The Democratic image is underwater — but they're not losing  —  Polls show the party near a 30-year low, yet they're favored in the House popular vote.  —  ∙ Paid … A new poll from the Wall Street Journal has Democrats in a panic.  According to the WSJ's pollsters …

Donald Trump's tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s  —  Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American imports  —  Donald Trump has pushed US tariffs on foreign goods to the highest level since before the second world war as he enacts his sweeping protectionist agenda.

Why Trump Might Free Ghislaine  —  For a guy who's absolutely furious that everyone keeps talking about the Epstein story, Donald Trump sure does keep making a lot of news about it that keeps it stuck to the headlines.  One of these days, we're going to manage to get you a Morning Shots item off this news—but today is not that day.

Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu  —  The Scoop  —  New York City's Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza and that the United States should stop arming the Jewish state, according to new polling from a pro-Palestinian group and shared first with Semafor.

Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week  —  The U.S. Navy will permanently cut its stream of data from three weather satellites essential to hurricane forecasters this Thursday, with the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season just weeks away.

Trump lawsuit against Murdoch and ‘Wall Street Journal’ turns personal  —  President Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its powerful owner has taken a personal turn.  —  In the legal filings — and on social media — Trump says he personally told media mogul Rupert Murdoch …

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.

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says  —  Tae Heung Kim, a Korean citizen studying in the United States, is being held in San Francisco after returning from his brother's wedding overseas.  —  A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident …

Justice Department files misconduct complaint against judge in key deportations case  —  U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found cause to initiate contempt proceedings to determine whether the Trump administration violated court orders.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed …

We texted nearly 1,100 Americans about Trump and the Epstein files.  Here's what they said.  —  How closely are Americans following news about government files from the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, and what do they think about President Donald Trump's handling of the issue?

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 …

The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'  —  A casualty of Trump's purge speaks out.  —  michael feinberg had not been planning to leave the FBI.  But on May 31, he received a phone call from his boss asking him about a personal friendship with a former FBI agent who was known for criticizing President Donald Trump.

Israelis Begin to Question the Morality of Their War in Gaza  —  The news on Israel's main TV channel had just finished a segment on how hunger in Gaza is portrayed around the world when the anchor looked up and said: “Maybe it's finally time to acknowledge that this isn't a public relations failure, but a moral one.”

The case against debate  —  It's a skill, but it's not the same as truth-seeking or persuasion  —  Like the rest of the internet, I've been watching viral clips of Mehdi Hasan debating 20 far-right knuckle draggers for nearly two hours.  —  It's an impressive display of stamina, poise …

Gunman who killed 4 at NYC building was targeting NFL offices but took wrong elevator, mayor says  —  A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before killing himself was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

EPA seeks to cancel scientific basis for climate regulations  —  EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he's issuing draft plans to overturn the agency's 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare — a move guaranteed to spark litigation.

A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death.  Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.  —  Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival.  They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr …

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Chris Kluwe, fired as football coach, sues Huntington Beach Union High School District  —  High school football practices started all across Southern California on Monday.  —  One person not on the gridiron this year at Edison High is former NFL punter Chris Kluwe.

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court.  Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.  —  Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

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 …

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.

Trump's tariffs could squeeze US factories and boost costs by up to 4.5%, a new analysis finds  —  As President Donald Trump prepares to announce new tariff increases, the costs of his policies are starting to come into focus for a domestic manufacturing sector that depends on global supply chains …

‘Why I Was So Cagey’: Mark Green Reveals Why He Left Congress  —  “Ethics is not set up for us to go out and start our own businesses,” Green said.  — Copy  —  As of last week, Mark Green is no longer a member of Congress.  But before he resigned — and in the months leading …

The Corpse of NPR Pats Itself on the Back  —  For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is committed to serving “Americans across the political spectrum.”  That's how CEO Katherine Maher put it during the network's losing battle to hold on to taxpayer funding.

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 …