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ABC News:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources  —  Sources say he faces charges of illegally transporting migrants within the U.S.  —  Undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  —  Murray Osorio PLLC via AP
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ABC News:
Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources  —  The decision to pursue the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News.
Discussion: CBS News
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute  —  The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute  —  At the height of the juvenile flame war on Thursday between the world's richest man and its most powerful one, Donald Trump posted a barely veiled threat on his website Truth Social.
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Jonathan Karl / Associated Press:
Trump tells ABC Musk ‘lost his mind’; ‘not particularly’ interested in talking to him  —  He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.  —  President Donald Trump attends a meeting with the Fraternal Order of Police in the State Dinning Room of the White House, June 5, 2025, in Washington.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Musk already lost his war against Trump  —  Polling shows that Republicans are almost 12 times more likely to side with the president than Elon Musk.  —  There is only one person who is unquestionably able to both maintain a high level of public visibility and stay on President Donald Trump's good side.
Dasha Burns / Politico:
Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk
Paul Krugman:
Wake Up and Smell the Corruption
Discussion: Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump's fight with Musk reveals MAGA's biggest delusion
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Democrats ask Bondi for Epstein files after Musk's Trump allegation
Axios:
The White House adviser who helped fuel Trump-Musk feud
NBC News:
‘No plans’ for a Trump-Musk call to tamp down their feud, White House chief of staff says
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Considering Getting Rid of His Red Tesla
Politico:   Playbook: The Trump-Musk divorce gets ugly
CNN:
Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say  —  The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans  —  The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two victories Friday in cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency, including giving it access to Social Security systems …
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New York Times:
Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records  —  As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday let members of the Department of Government Efficiency …
Discussion: Drezner's World
Washington Post:   Supreme Court lets DOGE access Social Security data of millions of Americans
Bloomberg:
Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador, is being brought back to the US to face federal charges that he illegally transported undocumented immigrants within the country.
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New York Times:
Abrego Garcia Is Returned to U.S. From El Salvador
Discussion: Fox News
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Republican said Sikh should not be allowed to deliver House prayer  —  Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) posted — then quickly deleted — that a Sikh should have “never been allowed” to lead the House of Representatives' daily prayer on Friday after initially incorrectly calling the man a Muslim.
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Mary Miller says she's ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post
Discussion: Daily Kos and New Jersey Online
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump-Musk split exposes how reliant NASA has become on SpaceX  —  Elon Musk's threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to get its astronauts into space.  —  Why it matters: Musk's rift with President Trump exposes …
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
Why Trump probably can't cut Musk loose
Washington Post:
Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people  —  Across the government, officials are rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.  —  Early this spring, the Food and Drug Administration fired nearly 50 workers in the Office of Regulatory Policy …
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Proud Boys Leaders Sue U.S. Over Jan. 6 Prosecutions  —  Lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages after their conviction, imprisonment for roles in Capitol attack  —  Five members of the Proud Boys, once convicted of masterminding the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, are accusing …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think  —  As the war between Donald Trump and Elon Musk worsens, what's truly odd about this whole spectacle is that the actual substantive disagreement between them seems to be of little interest to media observers.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Kelsey Brugger / Politico:
13 House Republicans urge Senate to save green credits  —  Thirteen House Republicans are urging Senate leaders to “substantially and strategically” improve clean energy tax credit provisions in the House-passed megabill.  Led by Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), the lawmakers said they remain …
Discussion: NBC News, Forbes, Alternet.org and E&E News
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Calen Razor / Politico:
Two House Republicans issue megabill threats as Senate ponders changes
Discussion: NewsMax.com
ProPublica:
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts  —  We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.  “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.
Rolling Stone:
Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself  —  Trump's administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to flatter the president … Vice President J.D. Vance was seated directly across from the president …
Discussion: New Republic
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters  —  Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted  —  The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators …
Discussion: Mediaite
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Former U.S. attorney Damian Williams leaves Paul Weiss for Jenner & Block  —  The former prosecutor is leaving a firm that made a deal with the Trump administration for one that fought it.  —  Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss …
New York Times:
He's a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn't Great. … Visuals by Martina Tuaty  —  Dominick McGee was walking into the White House in April and couldn't believe his luck.  He was a self-proclaimed “nobody” just three years ago when he started working alone from his apartment …
NBC News:
Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director  —  Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation.  —  A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The latest personnel purge at the FBI adds to a destabilizing problem  —  Almost immediately after Donald Trump's second term began, FBI officials targeted by Republicans have been ousted.  —  Among the many problems that have emerged in federal law enforcement during Donald Trump's second term is the campaign against key personnel.
Discussion: New York Times
NPR:
DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement  —  National Guard troops would be used in immigration-enforcement activities, including in “night operations and rural interdiction,” as well as “guard duty and riot control” inside detention facilities …
Discussion: Stars & Stripes
 
 
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DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Palantir's Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns
Politico:
Federal judge blocks Trump's latest effort to ban Harvard's international students
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Congress's Budget Referee Confronts Swarm of GOP Critics
Discussion: Washington Times and NewsMax.com
Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Alabama Asks SCOTUS to Revive its Intentional Racial Gerrymander
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Planning to Extend TikTok Deadline—Again
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Discussion: Breitbart
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
They are not good at this  —  Nearly five months into Trump's new reign of error, his administration's mistakes are multiplying.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
It's a Really Bad Time to Be an Expert in Washington
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

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The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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