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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to limit sharing classified info with Congress after leak on Iran bombing damage … - The FBI also is investigating the leak, the sources said. … - “We are declaring a war on leakers,” a senior White House official said Wednesday.  — “The FBI is investigating the leak,” the source said.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump CIA chief says Iran nuclear program was ‘severely damaged,’ countering reports of U.S. intel assessment … CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that Iran's nuclear program “has been severely damaged” by recent strikes on its key enrichment facilities, and pushed back on reporting …
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
First Reports Are Always Wrong.  The Iran Strike Is No Exception.  —  EARLY IN MY CAREER, AS A YOUNG LIEUTENANT, I made a mistake that still haunts me.  After a high-tempo mission, I rushed to assess the outcome and tell my boss about what I believed was our overwhelming success.  Without full intelligence.
New York Times:
Rubio Fleshes Out Trump's Case That Iran Nuclear Capacity Was Eliminated  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. strikes had destroyed a facility that is key to turning highly enriched nuclear fuel into a working bomb.  He railed against a less optimistic U.S. intelligence report.
Paul McLeary / Politico:
Pentagon launches probe into Iran strike intel leak  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the findings after others called it fake news.  —  THE HAGUE — The Pentagon has launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a classified Defense Intelligence Agency report assessing …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump wages all-out fight for control of Iran strike narrative
Rebecca Kirszner Katz / New York Times:
Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani.  They Should Have Been Taking Notes.  —  On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment.  There are lessons that national Democrats should take from his strong showing in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
What Democrats can (and can't) learn from Zohran Mamdani's triumph  —  Four takeaways from the socialist's shocking defeat of Andrew Cuomo. … It's hard to overstate how much this was not supposed to happen.  —  On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani — a 33-year-old socialist and state lawmaker …
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Zohran delivered the Democratic establishment the thrashing it deserved  —  Zohran Mamdani, a previously obscure state assemblyman who polled at as little as 1 percent in early surveys of the race, became the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City on Tuesday.
Kyle Khan-Mullins / Forbes:
Here's How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Trump Slams NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani as ‘Communist Lunatic’
New York Times:
Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Thune faces brewing megabill mutiny  —  Sen. Thom Tillis warned his colleagues during a closed-door meeting Wednesday that he would not vote to take up the party's sweeping domestic policy bill without further clarity on Medicaid changes, a person granted anonymity to disclose private discussions said.
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Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
RFK Jr. says US won't donate to global vaccine effort  —  Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.  —  The United States won't contribute anymore to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global health organization has “re-earned the public trust …
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Jack Silvers / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Border Czar Claims Death Threats Have Driven Him From Wife  —  DISPLACED  —  President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan says he has received so much hate for his positions on immigration that he is unable to live safely with his family.  In a podcast interview with the New York Post …
Discussion: New York Post
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Washington Post:
Trump DOJ sues all federal judges in Maryland over deportation order  —  Legal experts said the unusual lawsuit marks an escalation in the Trump administration's attacks on the U.S. judiciary.  —  Summary907  —  The Justice Department sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland …
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Judge rules Trump can't eliminate federal workers' union bargaining  —  A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from eliminating union bargaining for thousands of workers across the federal government.  —  Siding with the American Federation of Government Employees …
Discussion: CNN and NewsMax.com
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Politico:
Vought pitches reluctant senators on $9.4B in clawbacks to NPR, PBS, foreign aid  —  President Donald Trump will have to spend the money if the Senate doesn't act by midnight on July 18.  —  White House budget director Russ Vought pressed senators on Wednesday to clear President Donald Trump's request …
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Politico:
Graham a ‘yes’ on rescissions
Discussion: GovExec.com and The Hill
Wired:
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls  —  Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Something is ‘pulsing’ beneath the Earth, scientists say - and could tear a continent apart  —  Rhythmic surges are like a ‘heartbeat’ under the ground  —  Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa - and it could tear the continent apart.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)  —  I'm still trying to find out more about this.  But as I do, I just wanted to put it on your radar because it's completely crazy and epitomizes the Trump presidency.
Elizabeth Goitein / Just Security:
Trump's Use of Federal Troops in Drug Raid Outside of Los Angeles: An Alarming Escalation  —  Editor's Note  —  This piece is part of Just Security's Collection: Just Security's Coverage of the Trump Administration's Executive Actions.  —  Last week, federalized National Guard forces …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Voters 51 - 42 Percent Oppose U.S. Joining Israel In Military Strikes On Iran's Nuclear Sites, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Vast Majority Concerned U.S. Will Get Drawn Into A War With Iran  — mail_outline  —  Days after the United States military targeted nuclear sites inside Iran …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
A Word to the Weiss … Late last year, during a trip to New York City, David Ellison quietly made time for a meeting that said as much about his worldview as it did about his interest in media.  According to people familiar with the matter, the Hollywood scion set time aside on his busy calendar …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest  —  Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded that she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.  —  Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor at a university …
Discussion: @amuse
Meg Tirrell / CNN:
Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative  —  A presentation slated to be shared at this week's meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell  —  Warsh, Hassett and Bessent are among those under consideration as Trump evaluates their commitment to cutting rates—and ‘made-for-TV’ appeal  —  President Trump's exasperation over the Federal Reserve's take-it-slow approach …
U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation in Violation of Title IX  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the conclusion of its Title IX investigations into the California Department …
Carrington Walker / Dublin Live:
Man ‘refused entry into US’ as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme  —  A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it means  —  Trump's deportation goals are being met by targeting non-criminal immigrants.  —  President Donald Trump being President Donald Trump, it certainly seems possible that he believed that the Maryland resident …
James Finn / NOLA.com:
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home  —  The arrest highlights how Trump's immigration crackdown has ensnared people who were long allowed to stay in the U.S. as their cases unfolded.  — 5 min to read
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump administration is preparing to test budget law, U.S. officials say  —  Internal dissent among federal employees is coming to the surface as President Donald Trump's budget chief aims to rebalance spending authority.  —  The Trump administration is preparing to test a 1974 budget law …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Spencer Ackerman / FOREVER WARS:
This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era  —  EVER SINCE I WROTE REIGN OF TERROR, people have asked me how we end the long 9/11 era.  Someone asked me a version of that question tonight, at my Anyone Comics signing.  I gave the answer I always give, the only answer I believe to be true: Organize.
Discussion: The Forward
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
Emil Bove Avoids Telling the Senate Much of Anything About DOJ  —  Trump's former personal lawyer, up for a powerful judicial seat, was hammered by Senate Democrats over his role as the president's legal enforcer.  — Copy  —  The defining feature of Justice Department official Emil Bove's trip …
 
 
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