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Trump’s election interference is underway

Trump’s election interference is underway

Amanda Carpenter writes: Even though President Trump’s efforts to bend elections to his will have so far largely failed, don’t mistake defeat for retreat. The federal government’s highest power centers are working overtime to tilt the election in the administration’s favor. On Thursday, the Department of Justice sued California, accusing the state of harboring noncitizens on its voter rolls. The suit was filed forty-eight hours after DOJ mailed county election officials a password-protected thumb drive purportedly containing a list of…

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Zelenskyy says Trump is ‘rewarding Putin’ as he waives new Russia sanctions passed by Congress

Zelenskyy says Trump is ‘rewarding Putin’ as he waives new Russia sanctions passed by Congress

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump waived sweeping new sanctions against Russia passed by Congress, arguing in an executive order Friday that the move “is in the national interests of the United States.” Trump had signed the legislation, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., just last month. The bill took aim at Russia’s largest buyers of oil and gas, allowing the president to impose tariffs on goods from those countries, which may include China and India. Passed with…

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Russia has lost 1,562,970 troops in Ukraine since invasion

Russia has lost 1,562,970 troops in Ukraine since invasion

Kyiv Independent reports: Russia has lost 1,562,970 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Oct. 17. The number includes 1,950 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day. According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,415 tanks, 25,554 armored combat vehicles, 163,883 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,266 artillery systems, 2,221 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,710 air defense systems, 449 aircraft, 356…

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Voters want more action on the climate crisis. Why are Democrats and Republicans staying silent?

Voters want more action on the climate crisis. Why are Democrats and Republicans staying silent?

The Guardian reports: Most Americans feel unease or alarm about the climate crisis and, in both red and blue states, want to know how political leaders are going to fix it. But in midterm election campaigns across the US, candidates have responded to this desire with near silence. People in the US have this year endured a record hot summer as well as soaring costs, equating to roughly $2,000 per household, in extra energy and mortgage payments, due to the…

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s lawyers say authorities ignored judge’s restrictions on home search

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s lawyers say authorities ignored judge’s restrictions on home search

The Washington Post reports: Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) on Friday accused federal authorities of ignoring key restrictions that a judge placed on the search of the lawmaker’s D.C. residence this week and demanded the immediate return of all property seized from the home. In a letter sent to Justice Department prosecutors, attorneys Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz condemned the investigation into Omar’s immigration history as a politically motivated attack on one of President Donald Trump’s chief critics, saying…

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Trump’s attempt to deport Ilhan Omar sends a hostile message to every foreign-born American

Trump’s attempt to deport Ilhan Omar sends a hostile message to every foreign-born American

Michelle Goldberg writes: In his final speech as president, Ronald Reagan emphasized the essential role of immigration in American greatness. “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people — our strength — from every country and every corner of the world,” he said. Reagan cited a letter he’d received about how one can’t simply move to France and become a Frenchman or move to Japan and become Japanese. “But anyone, from any corner of the Earth,…

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Katie Zacharia ousted, capping off a week of remarkable upheaval inside Trumpworld

Katie Zacharia ousted, capping off a week of remarkable upheaval inside Trumpworld

The New York Times reports: The end was nigh after [Katie Zacharia] appeared on Fox News on Thursday night to be interviewed by the president’s friend Sean Hannity, who asked her a few tough questions and treated her with rare skepticism. The reception she got on Friday morning on “Fox and Friends” wasn’t exactly friendly, either. “Do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?” one of the hosts, Lawrence Jones,…

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Inside the FBI firings with former acting director Brian Driscoll

Inside the FBI firings with former acting director Brian Driscoll

Michael Isikoff writes: Just days before the U.S. launched the war in Iran last February, FBI director Kash Patel fired five veteran agents who specialized in countering Iranian threats to the U.S. homeland — a move that the bureau’s former acting director Thursday called an “abomination” that has had a crippling impact on U.S. national security. “It’s absolutely devastating,” Brian Driscoll, a highly regarded senior agent who last year served briefly as the FBI’s acting director, said about the dismissals…

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Judge threatens Trump with sanctions to testify in lawsuit he brought against the BBC

Judge threatens Trump with sanctions to testify in lawsuit he brought against the BBC

Bloomberg reports: A judge threatened to sanction President Donald Trump for failing to sit for a mandatory deposition in the $10 billion defamation suit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corp. “The court has admonished plaintiff for his lack of participation to no avail,” US Magistrate Judge Enjolique A. Lett said in a brief order in Miami. “Going forward, the court expects strict compliance with its order, the failure of which will lead to sanctions.” Lett made the comment in…

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Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

The Telegraph reports: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal. The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. One of the sources said Mr Trump “agreed” with Mr Musk’s suggestion, paving the way for the Pentagon to execute the slowdown on Starshield, the military-grade version of…

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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank

The Washington Post reports: Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their autumn olive harvest on Friday, setting groves on fire and slinging rocks in a coordinated assault that fits a pattern of accelerating settler violence across the occupied West Bank. Also caught up in the attack was Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer for The Washington Post. Levine, wearing a protective vest clearly marked “PRESS” on front and back, was knocked to the ground, kicked repeatedly…

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What’s wrong with Marc Andreessen?

What’s wrong with Marc Andreessen?

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention. https://t.co/6bgxdxvfmt — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) March 16, 2026 “The unexamined life is not worth living,” Socrates, 399BC Bloomberg Businessweek reports: Marc Andreessen sounded angry. It was May 22, 2024, and he was venting to a table full of President Joe Biden’s officials in the West Wing office of Jeff Zients, then the White House chief of staff. The famed venture capitalist was…

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Team Trump starts forming a circular firing squad

Team Trump starts forming a circular firing squad

Axios reports: President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office: Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center a year ago, according to four senior administration officials and three insiders briefed on the controversy. Grenell denied the accusations as…

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Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

Reuters reports: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. The officials said ‌leaders at the Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not specify who in the White House made the…

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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was an affiliate marketer for a ‘sort of a pyramid scheme’

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was an affiliate marketer for a ‘sort of a pyramid scheme’

Wired reports: Since her first appearance behind the podium this week, White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s past has become murkier by the day. A WIRED review of deleted social media and professional networking profiles has helped clear up at least one mystery. Zacharia’s online resume shows a gap extending from 2013 to late 2023. For part of that time, she worked as an affiliate of Beachbody, a fitness company that ran a multilevel marketing operation she describes to WIRED…

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The EPA is about to give oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift

The EPA is about to give oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift

Mother Jones reports: Last week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an audience of oil and gas executives at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting in Santa Fe. The environmental agency was “within days,” he told them, of releasing the draft reconsideration of a major Biden-era oil and gas methane rule. The new proposal would weaken regulations on oil and gas operators to allow for…

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