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Christopher Maag / New York Times:
Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents — Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman's Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom. — Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler's office …
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MeidasTouch News and RedState
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
‘It can happen to anyone’: Nadler rebukes DHS after staffer detained in Manhattan office
‘It can happen to anyone’: Nadler rebukes DHS after staffer detained in Manhattan office
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New York Post, Raw Story and Gothamist
Chris York / The Kyiv Independent:
‘Russian bombers are burning en masse’ — Ukraine's SBU drones hit ‘more than 40’ aircraft in mass attack, source claims — Editor's note: This is a breaking story and is being updated. — An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit “more than 40” Russian bombers at air bases …
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Telegraph, Reuters, Metro.co.uk and israelhayom.com
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials … The F.B.I. headquarters in Washington.Erin Schaff/The New York Times — Before being confirmed as the director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel made clear his intent to remake it in his own image, reflecting a larger desire by the White House to bend the agency to its will.
David A. Bell / New York Times:
Are International Students Good for American Universities? — Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there. After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have lunch at a Sichuan restaurant near campus.
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Why Trump is really going after Harvard — If the US's oldest university bends the knee, the door to authoritarianism opens and democracy fades, experts warn — In mortarboards and crimson-fringed gowns, thousands of students were joined by smiling families for the centuries-old ritual of graduation day.
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Mercury News
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Immigrants Rebuilt a Pennsylvania Town — Then Became Targets — Haitians in Charleroi filled pews and revived stores. Now they face deportation and backlash. — Larry Celaschi summons me to look at his cell phone, which displays a photo of a truck. The picture, which someone shared with Celaschi …
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
White House to pull NASA nominee Isaacman — The Scoop — The White House is pulling the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the Senate, according to three people familiar with the matter and confirmed by the administration.
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Wes Moore and Tim Walz Go to a Fish Fry and Spatter 2028 Gossip Everywhere — As the two governors made buzzy appearances in South Carolina, Democrats in the influential state were already looking to the next election and wondering: Who can win? — Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland played …
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Blake Jones / Politico:
Tim Walz tells Harris' home-state Dems that 2024 was a ‘primal scream’
Tim Walz tells Harris' home-state Dems that 2024 was a ‘primal scream’
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Newsweek, New York Times, Twitchy, New York Post and RedState
Ted Kerasote / New York Times:
Will America's National Parks Survive Trump? — Like a cinnamon river overflowing its banks, thousands of elk have been making their way across Jackson Hole, Wyo., to their summer range below the high, jagged peaks of Grand Teton National Park. — This is one of the world's most spectacular migrations …
Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:
Gabbard Wants Fox Hosts to Feed Trump Top Secret Intel: 'Doesn't Read' — BURN AFTER WATCHING — Because the president is “on broadcast all the time,” the director of national security plans to revamp his daily intelligence briefings. — Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard wants …
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Townhall, Rolling Stone, CNBC and Raw Story
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
RKF Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu — He just made two bad decisions on vaccines, and he made them in the worst way possible. — IMAGINE BEING HANDED the ultimate weapon to win a future war and throwing that weapon away. — That's a fair description …
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
FDA approves a next-generation Covid vaccine from Moderna, with restrictions
FDA approves a next-generation Covid vaccine from Moderna, with restrictions
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Forbes, Mother Jones, Axios, CBS News, investors.modernatx.com, UPI and Reuters
Emily Herbert / Financial Times:
Dollar's correlation with Treasury yields breaks down — Investors' concerns about US policymaking and Fed independence weigh on greenback and bonds — Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. — The close relationship between US government bond yields …
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA's world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders — MAGA media heavyweights are intervening in elections around the world, increasingly obsessed with exporting President Trump's brand of right-wing populism beyond America's borders. — Why it matters: What began as a nationalist reaction …
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On: CNN Data Guru — WHAT'S IN A NAME? — The president is not happy with his new Wall Street-inspired moniker. — CNN's resident data guru says President Donald Trump's hated “TACO” nickname is gaining popularity.
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CNN, Twitchy, The Independent, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
‘TACO’ Is the Secret to Trump's Resilience
‘TACO’ Is the Secret to Trump's Resilience
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Raw Story, The Independent, Grabien, Twitchy and No More Mister Nice Blog
Eunki Seonwoo / The Martha's Vineyard Times:
Federal agent's tattoo stokes fear — ICE denies connections between the officer and white supremacy. — A federal immigration enforcer's tattoo that matches the description of a symbol used by white supremacists has caused some Vineyarders to sound alarm bells.
Jack Revell / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Birthday Military Parade Will Do $16M in Damages to D.C. Streets — BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT — Armored vehicles rolling down Constitution Avenue are expected to tear millions of dollars' worth of holes in the tarmac. — Pothole repair is about to be big business in Washington …
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The Independent
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
May 31, 2025 — “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950. “It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything …
Jean Mackenzie / BBC:
North and South Korea are in an underground war - Kim Jong Un might now be winning — The border between North and South Korea is swamped with layers of dense barbed-wire fencing and hundreds of guard posts. But dotted among them is something even more unusual: giant, green camouflaged speakers.
Discussion:
Fox News and New York Times
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate rankings: The 5 seats most likely to flip — The 2026 midterm cycle is already bustling with activity as Senate Republicans gear up to defend their majority and Democrats try to reverse course from a difficult few years and chart a path forward. — The fields are starting to take shape …
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Can the ‘Abundance Agenda’ Save the Democrats? — Dispirited liberals are embracing—and feuding over—a new book's call for cutting red tape — SAN FRANCISCO—A raging political fad has taken over the Democratic Party, coalescing politicians, activists and rank-and-file partisans around …
Anna Gifty / Public Notice:
How the “pink tariff” hurts women — 💯 This special Sunday edition of Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers. If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please support our work by clicking the button below and signing up for a paid subscription.
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New York Magazine

