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5:10 PM ET, May 10, 2025

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incident  —  Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Announces Truce Between India and Pakistan  —  Officials in both countries acknowledged a halt after several days of their most expansive fighting in decades.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire …
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New York Times:
A New Kind of Battle for Two Old Enemies
Reuters:
World reacts after India, Pakistan agree to stop firing
NBC News:
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine  —  Using the Kremlin's interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.  —  MOSCOW — President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Foreign Affairs
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Promised to End Two Wars Quickly.  In Private, He Admits He's Frustrated.  —  The president has told donors resolving the conflicts has been more difficult than he thought  —  When President Trump spoke to a room of top donors at his Florida club last week, he described ending Russia's war …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on Diversity Policies With Fresh Order for Review of Library Books  —  The move is the latest denunciation by the Trump administration against anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion.  —  The Pentagon continued its purge of anything related to diversity …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues
Andrew Pridgen / SFGATE:
ICE raids have ‘overwhelmed’ coastal California communities ‘We continue to allow double punishment for noncitizens’  —  After a lull in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on California's Central Coast, a rash of raids has reportedly swept through San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties over the past week.
Discussion: The Independent
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying  —  You should know that the question to Stephen Miller about habeas corpus was a set up.  —  The male “journalist” who asked it after Miller called on him for the first question at a staged press event posed it in terms of …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
Discussion: Adam Kinzinger
CNN:
Trump involved in discussions over suspending habeas corpus, sources say
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms  —  Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP's majorities in Congress.  —  Early in Donald Trump's first term, the president received what he now views as bad advice: Don't worry about the midterms, some advisers whispered back then.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
House Republicans release tax plan for Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts  —  The order, which would use state and local officers, among others, would represent an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement.  But it is unclear how it would be paid for.  —  President Trump ordered the Department …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports.  Officials haven't seen that since the pandemic  —  On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to become U.S. attorney in Washington D.C., the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.  A Missouri political operative with no experience as a prosecutor, Martin defended …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Federal judge temporarily blocks further Trump-backed mass firings across gov't  —  A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday night blocking the Trump administration from implementing broad staffing cuts and other efforts to dismantle wide swaths of the federal government for the next two weeks.
Discussion: GovExec.com, UPI, MSNBC and NBC News
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill  —  Republicans have created impossible restraints on their tax-and-budget package.  —  You might have heard the riddle about the man who must row a fox, a chicken and a sack of corn across a river one at a time.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters  —  The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title.  Naturally, this caught his attention.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Media Warns Of ‘Material Weakness’ In Financial Controls  —  Topline  —  Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, disclosed “material weaknesses” in its financial reporting controls—acknowledging the risk of errors in its financial statements …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democratic senator says GOP is trying to woo Fetterman  —  Ruben Gallego said Democrats should keep Fetterman in their tent.  —  BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego said Republicans are trying to pull John Fetterman to the right and argued Democrats should keep …
Discussion: Fox News, Axios and NBC News
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake  —  Speaking at a Black church in Brooklyn last September, Andrew Cuomo tested the message that would quickly become the centerpiece of his campaign to be mayor of the country's largest city.  “We're on the decline,” the former New York governor said.
Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Stakes Rise as U.S. and China Prep for Second Day of Trade Talks  —  The first day of hourslong discussions concluded without an announced deal  —  GENEVA—Marathon conversations here between U.S. and China officials came to an end Saturday, with more talks scheduled for Sunday …
 
 
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Ben Jacobs / Politico:
The First Thing George Santos Should Do in Prison
Discussion: The Independent
Ben Johansen / Politico:
DNC chair doubles down on his ultimatum for Hogg
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects
Discussion: The Independent
Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
Kash Patel doesn't seem to be taking his FBI director role seriously
Discussion: NBC News
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Experts call Kennedy's plan to find autism's cause unrealistic
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
The Military's K-12 Schools Are Banning Award-Winning Kids' Books To Appease Trump
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
How MAGA centrists blamed a viral racist rant on the ‘woke’
 Earlier Items: 
Christl Dabu / CTV News:
‘Canadian Snowbird Act’ proposed in U.S. Congress
Discussion: Canadian Press
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Abigail Spanberger Says She Can Take on Trump Without Bashing Him
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 127. 5/9/25
Wall Street Journal:
How an American Cardinal Beat the Odds to Become Pope
Discussion: DNyuz, Mediaite and Portside
Wall Street Journal:
America's Richest Foundations Team Up Against Feared Trump Assault
Discussion: Politico and IJR
NBC Boston:
Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash and stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks

 
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