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Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang  —  Democratic lawmakers criticized the firings, suggesting they were punishment for providing information that didn't support the administration's agenda.  —  Director of National Intelligence …
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Warren P. Strobel / Washington Post:
Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment  —  The director of national intelligence fired top officials weeks after their group authored an assessment contradicting President Donald Trump's legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
New York Times:
Gabbard Seeks to Consolidate Her Control of President's Daily Brief
Discussion: Fox News
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Thanedar opts against forcing impeachment vote amid backlash  —  Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar chose not to follow through on a threat to force a House vote on impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday amid mounting pressure from fellow Democrats.  Thanedar did not call up his resolution …
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Grace Yarrow / Politico:
House Agriculture Committee approves $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts
Discussion: MSNBC, The Hill, Raw Story and NOTUS
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
U.S. Charges Russian Scientist with Smuggling  —  A government lawyer told a federal judge on Wednesday that the intention is to deport Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, to Russia.  —  The Trump administration announced criminal smuggling charges on Wednesday against Kseniia Petrova …
Discussion: Associated Press, The Hill, UPI and Reuters
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US Department of Justice:
Russian National Charged with Smuggling Biological Material Into Boston  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts  —  BOSTON - A Russian national has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to smuggle clawed frog embryos and embryonic samples into the United States.
Discussion: masslive.com
The Harvard Crimson:
Trump Admin Files Smuggling Charges Against Detained HMS Researcher, Plans To Deport Her To Russia
Discussion: HuffPost
Washington Post:
Democrats rattled again by fresh claims that Biden aides hid his frailty  —  A new book and Biden's public appearances are potential distractions as the party seeks to focus on Trump.  —  A growing number of Democrats are publicly second-guessing their party's handling of the last election …
Discussion: NH Journal and New York Magazine
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
First on CNN: New book reveals how Biden's inner circle kept Cabinet from him in final two years of presidency
ProPublica:
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares of Trump Media the same day that President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that caused …
Discussion: CBS News
Punchbowl News:
5/15/25 ☀️ AM: … Members of the House Freedom Caucus will be there.  They're furious that the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” doesn't go far enough in cutting government spending - especially on Medicaid - and say the package needs to be reworked.  —  Five key members …
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Eleanor Mueller / Semafor:
Republicans wrestle with possible failure of ‘big, beautiful bill’
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump's Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight  —  Before the Trump presidency, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States.  —  Shortly after the Supreme Court announced …
Richard Engel / NBC News:
Top Iranian official says Tehran would forgo highly enriched uranium in nuclear deal with Trump  —  The comments from a member of the supreme leader's inner circle appear to be the clearest public statements yet on Iran's willingness to reach an agreement with the U.S.
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Politico:   Turkish delight  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Thursday morning.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery  —  Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.  —  The Trump family's $500 million luxury hotel project in Serbia …
Discussion: The Independent, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation … Lisa K. Fazio, an associate professor at Vanderbilt University, whose federal grant to study how repetition of lies reinforced them was canceled.Houston Cofield for The New York Times
Molly Quell / Associated Press:
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work  —  The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.  The Hague-based court's American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
Discussion: Reuters
City Journal:
Inside Harvard's Discrimination Machine  —  The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.  —  / Eye on the News / Education, Politics and Law  —  The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University …
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
El Chapo's family members cross US border in apparent deal with Trump administration  —  Ex-wife of imprisoned kingpin El Chapo among 17 family members entering through San Diego border crossing  —  Join Fox News for access to this content  —  Mexican officials said Wednesday …
Alec Schemmel / Fox News:
Ben & Jerry's co-founder arrested protesting Senate hearing: ‘RFK kills people with hate’  —  Ben Cohen was among seven arrested after they disrupted the hearing, Capitol Police say  —  Ben Cohen, one of the co-founders of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, was arrested …
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Ilya Somin / Reason:
Trump (Partially) Wins an Alien Enemies Act Case  —  For the last few weeks, there has been ongoing litigation over President Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for mass deportation.  The AEA allows detention and deportation of foreign citizens of relevant states …
Jay Nordlinger / Onward and Upward:
Day One and Thereafter  —  I was born in the house my father built.  No, no—just kidding.  That was Nixon.  (You recall that our 37th president begins his memoirs that way: “I was born in the house my father built.”  It is a great opening line—vaguely haunting or hypnotic, even.)
Discussion: vaticannews.va
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
After Layoffs, Social Security Asks Remaining Employees To Work 10% Harder  —  Social Security faces a growing backlog of retirement claims that agency officials hope their remaining workers can clear with a little encouragement.  —  WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration …
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports  —  The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.  —  Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump to Visit U.A.E. in Last Stop of Middle East Tour  —  In Qatar, President Trump spoke to American troops in a rally-like atmosphere at the largest U.S. military facility in the region.  Next, he will fly to the United Arab Emirates, another key ally.  —  Here's the latest.
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Bruce Springsteen Calls Trump Administration ‘Corrupt, Incompetent, and Treasonous’  —  After some initial reluctance, Bruce Springsteen has increasingly sounded off about the presidential administrations of Donald J. Trump.  —  Asked during a cover-story interview with Variety in 2017 …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters  —  Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities - one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive everyday.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
An Afrikaner Refugee Has Thoughts About the Jews  —  It's a Very Special Triad today, cowritten with my buddy Will Sommer, author of our False Flag newsletter.  —JVL  —  1. White Genocide?  —  Quick catchup: This week the State Department sent an official to Dulles International Airport …
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment  —  Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment's repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest.
Martin Bell / The Guardian:
Having risked my life in war zones for the BBC, I know this: cuts to the World Service will be disastrous  —  In an age of disinformation, our broadcaster is trusted to find and tell the truth.  Now more than ever we need it  —  In a short space of time, the British government …
 
 
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Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
National Airport, Pentagon hotline had been disconnected for three years
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent and Pentagon contractor sues over secret recording showing him criticizing Trump
Jordan Rubin / MSNBC:
Judge arrested by Trump administration cites Trump immunity ruling in defense
Ian Aikman / BBC:
Putin not on Kremlin list of officials attending Ukraine peace talks in Turkey
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Ousted top federal prosecutor in Washington facing ethics probe
Discussion: NBC News and The Gateway Pundit
Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:
RFK Jr.: 'I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me'
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Mar-a-Lago special prosecutor takes the fifth at ‘weaponized’ House committee
Discussion: Associated Press
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why The Fuck Are Democrats Helping Build MAGA's Censorship Machine With KOSA?
Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: Abandoning America
Discussion: Twitchy, Raw Story and New York Times
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Murphy says ‘no doubt’ Biden suffered cognitive decline while in office
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
They Were Waiting for Trump All Along
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