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10:40 PM ET, June 26, 2025

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’  —  Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected key Medicaid provisions in the Senate GOP megabill, a ruling that appears to strike a major blow to Republicans' strategy for cutting federal spending.
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Politico:
Thune says Senate won't overrule parliamentarian  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday the Senate would not move to overrule its parliamentarian after she advised that including key provisions in the GOP's domestic-policy megabill would expose it to a fatal Democratic filibuster.
James Bikales / Politico:
5 House Republicans declare red line on megabill land sales
Discussion: The Hill
Jasmine Li / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is the Senate Parliamentarian and Why Do Some Republicans Want Her Fired?
Lawrence Ukenye / Politico:   Senate Republicans explore tweaks to pension plan after parliamentarian ruling
NPR:
Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in ‘big, beautiful bill’ says parliamentarian
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor's ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN  —  Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN.
Discussion: New York Post, Townhall and Bloomberg
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Meets With Business Leaders Desperate to Stop Mamdani's Rise  —  Daniel Loeb, the hedge fund manager, and some other New York City business leaders are aghast at Zohran Mamdani's success in the Democratic mayoral primary and are considering backing Mr. Adams in the general election.
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91  —  Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
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Fred A. Bernstein / Washington Post:
Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91  —  He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.  —  Bill Moyers, who served as press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and then …
CNN:   Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
Carmel Dagan / Variety:   Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91
New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign  —  The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.  —  The Trump administration has privately demanded …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into University of California Hiring Practices
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting  —  The president has criticized media coverage of a preliminary classified report that ran counter to his assertion that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran's nuclear program.  —  President Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue …
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Shawn Fleetwood / The Federalist:
CNN ‘Stand[s] 100% Behind’ Natasha Bertrand's Serial Disinformation On Foreign Affairs
Pew Research Center:
Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Wired:
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine …
Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that's not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge  —  President Donald Trump's administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a country that's not his native El Salvador after he's released from jail in Tennessee, a federal prosecutor told a federal judge in Maryland on Thursday.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why Trump regime shattered the Constitution to crush a 29-year-old Maryland laborer
Discussion: WUSA
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Gabbard Dropped From Intelligence Briefing as Trump Rages Over Leak  —  SIDELINED  —  The director of national intelligence is being left out after a leaked assessment said the president's strikes on Iran had set the country's nuclear program back just a few months.
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The Atlantic:
Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines  —  Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.  —  An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …
Discussion: Mediaite
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.
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Robert Brodsky / Newsday:
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, former congresswoman and prominent gun control advocate, dies at 81  —  Automated narration.  Learn more  —  Carolyn McCarthy, whose personal tragedy propelled her to national prominence after her husband was killed during the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and New York Post
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Laurence Arnold / Bloomberg:
Carolyn McCarthy, NY's ‘Gun Lady’ in Congress, Dies at 81
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York  —  Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise President Trump's alternate electors strategy in 2020, has been disbarred in New York.  —  A panel of judges on the Appellate Division — New York's midlevel appeals court …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York over 2020 election interference case
Discussion: New York Times
WWD:
American Vogue Seeks New Head of Editorial Content  —  Anna Wintour will continue in her roles as chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.  —  It's the end of an era. … Wintour, 75, will remain chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.
Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed …
Discussion: NOAA OSPO, Bloomberg, Mediaite and NOTUS
Paul Krugman:
Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.
Discussion: Jacobin and Fortune
Kevin Jennings / Advocate:
After 10 years of marriage equality, the fight continues for LGBTQ+ rights  —  Your support makes The Advocate's original LGBTQ+ reporting possible.  Become a member today to help us continue this work.  —  Join the fight  —  A lot of queer people can tell you exactly where they were at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 26, 2015.
 
 
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Miami Herald:
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Criminals Are Running DOJ
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Pro-Trump group unleashes first TV ad against Massie
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Grace Yarrow / Politico:
Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan
Sarah D. Wire / USA Today:
How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
The Situation: The Talented Mr. Bove
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Exclusive: Details emerge of secret diplomatic efforts to restart Iran talks
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Parliamentarian requests AI moratorium rewrite
Andrew Sullivan / New York Times:
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
Discussion: New York Post and HotAir
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
ICERaid: The App That Asks You To Report Illegal Immigrants For Crypto
Dan Katz / TPR:
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Liv McMahon / BBC:
Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine

New York Times:
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months
 
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