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5:45 PM ET, January 27, 2025

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NBC News:
Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president  —  The DOJ employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice …
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CNN:
Trump Justice Department fires officials who investigated Trump and launches ‘special project’ into January 6 cases  —  More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Opens Review of Justice Department's Jan. 6 Cases  —  Lawyers who worked on the matters are asked to turn over files, notes and other records  —  WASHINGTON—A top Trump-appointed prosecutor has opened an internal review of the Justice Department's decision …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team  —  Acting Attorney General James McHenry 'does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President's agenda'  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Trump Just Broke the Law.  Blatantly.  And He Might Get Away With It.  —  Imagine that there were a particularly dirty NFL player—call him Thompson—who developed a habit of doing something new and possibly dangerous to opposing players.  Penalty flags didn't deter him.  On and on he went.
Discussion: Techdirt and HuffPost
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge  —  The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.”  —  The Trump administration …
Discussion: E&E News, Newsweek and PJ Media
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump's Late-Night Purge Suddenly Becomes Bigger Scandal
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Ignores Federal Laws As He Moves To Reshape Washington
CNN:
Inspector general fired by Trump has a warning for Americans
Discussion: New Jersey Online and CBS News
FOX 32 Chicago:
Indiana man fatally shot by sheriff's deputy identified as Jan. 6 defendant  — A Jasper County sheriff's deputy fatally shot 42-year-old Matthew W. Huttle during a traffic stop in northwest Indiana on Sunday after an altercation in which Huttle reportedly resisted arrest and was armed.
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The Indianapolis Star:
Recently pardoned Jan. 6 rioter killed in officer-involved shooting in Northern Indiana  —  Noe Padilla Sarah NelsonIndianapolis Star  —  JASPER COUNTY — The Indiana State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting which resulted in the death of Matthew Huttle, 42, from Hobart, who was a recently pardoned January 6 rioter.
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX 32 Chicago
New York Post:
Trump to ink new executive orders today banning transgender service members, military DEI programs  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders Monday booting transgender service members and eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs from the military, The Post has learned.
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Fox News:
Trump's crackdown on trans troops: New order nixes preferred pronouns and restricts facility use
Discussion: New York Daily News and IJR
Giselle Donnelly / The Bulwark:
We All Lose in Trump's War Against Trans Americans
Discussion: IJR, Bloomberg and Salon
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump's agenda  —  Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats' agenda.  Now liberals see an opening to stymie Trump.  —  DORAL, Florida — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown …
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New York Times:
Chief Corruption Prosecutor Resigns From Justice Dept.  —  Corey Amundson chose to leave the department after being told he was being reassigned by the Trump administration to a position related to immigration enforcement.  —  The head of the Justice Department's public integrity section …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and WUSA
BBC:
Colombia yields on US deportation flights to avert trade war  —  A looming trade war between the US and Colombia appears to have been averted after the Colombian government agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land in the Andean country.
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Laura Strickler / NBC News:
Quaker groups file suit over end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship  —  The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.  —  A group of Quaker congregations are suing the Department of Homeland Security for changing a policy …
Discussion: Axios
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal  —  U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.  A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official …
Alaa Elassar / CNN:
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps  —  At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement …
Discussion: The Guardian and New Republic
Washington Post:
China's DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling  —  The tech-heavy Nasdaq index lost nearly 4 percent in early trading Monday, with chipmaker Nvidia down nearly 12 percent.  —  The sudden popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence model called DeepSeek pummeled stocks Monday …
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Jenni Reid / CNBC:
Nvidia falls 12% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
Ryu Spaeth / New York Magazine:
Chris Hayes Made a Chamber of His Own  —  How Kierkegaard and a book contract saved the MSNBC host from smartphone addiction.  —  Chris Hayes cuts a peculiar figure in the media landscape.  He is omnivorously inquisitive, his owlish frames imparting the sense that he is always on the lookout …
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Chris Hayes wants you to pay attention
Discussion: The Hill
Reuters:
US reports first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry  —  The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.  —  U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain …
Discussion: Quartz
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Some GOP senators want open committee vote on Gabbard  —  Any Republican opposition could doom the top intelligence nominee's confirmation.  —  Some Republican senators are pushing for the unusual step of making public a key vote on Tulsi Gabbard's nomination in the Senate Intelligence Committee …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
DeepSeek FAQ  —  It's Monday, January 27.  Why haven't you written about DeepSeek yet?  —  I did!  I wrote about R1 last Tuesday.  —  I totally forgot about that.  —  I take responsibility.  I stand by the post, including the two biggest takeaways that I highlighted …
Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots.  Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.  —  A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots.  These are some of those voters' stories.
Discussion: HuffPost and NPR
Human Rights Watch:
US: Order Halting Foreign Aid Work Puts Lives at Risk  —  Trump Administration Should Continue Programs While Reviewing Budgets  —  (Washington, DC) - The US government's suspension of most foreign aid is putting lives around the world at risk, Human Rights Watch said today.
Daniel Klaidman / CBS News:
FBI insider raises concerns about Kash Patel's role in hostage rescue  —  Days before this week's high-stakes confirmation hearing of Kash Patel to be FBI director, a bureau insider has come forward with new information questioning Patel's judgment during sensitive hostage rescue missions, CBS News has learned.
Discussion: Raw Story and Advocate
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Polls show views souring on Elon Musk as Trump's wingman  —  Musk's numbers are down, and even some who like him don't seem to love him being so central.  —  There are already signs that Elon Musk's marriage of convenience to President Donald Trump could be a fraught union.
Discussion: The Hill, NOTUS and Reuters
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
No. We Should Not Move Beyond ‘That’  —  The Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl.  (So are the Kansas City Chiefs, but who cares?)  The last time the Eagles won it all, in 2018, many of the players declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate with President Trump …
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Europe's Elon Musk Problem … During an american election, a rich man can hand out $1 million checks to prospective voters.  Companies and people can use secretly funded “dark money” nonprofits to donate unlimited money, anonymously, to super PACs, which can then spend it on advertising campaigns.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
Discussion: HotAir
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump rescinded a half-century of environmental rules. Here's what that could mean.
Discussion: Slow Boring and Atlantic Council
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
FBI SWAT team raided the wrong house. Can the family sue over trauma? Supreme Court will decide
Discussion: The Hill
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
E.V. Owners Don't Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Pluralistic:
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Discussion: American Prospect
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Politico:
Florida Legislature defies DeSantis on illegal immigration as Republican foes assert power
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Gangster's Paradise  —  Today we're going to the Bad Place.  I'm sorry in advance.
Discussion: Alternet.org
New York Times:
In Exacting Retribution, Trump Aims at the Future as Well as the Past
Discussion: Raw Story
Garrett Epps / Washington Monthly:
Trump's Flaming Turd of an Argument for Ending Birthright Citizenship
Discussion: New Republic and New York Magazine
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