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10:25 AM ET, May 27, 2025

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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard  —  A letter to federal agencies will instruct them to end contracts, totaling about $100 million.  It is meant to sever the government's remaining ties with Harvard.  —  The Trump administration is set to cancel …
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Reuters:
Trump considers redirecting $3 billion in Harvard grants to US trade schools
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
President Speaks of Sacrifice and Boasts of His Successes in Memorial Day Address
Discussion: Axios
Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Putin and Trump agree to prisoner exchange, Russia says  —  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists Tuesday that President Donald Trump wanted results and accused European leaders of sabotaging swap efforts.  —  President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Politico:
Playbook: Trump's weird weekend  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Tuesday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard, stuffed full of marionberry cobbler after a weekend on the magnificent Oregon coast.  —  SO HOW WAS YOUR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND?  Not as weird as Donald Trump's, I'll wager.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Sanctions Against Russia as Relationship With Putin Sours
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says Putin Has ‘Gone Crazy’ After New Russian Attacks on Ukraine
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House  —  NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
NPR Sues Trump Over Order to Cut Funding  —  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington by NPR and other public radio organizations, said President Trump's executive order violated the Constitution and the First Amendment.  —  NPR said on Tuesday that it was suing President Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Senate eyes changes to Trump's legislative package that narrowly passed the House  —  Senate Republicans are looking to rework President Donald Trump's massive tax and immigration bill that narrowly cleared the Republican-led House last week.  Expect debate in coming weeks over Medicaid spending …
Discussion: LifeNews.com
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump's 5-step push to keep GOP control of the House in '26
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:   7 ways Republicans are split over Trump's ‘big bill’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ is ‘debt bomb’
Discussion: New York Times, NewsMax.com and MSNBC
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims  —  Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides  —  The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Within Pete Hegseth's divided inner circle, a ‘cold war’ endures  —  At the Pentagon, personality conflicts persist and inexperience reigns, fueling internal speculation about the defense secretary's long-term viability in Trump's Cabinet.  —  An enduring rift among Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's cadre …
Paul Krugman:
A Letter to Europe  —  On Friday Donald Trump, claiming that he was unhappy with European negotiating tactics, announced his intention to impose 50 percent tariffs on goods imported from the European Union.  A rate that high would virtually shut down trans-Atlantic trade.
Christian Paz / Vox:
There are two Gen Zs  —  We can confidently say that Gen Z got a lot more Republican over the last couple of years, thanks to a swarm of new, first-time young voters — specifically men of all races.  —  Pre-election polling captured this phenomenon, voter registration trends tracked it …
Discussion: City Journal and Newsweek
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
3 takeaways from the most authoritative autopsy of the 2024 election yet
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns  —  Ray Dalio writes in book president wants to ‘dictate’ Maga policies and calls his skirting of democratic norms more ‘aggressive’ than Andrew Jackson and FDR  —  Donald Trump wants to “dictate” …
Stacey Dec / ABC News:
Trump pardons Virginia sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges  —  Scott Jenkins, who was sheriff in Culpeper, was to report to jail on Tuesday.  —  Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins speaks during a gun rights rally organized by The Virginia Citizens Defense League …
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Bo Erickson / Reuters:
Trump pardons former sheriff convicted of bribery
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Trump's China Tariffs Are Having a ‘Massive Impact’ on Small Business  —  A small Vermont business that sells water bottles used by cyclists and others is struggling to adapt to President Trump's tariffs even after they were temporarily lowered.  —  When President Trump temporarily reduced tariffs …
Discussion: NBC News
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Bill Saporito / New York Times:
Trump Says Retailers Should ‘Eat the Tariffs.’ Good Luck With That.
Politico:
Judge pleads with Trump administration for ‘reason over rhetoric’ in deportation case  —  A Biden appointee issued a withering order Monday night rejecting the Trump administration's demand that he reconsider or delay a ruling granting deportees bound for South Sudan certain protections.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Hill and Fox News
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Erupts Over ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent's Viral Warnings About Trump  —  SOMETHING HE SAID?  —  Scott Pelley decried how journalism and freedom of speech are now “under attack” in the U.S.  —  The MAGA faithful lashed out at Scott Pelley after the veteran CBS reporter delivered …
Washington Post:
At Veterans Affairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks morale  —  The government's second-largest agency, serving some of America's most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under Trump administration cutbacks.  —  Morale is plummeting inside the Department of Veterans Affairs …
Discussion: Advocate
Liz Crampton / Politico:
Democrats are looking to make gains in the South next year.  It could be their last shot.  —  A new class of Democratic party chairs see repairing the party's relationship with the working class as key to its political comeback.  —  With Republicans holding competitive …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
How much should politicians (and pundits) follow the polls?  —  This is the wrong question.  —  ∙ Paid … A debate is raging among Democratic strategists and left-leaning commentators about how the Democratic Party should position itself ideologically to maximize its probability of winning the next election.
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Dem Reps Aren't Done Pushing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  A DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS attempted over the weekend to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia at his new detention site in El Salvador only to be turned away by local authorities.  —  Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) who counts Abrego Garcia as a constituent …
New York Times:
Republican Crackdown on Aid to Immigrants Would Hit U.S. Citizens  —  The Trump administration's efforts and the G.O.P.'s tax bill aim to restrict benefits for families that include immigrants without permanent legal status.  —  President Trump has vowed to end what he calls the …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How to kill 346 people and get away with it  —  On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea about 13 minutes after taking off from an airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.  All 189 people on board died.  Less than five months later, on March 10, 2019 …
Discussion: AeroTime
 
 
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Emily Keegin / New York Times:
All Hail Our Rococo President!
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects student's challenge to ‘two genders’ T-shirt ban
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
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Maria Aspan / NPR:
Corporate America's retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs
Abby McCloskey / Bloomberg:
Trump Accounts? Republicans Have Had Better Ideas
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
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Discussion: NewsMax.com
Bloomberg:
Ramaphosa Recalls His Bemusement at Trump Oval Office Encounter
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Enough with the doom and gloom. American education isn't failing.
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What we don't learn in “Original Sin”
Politico:
GOP declares war on GAO
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Tech's Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
Discussion: New Republic
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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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

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