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10:45 AM ET, June 2, 2025

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Associated Press:
What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack  —  Eight people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, by a man who police say used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd.
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Denver Post:
8 people set on fire in ‘targeted act of violence’ on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall
Politico:   Playbook: Russia's Pearl Harbor
Christa Swanson / CBS News:
FBI director calls incident at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado a “targeted terror attack;” multiple injured
New York Times:
Police Respond to Attack at a Colorado Event Raising Awareness of Israeli Hostages
NBC News:
Advocates for Israeli hostages in Gaza injured in fire attack in Colorado
Wall Street Journal:
The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients  —  After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere  —  At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message …
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Sophie Clark / Newsweek:
Major Companies Abandon Law Firms That Signed Deals with Trump: Report
Discussion: Washington Post and Alternet.org
Jordain Carney / Politico:
A surprising coalition of GOP senators holds all the megabill leverage  —  An ideologically diverse clutch of Republicans have found rare alignment — and significant leverage.  —  The Senate's deficit hawks might be raising the loudest hue and cry over the GOP's “big, beautiful bill.”
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Shhh.  Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again.  Sort of.  —  They're not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.  —  Congressional Republicans are pursuing changes …
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:   Republicans face new pressure to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits
New Republic:
Trump Arrest of Immigrant Triggers Shock and Regret in Small MAGA Town  —  Ming Li Hui, who goes by the name of “Carol,” has lived for 20 years in the town of Kennett, Missouri, after coming here from Hong Kong.  She has been raising a family there and works as a waitress …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Arrest of Immigrant Shocks Small MAGA Town … Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.  I'm your host, Greg Sargent.  —  Carol Hui has lived for 20 years in a small town in Missouri after coming to the United States from Hong Kong.
The Economist:
An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war  —  Ukraine's high-risk strikes damage over 40 top-secret strategic bombers  —  Shortly after noon on June 1st, Russian social media began flashing, alerting the world to Ukraine's most audacious operation on Russian territory to date.
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Emily Peck / Axios:
Exclusive: China's global favorability rising, views of the U.S. turn negative  —  U.S. trade policy is making China great again — at the United States' expense, per an analysis from Morning Consult that looks at global favorability ratings, and finds China's rising while America's falls.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Trump and his crew are nuts  —  It's time to stop rationalizing the craziness  —  According to a jaw-dropping New York Times report, during the 2024 campaign, Elon Musk “told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.”
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Conservative Karol Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential election  —  Conservative Karol Nawrocki won Poland's weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count on Monday.  Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a very tight race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%.
Walker Bragman / Important Context:
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya  —  Jay Bhattacharya's stint as director of the National Institutes of Health is off to a rocky start.  At his first town hall last month, the former Stanford University health economist …
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too  —  Despite his rhetoric about fire and fury, the president is nervous about the use of force  —  Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free  —  Your guide to what Trump's second term means for Washington, business and the world
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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BBC:
Secret Syrian intelligence files show missing US journalist was imprisoned by Assad regime  —  Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images  —  Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Fiery Brief Fueled by Conservatives Helped Put Trump's Tariffs in Peril  —  A coalition including leading figures on the right said the president's program did violence to the Constitution.  One judge cited it eight times.  —  A powerful sign that President Trump's tariff-driven trade war …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Former Trump supporter Pamela Hemphill refuses and returns her Jan. 6 pardon  —  Amid the wave of pardons and commutations President Trump has doled out to some of his supporters and surrogates, one former MAGA loyalist in Idaho is fighting to return her pardon.
Nick Carey / Reuters:
Tesla's European sales rout continues but new Model Y boosts Norway deliveries  —  Tesla's (TSLA.O) car sales fell sharply in several European markets including Sweden and Portugal in May, a fifth consecutive monthly decline that has been blamed on CEO Elon Musk's political activities and an outdated model lineup.
Discussion: Electrek
James Temple / MIT Technology Review:
The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies … The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The unaccountable fist of an unaccountable president  —  With Trump's blessing, DHS is turning ambiguity into a weapon against immigrants — and opponents.  —  I keep thinking about the White House press briefing on March 17, St. Patrick's Day.  It was the first in the wake …
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families.  Here's what those families want you to know  —  Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems.  The 16-year-old's bedroom is full of notebooks featuring her prose.
Discussion: The Hill
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Key US weather monitoring offices understaffed as hurricane season starts  —  National Weather Service offices are reeling from job cuts and a hiring freeze imposed by Trump  —  More than a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast …
 
 
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court to consider reviving GOP challenge to Illinois mail ballot deadline
Discussion: USA Today
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
US Supreme Court won't review assault weapon, high-capacity magazine bans
Rachel Louise Snyder / New York Times:
Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
U.S. Dependence on China for Rare Earth Magnets Is Causing Shortages
Discussion: New York Post
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The big, bad bond market could derail Trump's big, beautiful bill
Discussion: Washington Post
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Murphy launches ambitious anti-Trump PAC as 2028 rumors swirl
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Financial Times:
Trump tariffs cut off recovery in private equity dealmaking
Michael Cohen / Meidas+:
The Death of Empathy in American Governance
Discussion: MSNBC
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone
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