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7:10 PM ET, May 25, 2025

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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Top Republicans threaten to block Trump's spending bill if national debt is not reduced  —  Prominent senators warn Trump to ‘get serious’ about addressing budget deficit or they will block ‘beautiful bill’  —  Donald Trump has been warned by fiscal hawks within his own party in the US Senate that he must …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Sen. Ron Johnson says there's enough opposition in the Senate to hold up Trump's ‘big, beautiful’ bill
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Jasmine Crockett: 'It's Time for Republicans to Question Trump's Mental Acuity'  —  The congresswoman wants the GOP to ask whether the president is “equipped to serve mentally” … “I don't think that those who have gone through West Point expected to have their commander in chief address …
Discussion: Raw Story
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James Powel / USA Today:
Trump tells West Point grads to avoid ‘trophy wives’ in commencement speech  —  President Donald Trump told graduates to avoid “trophy wives” during his commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on May 24.  —  “He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife.
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
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James Waterhouse / BBC:
Russia launches largest drone attack yet on Ukraine  —  Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine, with the highest number of drones and missiles launched in a single night yet.  —  At least 12 people, including three children, were killed and dozens injured, Ukrainian officials said.
Kate Shaw / New York Times:
Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?  —  Since taking his second oath of office, President Trump has been on a firing spree.  In violation of numerous laws or longstanding presidential practice (or both), he has ordered the removal of many high-level officials …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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
Discussion: The Guardian and Rolling Stone
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Zac Anderson / USA Today:
How Trump's clash with the courts is brewing into an ‘all-out war’
Discussion: Lincoln Square Media and Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: The Independent
Travel And Tour World:
Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and More Slash Routes to Major Cities Including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to Tap Soaring Demand Across Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean  —  European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling …
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Wilfred Reilly / spiked:
How George Floyd dragged America to the right
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System  —  The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, provides the nation with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system. … Baccalaureate Remarks  —  Chair Jerome H. Powell  —  At Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
New York Times:
Trump Allies Look to Benefit From Pro Bono Promises by Elite Law Firms  —  Veterans, in particular, are seeking free legal work from firms that cut deals with the White House like Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss.  —  President Trump has tossed around many ideas about how elite law firms …
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: Townhall and Althouse
US Department of Justice:
United States Citizen Arrested for Attempted Firebombing of U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, Israel  —  For Immediate Release  —  Office of Public Affairs  —  Earlier today, Joseph Neumayer, a dual U.S. and German citizen was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport …
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.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Emily Peck / Axios:
Trump the central planner  —  President Trump may paint China as the enemy, but lately he's been awfully fond of their command-economy playbook.  —  Why it matters: Trump's extraordinary interventions — which dovetail with what some critics have labeled “MAGA Maoism” — are rattling businesses …
Associated Press:
Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts.  Foreign universities want to hire them  —  As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants — and governments and universities around the world spotted an opportunity.
 
 
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Matt Wirz / Wall Street Journal:
Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity
Bill Duryea / Politico:
'That's the Way Militaries Work in Russia and China and North Korea'
Matt Delaney / Washington Times:
Nearly two dozen arrested in Seattle after protesters crash Christian rally in LGBTQ neighborhood
Discussion: KOMO and The Post Millennial
Dr. Timothy Johnson / CBS News:
Health expert calls Trump's medical research cuts “reckless destruction”
Discussion: WBEZ Chicago
Financial Times:
Austrian chancellor says EU asylum rules are no longer fit for purpose
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
The US military spent $6 billion in the past 3 years to recruit and retain troops
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg:
US Risks Losing ‘Reliable Investment’ Status, Allianz GI Manager Says
US Department of Justice:
Two Texas Residents Operating a Visa Racket Indicted for Visa Fraud, Money Laundering, and RICO Conspiracy
Discussion: Breitbart and The Post Millennial
Andrew Stiles / The Washington Free Beacon:
Decline Absolution: Sympathetic, Well-Meaning Journalists With Poor Integrity
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Joe Cirincione / New Republic:
Trump's “Golden Dome” Won't Work—but It'll Make Elon Musk Richer
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It
Discussion: Advocate and lgbtmap.org
The Times:
JD Vance's Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end
Jessica Priest / The Texas Tribune:
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities' courses and hiring under bill OK'd by House
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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