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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.
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New York Times:
Gabbard Seeks to Consolidate Her Control of President's Daily Brief
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump
Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump
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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
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‘First time we were hearing of them’: The GOP megabill is packed with surprises for some Republicans
‘First time we were hearing of them’: The GOP megabill is packed with surprises for some Republicans
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E&C Republicans advance health care piece of GOP tax bill after marathon markup
E&C Republicans advance health care piece of GOP tax bill after marathon markup
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Oriana González / NOTUS:
A Measure to Defund Planned Parenthood Will Stay in the Reconciliation Bill
A Measure to Defund Planned Parenthood Will Stay in the Reconciliation Bill
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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’
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump's New Tax Cuts Could Shower Americans With Cash, for Now
Trump's New Tax Cuts Could Shower Americans With Cash, for Now
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump's Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam
Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump's Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Ben & Jerry's co-founder among those arrested at RFK Jr.'s testimony
Ben & Jerry's co-founder among those arrested at RFK Jr.'s testimony
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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 …
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New York Times:
The Road to Trump's Embrace of White South Africans — The Trump administration's hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors. — White South Africans at a rally outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria in February.Joao Silva/The New York Times
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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.)
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Shaun Boyd / CBS News:
Colorado prosecutor offers unlicensed and undocumented teen probation after deadly crash — The Arapahoe District Attorney's Office is defending its decision to give probation and community service to a teenager who was driving illegally and, in the country illegally, when he killed a woman.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
