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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 …
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Drezner's World, American University and Raw Story
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Kinsey Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
No, Barron Trump was not rejected from Harvard, FLOTUS says amid university battle
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MSNBC, New York Post, The Providence Journal, USA Today, The Western Journal, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, IJR and The Independent
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
Trump escalates war with Harvard: 'They're getting in deeper and deeper'
Trump escalates war with Harvard: 'They're getting in deeper and deeper'
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The Hill, Breitbart and The Atlantic
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump's attack on Harvard hampered by his inability to STFU
Trump's attack on Harvard hampered by his inability to STFU
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The Contrarian, New Republic, Reason, New Jersey Online and RealClearPolitics
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Didn't ‘Chicken Out’ on Tariffs — President Trump rejected claims that he is backing down on tariffs in Oval Office comments Wednesday, when asked about a new saying from Wall Street analysts that “Trump always chickens out” after imposing high duties.
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
Trump's not happy about Wall Street's name for tariff flip-flops
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MSNBC, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, CBS News, NewsMax.com, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Daily Kos, Raw Story, New Jersey Online and CNBC
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
William Watts / MarketWatch:
The ‘Trump always chickens out’ trade is the talk of Wall Street. Here's one way to play it.
The ‘Trump always chickens out’ trade is the talk of Wall Street. Here's one way to play it.
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New Republic, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, New York Post and Daily Mail
Jason Karaian / New York Times:
Stocks Rally on the ‘TACO Trade’
Stocks Rally on the ‘TACO Trade’
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New Jersey Online, HuffPost, Newsweek, Barron's Online, The Hill, Variety, The Independent and Daily Kos
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.
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Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Noem Releases Statement After ICE Arrests Illegal Alien who Threatened to Assassinate President Donald J. Trump — WASHINGTON - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
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The Hill, Blaze Media, The Independent, Law & Crime, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Gateway Pundit and NewsMax.com
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 …
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The Hill, The Guardian, Breitbart, Reason, NewsMax.com, The Independent, Vanity Fair, Washington Examiner, STAT and New York Post
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC blindsided as RFK Jr. changes vaccine recommendations
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The 19th, WBEZ Chicago, Chicago Sun Times, Raw Story and The Korea Herald
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
RFK Jr.'s War on Vaccines Is Here
RFK Jr.'s War on Vaccines Is Here
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USA Today, The Daily Beast, Fox News, American Greatness and ABC News
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.
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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 …
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Reuters, The Boston Globe, Fox News, New Republic, VTDigger and Raw Story
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Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Judge orders release of Harvard scientist from ICE detention
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NewsMax.com and New York Magazine
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Nominate His Former Defense Lawyer to Appeals Court — Emil Bove, a former federal prosecutor, has been working as the president's enforcer at the Justice Department — President Trump on Wednesday said he would nominate Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official …
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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.
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New York Times, The Hill, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Breitbart, Euro Weekly News and The Daily Caller
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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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post, Ars Technica and Mashable
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 …
Politico:
White House plans — at last — to send some DOGE cuts to Hill — House Republicans are expecting a modest package next week amid an online pressure campaign. — The White House plans to send a small package of spending cuts to Congress next week, senior GOP officials told several House Republicans Wednesday.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Trump asking Congress to help with $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts
Trump asking Congress to help with $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts
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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.
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Bucks County Beacon
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.
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Associated Press, Law & Crime, Washington Examiner and Newsweek
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 …
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The Hill, Axios, TMZ.com, Chicago Sun Times, FOX 32 Chicago, CBS News and Newsweek
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.”
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Louder With Crowder, American Greatness, RedState, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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.
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The Independent, Raw Story and Mediaite
Helen Branswell / STAT:
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics — The decision will be seen as a significant blow to pandemic preparedness — The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop …
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Reuters
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 …
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 Frum / The Atlantic:
The Trump Presidency's World-Historical Heist … During his first presidency, Donald Trump collected millions of dollars of other people's money. He charged the taxpayer nearly $2 million to protect him during the hundreds of times he visited his own properties.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Republican Crumbles When Pressed About Tax Bill at Heated Town Hall — Rep. Mike Flood admitted to angry constituents that he hadn't read Trump's “big, beautiful” reconciliation package before voting for it — Republican Rep. Mike Flood appeared before his constituents in Nebraska on Tuesday …
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NBC News, KOLN, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, New Republic, Bloomberg and Daily Kos
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases — Former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins claimed he was being targeted because of his support for Donald Trump. — WASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling …
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 …
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DOL, CBS News, Politico, CoinDesk, NewsMax.com, Daily Caller News Foundation and The Hill
Olivia George / Washington Post:
Vietnam vets' annual ceremony relocated from D.C. due to Army parade — For more than three decades, it has been held by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for those who served in the war and later died. Not this year. — Janet Zamora never had the chance to visit D.C. with her husband.
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Washington Examiner
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath — Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us: — AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs …
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The Cross Section and New York Post
Paul Krugman:
America Turns Its Back on the World — My wife and I are co-authors of a widely used textbook on the principles of economics, which is revised on a three-year cycle. When a new edition comes out, I normally visit a number of schools that might adopt it, usually giving a big public talk …
