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Sunday, January 26, 2025

The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs are heading to the 2025 Super Bowl for a rematch. Super Bowl LIX will be the Chiefs' third consecutive appearance in the championship game -- having won the last two and looking for the ever illusive "three-peat" -- while the Eagles will be looking to win their second title in franchise history.


President Trump's retaliatory 25% tariffs on Colombia may exacerbate an ongoing surge in coffee prices, one likely to leave Americans paying even more for their morning cup. Why it matters: Beans from Colombia make up 20% of U.S. coffee imports, and the only source larger, Brazil, is struggling with weak crops after a series of weather disasters. read more


President Donald Trump's phone conversations with the two British prime ministers who served during his first term were apparently so madcap that they left staff at Number 10 Downing Street in tears. read more


Elon Musk has been condemned as "a mixture of mad and right-wing extremist" by professor Jens-Christian Wagner, a historian who runs the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, the largest in Germany. read more


Journalist Greg Palast writes about all the different ways the 2024 election was impacted, including by voter registration purges, "vigilante" voter fraud challenges, ballot disqualifications, and bomb threats on election day. read more


Saturday, January 25, 2025

[Office of Management and Budget nominee Russell] Vought encountered strong opposition from Democratic Party members of the Senate Budget Committee, starting with ranking member Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who opened the hearing by accusing Vought of favoring the rich over working-class Americans. read more


Most of Donald Trump's 26 executive orders, signed his first day in office on Jan. 20, are pulled directly from Project 2025, despite his previously claim accusing the agenda as "seriously extreme." read more


Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has revived three complaints against broadcast stations accused of bias against President Donald Trump. read more


A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from the basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. A video about pathbreaking female aviators was also spiked. read more


A mayor claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a U.S. citizen who served in the military during a raid just days into President Donald Trump's promised mass deportation operation. read more


Brown University School of Public Health and Brookings Institution researchers have conducted a longitudinal and cross-sectional study investigating trends in hospital and private equity affiliation among primary care physicians and the associated impact on negotiated service prices. The study revealed that, compared to independent primary care physicians, both hospital and private equity-affiliated physicians commanded higher negotiated prices for equivalent services. read more


The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents "the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s." read more


For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)opens in a new tab or window did not go out as scheduled because of a communications pause at federal health agencies issued by the Trump administration. read more


Ghosting strikes the hiring process, as Gen-Z applicants react to unresponsive hiring managers by no longer replying to messages and sometimes not even turning up on the first day of work. read more


In the second part of a Fox News interview, Donald Trump says he "would rather not" impose tariffs on China, while saying it was their "one very big power" over Beijing read more


In a late night purge Friday, President Donald Trump Fired 17 inspectors general who work as watchdogs at multiple government agencies. read more


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