Top Items:
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law — A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based Court …
Discussion:
CNN, Reuters, CBS News, Daily Mail, Washington Times, Reason, Governor of California and New York Sun, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
Politico:
Federal court strikes down Trump's April 2 tariffs — The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled unanimously that the president overstepped his powers in issuing the tariffs on countries around the world, most of which he's since paused. — A federal court has struck down President Donald Trump's …
Discussion:
Townhall, Raw Story and Daily Mail
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set tariffs — A federal court on Wednesday ruled President Trump does not have the authority under economic emergency legislation to impose sweeping global tariffs. — Why it matters: The U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling could bring …
Ilya Somin / Reason:
We Won Our Tariff Case! — The US Court of International Trade just issued a unanimous ruling in the case against Trump's “liberation day” tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US businesses harmed by the tariffs. The ruling also covers the case filed …
Discussion:
Forbes, Newsweek and Fox Business
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Trump's not happy about Wall Street's name for tariff flip-flops — He bristles at the acronym TACO, which stands for ‘Trump always chickens out.’ — Wall Street has a new shorthand about President Donald Trump — and he's not happy about it. — Traders have reportedly come up with the acronym TACO …
Discussion:
USA Today, CNN, New Jersey Online, So What, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, CBS News, New Republic, The Independent, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg, Newsweek, NewsMax.com, Variety, Daily Kos and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Tariffs Blocked by U.S. Court of International Trade
Trump Tariffs Blocked by U.S. Court of International Trade
Discussion:
Paul Krugman, CBS News, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Hill, Washington Examiner, USA Today, New York Sun, Oregonian and The Gateway Pundit
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump rejects claim he's ‘chickening out’ on tariffs just because he keeps changing rates
Trump rejects claim he's ‘chickening out’ on tariffs just because he keeps changing rates
Discussion:
NBC News, New Jersey Online, MSNBC, USA Today, New York Daily News, CPA Practice Advisor, Raw Story, Salon, al.com, Daily Kos, Meidas+, Washington Times, The Hill, Deadline and Lou Dobbs
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
Discussion:
New York Post
Politico:
Marco Rubio: US to ‘aggressively’ revoke visas of Chinese students — The announcement didn't specify how many would lose the ability to study in the country. — The U.S. will “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday in an escalation …
Discussion:
CNN, Reuters, The Hill, Bloomberg, Axios, Fox News, New York Times, USA Today, Al Jazeera, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Scripps News, The Independent and Washington Examiner
RELATED:
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China — Under President Trump's leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
Discussion:
New York Times and One America News Network, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Paramount Has Offered $15 Million to Settle CBS Lawsuit. Trump Wants More. — President's team threatened another lawsuit amid settlement talks — A month into negotiations between Paramount Global and President Trump to settle his lawsuit against CBS News, the parties remain far apart on terms.
Discussion:
Reuters, Deadline, Mediaite and NewsMax.com, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained. — For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Trump nominates one of his former personal attorneys for prestigious federal appeals court seat — President Donald Trump has nominated Emil Bove, one of his former personal attorneys and now a top Justice Department official, to be a federal appeals court judge.
Discussion:
New York Times and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Nominate His Former Defense Lawyer to Appeals Court
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Politico, Fox News, Associated Press, Townhall, ABC News, Florida Politics, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, NewsMax.com and Accountable US
Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:
Trump nominates Emil Bove to 3rd Circuit Appeals Court
Trump nominates Emil Bove to 3rd Circuit Appeals Court
Discussion:
The Hill, Roll Call, Axios, Daily Kos, New Jersey Globe, New York Sun, USA Today and New Republic
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam — President Donald Trump has mostly justified his lawless attempt to restrict international students from attending Harvard University by pretending it's designed to root out the antisemites, woke radicals …
Discussion:
Public Notice, Drezner's World, American University, Raw Story and The Hill
RELATED:
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
Trump escalates war with Harvard: 'They're getting in deeper and deeper'
Discussion:
New York Times, Breitbart, The Atlantic and The Hill
Kinsey Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
No, Barron Trump was not rejected from Harvard, FLOTUS says amid university battle
No, Barron Trump was not rejected from Harvard, FLOTUS says amid university battle
Discussion:
MSNBC, The Western Journal, New York Post, NewsMax.com, The Providence Journal, USA Today, IJR, Mediaite, The Independent and Daily Mail
Detroit Free Press:
Trump will ‘take a look’ at pardoning convicted Whitmer kidnap plotters, he says — The government alleged in 2020 that men upset with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's handling of the coronavirus pandemic had conspired to kidnap her. — Prosecutors had mixed success in court but did land convictions in both federal and state courts.
RELATED:
Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at possible pardons for men convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — Whitmer, who met with Trump multiple times this year, once placed some of the blame for the plot on Trump's rhetoric. — President Donald Trump said he would look …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, MLive.com, CBS News, Newsweek and NewsMax.com
Axios:
Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests — In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
RELATED:
Sky News:
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan charged with rape in the UK — Bedfordshire Police issued an international arrest warrant for the brothers over allegations, which they “unequivocally deny”, said to have occurred between 2012 and 2015. — Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate …
Discussion:
Breitbart, Euro Weekly News and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
STAT:
STAT+: HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics — The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains …
Discussion:
Axios, Associated Press, Reuters and NPR
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Crime is Now Legal (At Least for Trump's Friends) — Corruption is spreading fast within the Justice Department … A lot of attention has come in recent days to the sheer size of the corruption racket surrounding the president and the White House. The New York Times did a great piece …
RELATED:
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases
Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases
Discussion:
Associated Press, Good Politics/Bad Politics, New York Times, The Guardian, Raw Story, Reason, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Washingtonian, Townhall, Mediaite, PBS NewsHour, BBC, Politico, New York Magazine, The Parnas Perspective, American Wire News, MSNBC, Today's Edition Newsletter and New York Daily News
Washington Post:
Trump's Air Force One deal with Qatar not final, despite U.S. claims — The delay reflects lingering concerns about legal liabilities stemming from a White House maneuver to transform what was originally a sale between two countries into a “gift.” — Despite claims by the Defense Department …
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.'s ‘whipping boy’ — Musk made his comments at an inflection point for SpaceX amid a string of failures of its Starship spacecraft in recent test flights. — STARBASE, Tex. — Elon Musk, returning to SpaceX on Tuesday for a test flight …
Discussion:
Axios, Bloomberg, CBS News, USA Today, CleanTechnica, TechCrunch, MSNBC, CNN, Chicago Sun Times, Gizmodo, al.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, Fortune, Washington Examiner, New Republic, The Western Journal, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Fox News, New Jersey Online, The Hill, Rolling Stone, New York Sun, Ars Technica, American Wire News, Mediaite, The Register, The Japan Times, Daily Mail, New York Post, Reuters and Al Jazeera
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Musk is so important — WHY MUSK IS SO IMPORTANT. Elon Musk's giant Starship spacecraft went out of control, tumbled, and broke apart several minutes into a test flight Tuesday night. It was the latest in a series of unsuccessful-but-still-instructive tests of Musk's hugely ambitious rocket program …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Ars Technica, Mashable and Business Insider
David Noriega / NBC News:
Immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to El Salvador, potentially cutting off their return — An immigration judge in San Diego dismissed the asylum claim of a gay makeup artist from Venezuela — one of at least 14 such dismissals to take place in recent weeks.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Law & Crime, Washington Examiner and Newsweek
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her — According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.
Discussion:
The Independent, Mediaite and Raw Story
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Judge Says Government Should Release Russian Scientist — The judge ordered ICE to release Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who also faces criminal charges. — A federal judge on Wednesday said she would grant bail to Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed …
Discussion:
The Harvard Crimson, The Hill, The Boston Globe, Reuters, New Republic, NewsMax.com, VTDigger, Fox News and Raw Story
Amalya Dubrovsky / Yahoo Finance:
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures jump as court blocks Trump tariffs, Nvidia earnings impress — US stock futures rose after a US trade court blocked some of President Trump's tariffs, and Nvidia (NVDA)'s mixed earnings report impressed Wall Street despite the company's warnings on chip curbs.
Discussion:
Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Post, New York Times, Associated Press and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Jasmine Wright / NOTUS:
Trump Has Commuted Larry Hoover's Sentence — The president, on a pardon spree, shortened the infamous former gang leader's sentence after years of advocates pressing for his release. — Copy — President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former gang leader …
Discussion:
The Hill, New York Times, Axios, Salon, Chicago Sun Times, TMZ.com, FOX 32 Chicago, Newsweek and CBS News
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Turnout didn't cost Kamala Harris the election — Two quick announcements. The World Series of Poker began yesterday and continues through mid-July; I'll be there beginning the week of June 9. Although I'm not going to send out a separate email about it, I've revised and improved the guide to the WSOP that I wrote last year.
Discussion:
Bucks County Beacon
John Trasviña / The Voice of San Francisco:
Grading for Equity coming to San Francisco high schools this fall — District materials highlight a decrease in A grades for ‘more privileged’ students. — Without seeking approval of the San Francisco Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools Maria Su plans to unveil a new Grading …
Discussion:
HotAir, Newsweek, The Washington Free Beacon, RedState, NewsMax.com, IJR, New Jersey Online, Twitchy, The Post Millennial and The San Francisco Standard
Project Veritas:
Part One: DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Reveals Jill Biden's Chief of Staff Ran the Biden White House — Key Quotes - David Hogg, Vice Chair, Democratic National Committee — “Jill Biden's Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power.” — “The bigger issue was the inner circle that was around Biden.”
Discussion:
Fox News, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Twitchy, RedState, Louder With Crowder, American Greatness, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Niha Masih / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead. — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
Discussion:
The Guardian, The Hill, Breitbart, Reason, The Independent, Vanity Fair, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, New York Post and STAT
Greg Iacurci / CNBC:
Trump administration axes Biden-era barrier for crypto in 401(k) plans … The Trump administration on Wednesday relaxed barriers in 401(k) plans to buying cryptocurrency and related digital assets like NFTs and meme coins. — The Labor Department rescinded guidance put in place …
Discussion:
DOL, CBS News, Politico, The Independent, CoinDesk, NewsMax.com, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Hill
M. Gessen / New York Times:
Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era — In a show that recently opened at the LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village, a group of actors led by a young, ambitious, charmingly naïve director are almost finished rehearsing Chekhov's “The Seagull” …
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Shows Signs of ‘Cognitive Decline’ Says Speech Expert — ORIGINAL SPIN — As pressure mounts for an inquiry into Joe Biden's mental decline, the president faces scrutiny over his health. — EXCLUSIVE — Donald Trump's rambling speeches and stream-of-consciousness press briefings …
Discussion:
Raw Story
New York Times:
The Allure (and Complications) of Trump's ‘Golden Shares’ — The White House would like some control of U.S. Steel if it approves its sale to Nippon Steel. Such deals could alter foreign investment in the United States. — The White House's new board seats
Discussion:
Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Fox Business, CNBC, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Japan Times, Axios, Reuters and New York Sun

