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How Corey Lewandowski Wielded Power Inside DHS
New York Times: “Presiding over gatherings in the secretary’s office was just one way Mr. Lewandowski exerted power far beyond the scope of his role as unpaid adviser.” “While he…
ICE Agents to Be Sent to U.S. Airports on Monday
New York Times: “Mr. Trump posted the threat, then the timing of the deployment, in an apparent attempt to break an impasse between congressional Democrats and the White House over…
Quote of the Day
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” — President Trump, on Truth Social. Save to Favorites
Iran War Exposes Limits of ‘Yes Sir’ Cabinet
Bloomberg: “Those privately pressing Trump to strike Iran included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and some conservative commentators, according to people familiar with the matter who…
Military Housing Is a Hot Commodity for Trump Aides
New York Times: “All across Washington, some of the most powerful people in the federal government are hosting one another for dinner, comparing their rent prices and fixing leaky pipes…
Fed Chair Extols ‘Independence and Integrity’
Financial Times: “Jay Powell says that ‘independence and integrity are inseparable’ in the wake of another attack from Donald Trump on the Federal Reserve chair. ” Save to Favorites
Robert Mueller Is Dead
Robert Mueller, former special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, died Friday, MS Now reports. Save to Favorites
Trump Threatens to Move ICE Agents to Airport Security
With the Department of Homeland Security still unfunded and TSA agents not being paid, President Trump threatened to “move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they…
Democrats Sweat Over Virginia Redistricting
NBC News: “After putting an aggressive redraw of the state’s congressional map before voters, some Virginia Democrats are growing uneasy about its prospects for passage one month out from the…
White House Revises Offer to End Shutdown
Politico: “The White House offered additional immigration enforcement concessions to Democrats Friday evening as border czar Tom Homan met a second time with a bipartisan group of senators seeking to…
Bags of Documents Shredded After Epstein’s Death
Miami Herald: “Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the…
Work Is Underway on Trump’s Second Border Wall
Washington Post: “The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in the One Big…
The Erasure of Cesar Chavez
Los Angeles Times: “It took three decades of battles and lobbying for Cesar Chavez’s name and likeness to grace hundreds of buildings, roads, parks and schools.” “It is taking just…
Iran Believes It’s Winning
Wall Street Journal: “Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that…
GOP Pushes Back on Curbing Mail-In Voting
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has demanded that the GOP-controlled Senate vote to end most mail-in voting. One big problem: Many red-leaning states have embraced the practice, putting lawmakers in…
How Will Lewis Lost the Washington Post
Washingtonian: “Two years ago, Jeff Bezos brought in controversial media executive Will Lewis to lift the Washington Post out of a post-Trump slump. His calamitous tenure ended in failure—and has…
Super PAC Spending Surges in Midterms
Washington Post: “The political arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee funneled over $5 million to other groups as part of its work to defeat Illinois Democrats critical of…
Elon Musk Says He’ll Pay TSA Employees
Elon Musk offered to pay the salaries of all TSA employees during the partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security. Save to Favorites
Russia Proposed Staging an Assassination Attempt
“In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor…
Trump Family Is Back in the Betting Business
“With his Atlantic City casinos in duress in the 1990s, Donald Trump saw a potential lifeline in sports betting and aggressively campaigned to legalize it in New Jersey. But when…
