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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness — With President Donald Trump sending more troops into Los Angeles amid protests there, a remarkable image has gone viral on social media. It shows members of the National Guard crowded into a sterile-looking office …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
National Guard troops have temporarily detained civilians in LA protests, commander says — National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests over immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to law enforcement.
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Steve Beynon / Military and Veteran Benefits …:
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet — The 4,000 California National Guard soldiers who President Donald Trump surged into Los Angeles remain unpaid due to delays in issuing official activation orders, leaving compensation and benefits in limbo.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He's Actually a Weak Man
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Politico:
Hegseth says troops in LA are lawful. He just can't explain why.
Hegseth says troops in LA are lawful. He just can't explain why.
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Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to deploy National Guard across the state in response to protests
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to deploy National Guard across the state in response to protests
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Politico:
'America's reputation is on the line': Republican senators chide Hegseth over Ukraine
'America's reputation is on the line': Republican senators chide Hegseth over Ukraine
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Josh Shapiro says he's ‘prepared’ if Trump sends military to Pennsylvania
Josh Shapiro says he's ‘prepared’ if Trump sends military to Pennsylvania
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance — It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference — The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers. — The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program …
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Adam Nichols / Raw Story:
Entire Fulbright board quits in mass revolt over Trump assault — In a stunning institutional revolt against Donald Trump, the entire 12-member board overseeing America's most prestigious international scholarship program resigned en masse Wednesday, blasting the administration …
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Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Fulbright board quits, claims Trump administration politicized scholarships
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Majority Of Voters Oppose GOP Budget Bill, With Just 67% Of Republicans In Support, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Job Approval: 38%, His Handling Of Russia - Ukraine War Lowest Among List Of Issues — mail_outline — As the Senate debates the GOP tax …
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Capitol agenda: The GOP's latest megabill casualties — House Republicans will vote to make difficult changes to the GOP megabill Wednesday in an attempt to keep the bill on track in the Senate. The House Rules Committee teed up a provision Tuesday night that would scrub the House-passed bill …
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Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Landmark crypto bill moves closer to passage in Senate
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Cramer: GOP has no ‘stomach’ for Medicare changes in Trump megabill
Axios:
House GOP to Senate: “Touch very lightly” on Trump budget bill
House GOP to Senate: “Touch very lightly” on Trump budget bill
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Want to Trim Some of Trump's Populist Tax Cuts
Senate Republicans Want to Trim Some of Trump's Populist Tax Cuts
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Associated Press:
US prepares to order departure of all nonessential staff from Baghdad embassy, officials say — The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due to the potential for regional unrest, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Israel is poised to launch operation on Iran, sources say — U.S. officials have been told Israel is fully ready to launch an operation into Iran, multiple sources told CBS News. — The U.S. anticipates Iran could retaliate on certain American sites in neighboring Iraq.
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82 — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems …
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Diana Glebova / New York Post:
Donald Trump responds to Elon Musk's late-night apology after ugly public feud — WASHINGTON — President Trump is feeling good about Elon Musk's apology after the former “first buddy” admitted late Tuesday he had gone “too far” in his personal attacks on the commander-in-chief.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
David Hogg to Exit D.N.C. After Backlash to His Primary Plan — Mr. Hogg said he would not run again for vice chair after the party voted for a new election. Democrats have been furious at his plan to challenge the party's sitting lawmakers in primary races.
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
DNC will redo party elections for David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta's posts after procedural error
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Hogg declines to run again for DNC vice chair after new election is called
Hogg declines to run again for DNC vice chair after new election is called
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Senators Freak Out When Asked About Trump's Military Parade Costing $45 Million — Some ducked into elevators. Some stared into space. “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped. — WASHINGTON - They snapped. They stared off into space.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Many Republicans Plan to Skip Trump's Military Parade
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Politico:
Trump's EPA delivers new blow to Biden climate agenda — EPA argues that the second-largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution contributes too little to the world's climate problem to be worth regulating. — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it's revoking limits …
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Jake Spring / Washington Post:
EPA moves to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants
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Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Trump's EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits
Trump's EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits
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Sophie Gardner / Politico:
CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people — Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices …
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Chelsea Cirruzzo / STAT:
HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Judge Opens Door to Releasing Mahmoud Khalil as Soon as This Week — Mr. Khalil, a legal permanent resident, has been held in Louisiana for more than three months. The judge suggested he could be released as early as Friday unless the government successfully appeals.
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Pew Research Center:
U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump — Table of Contents Table of Contents — This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of the United States and President Donald Trump in 24 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Where are the people the Trump administration has deported? — The Trump administration's aggressive immigration deportation efforts often have been carried out illegally. What has happened to the people at the center of the cases? — In its first 150 days, the second Trump administration …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A. — Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people. — GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Maybe they really were immigration officers, just as they claimed. Or maybe they were a ragtag vigilante group, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
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Department of Homeland Security:
ICE Arrests Illegal Alien for Molotov Cocktail Attack on Law Enforcement Caught on Video — This illegal alien has been charged with attempted murder — WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Emiliano Garduno-Galvez …
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
Head of FEMA's storm response center leaving agency amid leadership exodus — The head of FEMA's National Response Coordination Center — a position responsible for the government's response to storms — submitted his resignation letter Wednesday and will formally depart the agency in two weeks.
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
‘No Kings’: Millions to Protest Trump's ‘Dictator-Style Birthday Parade’ — A national day of protest is set for June 14. Can non-violent resistance counter Trump's authoritarian show of force? — Even before Donald Trump militarized his crackdown on pro-immigrant protesters in Los Angeles …
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Washington Post:
Hegseth resists when pushed to explain Trump's Air Force One deal — Democrats demanded clarity on the president's rationale for pursuing the Qatari luxury jet, but his defiant defense chief gave them little in return. — Just now — Summary — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth …
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says — “I never thought for one moment that I'd actually have to be fearful of law enforcement during a public protest,” said one photojournalist hospitalized after getting shot in the leg.
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