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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.
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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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Mike Lee confronted by Minnesota colleague over shooting comments  —  Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was confronted by a Senate colleague Monday over his social media post that blamed the Minnesota shootings over the weekend that killed a former Democratic legislative leader on “Marxists.”
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible  —  It's supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall.  I doubt it all. … It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment.  It is, according to the website, coming in September.  —  That's about all I feel confident saying.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Smartphone Can't Be Made in America for $499 by August
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
AppleInsider:
Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House denies reporting by Guardian on VA benefits: ‘Totally FALSE story’
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Reuters:
Judge deems Trump's National Institutes of Health grant cuts illegal
Discussion: Politico
Anil Oza / STAT:
STAT+: Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are ‘void and illegal,’ federal judge rules
Discussion: The Boston Globe
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Judge orders many NIH grants restored, calling cancellation unlawful
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished  —  The size of the “No Kings” protest across the nation underscores how the anti-Trump protest movement is getting into a rhythm.  —  Millions of Americans peacefully participated in “No Kings” protests Saturday, demonstrating against …
Discussion: The Nation
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance
Discussion: Coeur d'Alene Press
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
Paul Krugman:
Trump's parade flopped. No Kings Day was a hit.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Who was on Vance Boelter's hit list?  — Vance Boelter's “hit list” of lawmakers included prominent state and federal Democrats, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison.  — The list also named Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury).
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Alfred Ng / Politico:
Alleged shooter found Minnesota lawmakers' addresses online, court docs say
Discussion: New York Times
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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Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad  —  American Foreign Policy in an Age of Unrestrained Executive Power  —  Only a few months into U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, the United States looks dramatically and perhaps irreversibly different at home and on the world stage.
Discussion: New York Times
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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.
Discussion: Alternet.org
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
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.
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.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding  —  For the second time this year, the federal government's top watchdog concluded Monday that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding funding Congress already approved.
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
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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.
New York Times:
36 More Countries May Be Added to Trump's Travel Ban  —  The administration gave the nations 60 days to fix concerns, according to a State Department cable.  The president already imposed a full or partial ban on citizens of 19 countries.  —  The Trump administration is considering expanding …
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium  —  Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.  —  Turns out authoritarianism can be bad for business.  —  Sales for the FIFA Club World Cup, a series of precursor games ahead …
Discussion: masslive.com and Los Angeles Times
 
 
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Abortion providers devastated by political killings, hit list
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Discussion: The Post Millennial
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Trump Removes MLK Bust from Oval Office
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NPR:
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The Hill:
Texas farmers hit hard as migrant workers avoid ICE
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 Earlier Items: 
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Discussion: El País
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown
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
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Dylan Ebs / NBC News:
Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split
 

 
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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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