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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
‘Two Weeks’ Is Trump's Favorite Unit of Time  —  “Two weeks” is one of President Trump's favorite units of time.  It can mean something, or nothing at all.  —  “Within the next two weeks.”  —  That is when President Trump now says he will be ready to make his decision about bombing Iran or not.
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Rebecca Rosman / NPR:
Trump to decide on Iran action ‘within two weeks,’ White House says  —  President Trump will make a decision on whether the U.S. will strike Iran “within two weeks,” the White House said Thursday.  —  “Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president  —  President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday.  He even claimed once to have made it “famous.”
New York Post:
Trump's fear of Iran becoming ‘another Libya’ stalls decision on nuke site strikes for two weeks: sources  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's wariness over bombing Iran is due in part to concerns about creating “another Libya” if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is toppled …
Discussion: Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Trump administration boosts monitoring of possible Iran-backed cells in U.S. — as Trump weighs strikes, sources say  —  As President Trump is contemplating potential U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, law enforcement officials have stepped up surveillance of Iran-backed operatives …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Reuters:
Live Updates: Trump Will Decide on Iran Attack ‘in the Next Two Weeks,’ White House Says  —  European officials, who have been effectively sidelined in the war between Israel and Iran, will try to exert limited leverage in a meeting with Iranian officials on Friday in Geneva.  —  Tehran
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump caution on Iran strike linked to doubts over ‘bunker buster’ bomb, officials say  —  Exclusive: The likelihood of a successful US strike on the Iranian nuclear facility buried deep underground at Fordow is a topic of deep contention, defense officials say
Abbie Cheeseman / Washington Post:
Live updates Trump says he'll decide on Iran strike within two weeks
Alexandra Hutzler / Associated Press:
Iran has what it needs to produce a nuclear weapon in ‘a couple of weeks,’ White House says
New York Times:
Trump Buys Himself Time, and Opens Up Some New Options
Discussion: Reuters, The Hill and Daily Mail
Michael Gold / New York Times:
ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits  —  The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Parsing ICE's mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims  —  ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.  —  Last month, I wrote a column questioning why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were increasingly disguising their identities as they conducted sweeps and arrests.
Walter Olson:   Some liberties end in ICE
Nicolae Viorel Butler / Migrant Insider:   Inside the Dystopia of Covering Immigration
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand  —  The failure sent a giant fireball into the sky over the company's South Texas launch site.  —  SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand  —  SpaceX's Starship spacecraft exploded ahead of an engine test late Wednesday …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
LA Dodgers says it denied ICE access to stadium grounds  —  The Los Angeles Dodgers said Thursday it denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents entry to their stadium grounds.  —  “This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots.
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Jack Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers to announce plans to assist immigrant communities in L.A.
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Michelle Watson / CNN:
How cities are scaling back Juneteenth celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks  —  Despite Juneteenth's status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled.  Organizers say safety issues along with mounting resistance to diversity …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Trump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’
Karen Aguilar / WZTV:
ICE agents say posting names endangers them, Nashville mayor says real problem is masking  —  The Mayor's office releasing the names of ICE agents has brought scrutiny from GOP lawmakers, DHS, and ICE over the concern that it endangers federal immigration officers.
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Appeals court extends order allowing Trump to deploy National Guard to L.A.  —  Washington — A federal appeals court on Thursday extended its block of a judge's order that directed President Trump to return control of California's National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Discussion: Reason
Tara Suter / The Hill:
62 percent of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced: Survey  —  More than half of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced amid infighting, according to a new survey.  —  Thursday's Reuters/Ipsos survey featuring self-identified Democratic respondents found …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Islamic Republic With Its Back Against the Wall  —  The Iranian regime finds itself in its most difficult position 46 years after the revolution that brought it to power.  But does it mean the end?  —  Beneath Israel's bombs lies an unpopular and repressive Iranian regime that has spent billions …
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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
The Three Dramatic Consequences of Israel's Attack on Iran
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
GOP congressman says he was run off the road by ‘deranged man’ on the way to work  —  Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller said Thursday he was run off the road by a “deranged man” who waved a Palestinian flag in his direction and lobbed death threats before driving away.
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NBC News:
Focus groups: Latino Trump voters diverge on deportations but largely still back the president  —  The focus group participants broadly supported Trump's actions on immigration and the economy, but some divisions emerged over the focus of his deportation program.
Discussion: RedState
Bloomberg:
Maduro Locks Up Economists Sharing Data on Venezuela's Decline  —  President Nicolás Maduro has intensified his crackdown on independent economists and consultants, detaining at least eight people in what critics call a bid to control data exposing Venezuela's decline.
Isabel van Brugen / Newsweek:
Trump's Nuclear Attack ‘Doomsday Plane’ Arrives In Washington  —  A U.S. Air Force “Doomsday Plane” arrived at Joint Base Andrews Tuesday night, fueling speculation of a potential U.S. role in the escalating Israel-Iran crisis.  —  The E-4B Nightwatch aircraft landed at the military facility …
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days  —  The latest ban extension is the third Trump has given to TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance.  —  President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell the short-form video app to an American owner by another 90 days.
Jarvis DeBerry / MSNBC:
ICE agents covering their faces should rattle all Americans  —  A California bill that restricts local and state law enforcement officials from covering their faces is a necessary, if symbolic, rebuke of the encroaching police state.  —  As sickening as it is to see Immigration …
Discussion: Migrant Insider
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Trump Insists MAGA ‘HATES’ Fox News After Embarrassing Network Poll  —  HURT FEELINGS  —  He couldn't believe what voters really think of his “miraculously perfect” border.  —  President Donald Trump savaged Fox News and declared that his MAGA base hates the network after a poll showed his approval ratings tanking.
Financial Times:
Spain threatens to derail Nato summit over Trump defence target  —  Madrid balks at US president's request for members to increase security spending to 5% of GDP  —  Spain is threatening to derail a Nato summit intended to appease Donald Trump by refusing to commit to the US president's request …
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources  —  A potential $35 million settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against Paramount's CBS affiliate has been delayed after the company's management continued to fear a potential legal backlash, The Post has learned.
Alistair Kitchen / New Yorker:
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation  —  As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.  —  Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Americans largely disapprove of U.S. involvement in Israel and Iran war: Poll  —  A majority of Americans don't want the U.S. to get involved in the escalating war between Israel and Iran, a poll released this week found.  —  The big picture: President Trump is slated to make a decision …
Discussion: Newsweek, The Forward and The Dispatch
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Leavitt: Jasmine Crockett's comments on Trump supporters were ‘incredibly derogatory’  —  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt piled on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) Thursday for recent comments the latter made about supporters of President Donald Trump.
Tom Hals / Reuters:
US judge blocks Trump plan to tie states' transportation funds to immigration enforcement  —  A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars …
The Atlantic:
The Atlantic Announces Staff Writers Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef  —  As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial staff, today editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is announcing the hires of Quinta Jurecic, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy Youssef as staff writers.
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
'He's a snake': Musk jabs at Trump adviser who fueled messy presidential breakup  —  Sergio Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA head — a pick Musk had pushed.  —  Elon Musk may have stopped sparring with President Donald Trump online …
 
 
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Andrew R. Chow / Time:
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Greg Wehner / Fox News:
NYC's Muslim mayoral candidate gets car bomb threat, despite not owning a vehicle
Discussion: New York Daily News and Raw Story
Katie Langford / Denver Post:
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
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Michael Peel / Financial Times:
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Ryan Nadeau / The Hill:
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