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10:25 AM ET, June 27, 2025

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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Gun Silencer Provision In GOP Tax Bill Violates Rules, Says Senate Rules Ref  —  The parliamentarian ruled that the provision making it easier to get silencers, rifles and shotguns is irrelevant to the budget bill and has to come out.  —  WASHINGTON — A provision in the GOP's tax …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
James Bikales / Politico:
5 House Republicans declare red line on megabill land sales
Discussion: Fox News, E&E News and The Hill
Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Newsom Sues Fox News for Saying He Lied About Call With Trump  —  The lawsuit, which seeks at least $787 million in damages, comes as the California governor adopts an increasingly combative style with the president and his allies.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sued Fox News on Friday …
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call  —  The amount is nearly identical to Dominion Voting's 2023 defamation settlement with Fox News.  —  Gavin Newsom is taking a page right out of Donald Trump's media playbook.  —  The California governor accused Fox News …
Discussion: CNBC and The Wrap
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 …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Where Are the University Presidents?  —  Mostly playing with live ammo and coping with existential threats.  —  The hard-working staff here at Drezner's World has occasionally referenced Wesleyan University president Michael Roth in this newsletter.  And he is making headlines yet again!
Axios:
Trump administration tries to oust the University of Virginia's president  —  The Trump administration has moved to oust University of Virginia President James Ryan because of a disagreement over the institution's diversity policies.  —  Why it matters: President Trump has tried to assert control …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
On Iran, a reminder that party trumps values  —  Last week, I wrote in my weekly chart article “The myth of Republican isolationism” that the GOP is not in fact the party of isolationism, despite the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump and his coalition.  I pointed out that support …
Discussion: New York Times
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Most voters back Iran strikes, but worry about attacks on U.S.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani  —  In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park, not far from where I live.  The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the River to the Sea,” which I found clever but some of its Jewish neighbors considered threatening.
Discussion: Althouse
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Public Is Resisting Trump.  The Elites Aren't.  —  Back in April, the White House took a sledgehammer to America's trading relationships with the rest of the world, pledging that a shiny new trade regime would be in place within three months: “90 deals in 90 days.”
Discussion: Newsweek
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Support Rises For Giving Most Undocumented Immigrants A Pathway To Legal Status vs. Deportations, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
U.S. could be done with trade deals by Labor Day, Bessent says
Discussion: Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Cuomo Doesn't Blame Himself for Losing the Primary.  Others Do.  —  Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani.  —  For Andrew M. Cuomo, the rally rolling out a $20-an-hour minimum wage proposal …
Discussion: Newsweek
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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 …
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Associated Press:
CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends against flu vaccines containing thimerosal
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 …
Nir Hasson / Haaretz:
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid  —  Zen Read
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Harvey Milk's Name Is Stripped From U.S. Navy Vessel  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the decision to rename the replenishment vessel was “taking the politics out of ship naming.”  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the U.S. Navy was changing the name of the U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk …
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Hegseth announces USNS Harvey Milk is being renamed USNS Oscar V. Peterson
Discussion: NewsNation, NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening  —  Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans  —  A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 26, 2025  —  This morning's press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth featured an apparently angry Hegseth yelling at the media for contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that last weekend's strikes against Iran had “completely obliterated” its nuclear weapons program.
Discussion: The Dispatch, CNN, CBS News and Raw Story
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 …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan  —  The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration …
Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark:
How Zombies Help Explain Political Theory  —  On this week's episode, I'm joined by Daniel Drezner—cohost of the Space the Nation podcast with Ana Marie Cox and proprietor of the Drezner's World Substack—to discuss the eternal popularity of zombies (most recently via the hit movie 28 Years Later …
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Trump's Border Policies Leave Some Farms Empty and Workers Fearful  —  As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay away and undocumented workers hide at home.  —  Alexandra, a 55-year-old undocumented immigrant …
NBC News:
Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard  —  A bill by Sen. Tom Cotton would cut the Office of the Director of National Intelligence by 60%.  The move comes as Gabbard appears to have fallen out of favor in the Trump administration.
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
California donors cool on Kamala Harris: ‘No one is incredibly pumped.’  —  Some party funders have privately shared their ambivalence as the former vice president ramps up her outreach ahead of a potential run for governor.  —  LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris is ramping up her outreach …
Discussion: The Hill
Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets  —  🗣️ Paid subscribers make Public Notice possible.  If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please support us.  👇  —  Narciso Barranco was trimming the grass with a weed whacker …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery  —  The nato Secretary General goes all-in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”  —  Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Economist and The Guardian
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments  —  The responses to Zohran Mamdani's showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.
Discussion: New York Daily News
Miami Herald:
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami  —  Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old.  He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.  —  On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami …
 
 
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Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
The cases that remain  —  The Supreme Court's summer recess is about to begin.  (Katie Barlow)
Discussion: RedState and Babylon Bee
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
How Turkey's struggling economy is hurting Erdoğan
Wall Street Journal:
Alina Habba Stood by Trump in Court. Now She's One of His Most Loyal Prosecutors.
Washington Post:
What Democratic swings in special elections mean for 2026
NPR:
U.S. uninsured rates could resurge if Trump's budget bill passes
Discussion: Paul Krugman, NewsMax.com and KFF
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Rob Taub / NewsNation:
NASA: ‘Fireball’ seen across Southeast US is meteor
Natalie O'Neill / New York Post:
50 Cent offers to pay NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani $258K to get lost after socialist name-dropped Queens rapper
Douglas Murray / New York Post:
Standing up to bullying, unscientific transgender activist mob
Wall Street Journal:
Harvard Is Asking Corporations to Fill Its Federal Funding Gap
Dylan Wells / Washington Post:
Gen Z content creator challenges old guard with long-shot run for Congress
WWD:
American Vogue Seeks New Head of Editorial Content
Kevin Jennings / Advocate:
After 10 years of marriage equality, the fight continues for LGBTQ+ rights
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
 

 
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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, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

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

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate
 
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