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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
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
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Washington Post and LewRockwell
Financial Times:
Iran's regime fights for survival
Iran's regime fights for survival
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Bloomberg, Israpundit, NewsMax.com, Breitbart and Pravda Trump
NBC News:
How Trump went from opposing Israel's strikes on Iran to reluctant support
How Trump went from opposing Israel's strikes on Iran to reluctant support
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Townhall, New Republic, UPI, Pravda Trump, Mediaite, Axios, Politico, Raw Story and Salon
John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
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Fox News, Semafor and American Thinker
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The surprising right-wing push to keep us out of war
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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NewsMax.com, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests — President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles …
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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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New Republic, The Guardian, Raw Story and The Independent
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
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The Hill, New Republic, New York Daily News, New York Sun, UPI, Raw Story and The Post Millennial
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Building the American Brownshirts
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.
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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NPR
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.
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’ — SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS — Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured at a farm on Sunday night. — Authorities are investigating whether the suspect arrested in connection with the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers acted as part of a broader network.
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Washington Post, CNBC and Axios
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
MAGA political violence claims more victims
MAGA political violence claims more victims
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The Contrarian, Livemint, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Wrap and Wall Street Journal
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards
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Reuters, Financial Times, UPI, Salon, CBS News, Newsweek and NewsMax.com
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
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NBC News and New York Sun
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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USA Today and Washington Examiner
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.
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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller and Townhall
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds — Every claim made by the Republican senator to ridicule the nonpartisan agency turns out to be false. … — Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), in a video posted on social media, June 12 — As part of the GOP campaign attacking …
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Raw Story
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.
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New York Times
New York Times:
Live Updates: Man Charged in Minnesota Assassination Could Face Federal Death Penalty — Prosecutors said the suspect, who faces federal murder charges in the attacks on two lawmakers, had visited the homes of two other politicians on his target list. — TRANSCRIPT — Back
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Rolling Stone, MPR News, TMZ.com, CBS News, Fox News, The Independent, The Hill, Washington Examiner, MSNBC and Al Jazeera
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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) …
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The Contrarian and Strength In Numbers
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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade
‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade
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Townhall, PolitiFact, Washington Examiner and New York Daily News
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’ — Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society — She finds the whole idea absurd.
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Politico:
Trump fires Democratic appointee from Nuclear Regulatory Commission — NRC commissioner Christopher Hanson's dismissal comes as the White House has sought control over independent agencies. — President Donald Trump has terminated Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term — Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire - the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on ... and on — The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it.
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Alternet.org
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Truly Disgusting’: GOP Senator Slammed For ‘Depraved’ Tweets After Shootings — Mike Lee of Utah is facing calls to resign over the messages. — Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is facing criticism over tweets mocking this weekend's deadly shootings in Minnesota targeting Democratic lawmakers.
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The Hill, New Republic, To the Contrary, Daily Kos, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, MSNBC and The Daily Beast
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police — This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work.
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether. — Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees' immigration cases have been dismissed - denying Trump's victims their day in court. — The only information Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos' family has received …
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El País
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There's No Going Back — Saturday was a surreal day in American politics, in ways simultaneously horrifying and heartening. The horrifying part was the news we all woke up to about the political assassinations (both attempted and consummated) in Minnesota.
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ABC News, Alternet.org, The American Saga and Christian Science Monitor
April Rubin / Axios:
Judge extends block on Trump's Harvard international student ban — A federal judge on Monday extended her block on the Trump administration's targeting of Harvard's international students, multiple outlets reported. — Why it matters: International students are authorized to study …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, NPR, New York Times and Business Insider

