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10:50 AM ET, June 9, 2025

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black  —  U.S. and Chinese officials will meet today in London to give deescalation from the current trade war the old college try.  This might have been more difficult before, when Trump's saber-rattling was focused primarily on China.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Atlantic
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9News:
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops  —  Tensions in Los Angeles have escalated again as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the National Guard …
CBS News:
Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV  —  An Australian television journalist reporting live from downtown Los Angeles amid the large-scale protests over President Trump's immigration crackdown was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet, her network said.
NBC Los Angeles:
Live updates: Protest spills onto 101 Freeway in downtown LA … What to Know  — Crowds gathered in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights Sunday for a third straight day of protests over recent immigration raids.  — A march that began Sunday in Boyle Heights arrived …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Dr. Phil was embedded with ICE during controversial Los Angeles immigration raids  —  As federal agents prepared to fan out in Los Angeles for a controversial immigration crackdown, the officers were greeted by a familiar face: Dr. Phil McGraw.  —  The television personality and his camera crew …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Read: Newsom demands Trump pull National Guard from LA protests  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday formally that requested President Trump's administration withdraw the National Guard from Los Angeles County, where troops are responding to immigration raid protests.
MSNBC:
'Tom, arrest me.  Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.
Wall Street Journal:
The Deportation Wars Begin  —  Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead.  —  Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest.  But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn't tell voters during the campaign.
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor  —  Tom Homan also warned that if violent “rhetoric against ICE” continues, “someone's going to lose their life.”
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
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Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
ICE: Crossing State Lines to Incite Riots
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Forward
New York Times:
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:   What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 8, 2025  —  Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington …
Discussion: The Hill and Newsweek
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   The Most Dangerous Week in American History (So Far)
Financial Times:
Donald Trump tests limits of presidential authority by sending troops into Los Angeles
Politico:   Playbook: Trump: ‘BRING IN THE TROOPS’
NBC News:
White House struggles to find qualified people willing to work for Pete Hegseth  —  At least three people have turned down potential roles working for the defense secretary and former Fox News host.  Supporters say his leadership has been effective.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility  —  Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building.  —  Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday …
Punchbowl News:
6/9/2025_3 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Senate Republicans have three weeks to meet their leadership's goal of passing a massive party-line reconciliation bill before the July 4 recess.  —  Privately, GOP senators, the White House and House Republican leaders are split on whether they can pull it off.
Discussion: NewsNation and E&E News
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Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The stealth Senate dealmaker who could deliver Trump's tax cuts
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Associated Press:
NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research  —  In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own.  “Dissent,” he said, “is the very essence of science.”
Reuters:
How Trump defanged the Justice Department's political corruption watchdogs  —  Stripped of its authority and nearly all its staff, the U.S. Justice Department's storied Public Integrity Section is on life support.  Former prosecutors say the overhaul could make it easier to prosecute Trump's opponents.
Yesica Fisch / Associated Press:
Israeli forces prevent aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching Gaza  —  Israeli forces stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists early Monday and diverted it to Israel, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory …
Warner Bros. Discovery:
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Graham Lanktree / Politico:
Trump promised Britain a trade deal.  So where is it?  —  LONDON — In a much-hyped split-screen Oval Office phone call a month ago, U.S. President Donald Trump promised Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the two had struck an “historic” trade deal.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Daily Mail
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters  —  Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’  —  ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White …
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
What Musk can learn from Ma and Khodorkovsky  —  In a power struggle between a national leader and a billionaire, the politician always comes out on top  —  Tom Wolfe coined the term “masters of the universe” as an ironic description of Wall Street traders.  Elon Musk takes the idea literally.
Clea Caulcutt / Politico:
Macron: Greenland is not up for grabs (nor is Antarctica)  —  The French president heads to the Arctic island on Sunday.  —  PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that Greenland is “not for the taking” in a not-so-veiled swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump's continued threats to annex the Arctic island.
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump directs a new threat at Elon Musk, with an eye toward the 2026 midterm elections
Discussion: Time and Reuters
Associated Press:
Unsubstantiated ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy theories lead to legislation proposed in US statehouses
Paul Krugman:
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China's Exports to U.S. Suffer Biggest Decline Since 2020
Olivia George / Washington Post:
Army video of parade prep appeared to show ‘Hang Fauci’ graffiti
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Group Backed by George Soros to Plow Millions Into Turning Texas Blue
Discussion: Raw Story
Kat Lonsdorf / NPR:
What Trump's national emergencies could mean for American democracy
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Alison Gash / Washington Monthly:
Ten Years After Obergefell: Is Same-Sex Marriage Safe?
Discussion: USA Today
Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Silicon Valley's not crying for Musk
Helen Branswell / STAT:
STAT+: With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices
Discussion: Mercury News
NBC News:
Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which could limit low-income students' college access
Discussion: Vox, CBS News and NewsMax.com
 

 
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The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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