Anti-abortion protesters who travelled to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life ended up at a measles super spreader-event, according to health officials.

Thousands of pro-lifers came for the Jan. 23 march and concert at the National Mall and now the D.C. Department of Health has reported multiple cases of the potentially fatal disease reported in the weeks after, The New Republic reported.

"The march is a big event for religious conservatives, this year attracting politicians such as Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Republican Representative Chris Smith," according to The New Republic. "Many on the right oppose vaccination, with some citing religious reasons, making the march a possible hotbed of measles infections."

The U.S. has two ongoing major outbreaks, including one in South Carolina, where the state has the largest outbreak in America since 2000 and another in Texas, which prompted an ICE family detention center last week to go under lockdown.

Health officials have said the March for Life measles outbreak could have spread through different transit areas, such as Ronald Reagan National Airport and Union Station. Of the reported people infected, they also visited Catholic University of America and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

“DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious,” the department said in a press release Sunday. “DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed.”

President Donald Trump's lawyers have agreed to unseal evidence they presented to secure a search warrant used to justify a recent raid at an election office in Georgia, according to a new court order.

Federal Judge J.P. Boulee of the Northern District of Georgia, a Trump appointee, wrote in a court order published on Sunday that Trump's lawyers have agreed to unseal the affidavit used to secure the search warrant for the Fulton County election hub. Boulee ordered the administration to publish the affidavit by the end of the day on February 10.

The order also requires the court to unseal the case docket, giving the public further insight into the Trump administration's evidence.

Politico's Josh Gerstein first reported on the court order.

Last week, Trump's FBI took more than 700 boxes of material related to the 2020 general election from the office. The search warrant states that the Trump administration can turn the material over to third-party vendors for inspection, which has raised concerns that the data could be used to manipulate the results of the upcoming midterm elections.

Trump has consistently claimed that he won the 2020 general election in Georgia, even though he was unable to support that claim in more than 60 court cases challenging the election results. Trump also called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded that he find more than 11,000 votes for Trump to win the state.

Political observers raged over the weekend after the New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel personally ordered local prosecutors to cease investigating the death of Renee Good because he feared it would contradict President Donald Trump's version of the killing.

The order came from Patel and other senior officials who worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict Trump’s claim that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle. Several insiders shared the account with the news outlet.

That story stirred up a frenzy among onlookers, including former prosecutor Richard Signorelli who said, "She was intentionally murdered on video! Where the hell are the MN prosecuting authorities in all of this. I'm requesting that Tim Walz formally request that Keith Ellison take over & prosecute the murderer STAT."....

Carla Marinucci, a veteran political writer, added, "Outrageous cover up at the highest levels."

Political commentator Mark Bland additionally said, "Ooh this is bad. A STAND DOWN ORDER on the investigation of Renee Good from FBI DIRECTOR Kash Patel! Documented proof it happened. This Dept of Justice is not working in 'good faith' for the American people. That is their job."

https://x.com/markbland/status/2020211473788641778

Maryland Governor Wes Moore said on Sunday that he was "snubbed" by Donald Trump, and confirmed that a bipartisan group of governors was behind him.

Moore over the weekend took to social media to explain how he had been left out of an event, even after going to the White House for a successful meeting.

"This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring governors from both parties together to build bonds and celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States. My peers, both Democrats and Republicans, selected me to serve as the Vice Chair of the NGA, another reason why it’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership," the governor wrote. "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not."

He continued:

"What makes it especially confounding is that just weeks ago I was at the White House with a bipartisan group of governors, working with the administration on reforms to lower energy costs and strengthen grid reliability. We proved in that moment what’s possible when we stay focused on outcomes over politics. As Governor of Maryland and Vice Chair of the NGA, my approach will never change: I’m ready to work with the administration anywhere we can deliver results. Yet, I promised the people of my state I will work with anybody but will bow down to nobody. And I guess the President doesn’t like that."

Moore also went on cable news earlier in the day, where he confirmed the NGA had decided that it would not be a NGA-sponsored event if any of its members are left out.

https://x.com/GovWesMoore/status/2020544415693947242

This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring governors from both parties together to build bonds and celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States. My peers, both Democrats and Republicans, selected me to serve as the Vice Chair of the NGA, another reason why it’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership.

As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not.

What makes it especially confounding is that just weeks ago I was at the White House with a bipartisan group of governors, working with the administration on reforms to lower energy costs and strengthen grid reliability. We proved in that moment what’s possible when we stay focused on outcomes over politics.

As Governor of Maryland and Vice Chair of the NGA, my approach will never change: I’m ready to work with the administration anywhere we can deliver results. Yet, I promised the people of my state I will work with anybody but will bow down to nobody. And I guess the President doesn’t like that.

President Donald Trump was widely ridiculed Sunday after targeting American Olympic skier Hunter Hess in a blistering attack, an attack labeled by some critics as “genuinely embarrassing.”

Hess, a 27-year-old Oregon native, was asked in Italy on Friday about what it meant to represent the United States in this year’s Winter Olympics, to which he said it was “a little hard,” and that he wasn’t the “biggest fan” of "everything that’s going on in the U.S.,” Reuters reported. Trump had apparently seen Hess’s remarks by Sunday, and attacked him as a “real loser” that was “hard to root for.”

The unprecedented instance of a U.S. president publicly attacking an American Olympic athlete was met with exhaustion from critics, such as X user “Gandalv,” a political commentator who’s amassed nearly 60,000 followers on the platform.

“From a European perspective, this is genuinely embarrassing. You would have to search far and wide to find a country that manages to look this ugly in its politics and public behavior, and a president who so perfectly mirrors it,” they wrote in a post on X.

“In most democracies, a leader would rise above it, defend the country’s values without acting personally wounded, and avoid turning a citizen into a national punching bag. This is not strength and the MAGA regime drags the entire country’s reputation down.”

The closest parallel in American history occurred during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, when two Black American athletes – Tommie Smith and John Carlos – raised their fists during a performance of the National Anthem in solidarity with the ongoing fight against racial inequality. And, while Smith and Carlos were ultimately expelled from the Olympic Games for their act of protest, they were not attacked by the sitting president, then Lyndon B. Johnson......

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2020540119254483204

Survivors of the late child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein released a video ad on Super Bowl Sunday, naming Pam Bondi specifically and saying simply, "We deserve the truth."

Ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta is among those who broke the news on social media, writing, "BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not 'move on' from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world."

Aaron Parnas also wrote, "Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere."

Right-wing influencer Ben Shapiro insisted that President Donald Trump did not have the "attention span" to realize that a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted on his Truth Social account.

Media Matters first reported that Shapiro had addressed Trump's racist meme on his Friday show.

"There's a video that he posted over at Truth Social that apparently contains an image of the Obamas as apes," the MAGA star noted. "Do I think that President Trump even watched the whole video? I have serious doubts. President Trump has a habit of late-night Truthing, where he just sort of gets up at 3 AM, or he's up at 3 AM, and he just starts Truthing things out."

"And I'm almost certain that the president never watches the entirety of any video," he continued. "I don't think he has the attention span to get through any of the videos that he has tweeted. I think he sees that there is something that is pro-Trump, he puts it out there. And if there's an ugly image in there, either he ignores it or he didn't see it in the first place as a general rule."

"Now, does that justify it? It doesn't justify anything, but I think that the suggestion that the president did not watch the entirety of the video and that he just put that out late at night because he watched the first 25 seconds of the video or 40 seconds of the video, I would say that that is extremely high probability."

In recent weeks, Marin County Registrar Natalie Adona has been largely focused on the many mundane tasks of local elections administrators in the months before a midterm: finalizing voting locations, ordering supplies, facilitating candidate filings.

But in the wake of unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections, Adona said she has also been preparing her staff for far less ordinary scenarios — such as federal officials showing up and demanding ballots, as they recently did in Georgia, or immigration agents staging around polling stations on election day, as some in President Trump’s orbit have suggested.

“Part of my job is making sure that the plans are developed and then tested and then socialized with the staff so if those situations were to ever come up, we would not be figuring it out right then and there. We would know what to do,” Adona said. “Doing those sort of exercises and that level of planning in a way is kind of grounding, and makes things feel less chaotic.”…

Across California, local elections administrators say they have been running similar exercises to prepare for once unthinkable threats — not from local rabble-rousers, remote cyberattackers or foreign adversaries, but their own federal government.

State officials, too, are writing new contingency plans for unprecedented intrusions by Trump and other administration officials, who in recent days have repeated baseless 2020 election conspiracies, raided and taken ballots from a local election center in Fulton County, Ga., pushed both litigation and legislation that would radically alter local voting rules, and called for Republicans to seize control of elections nationwide….

Trump has said he will accept Republican losses only if the elections are “honest.” A White House spokesperson said Trump is pushing for stricter rules for voting and voter registration because he “cares deeply about the safety and security of our elections.”

Rick Hasen, an election law expert and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law, said some of what Trump says about elections “is nonsensical and some is bluster,” but recent actions — especially the election center raid in Georgia — have brought home the reality of his threats.

“Some worry that this is a test run for trying to seize ballot boxes in 2026 and prevent a fair count of the votes, and given Trump’s track record, I don’t think that is something we can dismiss out of hand,” Hasen said. “States need to be making contingency plans to make sure that those kinds of things don’t happen.”

The White House dismissed such concerns, pointing to isolated incidents of noncitizens being charged with illegally voting, and to examples of duplicate registrations, voters remaining on rolls after death and people stealing ballots to vote multiple times.

“These so-called experts are ignoring the plentiful examples of noncitizens charged with voter fraud and of ineligible voters on voter rolls,” said Abigail Jackson, the White House spokesperson.

Experts said fraudulent votes are rare, most registration and roll issues do not translate into fraudulent votes being cast, and there is no evidence such issues swing elections….