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10:05 PM ET, May 20, 2025

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STAT:
STAT+: FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say  —  The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others who are at high risk of becoming seriously ill …
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Associated Press:
Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children  —  Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.
New York Times:
F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Johnson privately cautions Senate GOP on Trump's budget bill  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson cautioned the Senate in a closed door lunch on Tuesday not to make big changes to the reconciliation bill, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: If Johnson can get his conference in line …
Discussion: Semafor
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Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Has a Tiny Provision That Could Tax the Trump Legal Resistance
Discussion: ABC News and USA Today
Politico:
Virginia Republicans worry about their gubernatorial candidate who invoked slavery when criticizing DEI
Discussion: Advocate and The Texas Tribune
Politico:
Massie unmoved on Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ after president's personal pitch
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President's Right to Deport People  —  The right allows people to legally challenge their detentions by the government and is guaranteed in the Constitution.  —  Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus …
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Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is
April Rubin / Axios:
Noem botches habeas corpus questions at Senate hearing
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
‘What are we doing here?’:  Democrats were shocked at Biden's decline but stayed quiet, according to new book  —  In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule …
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Eddie Scarry / The Federalist:
Biden's Late Cancer Diagnosis Exposes Democrats And The Media As Legitimate National Security Risks
Discussion: New York Post and Newsbusters
Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Biden's Age Wasn't a Cover-Up. It Was Observable Fact.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Newsweek and The Forward
The Atlantic:
The Congressman Who Saw the Truth About Biden
Discussion: The Independent
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate unanimously approves bill to eliminate tax on tips  —  The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would eliminate federal taxes on tips, advancing with the help of Democrats a top campaign promise of President Trump.  —  Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) brought the bill to the floor …
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NBC News:
Senate unexpectedly passes the ‘No Tax on Tips Act’ in a unanimous vote
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Why Are Some Democrats Making Cryptocurrency Too Big to Fail?
Discussion: MSNBC, WTTG-TV and Politico
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online  —  At private gatherings, strategists and donors are swapping ideas to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win.  Yes, there's a price tag.  —  Six months after the Democratic Party's crushing 2024 defeat …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist  —  Update: We have published a follow-up to this article with more details about how this happened.  —  The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper's “Best of Summer” section published over the weekend contains a guide …
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Rubio faces wrath of former colleagues in testy Senate hearing  —  Senate Democrats on Tuesday used hearings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to unleash criticism of the Trump administration's pivot toward Russia, selective refugee admissions, deportation of student activists and gutting of U.S. soft-power programs.
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Marco Rubio Says No Judge Has Authority Over Him in Alarming Testimony
Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Rubio, Kaine clash on South African refugees: 'You don't like that they're white."
Tobias Burns / The Hill:
Democratic senator says he has recordings of favors ‘promised’ by Trump's IRS pick  —  Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said Tuesday he has recordings of business associates of President Trump's pick to lead the IRS, former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) …
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Freddy Brewster / The Lever:
CEO Says Trump's IRS Pick Promised Big Benefits  —  Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), President Donald Trump's pick to head the Internal Revenue Service, was invited to attend Trump's inauguration as the guest of a financial services CEO who said Long promised him benefits for his company, according to a recording obtained by The Lever.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
U.S. put Asian migrants on deportation flight to South Sudan, lawyers allege  —  Immigration lawyers told a federal judge on Tuesday that they received information indicating the U.S. government may have put migrants from countries like Myanmar and Vietnam on a deportation flight to South Sudan …
Politico:
Trump to announce $25B funding for Golden Dome project  —  The price tag matches the amount in the president's “big, beautiful bill” that lawmakers have yet to approve.  —  President Donald Trump will announce $25 billion for his “Golden Dome” defense project Tuesday afternoon …
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Reuters:
Trump selects $175 billion Golden Dome defense shield design, appoints leader
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NBC News:
Elon Musk says he's going to do ‘a lot less’ political spending
Eleanor Pringle / Fortune:
U.S. economy is experiencing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, says Deutsche Bank, as confidence in national debt management erodes  —  Trump has flagged national debt as a concern for the economy, but analysts are concerned by his spending bill  — America's soaring national debt …
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New York Times:
U.S. Debt Is on Pace to Set a Record High, Going All the Way Back to 1790
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Le Monde:
EU pledges emergency funding for Radio Free Europe after US cuts … The European Union agreed Tuesday, May 20 to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet, accusing it of promoting a news agenda with a liberal bias.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
National Science Foundation Ends 196 Grants To Harvard Amid Feud With Trump  —  “Pure retribution,” one NSF staffer said of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research.  “We as a nation are shooting ourselves in both feet.”  —  WASHINGTON ― The National Science Foundation …
Discussion: The Hill
Dan Primack / Axios:
Tesla, SpaceX reputations crater in new Axios Harris Poll 100  —  Tesla Motors and SpaceX saw their brand reputations crater in the past year, according to new Axios Harris Poll 100 survey results.  —  Why it matters: Elon Musk's polarizing political activism appears to have come at the expense …
Miami Herald:
State prosecutor's office launches a criminal investigation related to Hope Florida  —  Leon County prosecutors say there is an open criminal investigation relating to information a lawmaker provided concerning the Hope Florida Foundation.  —  In response to a request by the Herald/Times …
Rolling Stone:
Why Trump Is Threatening to Investigate Bruce Springsteen  —  It's not just Oprah and Springsteen.  The president has long wanted to weaponize campaign finance laws against an array of celebs and Democrats  —  Early Monday morning, when much of the White House press corps was fast asleep …
Discussion: New Republic
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
The GOP's Big Medicaid Idea Was Tried Before—And Failed Badly  —  Arkansas and Georgia tried work requirements, and the results were not pretty.  —  MORE THAN 7 MILLION PEOPLE will become uninsured if Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill” become law, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Most Migrants Deported to Imprisonment in El Salvador Under the Alien Enemies Act Had no Criminal Record and Many had Entered the US Legally  —  An important new study by my Cato Institute colleague David Bier shows that most of the Venezuelan migrants deported to imprisonment in El Salvador …
 
 
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Council of the EU:
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: EU agrees 17th package of sanctions
Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg and Euromaidan Press
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
Don't lose sight of the pain Trump is passing on to American consumers
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
GOP Senator Begs for Disaster Aid as FEMA Snubs Another Red State
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and MeidasTouch News
Melanie Mason / Politico:
Rival Democrat tears into Harris, Becerra over Biden's fitness
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
DOGE sought access to Government Publishing Office
Cate Cauguiran / ABC7:
DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson's viral comments
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court sides with Maine Republican censured for transgender athlete post
Bloomberg:
Trump Reverses NY Wind Farm Stance in Pipeline Deal With Hochul
 

 
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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, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

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The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

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
 
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