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New York Times:
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration  —  The Justice Department had demanded that James E. Ryan step down in order to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school.  —  The University of Virginia's president, James E. Ryan …
Discussion: Fox News
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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 …
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Where Are the University Presidents?  —  Mostly playing with live ammo and coping with existential threats.
Axios:   Trump administration tries to oust the University of Virginia's president
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Here's the latest.  —  The justices found federal judges had exceeded their power by issuing temporary pauses on President Trump's order ending birthright citizenship.  But they made no ruling on the constitutionality of the order itself.  —  Here's the latest.
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Tim Sullivan / Associated Press:
Live updates: Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but leaves fate of birthright citizenship unclear  —  Watch live as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing at the White House.  —  A divided Supreme Court ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision isn't as devastating as you think
MSNBC:
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship reasoning reveals a startlingly myopic view
Discussion: New York Times
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan
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 …
NBC News:
Gavin Newsom targets Fox News in a $787-million lawsuit
Discussion: HuffPost and Variety
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court requires opt-out for LGBTQ-themed lessons in schools  —  Parents can opt their children out of school lessons with LGBTQ+ characters or themes, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. … - The school initially offered parents a way to opt their children out of those lessons but dropped …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court backs parents seeking to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books in elementary schools  —  Parents sued Montgomery County, Maryland, schools after it said they couldn't opt their children out of exposure to LGBTQ books in the classroom.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious parents seeking to opt out of LGBTQ storybooks
Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Religious Parents Against LGBTQ+ Books
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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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor's ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani
Discussion: Althouse
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: The Boston Globe
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Most voters back Iran strikes, but worry about attacks on U.S.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court endorses Obamacare panel that requires free preventive care  —  The case grew out of a conservative religious challenge to the approval of HIV prevention treatments that insurers are required to provide at no cost to patients.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected …
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Oriana González / NOTUS:
Supreme Court Grants RFK Jr. Unprecedented Power of Key HHS Panel
Washington Post:
Live updates: Supreme Court ends terms with decisions on birthright citizenship, the ACA and more  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke for nearly 20 minutes as she explained her dissent in the decision on birthright citizenship, attacking the logic on both citizenship and the ruling against universal injunctions issued by lower courts.
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows law requiring age checks for porn sites
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds Texas adult website age-verification law
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Group suing over Trump's birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit  —  An organization representing immigrants fighting President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order wasted little time seeking to recalibrate its legal strategy to block the president's policy despite …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations  —  The agency is working with the ATF general counsel to cut upwards of 50 regulations as the administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors.  —  The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco …
Discussion: Raw Story and MSNBC
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.”
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 …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds phone and internet subsidy program for underserved areas  —  The Federal Communications Commission policy requires telecommunications companies to spend billions of dollars to subsidize service in poor and rural areas.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Signals Trade Talks May Extend Beyond July Deadline  —  The Treasury secretary said negotiations with some countries might last until Labor Day, signaling that the White House may hold back from imposing tariffs on some trading partners in early July.
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
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
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 …
 
 
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats fume at “waste of time” Trump admin briefing on Iran
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jack Rakove / Washington Monthly:
It's Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It's Constitutional Failure
Andy Olsen / Christianity Today:
ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution
Discussion: ABC7
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
How Turkey's struggling economy is hurting Erdoğan
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments
Discussion: New York Daily News
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
US State Department adviser wanted to boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen
Discussion: The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Migrant family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids
Discussion: TPR
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Trump's Border Policies Leave Some Farms Empty and Workers Fearful
Wall Street Journal:
Harvard Is Asking Corporations to Fill Its Federal Funding Gap
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NBC News:
Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard
Discussion: Daily Mail and The Hill
 

 
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