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New York Times:
Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit  —  President Trump sued Paramount over a “60 Minutes” interview with his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.  —  Paramount has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CBS owner Paramount settles Trump lawsuit over Harris interview for $16M  —  The network will not apologize as part of the agreement.  The lawsuit stemmed from the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.  —  Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has agreed to pay $16 million …
Fox News:
Paramount, CBS forced to pay eight figures, change editorial policy in settlement with President Trump  —  Result of the agreement on lawsuit could reach north of $30 million with $16 million upfront  —  FIRST ON FOX - Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's CBS ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit  —  Paramount Global has agreed to pay $16 million to end President Trump's lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview — a legal tussle that roiled CBS News, spurred high-level departures and threatened to derail the company's hoped-for sale.
Reuters:
Paramount settles with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ interview for $16 million  —  CBS parent company Paramount (PARA.O) on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, the latest concession by a media company to a president who has targeted outlets …
Politico:
Fresh polling on Harris, Newsom after LA
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount Agrees to Pay $16 Million to Settle Lawsuit by Trump
Melissa Gira Grant / New Republic:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp  —  What were you doing the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp in the Everglades?  Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republican officials because of the predators living in the surrounding swampland …
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Local officials grow wary of helping ICE detain immigrants
Discussion: KTOO
Emily Peck / Axios:   Immigration crackdown ripples through economy
The Bulwark:
How to Turn the U.S. Into an Immigration Police State in One Big Bill
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body  —  Millions will lose health insurance, but at least all those struggling Americans in the top 1 percent will get a big tax break.  —  Senate Votes to Comfort the Comfortable and Afflict the Afflicted  —  THE LEGISLATION SENATE REPUBLICANS passed …
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Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
House Republican Hardliners Warn of a Delay to Tax Vote
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Thune's big, bold bill has rattled House Republicans
Ezra Klein / New York Times:   The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate
Politico:
How Republicans got Murkowski to yes on Trump's megabill
Politico:
Playbook: Riders on the storm
Discussion: New York Magazine
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban  —  The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down the state's 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidates the state's strict 1849 abortion law
Discussion: UPI and WisPolitics
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban
Discussion: WisPolitics
Politico:
GOP leaders look to White House to sway Freedom Caucus on megabill  —  House GOP leadership is counting on the White House to bear the brunt of the effort to sway hard-line members of the House Freedom Caucus who are threatening to vote against the Republican megabill.
Discussion: The Independent and Fox News
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Politico:
GOP leaders launch their last-ditch megabill whip job
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
House members scramble to return to DC for megabill vote
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Johnson on the megabill: 'I'm not happy with what the Senate did to our product'
Kara Carlson / Bloomberg:
Tesla Sales Fall 13%, Putting Carmaker on Course for Annual Drop  —  Tesla Inc. shares jumped after the carmaker posted a less drastic decline in vehicle sales than the most pessimistic analysts feared.  —  The company delivered 384,122 vehicles during the last three months, down 13% from a year earlier.
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Financial Times:
Ukraine summons top US diplomat after Washington halts some arms supplies  —  Reduction in weapons shipments makes Kyiv more vulnerable to Russia's escalating attacks  —  Christopher Miller and Fabrice Deprez in Kyiv and James Politi in Washington  —  Ukraine summoned a top diplomat …
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Politico:
Pentagon halting some promised munitions for Ukraine
New York Times:
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.  —  The pardoned rioter, a former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol, is a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called weaponization committee.
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Trump's Finances Were Shaky.  Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback. … An attendee posed with a cutout of President Trump at a Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas at the end of May.Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times  —  Last spring, even as Donald J. Trump's march back toward …
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Krolik / New York Times:
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia  —  President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.  —  Since President Trump returned to office in January …
CNN:
Trump pick to run federal watchdog: A 30-year-old who once shared a 9/11 conspiracy video and has ties to a Holocaust denier  —  The man President Donald Trump wants to put in charge of protecting whistleblowers - and rooting out government corruption - is a 30-year-old lawyer with barely …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
DOJ Opens Door To Stripping Citizenship Over Politics  —  It's the latest example of the Trump administration's assault on citizenship.  —  Throughout the campaign, Republicans teased an idea: the next Trump government would start to remove the citizenship of naturalized Americans.
Emma Epperly / Idaho Education News:
Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools  —  (UPDATED, 3:30 p.m., Monday, with comments from Sarah Inama.)  —  The “Everyone is Welcome Here” sign that sparked a viral nationwide controversy can no longer be displayed in Idaho schools …
Wendy Edelberg / American Enterprise Institute:
Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration  —  We assess the macroeconomic implications of the observed and expected changes to immigration policy during the second Trump administration.  We project that net migration in 2025 will be between −525,000 …
Discussion: Scripps News
New York Times:
Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation  —  The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.  —  The Trump administration has declined to release nearly $7 billion …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Inside the Dysfunction at Rubio's Shrunken National Security Council  —  Fewer meetings, more top-down demands and worries some officials may go rogue are upending the system.  —  When the Pentagon recently launched a review of a landmark security pact with Australia and the United Kingdom …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

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