ protests take place throughout US on ‘Global Day of Action’ against Elon Musk's role with DOGE  —  Hundreds of “Tesla Takedown” demonstrations are taking place in the United States, Canada and Europe as activists ramp up their opposition to CEO Elon Musk's efforts …
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Los Angeles Times:
White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say  —  A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him …
New York Times:
‘Should I Fire Him?’  Inside Trump's Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz  —  In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser.  But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice.  —  For much of this week, President Trump was consumed by a single question.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Mail and Politico
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Washington Post:
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints  —  An internal guidance memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focuses on deterring China's seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense.  In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report …
Discussion: Defense One
STAT:
STAT+: Ouster of FDA's Peter Marks alarms a biopharma industry that saw him as an ally  —  When Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime and visceral critic of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, was nominated by President Trump to be the nation's health secretary, the head of biotech's largest trade group issued …
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Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:
“Spiraling Deeper and Deeper Into Danger”: RFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Official
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Florida college fires Chinese professor under state's ‘countries of concern’ law  —  New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US  —  The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law …
Discussion: Suncoast Searchlight
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth's wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials  —  Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings  —  The wife of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, attended two meetings …
 
 
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Rolling Stone:
‘Lives Are in Danger’ After a Trump Admin Spreadsheet Leak, Sources Say
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
Politico:
DOGE's Marko Elez is back on U.S. payroll
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Southwest border mission has cost $330M so far — with over $40M for Guantanamo Bay alone: Sources
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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New York Times:
Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers' jobs with children: 'It's insane, right?'
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Wisconsin appeals court won't stop Musk's $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Taxpayers' Tab For Trump's Second-Term Golf Excursions Crosses $26 Million Mark
Discussion: Associated Press
 

 
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Charles Martin / AppleInsider:
The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding

Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”

Axios:
Sources: G/O Media sold business news brand Quartz and commerce site The Inventory to software firm Redbrick, the fourth Quartz ownership change in seven years
 
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