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New York Times:
Trump Administration Halts Harvard's Ability to Enroll International Students  —  The move was a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump's demands.  —  The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability …
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Department of Homeland Security:
Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct  —  Harvard is being held accountable for collaboration with the CCP, fostering violence, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist conduct from students on its campus.
The Harvard Crimson:
Trump Admin Revokes Harvard's Authorization To Enroll International Students  —  The Trump administration revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration's fight with the University and threatening thousands of current students.
Discussion: HotAir and Metro.co.uk
Fox News:
Trump administration terminates Harvard's student visa program
New York Times:
Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky Were Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in D.C. Shooting  —  Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said.  Mr. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring, an official said.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate … A woman was shot and wounded at CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate there early Thursday morning, NBC News reported.  —  The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
The Guardian:
Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museum  —  Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum  —  Joseph Gedeon in Washington and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem  —  A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside …
Rudy Chinchilla / NBC News:
Two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead outside D.C.'s Capital Jewish Museum  —  The gunman shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested, law enforcement officials said.  —  Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district's Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said.
Maya Sweedler / Associated Press:
2 staff members of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Republican Party's Populist Betrayal  —  There were lots of last-minute tweaks to the Big, Beautiful Bill the House passed this morning, but here, per the New York Times, is the most openly stupid one: … Happy Thursday.  —  Another Win for the Plutocrats  —  by Andrew Egger
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New York Times:
Here are some of the changes to the House bill that passed on Thursday morning.  —  The early-morning vote was 215 to 214, mostly along party lines.  It was a crucial victory for what President Trump and Republicans are calling the “big, beautiful bill.”  —  A victory for House Republican …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House Republicans pass ‘big, beautiful bill’ after weeks of division
New York Times:
Regulators Are Investigating Whether Media Matters Colluded With Advertisers  —  Elon Musk previously sued the advocacy group over critical research on his social media platform X over claims it drove away advertisers.  —  The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Media Matters …
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court deadlock leaves in place ruling blocking nation's first religious charter school  —  The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation's first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma's top court that found the proposed Catholic school unconstitutional.
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ABC News:
Supreme Court says Oklahoma can't launch taxpayer-funded religious charter school
Discussion: New York Times
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sidesteps major ruling on religious public charter schools
Discussion: CBS News, UPI, Advocate and The Hill
Reuters:
Trump's image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa  —  U.S. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
Discussion: Mediaite and OutsideTheBeltway
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Politico:
Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education  —  The judge said the administration's planned reductions were clearly aimed at carrying out Trump's campaign-trail promise to eliminate the department altogether.  —  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration …
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Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump's orders to dismantle the Education Department and fire employees
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term.  He's Making Up for It  —  As the president mixes public service with personal profit, he's making the world safe for corruption  —  President Donald Trump will host a gathering of VIPs at his private golf resort outside Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration—Application of the Impoundment Control Act to Memorandum Suspending Approval of State Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans  —  B-337137  —  Highlights  —  The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Paul Krugman:
Gaming Out a Sudden Stop  —  What happens if investors lose faith in America?  —  I used to be an economics ambulance-chaser — someone who raced around the world to wherever there was an interesting economic calamity.  And this international experience probably made me more sensitive …
ProPublica:
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging  —  The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration's trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.
Discussion: New Republic, Fox News and Axios
New York Times:
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades  —  The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years.  —  The funding decreases touch virtually every area …
Oyin Adedoyin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Sounds Death Knell for Penny Production  —  One-cent coins are expected to stop entering circulation early next year.  Businesses will need to round prices up or down.  —  The U.S. government is phasing out the penny, whose use has spanned more than two centuries.
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Associated Press:
Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny
Discussion: The Hill
Julie Watson / Associated Press:
Multiple people on private plane that crashed into San Diego neighborhood are dead, authorities say  —  A private jet crashed into military housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars parked along a suburban neighborhood block and killing multiple people on board the plane, authorities said.
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Mahmoud Khalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from government  —  Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's efforts to keep …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Two House Republicans missed the big vote  —  It was the biggest vote of the 119th Congress so far — and they missed it.  GOP Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and David Schweikert of Arizona were both recorded as not voting on the Republican domestic policy megabill that passed the House early Thursday morning.
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data  —  The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies.  The U.S. intelligence community is now buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required …
Will Steakin / ABC News:
New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it  —  ABC News obtained audio of Frank Bisignano's staff meeting with managers.  —  Frank Bisignano arrives to testify at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing …
Discussion: New Republic
 
 
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