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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 …
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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.
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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
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Financial Times:
Iran's regime fights for survival
Iran's regime fights for survival
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John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place. — In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded …
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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 …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump doubles down on expanding deportations in America's biggest cities
Trump doubles down on expanding deportations in America's biggest cities
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) …
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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.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount
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David Pierce / The Verge:
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible
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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.
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.
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Politico:
Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision
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Rachel Cohrs Zhang / Bloomberg:
Senate Republicans Propose More Aggressive Medicaid Cuts to Help Pay for Tax Bill
Senate Republicans Propose More Aggressive Medicaid Cuts to Help Pay for Tax Bill
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.
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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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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.
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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
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
ABA sues Trump over series of orders targeting law firms — The American Bar Association (ABA) has filed a lawsuit challenging the administration's crackdown on the legal profession, casting President Trump's various executive orders as a “Law Firm Intimidation Policy.”
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
American Bar Association sues Trump administration over executive orders targeting law firms
American Bar Association sues Trump administration over executive orders targeting law firms
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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.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Tyrant Test — A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern. — For as long as I've been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
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New York Times
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Removes MLK Bust from Oval Office — The civil rights icon's likeness, once central in the Oval Office, has been relocated while Trump hosts Charlie Kirk, who's called the Civil Rights Act a “mistake” — A quiet but symbolically change has taken place in the Oval Office.
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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