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Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development  —  The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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Aria Bendix / NBC News:
RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research  —  The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.  —  The Trump administration is terminating 22 contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines …
Madeline Halpert / BBC:   RFK Jr cancels $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines for diseases like Covid
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
NBC News:
Democrats draw up plans to retaliate if Republicans gerrymander Texas — but they face legal hurdles  —  California is eyeing a ballot initiative this fall to redraw its House map for 2026 — only if Texas Republicans redistrict to gain more seats.  New York Democrats may have to wait until 2028.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Abbott sues to remove Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu from seat
Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Addressing Threats to The United States by the Government of the Russian Federation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
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Associated Press:
Trump to put additional 25% import taxes on India, bringing combined tariffs to 50%
Eric Levitz / Vox:   Why Trump's tariffs could live forever
CNN:
Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance  —  Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president's residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney General …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Vance expected to host Epstein strategy dinner with Bondi, Blanche, Patel
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein, report says
Washington Post:
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker  —  Trump floats taking federal control of the city after the man known online as ‘Big Balls’ was injured in a carjacking.  Elon Musk also says city should be taken over.  —  A protégé of Elon Musk …
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NBC News:
Trump threatens federal control of D.C. following attack on administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’
David Dayen / American Prospect:
FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE  —  Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.  It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.  —  A number of employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Noem Unveils No Age Limit for Patriotic Americans to Join ICE Law Enforcement to Help Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S.  —  In less than one week since DHS launched its recruitment campaign, more than 80,000 Americans applied to join ICE  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Department …
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Department of Homeland Security:
The Speedway Slammer: A New Partnership with DHS and the State of Indiana to Expand Detention Space
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senator Marsha Blackburn Will Run for Governor of Tennessee  —  A conservative Trump ally in the Senate, Ms. Blackburn will now try to become the first woman to serve as governor.  —  Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee announced on Wednesday that she would run for governor, less than a year after winning another term in the Senate.
Discussion: Marsha for Governor
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn announces she's running for governor in Tennessee
Roger Sollenberger / Drop Site News:
Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills  —  Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committeewoman and the reigning Miss United States, has filed a restraining order against Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills, after reporting him to local and state law enforcement …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Allegations surrounding GOP's Cory Mills go from bad to worse
Discussion: Raw Story and TMZ.com
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump, Apple to Announce Fresh $100 Billion US Investment  —  President Donald Trump will announce that Apple Inc. will commit to spend another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing, the latest pledge by the tech giant to increase US production of its products as it seeks to avoid punishing tariffs on its flagship iPhones.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
A judge blocks FEMA from repurposing disaster mitigation funding.
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Library of Congress blames “coding error” for missing sections of online Constitution  —  The Library of Congress on Wednesday pointed to an unspecified “coding error” that led to key parts of the U.S. Constitution being deleted from the Constitution Annotated website.
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Rolling Stone:
Govt. Website ‘Glitch’ Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Warren P. Strobel / Washington Post:
Gabbard overrode CIA officials' concerns in push to release classified Russia report  —  CIA officials worried that the release of a House report on 2016 Russian election meddling could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources, but Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard authorized …
Discussion: emptywheel and Joe.My.God.
Thomas Kennedy / Miami New Times:
Experts Say Florida's Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Camp May Be Illegal  —  A Trump-appointed judge gave officials until Thursday to prove they can legally detain migrants in the Everglades. … Audio By Carbonatix … What the state of Florida is doing in the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp is illegal, point blank.
Discussion: The Nation and Straight Arrow News
Molly Redden / ProPublica:
Trump's War on Big Law Means It's Harder to Challenge the Administration  —  Some of America's largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and police accountability.
FIRE:
LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges unconstitutional provisions Rubio uses in crusade to deport legal immigrants over protected speech  — The First Amendment trumps the statutes that the government is abusing to deport people for speech alone  — This lawsuit seeks a landmark ruling …
Reuters:
Casualties reported in active shooter incident at U.S. Army base in state of Georgia  —  An active shooter incident at the Fort Stewart U.S. Army base in Georgia has resulted in casualties, authorities said, and the base has been put on lockdown.  —  “The installation was locked down at 11:04 …
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Banality of Weasel  —  Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly for a bit, shouted back-and-forth with reporters, said some hard-to-interpret things about nuclear weapons, gesticulated oddly, and then left.
Justin Ray / Columbia Journalism Review:
Glenn Kessler Believes Fact-Checkers Are Getting Easier to Ignore … Last week Glenn Kessler, the longtime writer of the Washington Post's Fact Checker column, announced that he had accepted a buyout, joining dozens of his former colleagues in walking away from the storied institution.
Axios:
MAGA expectations soar after DOJ orders Russia grand jury probe  —  The MAGA movement has spent the past 10 years demanding the arrests of President Trump's political enemies.  — Now, for the first time, the levers of power are aligned to pursue that goal from inside the federal government.
Los Angeles Times:
Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games  — Trump said he would send the military back to Los Angeles if he so chose in order to protect the Games.  — More concentrated involvement from Trump could spell further strain with Los Angeles city officials.
Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
FBI crime report says violent crime decreased by 4.5% in 2024  —  Violent crime is defined as murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.  —  Statistics released Tuesday by the FBI indicate that violent crime decreased overall in the United States by 4.5% last year.
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
What Do We Owe Andry?  —  Our country sent this young man and hundreds of others to a foreign gulag to be tortured and sexually assaulted.  —  ∙ Paid  —  THE MOST PIERCING QUESTION from the Watergate scandal was “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
 
 
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court case asks whether children still have First Amendment rights
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood to close Louisiana clinics
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare
Discussion: HotAir
David W. Chen / New York Times:
In One of the Country's Poorest States, Crippling Budget Cuts Loom
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Trumpworld Knows Epstein Is a Problem. But They Can't Solve It
Jessica Finn / The US Sun:
The Howard Stern Show ‘to be canceled’ after nearly 20 years on SiriusXM as ‘$100m’ contract is up later this year
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Russia's internet crackdown is in a dangerous new phase
Meghan Leahy / Washington Post:
Adult son ‘canceled’ his grandma, uncle and cousin. We are heartbroken.
Tina Reed / Axios:
Trump teases stepwise tariff plan for pharma
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
America Is Blinding Itself
Enjoli Liston / New York Times:
Trump Suggests Vance is MAGA Movement's Heir Apparent
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
A new low in bipartisanship: Trump hasn't met with Schumer or Jeffries
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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