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5:50 PM ET, June 16, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate  —  Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return to talks if the U.S. stays out of the fight  —  DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption …
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Axios:
Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast  —  Iranian state television was broadcasting live on Monday when a massive explosion rocked the studio, with the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble.  The broadcast then went dark.  —  The big picture: Israel's strike …
New York Times:
Israel attacks Iran's state television, live on the air.  —  Israel expanded its attacks on Iran on Monday, striking the headquarters of state television after telling residents to leave part of Tehran, as the fiercest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Israeli-Iranian conflict entered its fourth day.
Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:
Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran  —  WASHINGTON − Before Israel launched its top-secret attack on Iran, a viral social media account tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway.
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Discussion: Washington Post and LewRockwell
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown  —  President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month.  —  Why it matters: Immigration …
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump doubles down on expanding deportations in America's biggest cities
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans  —  Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’  —  Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left  —  The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota's Democratic governor.  He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Truly Disgusting’: GOP Senator Slammed For ‘Depraved’ Tweets After Shootings
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone
New York Times:
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security … Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration.
Discussion: The Independent and NPR
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate unveils trickiest text of Trump's “big, beautiful bill”  —  Senate Finance Committee Republicans published their text of President Trump's “one big, beautiful bill” Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for.
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
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Rachel Cohrs Zhang / Bloomberg:
Senate Republicans Propose More Aggressive Medicaid Cuts to Help Pay for Tax Bill
Steph Solis / Axios:
Terminated National Institute of Heath grants must be restored, judge orders  —  A federal judge Monday ordered the National Institutes of Health to restore grants that the agency cut based on gender ideology or diversity, equity and inclusion, calling the move illegal.
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Anil Oza / STAT:
STAT+: Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are ‘void and illegal,’ federal judge rules
Discussion: The Boston Globe and Advocate
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Fired ABC Star: My Miller Is a Hater Tweet Is Totally True  —  NO VINO VERITAS  —  Terry Moran had described President Donald Trump and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as “world-class” haters.  —  Former ABC News anchor Terry Moran said he has no regrets about an incendiary X post …
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New York Times:
Terry Moran Says He Doesn't Regret Posts Criticizing Trump Administration  —  In his first interview since losing his job at ABC News, the longtime TV correspondent, newly popular on Substack, says he does not regret his social media post criticizing the Trump administration.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular, Dems up 8 in House vote  —  Summary:  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds.
Discussion: Reuters
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence  —  It took only hours after an allegedly Trump-supporting gunman shot multiple Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses for the right-wing misinformation machine to chug into action.
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Associated Press:
Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative  —  The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in Africa two years ago that the U.S. was in a “bad place” where most churches didn't oppose abortion.
U.S. Government Accountability Office:
Institute of Museum and Library Services—Applicability of the Impoundment Control Act to Reduction of Agency Functions  —  B-337375  —  Highlights  —  Congress appropriated amounts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out authorized mission activities for fiscal year 2025.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor  —  Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade.  They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s.  —  Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.
Dylan Ebs / NBC News:
Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split  —  Eight in 10 respondents believe the Trump administration shouldn't ignore a federal court ruling the White House doesn't like, per the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:   Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump does not intend to sign joint G7 statement on Iran  —  President Donald Trump does not intend to sign a joint statement calling for de-escalation between Israel and Iran that had been drafted by G7 leaders in Canada, according to a person familiar with the matter, though officials preparing …
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Paul Krugman:
Trump's parade flopped.  No Kings Day was a hit.  —  Right now, images largely determine the outcome  —  America is no longer a full-fledged democracy.  We are currently living under a version of competitive authoritarianism — a system that (like Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey) …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dem named in Minnesota shooting list cancels town hall  —  Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) said she is cancelling a town hall event scheduled for Monday evening after her name was found on the alleged target list of Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter.
 
 
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Tim Kaine:
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NPR:
Top House Democrat asks Microsoft about DOGE code allegedly tied to NLRB data removal
The Hill:
Texas farmers hit hard as migrant workers avoid ICE
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and CNBC
 Earlier Items: 
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Discussion: El País
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Hasn't Visited A Single Natural Disaster On His Watch As President
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’
Discussion: HuffPost
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
'I'm an American, Bro!': Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
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