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12:20 PM 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
Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
What we know about Boulder attack targeting pro-Israel Run for Their Lives group
New York Times:
Live Updates: 6 People Burned in Attack on Event for Israeli Hostages in Colorado
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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Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Stunning Assault Roils Russia's Global Military Strategy
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  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
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: Raw Story, The Hill and Fox News
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic Rifles  —  The case from Maryland was the court's latest opportunity to apply its recently announced history-based test for assessing the constitutionality of gun control laws.  —  The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not hear …
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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 …
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%.
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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
Kateryna Hodunova / The Kyiv Independent:
Ukraine, Russia preparing for new prisoner exchange following 2nd round of peace talks, Zelensky says  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated with statements by Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's advisor Vladimir Medinsky after the second round …
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
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 …
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: Raw Story and Alternet.org
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 …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:   Republicans face new pressure to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits
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 …
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
Ava Kofman / New Yorker:
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 …
Robert Armstrong / Financial Times:
Still more on stablecoins  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.  —  Good morning.  On Friday, President Donald Trump announced he would double steel tariffs to 50 per cent, just days after endorsing the merger of US Steel and Nippon Steel.
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie's List of ‘Sanctuary’ Cities Yanked After Furious Backlash  —  WALKING IT BACK  —  The pro-Trump National Sheriffs' Association had called the list “arbitrary” and a betrayal.  —  Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security has taken down a list of dozens of “sanctuary” …
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.
Discussion: MSNBC and Law & Crime
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer.  They Hope the President Is Too  —  Trump advisers tell WIRED that their mutually beneficial arrangements with the notorious right wing influencer may be coming to an end.  —  It's not totally clear what Laura Loomer, the 32-year-old conspiracy monger …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
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.”
 
 
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