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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, Mediaite, Raw Story, Twitchy, Daily Kos, Alternet.org, The Independent, Rolling Stone, Diane Ravitch's blog, Talking Points Memo, OutsideTheBeltway and MSNBC
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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.
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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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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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Newsweek, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, New York Post, Semafor, The Guardian, Fox News and NewsMax.com
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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, The Hill, Raw Story and RedState
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
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Fulbright board resigns over alleged Trump administration interference — The 12-person board that oversees the Fulbright Program accused the White House of denying a “substantial” number of scholarship recipients. — The entire 12-person board tasked with overseeing the State Department's …
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Wall Street Journal
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Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
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Axios, CNBC, ABC News, The Virginian-Pilot, NewsNation and NewsMax.com
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference
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NOTUS, New York Daily News, Bloomberg, Reuters, MSNBC and The Guardian
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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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. evacuating personnel from the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran — The U.S. is evacuating nonessential staff from the embassy in Baghdad and families members of military personnel from several bases in the Gulf amid growing concerns about the security situation, according to two State Department and Pentagon officials.
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Reuters, Washington Post, The Korea Herald, FITSNews, Human Events, Blaze Media and The National Pulse
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, The Gateway Pundit, Middle East Monitor and CBS News
Associated Press:
US prepares to order departure of all nonessential staff from Baghdad embassy, officials say
US prepares to order departure of all nonessential staff from Baghdad embassy, officials say
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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 …
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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Politico:
Hegseth says troops in LA are lawful. He just can't explain why. — The Pentagon chief stumbled when pressed on the legal underpinning for the deployment of 700 Marines to California. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday insisted the Pentagon's deployment of troops to Los Angeles was lawful.
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The Kyiv Independent, USA Today, New Republic, The Hill, Washington Times, Congresswoman Barragan and Los Angeles Times
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Suggesting More Troops in More Cities, Trump Bends Military's Role
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American Prospect, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
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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PennLive, Military and Veteran … and Blaze Media
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, Deseret News, NPR, FOX 11 Los Angeles, PBS NewsHour, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, CBS News, New York Sun, El País, NewsNation, The Independent, CrimethInc, Axios, Al Jazeera and MyNorthwest.com
The Hill:
RFK Jr. includes vaccine misinformation spreaders among newly announced ACIP members — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced the new members of a key vaccine advisory committee, just days after he fired all sitting members in what he called “a clean sweep.”
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Axios, New York Sun, Roll Call, STAT, CBS News, One America News Network, Associated Press, UPI, The Gateway Pundit, The Virginian-Pilot, The Japan Times, Forbes, Tangle and Townhall
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation
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CNN, New York Times, CNBC, NewsMax.com, Axios, USA Today, Ars Technica, Lawyers, Guns & Money, NPR, Bloomberg, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller, CBS News and NewsNation
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee
CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee
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Blaze Media and New York Times
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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Jeff Coltin / Politico:
In final stretch of New York mayoral race, Cuomo targets Mamdani's inexperience
In final stretch of New York mayoral race, Cuomo targets Mamdani's inexperience
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New York Magazine
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, New Republic, The Hill, Scripps News, Quartz and Townhall, more at Techmeme »
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Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Trump's EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits — More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades — US power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Where are the people the Trump administration has deported? — In its first 150 days, the second Trump administration has used immigration authorities to aggressively deport people — including by sending them to foreign prisons and to countries where they had no prior connection.
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, New York Daily News, Above the Law, TheGrio, CBS News, NewsMax.com and New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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Inside Climate News, NewsMax.com and KRDO
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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Metro.co.uk and New York Magazine
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, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, The Guardian, Raw Story, NOTUS, USA Today and New York Daily News
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, ABC News, Fox News and KRDO
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, The Post Millennial, Raw Story, Townhall, Washington Examiner, CBS News and Mediaite
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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Los Angeles Times, Reuters and First Amendment Coalition, 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
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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Politico, New York Times, The Hill, Alternet.org, Raw Story and Daily Caller News Foundation

