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NYTIMES (Hiroko Tabuchi) - Is Musk Running an Illegal Power Plant? The D.O.J. Says It Might Weigh In.

In a court filing, the administration signaled support for Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company in a lawsuit challenging xAI’s generators at a huge Mississippi data center.

NYTIMES (David A. Fahrenthold, Nikolay Nikolov, Gilad Thaler, Rafaela Balster, Léo Hamelin, Stephanie Swart and Whitney Shefte) - Why Trump’s Reflecting Pool Repairs Are in Trouble

Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million. That’s about seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would cost.

AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - CIA director visits Cuba for rare meeting as island runs out of fuel

CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Cuba on Thursday to meet intelligence officials and Raulito Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of former leader Raúl Castro. The big picture: Cuba is facing a crippling fuel shortage and economic crisis, due in part to U.S. sanctions. President Trump has repeatedly indicated he wants regime change, though a CIA official said Ratcliffe emphasized that cooperation is possible if the government makes "fundamental changes." - Ratcliffe urged the Cuban officials to take a lesson from the Jan. 3 operation that toppled Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, the CIA official said. The intrigue: The fact that the Cuban government was willing to openly host a member of Trump's administration — particularly the director…

NYTIMES (Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien) - Inside the Secret Mission to Fly Taiwan’s President to Africa

From satellite phone check-ins to a borrowed royal plane, new details show how Taiwan’s leader’s team outwitted China and pulled off an audacious journey to southern Africa.