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Reuters:
Trump says Hollywood ‘dying’; orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
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The Guardian:
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ — President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff — Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies …
Andrea Margolis / Fox News:
Trump announces 100% tariff on all foreign-produced movies: ‘WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!’
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J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
What Trump Said Off-Air: NBC Cuts Reveal Key Claims on Tariffs, Bezos, and Recession
What Trump Said Off-Air: NBC Cuts Reveal Key Claims on Tariffs, Bezos, and Recession
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The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Raw Story, The Daily Wire, The Free Press and Crooks and Liars
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump orders 100% tariff on foreign-made movies
Fox News:
Trump says he will not drop tariffs to get China to negotiating table
Trump says he will not drop tariffs to get China to negotiating table
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg, Breitbart and The Western Journal
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump claims credit for good parts of economy, blames Biden for bad parts
Trump claims credit for good parts of economy, blames Biden for bad parts
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NBC News:
Trump, asked if he has to ‘uphold the Constitution,’ says, 'I don't know' — Trump said on NBC News' “Meet the Press” that he's following lawyers' advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he's required to uphold Constitution — The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump, asked during an interview on NBC News's …
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NBC News:
Read the full transcript: President Donald Trump interviewed by ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker — Trump spoke on a range of topics in the May 2025 interview, including the state of the economy, foreign affairs, immigration, electoral politics and more. — KRISTEN WELKER:
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The Daily Wire
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Downplays Economic Concerns as He Looks to Cut Trade Deals
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The Guardian and Cafe Hayek
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
When asked if he needs to uphold the Constitution, Trump says: 'I don't know'
When asked if he needs to uphold the Constitution, Trump says: 'I don't know'
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked — A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island. In a message on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long …
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health — More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found. — The Trump administration has scrapped …
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Casts Doubt on Due Process Rights
Chloe Veltman / NPR:
Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
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New York Times, The Guardian, ARTnews and Deadline
Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump — In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact. — The Trump factor is shaping global politics, one election at a time …
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Democrats Denounce Rubio Holding Four Roles in Trump Administration — “There's no way he can carry all that entire load on his own,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said of Rubio occupying multiple jobs in the executive branch — Secretary of state, acting administrator for USAID, acting lead archivist, acting national security adviser.
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Mike Waltz will have a “brutal hearing” for U.N. ambassador
Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Mike Waltz will have a “brutal hearing” for U.N. ambassador
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HuffPost, USA Today and Washington Examiner
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Trump on using military force says “I don't see it with Canada,” but “something could happen with Greenland.” — President Trump said he would talk to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about making Canada the 51st state. But the president said he didn't expect it to get to the point …
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump still would like to add Canada and Greenland but says attack on Canada ‘highly unlikely’
Trump still would like to add Canada and Greenland but says attack on Canada ‘highly unlikely’
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USA Today, HuffPost and The Moderate Voice
Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans to announce D.C. will host 2027 NFL Draft — President Trump plans to announce Monday that Washington, D.C., will host the 2027 NFL Draft, with the aim of holding it on the National Mall, Axios has learned. — The announcement is expected to be made with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He Asked Mexico to Let U.S. Military In to Fight Cartels — President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had raised the idea with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, who rejected it. — President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had pressed Mexico's president …
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Damon Linker / New York Times:
These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful — With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power. The typical explanation is that he's following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory.
Joe Hernandez / NPR:
Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope — Some Catholic leaders and at least one U.S. Catholic group are criticizing President Trump after he posted on social media what appears to be an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as the pope.
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Liam Archacki / The Daily Beast:
Air Traffic Controller Warns Major Airport Unsafe for Travel: ‘Avoid Newark at All Costs’ — TURBULENCE AHEAD — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pleaded this week for more people to become air traffic controllers. — An air traffic controller warned Friday that Newark Liberty International Airport …
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New York Post, Bloomberg and Bangor Daily News
Max Griera / Politico:
European Parliament cracks down on lobbyists in effort to stop corruption — BRUSSELS ― The European Parliament has toughened its rules on lobbying more than two years after a cash-for-influence scandal that triggered one of the largest corruption investigations to hit the EU.
Bloomberg:
Adani Camp Meets Trump Officials in Push to End US Bribery Cases — Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Reuters
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Who will stop them? — A trucking logistics magnate from Monterrey, Mexico, named Javier Selgas didn't need to direct a rig laden with crypto cash toward Trump Tower on New York's gilded Fifth Avenue …
