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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments  —  A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Associated Press:
Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan  —  Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East.  But after President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Madness of Donald Trump  —  To Benjamin Netanyahu's delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.”  —  More than five hundred years ago, Machiavelli, the philosopher of political practice and modern republicanism, suggested, in …
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza  —  Although the president had been talking about the idea for weeks, there had been no meetings on the subject, and senior members of his government were taken by surprise.  —  When President Trump announced his proposal for the United States …
Associated Press:
The House speaker defends Trump's Gaza plan, while other Republicans express doubts.
Washington Post:
White House tries to soften Trump's mass displacement proposal for Gaza
CNN:
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
NBC News:
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice  —  Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office.  A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge weighs short-term block on Musk allies' ability to share Treasury records outside the department  —  A lawsuit alleges that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is compromising Treasury's payment system.  —  A federal judge on Wednesday declined to immediately block …
Wall Street Journal:
DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Slate:
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI  —  On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …
Discussion: NPR, CBS News and CNN
Politico:
Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general  —  Trump's newly sworn in AG released a series of directives.  —  Pam Bondi is officially in control of the Justice Department — and she's gone right to work.  —  President Donald Trump's attorney general issued …
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Wall Street Journal:   How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk
Discussion: Lifeway Research
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee  —  “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.  —  LOADING
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Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest  —  The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
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Dell Cameron / Wired:
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’  —  An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”  —  A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Deepens Pressure on Federal Workers to Resign
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us  —  ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol.  Very, very mad.  And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.  —  Let me explain.  This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …
New York Times:
White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees  —  The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.  —  The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing …
Mark Walker / New York Times:
Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology  —  His announcement comes after an outage last week to the primary system that provides pilots safety alerts in real time.  —  Elon Musk's team will now dig into the nation's aviation system, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday.
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Nico Grant / New York Times:
Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders  —  The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.  —  Google tried for years to diversify its work force …
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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children  —  The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”
New York Times:
List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits  —  Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws.  But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Tesla's European Sales Drop in January After Musk Disrupts Politics There  —  The U.S. electric car company's sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk.  —  Tesla's sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January …
Politico:
The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz  —  Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency.  —  The German chancellor candidate told …
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk  —  Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson's office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
Washington Post:
Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico  —  Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.  Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats' phones bombarded with calls to “fight harder” … - Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Axios: “What I think we need to do more is: Put the onus on Republicans, so that the calls that we're getting are directed toward Republicans.”  — “There has definitely been some tension …
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Susan Collins Tells Reporters She Is ‘Concerned’ About Elon Musk's Power Over Federal Spending  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday that she was concerned about Elon Musk unilaterally gutting USAID and seizing control over the Treasury Department's payment system.
Erik De La Garza / Raw Story:
‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities  —  President Donald Trump's sweeping anti-diversity executive action struck again - this time in the halls of the National Cryptologic Museum - where staff were ordered to cover up displays celebrating women …
Discussion: NPR
David Dayen / American Prospect:
L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.  —  Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate HELP Committee hearing for his pending confirmation …
Discussion: New Republic
 
 
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Russell Payne / Salon:
“What's the point of having Congress?”: Even some conservatives now say it's a constitutional crisis
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Karl Mathiesen / Politico:
Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund
Wall Street Journal:
More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target
Discussion: Bloomberg and ZeroHedge News
Jael Holzman / Heatmap News:
Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Doge v USAid: how Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world's biggest aid agency
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Zeyi Yang / Wired:
US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Trump takes action to ban transgender women from women's sports
David Bauder / Associated Press:
‘60 Minutes’ publicly releases transcripts of interview at heart of its dispute with Trump
ABC News:
Judge issues nationwide injunction blocking Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab And America's Crisis
 

 
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market”

Reuters:
Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”
 
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