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ProPublica:
The Courts Blocked Trump's Federal Funding Freeze.  Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  When the federal courts first blocked …
STAT:
Federal judge halts Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze
CNBC:
Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban … WATCH NOW  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
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Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump Eases Enforcement of Law Banning Overseas Bribes
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams  —  The New York City mayor cultivated a close relationship with President Trump, who said they had both been persecuted.  —  The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges …
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CNN:
Justice Department to drop federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams  —  The Department of Justice is moving to drop the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to a memo obtained by CNN.  —  The memo, which was sent …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:   Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams
Associated Press:
Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump removes Government Ethics Office director  —  It's the latest in Trump's efforts to remove people charged with oversight of his administration.  —  President Donald Trump has removed the director of the Office of Government Ethics, an official tasked with ensuring government workers comply …
Discussion: CNBC, Raw Story and E&E News
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Associated Press:
Trump fires top US ethics official and head of agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
House Democrats create a Trump-focused ‘rapid response task force’
Discussion: Off Message, Breitbart, Axios and RedState
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says he may withhold aid to Jordan, Egypt if they don't take in Palestinians  —  President Trump said Monday he would consider withholding aid to Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to take in Palestinians as part of a plan for the U.S. to take over and develop the Gaza Strip.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event  —  The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump planning to pardon Rod Blagojevich … - Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention.  — The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump's legal problems to his own.
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NPR:
Trump pardons disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Rod Blagojevich Pardoned on Corruption Conviction by Trump
Discussion: Associated Press and USA Today
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Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say  —  Law professors have long debated what the term means.  But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.  —  There is no universally accepted definition …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Sets 25% Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum as Trade War Widens  — President hints he might consider exemption for Australia  — Trump warns that tariff rate on metals could be increased  —  President Donald Trump ordered a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports …
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Washington Post:
Trump announces fresh round of tariffs on steel and aluminum
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI  —  The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.  —  When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Tesla Is Elon Musk's Soft Underbelly  —  Tesla's brand is toxic and its sales are in the toilet.  That's how you hurt Musk.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Consequences  —  Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff.  —  This fact is satisfying on moral, spiritual, and psychosexual levels.
ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix:
1 dead, 4 hospitalized after two planes crash on runway at Scottsdale Airport  —  The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday  —  SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Officials confirm at least one person has died after an aircraft crash on the runway Monday at the Scottsdale Airport.
Ellen Knickmeyer / The Republic News:
USAID watchdog warns of lack of oversight of $8.2 billion in unspent aid after Trump moves  —  The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration's foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:   Unspent aid worth billions lacks oversight as Trump dismantles USAID, watchdog warns
NBC News:
Judge extends freeze on Trump's unprecedented plan to get millions of federal workers to resign  —  U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said the pause would continue until he ruled on the legality of Trump's “deferred resignation” plan.  —  A federal judge in Boston on Monday continued …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The NSA's “Big Delete”  —  Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.”  The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
The GOP Says They Love Elon.  Privately, They're Expressing Concerns.  —  REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS HAVE WIDELY praised Elon Musk as he's gone about restructuring and in certain cases eliminating entire parts of the government.  —  But in private, they've expressed quite a different perspective …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Democracy is Crumbling.  Is Anybody Doing Anything?  —  This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order … - The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order.
Washington Post:
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds  —  The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals.  —  Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Acquires Company Behind Conservative and True Crime Podcasts  —  Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan are among the clients of Red Seat Ventures, which now joins Rupert Murdoch's empire.  —  The Fox Corporation said on Monday that it had acquired Red Seat Ventures …
 
 
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John Larson pause on House floor attributed to ‘adverse reaction’
New York Times:
Trump Issues Cease-Fire Ultimatum After Hamas Postpones Release of Israeli Hostages
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Trump signs executive order restoring plastic straw use in government
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein jailed as flight risk after cryptocurrency hiding claim
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Musk alleges FEMA reimbursed NYC hotels $59 million for housing illegal immigrants
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Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI must disclose more info about Trump classified docs case, judge rules
Discussion: New Republic
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy
Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast
Discussion: American Prospect
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
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