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New York Times:
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute  —  The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.
Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   The Ivy League shakedowns
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Justice Department Scrutinizes George Mason Faculty's Diversity Stance  —  The Faculty Senate at George Mason University in Virginia adopted a resolution supporting the school's president and his work related to diversity.  The Justice Department says it will investigate.
Washington Post:
Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate  —  A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.  —  A new whistleblower has come forward to challenge …
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Bove's nomination not yet derailed by new whistleblower complaint
Discussion: Raw Story
The White House:
Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal  —  MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic relationship between the world's two largest economies.
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Ruchir Sharma / Financial Times:   What the world got wrong about tariffs
Fox News:
Bondi DOJ files complaint alleging misconduct by Federal Judge James Boasberg  —  Second official complaint against a federal judge since Bondi took office as Attorney General  —  The Department of Justice has filed an official complaint alleging misconduct by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg.
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Ryan Knappenberger / Courthouse News Service:
DOJ files misconduct complaint against chief DC Judge James Boasberg  —  U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been in Trump administration's crosshairs since he ordered the return of more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants summarily deported to El Salvador in March.
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Justice Department files formal complaint against Judge Boasberg
Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents  —  Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed.  Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals  —  US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
ABC News:
2 shot, including officer, outside office building in Midtown Manhattan; suspect dead: Sources  —  The shooting occurred outside an office building, police sources said.  —  A police officer and a civilian were shot outside an office building on Park Avenue on Monday, police sources told ABC News.
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New York Post:
Brave NYPD officer killed in Midtown shooting identified as Didarul Islam — 4-year force veteran with a family  —  The brave NYPD officer who was shot and killed by a deranged gunman inside a Midtown skyscraper Monday was identified as a dad and nearly four-year veteran of the force …
Associated Press:
Trump seeks quick Murdoch deposition in Wall Street Journal lawsuit over Epstein story  —  President Donald Trump is asking a federal court in Florida to force Rupert Murdoch to give a deposition for the president's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal within 15 days, citing the media mogul's age and physical condition.
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Says He Declined Epstein's Invitation to Visit His Island: ‘I Never Had the Privilege of Going’
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Takes Break From $10 Million Golf Vacation To Put Forward New Jeffrey Epstein Explanation
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief appealing Epstein conviction … - The Trump administration has faced weeks of bipartisan backlash after reneging on promises to release all files related to the now-deceased sex trafficker.  — MAGA activists have suggested that Maxwell …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Durbin Demands Tapes of Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews
John Fritze / CNN:
Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell urges Supreme Court to overturn her conviction
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
Trump administration urges federal employees to talk religion at work  —  The guidance from the Office of Personnel Management builds on the administration's efforts to bolster faith's presence in the federal workforce.  —  Federal employees can display religious items at work …
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Anastasia Obis / Federal News Network:   ‘A never-ending nightmare.’ Federal workers detail mental health toll of government downsizing
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Trump administration reminds federal employees they can proselytize in the office
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Politico:
Another Trump clash with the courts is already spinning out into criminal cases … In a nine-page filing, Mirigliano said his client is “facing an imminent criminal trial proceeding under questionable legal authority” and asked for the charges to be thrown out or that Habba and her assistants …
Heather Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Trump blasts ‘nasty’ London mayor in front of Starmer: 'He's done a terrible job'  —  President Donald Trump reignited his long-running feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday, delivering a fresh round of criticism while seated beside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Mitchell Hartman / Marketplace:
Federal data has been disappearing under Trump … Government data is at risk.  Federal funding for the main statistical agencies — like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Commerce Department — has been tight for years.  —  But since the Trump administration took office in January …
Andy Barron / Associated Press:
Shooter opens fire outside Reno casino, killing 3 and injuring several others  —  Police in Nevada say a gunman opened fire just outside the Grand Sierra Resort casino in Reno and shot multiple people.  The conditions of the victims were not immediately known.
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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee  —  For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it's about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Obama Official Files Bombshell Demand for Epstein Files and Secret Trump Messages  —  OBAMA DARE  —  Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics chief, has filed a wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act request.  —  One of President Donald Trump's most persistent legal foes is going after the Epstein files.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Mail
Politico:
Judges press Trump administration on deportation quotas … “Not to my knowledge, your honor,” replied DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth, who urged the court to lift the order focused on surprise immigration enforcement at places like home improvement store parking lots and car washes.
Discussion: Washington Times
Bryan Metzger / Yahoo News:
Apple's iOS 26 text filters could cost political campaigns millions of dollars, top GOP group warns … iOS 26 includes a new feature that allows users to filter text messages from unrecognized numbers into an “Unknown Senders” folder without sending a notification.
Discussion: Daring Fireball and Raw Story
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Texas Attorney General Paxton sues New York county clerk over abortion ruling  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against a New York county clerk for refusing to file a judgment and court summons against a doctor who allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion medication to a woman in Texas.
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of Ice detaining people  —  Congresswoman says she ‘can think of nothing more American’ than Ice dragging people out of court  —  Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace has claimed she cruises the web for videos of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Discussion: The Independent and Daily Kos
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups  —  Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action  —  Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel …
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Duke University Probed by Education Department Over Civil Rights Violations  —  The US Education Department said Monday that it has launched an investigation of Duke University and the Duke Law Journal over allegations of civil rights violations, the latest move by the Trump administration …
Financial Times:
Trump blocks Taiwan's President Lai from New York stopover  —  Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations  —  Donald Trump's administration has denied permission for Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te to stop in New York en route to Central America …
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
GOP Bill Seeks to Strip JFK's Name From Kennedy Center and Replace It With Trump's  —  RENAMING HISTORY  —  The arts center took former President John F. Kennedy's name shortly after his assassination in 1963.  —  A new GOP bill would scrub former President John F. Kennedy's name …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Judge orders Medicaid funding temporarily restored to all Planned Parenthood affiliates  —  A federal judge in Boston on Monday blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates as part of the GOP's new tax cut and health law.
 
 
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Ex-officer who mistook a Black man's keys and phone for a gun gets 15 years to life for murder
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