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11:00 PM ET, August 11, 2025

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Brian Mann / NPR:
Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump's vow to crack down on crime  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says National Guard soldiers will be deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., and he asserted federal control over the city's Metropolitan police department.
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Anna Spiegel / Axios:
Trump's D.C. crime claims don't match the data  —  Violent crime is declining in D.C. — not rising, as President Trump claimed on Monday. … - And for the first half of 2025, violent crime has dropped in all categories in Washington, according to new data from Major Cities Chiefs Association …
Washington Post:
Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control.  Here's what the data shows.  —  Crime in D.C. and nationwide is declining from pandemic-era spikes.  But individual incidents can shake residents and capture the president's attention.  —  President Donald Trump once again catapulted crime …
Washington Post:
Trump orders federal takeover of D.C. police, deploys National Guard
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Warns Fascist D.C. Takeover Is Just the Beginning
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:   Why Trump's Chilling Flex of Brute Force is So Disturbing
David Klepper / Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime
Discussion: New York Times
The Guardian:
Trump nominates chief economist at rightwing Heritage Foundation to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics -as it happened
New York Times:
D.C. Mayor Calls Trump's Police Takeover ‘Unsettling’ but Promises Cooperation
New York Times:
Military officials testify at California's suit against National Guard deployment.  —  “I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor — and worse.  This is “Liberation Day” in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
D.C. Police Put Under Federal Control, Are Now ‘Allowed to Do Whatever the Hell They Want’
Andrew Solender / Axios:
D.C.-area Dems rage as Trump takes control of city's policing
Chris Mirasola / Lawfare:   Deploying the D.C. National Guard
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head  —  E.J. Antoni, a staunch critic of the BLS, had emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among some influential Trump advisers, including Stephen K. Bannon.  —  President Donald Trump will nominate …
Discussion: pbump, The Independent and KVIA-TV
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Molly Smith / Bloomberg:
Trump Names Heritage's EJ Antoni to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics  —  President Donald Trump named EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing the former head of the agency earlier this month.
Discussion: KVIA-TV and Daily Kos
Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Nominate Longtime Critic to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics  —  E.J. Antoni is chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and has long criticized the agency's approach to collecting jobs data  —  President Trump said on Monday that he plans to nominate E.J. Antoni …
CBO Publications:
How the 2025 Reconciliation Act (Public Law 119-21) Will Affect the Distribution of Resources Available to Households  —  This interactive tool illustrates the distributional effects of the 2025 reconciliation act (P.L. 119-21).  It allows users to explore how that law will affect …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Jarrell Dillard / Bloomberg:
Trump Tax Law Squeezes Poor, Boosts Income for Wealthy, CBO Says
Discussion: KVIA-TV
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Trump's tax law will mostly benefit the rich, while leaving poorer Americans with less, CBO says
Discussion: The Hill and NOTUS
New York Times:
Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding  —  A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation's wealthiest school against the Trump administration's extraordinary crackdown on higher education.
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump's Fight Against Top Universities
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Reason
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Public Law 93-198) …
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
U.S., China extend tariff pause another 90 days
Reuters:
Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study  —  An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children …
Discussion: STAT
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Further Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates to Reflect Ongoing Discussions with The People's Republic of China  —  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.)
Discussion: New York Times
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics  —  President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy  —  A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America's.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Small Businesses Brace for the Punishing Side Effects of Trump's Tariffs  —  Large firms with big bank balances, workers already in jobs and households near the top of the income ladder will have an easier time navigating the economic waves.  —  Katrina Golden, the owner of Lil Mama's Sweets & Treats …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
An Uncomfortably Revealing Laura Loomer Deposition  —  Insights into her insults, clues about her career hopes.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Coming Soon: The Laura Loomer Foundation for Twitter Trolling  —  LAURA LOOMER HAS BEEN HYPERACTIVE during the second Trump administration …
 
 
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Trump admin claims Social Security, Medicare at risk if tariffs blocked
Shawn Hubler / New York Times:
Trump's Use of National Guard in L.A. Remains Contentious
New York Times:
Trump Wields Tariffs as a Force in Diplomacy, to Questionable Effect
Reuters:
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