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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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New York Times, Diane Ravitch's blog, Mediaite, Alternet.org, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Twitchy, The Independent, Rolling Stone, MSNBC, Talking Points Memo and OutsideTheBeltway
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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Bangor Daily News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Axios, Newsweek, Florida Politics, SFist, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, The Hill, CBS News and USA Today
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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.
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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The Kyiv Independent, New Republic, USA Today, The Hill, Washington Times and Congresswoman Barragan
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Live updates: LA curfew approaches with Marines standing by and more protests gearing up across the US
Live updates: LA curfew approaches with Marines standing by and more protests gearing up across the US
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New York Times, NBC News, Reuters, Deseret News, NPR, Breitbart, FOX 11 Los Angeles, PBS NewsHour, Washington Examiner, CBS News, El País, NewsNation, The Independent and CrimethInc
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 — The DNC determined it failed to follow internal rules in its February officer election. Separately, Hogg's plans to back primaries against incumbent Democrats stirred controversy.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Hogg declines to run again for DNC vice chair after new election is called — The 25-year-old activist said he will devote his efforts to Leaders We Deserve. — David Hogg will not run again for his Democratic National Committee vice chairman position, he announced on Tuesday …
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National Review, The Daily Caller, RedState and Raw Story
Washington Post:
David Hogg to depart as DNC vice chair after months of turmoil
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HotAir and The Post Millennial
Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
David Hogg splits from DNC in ‘fundamental disagreement’ over party's direction
David Hogg splits from DNC in ‘fundamental disagreement’ over party's direction
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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New York Daily News, NOTUS, Bloomberg, Reuters, MSNBC and The Guardian
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Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
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Axios, CNBC, The Virginian-Pilot, ABC News, NewsNation and NewsMax.com
Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost:
The Board Of A Prestigious Program Resigns After Accusing Trump Of Political Interference
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Fulbright board resigns over alleged Trump administration interference
Fulbright board resigns over alleged Trump administration interference
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Wall Street Journal
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 …
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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UPI, Mediaite, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, NewsNation, Politico, Middle East Monitor, The Washington Free Beacon and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Israel Appears Ready to Attack Iran, Officials in U.S. and Europe Say
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Jerusalem Post, Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Middle East Monitor, CBS News and The Gateway Pundit
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. evacuating personnel from the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran
U.S. evacuating personnel from the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran
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Washington Post, The Korea Herald, FITSNews, Blaze Media, Human Events and The National Pulse
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 …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Kosovo will accept up to 50 deported migrants from America. — Here's the latest — Musk's regrets: Elon Musk phoned President Trump before publicly expressing regret for attacks that he said “went too far” during a public feud between the men last week, according to people familiar with the matter.
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New York Magazine
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Diana Glebova / New York Post:
Donald Trump responds to Elon Musk's late-night apology after ugly public feud
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Rolling Stone, CNN, HotAir, Fox News, Futurism, Sam Harris, USA Today, The Daily Signal, The American Spectator, Vanity Fair, Axios, Above the Law, Ace of Spades HQ, Daily Kos, NewsMax.com, NewsNation, Shore News Network, Fortune, Business Insider, The Independent and Politico, more at Techmeme »
Politico:
Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race — The former governor has topped every voter survey since entering the race, but the democratic socialist is gaining on him. — NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani, the young democratic socialist who has been rising …
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NewsMax.com, New York Post and New York Daily News
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Axios:
House GOP to Senate: “Touch very lightly” on Trump budget bill — House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain has a stern warning for her Senate colleagues on the House-passed Trump budget bill: “Touch very lightly” and don't force a conference process. — Why it matters …
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New York Times, The Hill, Politico, Daily Caller News Foundation, Alternet.org and Raw Story
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Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Landmark crypto bill moves closer to passage in Senate
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The Independent, NewsMax.com and The Hill
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Capitol agenda: The GOP's latest megabill casualties
Capitol agenda: The GOP's latest megabill casualties
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NBC News, Raw Story, The Hill, Alternet.org and Daily Kos
Jake Spring / Washington Post:
EPA moves to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants — The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide. — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday a proposal …
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New York Times, Politico, CBS News, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller News Foundation, Heatmap News, Scripps News, Wired, Vox, E&E News, The Hill and New York Post
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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 …
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
New China Trade ‘Deal’ Takes U.S. Back to Where It Started — If a handshake agreement holds, it would merely undo some of the damage from the trade war that President Trump started. — After two days of tense negotiations, the United States and China appear to have walked back from the brink …
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The Daily Caller, The Hill, New Republic, Scripps News, Quartz and Townhall, more at Techmeme »
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.
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CBS News, New York Times, CNBC, CNN, NewsMax.com, Axios, USA Today, Ars Technica, Lawyers, Guns & Money, NPR, Bloomberg, The Daily Signal and The Daily Caller
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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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Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, SFist, Above the Law, New York Daily News, TheGrio, CBS News, NewsMax.com and New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
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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NewsMax.com and Inside Climate News
James Matheson / Baltimore Sun:
Naval Academy history chair resigns over ordered removal of symposium paper — The chair of the Naval Academy History Department resigned after reportedly being ordered by the academy's superintendent to remove a previously approved paper from the list of those to be presented at an upcoming symposium.
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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STAT, Associated Press, Fox News, KRDO and ABC News
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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Reuters and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Kabc / ABC7:
ICE agents ram car to take man into custody in Boyle Heights — Federal agents arrested a man in Boyle Heights after a crash. The chaotic scene was captured by surveillance video. — BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) — A Wednesday morning crash in Boyle Heights was being investigated …
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FOX 11 Los Angeles, LAist, Los Angeles Times, KRDO and Newsweek
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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Politico, Axios, ABC News, NOTUS, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Raw Story, USA Today and New York Daily News
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Leavitt Storms Out of Press Briefing Over Free Speech Grilling — OUTTA HERE! — Trump has long claimed to be a defender of the First Amendment. — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt abruptly ended a news conference after facing tough questions over free speech.
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NewsMax.com, Raw Story, Townhall, The Post Millennial, CBS News, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump plans to attend ‘Les Misérables’ at the Kennedy Center after taking over the institution — President Donald Trump is set to take a seat at Wednesday's opening night of the award-winning musical “Les Misérables” at the Kennedy Center, where he replaced the previous leadership …

