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10:30 AM ET, May 25, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats  —  U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary
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Zac Anderson / USA Today:
How Trump's clash with the courts is brewing into an ‘all-out war’
Discussion: CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Orders Trump Officials to Seek Return of Guatemalan Man to U.S.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Profits Like No Other President, as Outrage Is Muted … President Trump at a business round-table meeting in Abu Dhabi this month.Doug Mills/The New York Times  —  When Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furor erupted over reports that she had once made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed White / The Detroit News:
U.S. Justice Department pardon lawyer pledges ‘hard look’ at plot to kidnap Michigan governor … “On the pardon front, we can't leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr. said this week on “The Breanna Morello Show.”  —  “In my opinion these are victims just like January 6,” Martin said …
Jessica Priest / The Texas Tribune:
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities' courses and hiring under bill OK'd by House  —  Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
New York Times:
Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex  —  As President Trump blurs the lines between politics and business — and threatens steep tariffs on trade partners — governments feel compelled to favor Trump-related projects.  —  As President Trump blurs …
Washington Post:
Russian attack in Ukraine kills 12 as Zelensky condemns ‘silence of America’  —  The massive missile and drone attack, one of the largest aerial bombardments of the war, casts more doubt on the U.S.-brokered peace process.  —  KYIV — Russia launched another massive missile …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Six Months Later, Democrats Are Still Searching for the Path Forward  —  The party's standing is startlingly low after a defeat that felt like a cultural rejection.  What comes next?  —  OUT OF POWER  —  The party's standing is startlingly low after a defeat that felt like a cultural rejection.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Donald Trump Has Remade America's Political Landscape  —  Donald J. Trump's victory in 2024 was not an outlier.  —  It was the culmination of continuous gains by Republicans in much of the country each time he has run for president, a sea of red that amounts to a flashing warning sign …
Discussion: Althouse
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy / USA Today:
With $37 million and a jet, Trump's presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot  — A new nonprofit, Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., has been established to raise funds for a future presidential library for Donald Trump.  — The foundation …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a big risk for House Republicans.  Many of them hope otherwise.  —  As the 2026 midterms loom, voters are restless and eager to penalize those in power.  Every election starting with 2006, with the exception of 2012, has been a change election.
Discussion: Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
The Times:
JD Vance's Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end  —  DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link between Donald Trump's vice-president — a self-declared Scots-Irish — and Ireland  —  JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Administration Highlights: President Stresses New Era in Speech to West Point Graduates  —  Where Things Stand  — West Point: Speaking at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, President Trump told graduating cadets they were part of a new “golden age” in the country.
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Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump at West Point graduation lauds “Golden Age” as anti-DEI and pro-defense
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
J. D. Vance Warns Courts to Get in Line  —  The Vice-President says it's time for Chief Justice John Roberts to step in and make judges behave.  He's wrong.  —  Vice-President J. D. Vance offered some unsolicited advice to Chief Justice John Roberts the other day: the federal courts need …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Andrew Stiles / The Washington Free Beacon:
Decline Absolution: Sympathetic, Well-Meaning Journalists With Poor Integrity  —  REVIEW: 'Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again' by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson … Some people find this aggravating, and for good reason.
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Wall Street Journal:
The Week That Derailed Joe Biden's Post-Presidency  —  A fight against cancer and a struggle to amass an inheritance for his family are setting up a somber final chapter  —  When Joe Biden left office in January, he sought to follow the template set by his predecessors for a post-presidency …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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NBC News:
Former President Joe Biden makes first public appearance since cancer diagnosis
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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