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Salt Lake Tribune:
‘This is not a joke’: Sen. Amy Klobuchar rips Mike Lee for posts about a deadly Minnesota shooting  —  “This isn't funny,” Sen. Klobuchar says of Lee's misleading posts about targeted slaying.  —  After spending the weekend on lockdown to protect against a gunman who shot …
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Minnesota senator confronts colleague for ‘terrible’ post on shooting  —  In a post on Sunday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), appeared to blame the killings on the political left.  Sen. Tina Smith sought him out to chat.  —  Summary1  —  Less than 72 hours after the murder of a state representative …
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.
ABC News:
Chilling details emerge in Minnesota shootings as Vance Boelter faces federal charges: ‘Stuff of nightmares’
Anniek Bao / CNBC:
Trump signals escalation in Israel-Iran conflict as he leaves G7 summit early … U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his early departure from the Group of Seven summit was owed to “much bigger” things than planning a ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Tehran, after urging Iranians to “immediately evacuate Tehran.”
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New York Times:
Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Ongoing Rift With Allies  —  President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow's 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.  —  President Trump could have opened by talking about trade.
Axios:
Trump team proposes Iran talks this week on nuclear deal, ceasefire  —  The White House is discussing with Iran the possibility of a meeting this week between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, according to four sources briefed on the issue.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump leaves G7 summit early after “evacuate Tehran” warning
Politico:   Playbook: Trump's moment of truth
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Does Jews Another Mitzvah
Discussion: The Forward
Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch News:
Trump at 1AM Posts ‘Stay Tuned!’ on US Action in Iran, After Advising Citizens of Tehran to Evacuate
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Nicole Narea / Vox:
Trump is deporting way fewer people than Obama did. Why?
Discussion: USA Today
Caroline Haskins / Wired:   Companies Warn SEC That Mass Deportations Pose Serious Business Risk
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Kaitlin Sullivan / NBC News:
Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths, study finds
Discussion: STAT and The Hill
The Hill:
Here's what's in the Senate GOP's version of Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
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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Omar Gallaga / CNET:
Trump Mobile Launches: What to Know About the T1 Phone, 47 Calling and Data Plan
Colleen Slevin / Associated Press:
Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company  —  A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation's most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company …
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Adam Crafton / New York Times:
FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup  —  FIFA has decided not to show any videos, signage or marketing assets in venues hosting the Club World Cup in the United States which explicitly mention challenging racism or discrimination.
Heba Saleh / Financial Times:
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials  —  Soldiers shot Gazans who were expecting aid trucks, according to the local health ministry  —  Israeli soldiers killed 45 Palestinians who had gathered in the hope of receiving aid near Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis …
New York Times:
Only Nonviolence Will Beat Trump  —  For Saturday's No Kings protests, an estimated five million people marched in over 2,000 cities and towns.  The marches were a striking display of nonviolent dissent amid an increasingly volatile political environment.  —  Together with the military deployment …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
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 …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Return of the American assassin  —  The right has no monopoly on violent fantasy, but liberals are far less likely to own guns  —  People are not always what they seem.  Vance Luther Boelter is a Christian preacher with a residential security company.  Last weekend he is suspected of killing …
Niha Masih / Washington Post:
NAACP won't invite Trump to convention, breaking a 116-year tradition  —  The civil rights group condemned what it said was President Donald Trump's attempt to undermine democracy.  It has invited sitting presidents since 1909.  —  Summary191  —  The NAACP will not invite President Donald Trump …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump ‘Reamed Out’ Hegseth for Flop Birthday Parade: Author  —  P***ED OFF  —  The president wanted a “menacing” military parade but got the opposite instead, Michael Wolff tells The Daily Beast Podcast.  —  President Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade …
Washington Post:
Deadliest Russian strike on Kyiv this year kills at least 15, officials say  —  A U.S. citizen was found dead near the destroyed residential building in Kyiv.  Russia attacked multiple cities across Ukraine with 440 drones and 32 missiles.  —  Scenes of devastation after deadly Russian attack on Kyiv
 
 
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Mark Levin / New York Post:
Isolationism is the same as appeasement - and it's keeping Trump, Netanyahu from transforming the Middle East
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ProPublica:
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs
Discussion: Forbes
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Sleepless in Boston: Governors and Canadian Premiers Share Their Pain
Discussion: Raw Story and WBUR
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
What happened to “states' rights”?
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WHO receiving reports of another mass casualty event in Gaza near food site
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White House Eyes Rarely Used Power to Override Congress on Spending
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Democratic drama: Union leader exits underscore DNC divisions
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The Tyrant Test  —  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
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