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11:40 PM ET, May 21, 2025

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Bill McCarthy / Barron's Online:
Trump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African ‘Genocide’  —  US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.  —  Mixed into the deck of papers he unveiled …
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Reuters:
Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID ‘devastating’  —  President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its aid programs worldwide have been “devastating.”  —  Speaking beside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during …
Discussion: Undark Magazine
New York Times:
Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers.  It Didn't.  —  During a meeting with South Africa's president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution.  A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump ambushes South Africa's president with video footage in Oval Office  —  In a shocking moment during President Trump's meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, Trump requested for videos to be displayed purporting to show evidence of violence against white people in the country.
Washington Post:
Trump confronts South African president, pushing claims of genocide
Associated Press:
Trump confronts South African leader with baseless claims of the systematic killing of white farmers
Discussion: Human Events and Axios
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
South African President Calls Out Trump: 'I'm Sorry I Don't Have a Plane to Give You'
New York Times:
Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation
New York Times:
Judge Finds U.S. Violated Court Order With Sudden Deportation Flight to Africa  —  Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan.  People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.
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Associated Press:
‘Unquestionably in violation’: Judge says US government didn't follow court order on deportations  —  The White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic African nation of South Sudan, a federal judge said Wednesday …
New York Times:
How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’
Discussion: Raw Story and Slate
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:   The Trump Administration's Favorite Answer
Zach Blackburn / New Jersey Globe:
Judge dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors  —  Prosecutors announced the decision to drop trespassing charges against the mayor earlier this week  —  A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related …
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Judge scolds DOJ in dismissing ICE facility trespassing charge against Newark mayor
Discussion: New York Post
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Republican moves to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver from Congress
New York Times:
U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump  —  The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.  —  The United States has accepted a 747 jetliner as a gift from the government of Qatar …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump's use  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said Wednesday, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
House Budget Committee Democrats:
CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts  —  Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law  —  “This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades.  The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear …
Discussion: CBO Publications, CNN and Politico
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Washington Post:
Trump and GOP's tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says  —  Some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare could be avoided if Congress instructs the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package's debt impact.  —  President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans' mammoth tax …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   Republican Bill Sets Stage for a New Global Tax Fight
NBC News:
White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website  —  The White House told NBC News it has decided to post only videos.  There still is one transcript remaining online, however: Trump's inaugural address.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has removed official transcripts …
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed.  Only a day before, he was a welding foreman …
Discussion: Newsweek and Magnolia Tribune
NBC News:
House GOP leaders release changes to Trump agenda bill in bid to sway holdouts  —  The amendment to the massive package includes speeding up new Medicaid work requirements and expanding the state and local tax deduction.  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans released a package of revisions …
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Al Weaver / The Hill:   Senate GOP blocks Schumer attempt to pass Qatari jet bill
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘The View’ Told to Tone Down Trump Bashing by ABC News Boss  —  COOL IT  —  Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Disney and ABC News have asked the hosts …
The Atlantic:
The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  “Fuck you!  Fuck you!  Fuck you!”  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouting at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon  —  The event was held in the Pentagon's auditorium during working hours and featured Mr. Hegseth's pastor.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon's auditorium on Wednesday morning …
Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery  —  Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker.  Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.  —  Wesley Lowery—the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award …
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Wired:
FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season  —  Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.  —  Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season …
Discussion: KDFX-TV
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:   FEMA rescinds strategic plan less than 2 weeks before hurricane season
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Firings of Rights Watchdog Board Members Were Illegal, Judge Rules  —  A federal court ruled that President Trump's removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated.  —  A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Trump broke the law when he fired members …
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NBC News:
Senate Republicans trigger a clash over the filibuster, eyeing vote to nix electric vehicle rule  —  GOP leaders insist they aren't trying to end the 60-vote rule.  Democrats warn that by ignoring the parliamentarian in this case, they are effectively “going nuclear” on the filibuster.
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Signal Messenger:
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall  —  Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.  This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11.
Molly Taft / Wired:
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate  —  A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:
Larry Krasner Easily Wins in Philadelphia, Reinforcing Network of Reform DAs  —  Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a national figurehead of the so-called progressive prosecutor movement, survived impeachment proceedings initiated by Republican lawmakers soon after he began his second term in 2022.
Reuters:
Trump Organization breaks ground on $1.5 billion golf club in Vietnam  —  Vietnam's prime minister and U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for a $1.5 billion luxury residential development with three 18-hole golf courses outside Hanoi.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Former Florida Republican congressional candidate gets 3 years for threatening primary opponent
Discussion: The Hill
Lorie Konish / CNBC:
Food stamps face 'biggest cut in the program's history' under GOP tax bill
Discussion: ABC7, The Hill and MSNBC
Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Trump Gold Card visa program to launch online within weeks, commerce secretary says
Discussion: CNN, Newsweek and Axios
Arizona Republic:
They showed up to immigration court in Phoenix. Then ICE agents surrounded them
Discussion: New Republic and Newsweek
Jeff Charles / Townhall:
Trans Activists Just Sent a Bizarre Message to Trump — 1,500 Feet in the Air
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
A Jan. 6 rioter convicted of assaulting police scored a visit to the White House
Discussion: Washington Times
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Justice Department is investigating NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo over testimony to Congress
Fred Wellman / On Democracy with FPWellman …:
UPDATED - BREAKING: The Constitution at the DOD
US Department of Justice:
The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Dismisses Biden-Era Police Investigations and Proposed Police Consent Decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis
Anusha Mathur / Washington Post:
Gerry Connolly, congressman who protected federal workforce, dies at 75
Chiara Eisner / NPR:
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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David Pierce / The Verge:
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