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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Republicans see ‘warning signs’ for the midterms after GOP underperformances  —  Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans.  —  Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat  —  Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.
New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results  —  ‹ See all Wisconsin state results  —  Wisconsin voters will choose a new State Supreme Court justice in an election that will determine whether liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority or whether conservatives take control of the state's judiciary.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk  —  Liberals will maintain their narrow majority on the court after Crawford's victory in the first battleground state election of Trump's second term.  —  Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions  —  Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.  —  Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat …
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
A message to Musk  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Embed:
Discussion: Bloomberg
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
NBC News:
What to watch as Wisconsin and Florida host the first major elections of Trump's second term
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
Who is Jimmy Patronis? Florida's chief financial officer wins election to replace Matt Gaetz
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live  —  More than 350 million people liked Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) floor speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber.  —  By 7:07 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — just over 24 hours after Booker began …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Associated Press:
Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his 25-hour speech, the longest in Senate history
NBC News:
Cory Booker's record-breaking speech ignites a Democratic base ‘desperate’ for a fighter
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say  —  Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis.  But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox.  —  Just now  —  Members of President Donald …
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65  —  A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable.  At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.  —  Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney  —  President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
Discussion: Raw Story, NBC News and Politico
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump-Allied Prosecutor Looks to Undermine Biden Pardons  —  In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s family and former White House officials about clemency.  —  Ed Martin, the ardent Trump loyalist serving …
Senator Schiff:
STATEMENT: Sen. Schiff Announces Hold on D.C. U.S. Attorney Nominee Ed Martin
Washington Post:
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights  —  It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.  —  Just now
Discussion: Associated Press and HuffPost
Alvaro Murillo / Reuters:
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa  —  Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
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Yan Zhuang / New York Times:   Nobel Laureate and Ex-Leader of Costa Rica Says U.S. Revoked His Visa
J.J. McCorvey / NBC News:
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say  —  Those who work closely with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program now fear for its future.  —  The Trump administration on Tuesday eliminated the entire staff of a federal program …
Discussion: NPR and Roll Call
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CNN:
'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies
Reuters:
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners  —  U.S. President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics  —  The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.  —  Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.
Discussion: Raw Story, Vox and Breitbart
New York Times:
Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says  —  A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily.  —  Columbia University's move to use police force to clear demonstrators from a campus building …
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Xochitl Gonzalez / The Atlantic:   Students Yelled at Me. I'm Fine.
Max Kozlov / Nature:
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …
Discussion: Science and STAT
Wired:
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH  —  Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.  —  Several top scientists charged …
Discussion: CBS News
Reuters:
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally  —  U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why We Train With Allies—Even When It's Dangerous  —  When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn't leave.  —  IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought the limelight …
Discussion: New York Times, Salon and The Hill
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’  — Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote.  — Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting …
Discussion: emptywheel, Forbes and The Verge
Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Disgraced ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran arrested at Miami airport with thousands of child sex abuse videos on phone  —  Disgraced ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran — who was booted from office after taking part in a $200,000 bribery scheme to rig the 2013 mayoral election …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites  —  The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut  —  Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.  —  Steep federal funding cuts have forced public health officials in one of Texas' most populous counties — Dallas …
Discussion: STAT
 
 
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Paul Krugman:
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness
The Economist:
Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies
NBC News:
Trump administration suspends a host of federal grants to Princeton University
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He's Facing Charges of Injuring a Child.
Discussion: Mediaite
Aida Fofana / BBC:
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Discussion: The Register and New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
The dirty little secret of universities everywhere
Discussion: UnHerd
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth's office
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
PRAMS Shuttered for Good  —  In the first weeks of the administration, I wrote a number …
Rann Miller / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
For some Trump voters, a realization dawns: We've had our pockets picked
Associated Press:
Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
The Lawlessness Is the Point  —  If JD Vance were capable of shame, he'd be embarrassed by what just happened.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents
 

 
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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”
 
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