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11:10 AM ET, June 9, 2025

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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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Read: Newsom demands Trump pull National Guard from LA protests
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
ICE: Crossing State Lines to Incite Riots
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Forward
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
Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:   What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
Politico:   Playbook: Trump: ‘BRING IN THE TROOPS’
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
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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New York Times:
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   The Most Dangerous Week in American History (So Far)
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
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.”
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 …
Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The big, beautiful bill is bad news for student loans  —  If passed, President Donald Trump's signature legislation would make college more expensive. … If the “big, beautiful bill,” President Donald Trump's signature legislative priority, eventually becomes law, it would gut some social programs that many people rely on.
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Avishay Artsy / Vox:   How HBCUs are thinking about Trump 2.0
NBC News:
Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which could limit low-income students' college access
Discussion: CBS News and NewsMax.com
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The stealth Senate dealmaker who could deliver Trump's tax cuts  —  Finance Chair Mike Crapo is facing the highest-stakes political test of his nearly three-decade Senate career.  —  Some of the most critical components of President Donald Trump's agenda are in the hands of a soft-spoken senator …
Discussion: Punchbowl News and Blaze Media
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
Democrats' big bet on the Big Beautiful Bill
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 …
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.
Rebecca Solnit / Meditations in an Emergency:
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence  —  I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades - the advance of rights for nature …
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
As ivermectin goes over the counter, some pharmacists worry about a lack of guidance  —  The drug, used to treat parasitic worms, has not been formulated or labeled specifically for over-the-counter use, like aspirin or an antacid.  —  Boise, Idaho, pharmacist Matt Murray has no choice …
Paul Krugman:
Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition  —  But it's here, and will destroy American science  —  It was obvious, if you thought about it, that the second Trump administration would be hostile to science and intellectual endeavor in general.  —  After all, look at some key elements of the MAGA coalition.
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
 
 
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The Economist:
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