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Washington Post:
Inside the battles that shattered Trump and Musk's alliance  —  Trump called Musk “a big-time drug addict” in a phone call shortly after their public feud.  —  President Donald Trump was dejected, processing his very public split with the world's richest man.
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NBC News:
Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates  —  In an interview with NBC News, the president also said he assumes his relationship with the tech billionaire is over following their recent falling out.  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday …
Discussion: HuffPost and Washington Examiner
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Musk Deletes Post Saying He'll Apologize to Trump if the President Does a ‘Full Dump’ of Epstein Files  —  Elon Musk said an apology from him to President Donald Trump hinges on a “full dump.”  —  Many conservatives have been disappointed that the Trump administration has yet to release …
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump advised Vance to take a diplomatic approach after Musk's blowup  —  Trump declined to go all-out in his attacks on Musk and counseled the vice president to show restraint in his comments about Musk, preserving a possible bridge.  —  While Elon Musk fired off social media posts excoriating …
Rebecca Schneid / Time:
Musk's Major Allegation Against Trump Disappears From Social Media: ‘That Post Has Been Deleted’
New York Times:
Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue
New York Times:
Buildup to a Meltdown: How the Trump-Musk Alliance Collapsed
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other - united in their ability to trash their own brands
Eric Garcia / The Independent:   AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned
Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage.  ‘Our community is under attack’  —  A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce pushback from elected officials and protesters, who decried the enforcement actions as …
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NPR:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man at the center of a bitter, months-long political and legal fight after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, has been returned …
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CNN:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges
Politico:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in US custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges
Chris Palmer / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Five Proud Boys leaders, including Philly resident Zach Rehl, want the government to pay them $100 million in restitution for Jan. 6 convictions  —  Zach Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in helping incite the Jan. 6 …
Discussion: WHEC.com, Reuters and Washington Post
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Proud Boys Freed by Trump Sue the Government for $100 Million  —  Once convicted of serious felonies, members of the extremist group now paint themselves as “patriotic” victims of political warfare  —  In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
White House security staff warned Musk's Starlink is a security risk  —  Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.  —  Elon Musk's team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried …
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.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Appeals court hands AP an incremental loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events
Adam Wren / Politico:
The Great Un-Awokening  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Saturday.  This is Adam Wren.  Get in touch.  —  President Donald Trump attends UFC-316 featuring Merab Dvalishvili vs. Sean O'Malley at 9:30 p.m.  —  DRIVING THE DAY
Erica Pandey / Axios:
The great poaching: America's brain drain begins  —  The Trump administration's spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking.  —  Why it matters: U.S. researchers' fears are coming true.
New York Times:
After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out.  But DOGE Is Just Getting Started.  —  With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team's approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.  —  With members embedded in multiple agencies …
Wall Street Journal:
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology  —  U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs  —  A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Breaking down 20 years of election data that shows how the two parties have evolved in the Trump era  —  The 2024 election was the first in two decades that saw a Republican popular vote victory.  The trends since then illustrate extreme changes in the two parties.
Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway
P.J. Huffstutter / Reuters:
Ohio food banks strain as Trump slashes federal aid programs  —  On a warm spring morning, volunteers at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective plucked cucumbers from a greenhouse where a state psychiatric hospital once stood and the land lay fallow.  Now the state's largest food bank is working that ground again …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
There are only two commissioners left at the FCC  —  After two departures on Friday, parts of Brendan Carr's agenda are in limbo. … After the departure of one Republican and one Democratic commissioner on Friday, the Federal Communications Commission is down to two members …
New York Times:
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner … He Tianying outside the White House on May 23.  Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party's influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump's Culture of Corruption  —  At the gala dinner President Trump held last month for those who bought the most Trump cryptocurrency, the champion spender was the entrepreneur Justin Sun, who had put down more than $40 million on $Trump coins.
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Republicans worry DOGE cuts will sink them in Virginia governor's race
Ben Makuch / The Guardian:
Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
Amy Mackinnon / Politico:
Graham's ‘bone crushing’ Russia sanctions bill could freeze US trade with the world's largest economies
Discussion: Raw Story and The Kyiv Independent
Washington Post:
Colleagues ask if Norton is still the best ‘warrior’ to fight for D.C.
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Rep. Mary Miller Loses It Over ‘A Muslim’ Speaking In Congress Before Deleting Racist Post
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Sen. Eric Schmitt employs staffer linked to campaign video with Nazi imagery
Discussion: The Guardian
The Forward:
Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officials
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The latest personnel purge at the FBI adds to a destabilizing problem
Discussion: New York Times
NBC News:
Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
 

 
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