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Politico:
Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants — Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to skirt immigration laws and transport detainees from the US to El Salvador. — Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a team of defense contractors are pitching the White House …
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New York Times:
White House Continues Defiant Stance on Seeking Return of Deported Man
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court avoids confronting Trump so far, even when it rules against him
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Bloomberg, NPR and Washington Post
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge demands ‘daily updates’ on whether Trump admin is complying with court order to return illegally deported man
Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: Formalist Delusions Confront Lawless Realities
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Associated Press:
Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported — Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of kicking the activist …
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Fox News:
Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Immigration Judge Rules Khalil Can Be Deported, but Legal Hurdles Remain
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Washington Post:
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead — A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency's deaths database were ignored. — Just now — Two days after the Social Security …
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Truthout and Common Dreams
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Sophia Cai / Politico:
Inside the DOGE immigration task force — The taskforce, led by Musk confidante Antonio Gracias, is providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole and terminating visas. — DOGE's bread and butter has been slashing headcounts but it is now wielding …
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Politico:
RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ references past work with ‘the r— d’ in speech to FDA staff — The HHS secretary's remarks shocked staffers at the Food and Drug Administration, prompting some of them to walk out. — HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit to the FDA Friday …
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Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X — The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned. — The Social Security Administration …
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US Department of Justice:
Pennsylvania Man Charged with Making Threats to Assault and Murder President Donald J. Trump, Other U.S. Officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents — For Immediate Release — Shawn Monper, 32, a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint …
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Madeline Bartos / CBS News:
Butler man accused of threatening to assassinate Trump
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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports. — Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action …
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions — NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-4 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border
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Raw Story
Reuters:
Trump envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies — Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump …
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National Review, The Kyiv Independent, Wall Street Journal and CBS News
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Washington Post:
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions — A DOGE engineer removed users' access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year. — U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Who's In and Who's Out at the Naval Academy's Library? — An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. — Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou's transformative best-selling …
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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project — For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned. — Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel …
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
Trump tariff collection for freight shipments delayed by Customs ‘glitch’ … An alert from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday notified users of a glitch in the system that is used to exempt freight from tariffs, including shipments from China that were already on the water …
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New Republic, Raw Story and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading — The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel's So-Called Enemies List — The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. — The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel's …
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Raw Story
Emily Badger / New York Times:
Musk's Latest Fraud Finding Isn't What It Seems — His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason. — Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling …
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The Daily Signal and Boston Herald
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again — It's already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out. — This week the system worked. Donald Trump blinked. The unwinding is still just beginning. It will be painful and tumultuous.
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Raw Story
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down — Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters - and surrounded by yes men — After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back - all the way to a Florida golf course.
Financial Times:
European travellers cancel US visits as Trump's policies threaten tourism — International visitors stay away as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border rise — The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension …
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Daring Fireball
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy — The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump's policies. — The traditional gathering of former Treasury secretaries to welcome a newly minted one into the fold …
Amanda Lewellyn / Vox:
The playbook Trump is following to deport protesters — The Trump administration has been arresting and detaining protesters who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They have justified the action by calling those protesters — without evidence — “Hamas supporters.”
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New York Daily News and Jewish Insider
Stephen McDonell / BBC:
Why Beijing is not backing down on tariffs — In response to why Beijing is not backing down to Donald Trump on tariffs, the answer is that it doesn't have to. — China's leaders would say that they are not inclined to cave in to a bully - something its government has repeatedly labelled …
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Associated Press:
Trump's China tariffs swing a sledgehammer at importers and cheap goods — Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a sure-fire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trump's massive new taxes on Chinese imports. “When he announced a 20% tariff …
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CNN and New York Post
Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
She's Young, Trump-Friendly, and Has a White House Press Pass … Natalie Winters at Butterworth's, a restaurant in Washington popular with President Trump's supporters and associates.Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times — The waitress was pouring tap water. But Natalie Winters was quick to ask for bottled.
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