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.

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 …

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 …

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.”

US Supreme Court won't review assault weapon, high-capacity magazine bans  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of state restrictions on assault-style rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines, passing up cases that offered the justices a chance to further expand gun rights.

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.

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.

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%.

Trump and his crew are nuts  —  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.”  He allegedly took a smorgasbord of drugs …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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.

Hating New York  —  What we can learn from a MAGA obsession  —  MAGA and MAGA-adjacent types are very good at finding things and people to hate.  They hate immigrants (unless they're white South Africans), LGBTQ people and wokeness.  They hate universities and are doing their best to destroy American science.

Mike Johnson and Russ Vought Continue to Lie About Medicaid Cuts  —  They allege that no one will lose coverage if Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill passes.  Experts disagree … House Speaker Mike Johnson similarly claimed “People will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so.”

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.

Supreme Court to consider reviving GOP challenge to Illinois mail ballot deadline  —  The Supreme Court will consider reviving a lawsuit challenging Illinois' ability to count mail ballots received after Election Day, the court announced in a brief order Monday.

Mike Johnson's bogus attack on CBO's score of the 2017 tax bill  —  The House speaker says the CBO missed by $1 trillion, but even the CBO couldn't predict a pandemic. … — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), interviewed on Fox News, May 29  —  The CBO is a nonpartisan agency …

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America  —  The reactionary blogger's call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke.  Now the right is ready to bend the knee.  —  In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known …

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