Classified documents fiasco leaves lawmakers shaking heads: What happened? 

BY BRETT SAMUELS AND AL WEAVER

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The discovery of classified documents at the homes of three top elected U.S. officials has left many lawmakers and former government workers shaking their heads and wondering how the country has ended up in this situation.

Authorities found dozens of classified materials at former President Trump’s home last year, including some marked “top secret,” that he did not promptly turn over to the National Archives.

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Biden gets set to lean into economy in 2024

BY AMIE PARNES AND SYLVAN LANE

President Biden is expected to lean into an economic message as he and his campaign team conduct a soft launch of his reelection campaign in the coming weeks, sources familiar with his plans say.  

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What recession? Inflation, GDP offer hope for ‘soft landing’

BY TOBIAS BURNS

Perhaps a 2023 recession can be avoided after all.

Consistently falling prices alongside a stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) and next week’s anticipated less aggressive interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve are changing economists’ tune and renewing hopes about the overall health of the economy.

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Trump says DeSantis running for president would be ‘a great act of disloyalty’

BY JARED GANS 

Former President Trump said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) running for president would be “a great act of disloyalty” as he kicked off his first two major campaign events as part of his own 2024 presidential run. 

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Trump criticizes Democrats’ effort to ‘cruelly’ change up primary calendar in New Hampshire speech

BY JULIA SHAPERO

Former President Trump criticized the Democratic Party’s efforts to change up their primary calendar and boot New Hampshire from its first-in-the-nation primary spot during an appearance in the Granite State on Saturday.

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Memphis police deactivate Scorpion unit following video release of Tyre Nichols’s fatal arrest

BY JARED GANS

The Memphis Police Department announced on Saturday that it has deactivated its special unit that patrols high-crime areas following the release of the video of Tyre Nichols’s fatal arrest. 

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House Intel members look for ‘reset’ after partisan era of Schiff, Nunes

BY MIKE LILLIS AND REBECCA BEITSCH 

The House Intelligence Committee will get a facelift this Congress following the booting of its former chairman and the retirement of a prior ranking member — a drastic makeover that’s prompting internal hopes that the panel can move beyond the partisan battles that have practically defined it in recent years.

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Is helping Ukraine reducing US preparedness, security?

BY ELLEN MITCHELL AND BRAD DRESS

Questions are mounting as to how long the United States can continue to supply Ukraine from its own weapons stockpiles without hindering its own security.  

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With ChatGPT rising in popularity, what’s a parent to do?

BY LEXI LONAS

Parents have a new platform to contend with in the battle to keep up with the ever-growing technological advances in their children’s lives: ChatGPT.

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The US needs more public-private partnerships to advance the ocean

BY REAR ADMIRAL (RET.) TIM GALLAUDET, PH.D.

OPINION | Retired Navy Captain Don Walsh was the first person, along with France’s Jacques Piccard, to dive to the deepest depth in the global ocean, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. His 1960 expedition to a point nearly 7 miles below the sea surface in the bathyscape Trieste is considered one of the greatest ocean science and technology accomplishments of the 20th century. His legacy still offers lessons in how we should innovate today.

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90 seconds till midnight

BY ROBERT DODGE

OPINION | It’s 90 seconds till midnight. We are closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any point since the first and only use of nuclear weapons 77 years ago in 1945.

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The Washington Post: The 2024 GOP presidential primary season is kicking off. Here’s the potential field.

BY HANNAH KNOWLES AND AMY B WANG

Campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination kicks off in earnest on Saturday, with Donald Trump visiting New Hampshire and South Carolina. The trip marks the first declared candidate making his first campaign swing through early primary states.

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The New York Times: Trump’s evolution in social-media exile: More QAnon, more extremes

BY KEN BENSINGER AND MAGGIE HABERMAN

The former president, now free to post again on Facebook and Twitter, has increasingly amplified far-right accounts on Truth Social. Experts on extremism worry that he will bring this approach to a far wider audience.

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The Wall Street Journal: Can the GOP become a real working-class party? 

BY GERALD F. SEIB

Some Republicans want the party to break from its longtime free-market agenda and focus instead on the needs and frustrations of workers. Others see danger in moving away from the legacy of Reagan.

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CNN: GOP-led committees plan to issue subpoenas in Biden probes without consulting Democrats

BY ZACHARY COHEN

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and select subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government plan to adopt a rule that will allow Republican members to issue subpoenas without consulting Democrats days ahead of time, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

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