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NBC News:
Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing — One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's intelligence chief …
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Mock Paper Scissors
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard's fate, source says — College and university leaders have been privately negotiating with a deputy to top Trump aide Stephen Miller in hopes of avoiding the same aggressive targeting of Harvard University …
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Washington Post:
Wall Street warns Trump aides the GOP tax bill could jolt bond markets — White House officials maintain bankers' concerns are overstated and discount expected revenues from the president's tariffs. — Wall Street bankers and executives are privately warning the Trump administration …
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NewsMax.com, Financial Times and Al Jazeera
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever
Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever
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Washington Examiner
CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to suspend deportation protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela
Supreme Court allows Trump to suspend deportation protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela
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Arya Sundaram / Gothamist:
Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building … We rely on your support to make local news available to all — Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today — Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
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American Wire News, NBC News and City & State New York
Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia — Researchers decry agency's decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine — Skip backwardsGo ten seconds backward Skip forwardsGo ten seconds forward — Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine — The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease. — The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating …
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CBS News, The Atlantic and Reuters
Heather Bellow / The Berkshire Eagle:
Business owners confront ICE agents during arrest at Great Barrington job site — ‘I felt like I was in North Korea’ — GREAT BARRINGTON — Federal agents arrested one of two men at their landscaping job site on Friday morning, but their clients confronted the agents and prevented the second man from being taken into custody.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Championed Rulings That Are Now Being Used to Check His Power — In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president's expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reach — WASHINGTON—During the Biden administration, conservative challengers …
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Eugene Volokh / Reason:
From Stanford Prof. Michael McConnell on the Tariff Decicions
From Stanford Prof. Michael McConnell on the Tariff Decicions
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New York Times, Cafe Hayek, Bloomberg and New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Trump and Musk's Complicated Relationship — The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close — WASHINGTON—President Trump recently posed an evocative question to his advisers about billionaire Elon Musk's promise …
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Rory O'Neill / Politico:
EU prepared to counter new Trump tariffs — The European Commission said it is prepared to impose retaliatory measures against U.S. President Donald Trump's latest threat on steel and aluminum tariffs. — “We strongly regret the announced increase of U.S. tariffs on steel imports …
New York Times:
Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order — A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.” — The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later.
A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later.
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OutsideTheBeltway and American Wire News
Brian Stelter / CNN:
MAGA outlet's Pentagon correspondent criticized Hegseth. And then she was fired, she says — Gabrielle Cuccia criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's crackdown on press access at the Pentagon. And then, she said, she was fired. — Cuccia was briefly the chief Pentagon correspondent …
James Glanz / New York Times:
World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts — With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences. — For decades, Bangalore, India, has been an incubator …
Kimmy Yam / NBC News:
After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left — “In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different,” one student said. — Chinese students say they're questioning …
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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Rubio Says Lack of Social-Media Profile Could Prompt Visa Denial
Rubio Says Lack of Social-Media Profile Could Prompt Visa Denial
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks — The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed. — President Trump appears to be declaring independence from outside constraints on how he nominates judges …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Plan to Hobble China Tech Isn't Working — Chinese solar panels, electric vehicles and drones are better than those made in the U.S. Is AI next? — The U.S. has tried almost everything to win the tech race against China—across areas as varied as AI, energy, autonomous vehicles, drones and EVs.
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Euro Weekly News, The Information, Breitbart, New York Times and Al Jazeera
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Really, Secretary Rubio? I'm Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump? — I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things, but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar. — While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed …
Brian Mann / NPR:
Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric — President Donald Trump has long called for escalating the U.S. drug war against Mexican cartels and wants tougher penalties for dealers selling fentanyl and other street drugs in American communities.
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The Root
Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Builds Up Near Weapons-Grade Uranium Stockpile Despite Nuclear Talks — U.N. atomic agency reports that Iran hasn't cooperated with nuclear probe, raising prospect of snapback of sanctions on Tehran — Iran has continued to produce highly enriched uranium at a pace of roughly …
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Mark Mazower / Financial Times:
For Europe, America was the future. Now what? — Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship — Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free — Your guide to what Trump's second term means for Washington, business and the world
Isabella Kwai / New York Times:
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cucumbers Sickens 45 People — The outbreak, which was traced to a grower in Florida, has spread to 18 states, according to the C.D.C. Several distributors and stores, including Target, have recalled products containing cucumbers.
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Washington Post:
The MAHA Report's AI fingerprints, annotated — The Post reviewed the more than 500 citations in the MAHA Report. Here are the patterns of AI use we found. — The White House's “Make America Healthy Again” report, which issued a dire warning about the forces responsible …
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Raw Story, NBC News and Daily Mail
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Biden on 2024 reelection bid: 'I don't have any regrets' — Former President Biden said Friday that he does not have regrets in deciding to run for reelection in 2024 and argued that other Democrats did not challenge him in the party's primary because they knew they would have lost.
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions — The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet. — The Energy Department announced on Friday that it was terminating $3.7 billion …
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Associated Press:
Trump fires director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery — President Trump is terminating the head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, continuing his aggressive moves to reshape the federal government's cultural institutions.

