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Asher Price / Axios:
Texas Democrats plot to stall redistricting effort until Epstein files released … - Earlier this month, a legal nonprofit sued the Trump administration for not releasing Epstein-related documents and requested them in an expedited manner.
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Texas Democrat Threatened With ‘Felony’ During Press Call
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Reuters:
Texas House to vote on controversial redistricting plan
Texas House to vote on controversial redistricting plan
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Axios, CNN, The Post Millennial, The Guardian, CBS News, San Diego Union-Tribune and UPI
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Obama backs California effort to redraw districts in response to Texas
Obama backs California effort to redraw districts in response to Texas
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Associated Press:
Both parties expect a GOP map in Texas to clear a big hurdle in a national fight over redistricting
Both parties expect a GOP map in Texas to clear a big hurdle in a national fight over redistricting
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Exclusive: Newsom pollster sees big support for California redistricting
Exclusive: Newsom pollster sees big support for California redistricting
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The Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press and New Jersey Online
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign — One trademark of an authoritarian regime is the use of the legal system to target political opponents and forgive friends. This has the effect of undermining our basic conception of the law as a set of rules that is fairly and consistently applied.
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Presses Fed's Cook to Quit After Mortgage Fraud Allegation — President Donald Trump called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign after a staunch ally called for an investigation of the board member's mortgages, intensifying his campaign on the central bank.
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Christopher Condon / Bloomberg:
Fed's Cook Says She Won't be Bullied Into Stepping Down — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook signaled her intention to remain at the central bank in defiance of calls for her resignation by President Donald Trump over allegations of mortgage fraud. — “I have no intention of being bullied …
NPR:
Former national guard vice chief calls deployment into D.C. an ‘intimidation’ tactic — Several Republican-led states are deploying more National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to address what President Trump has called a “crime emergency” in the nation's capital.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
National Guard Troops in Washington Stick to Tourist Areas
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Military officers shifted to prosecute local D.C. crimes amid Trump takeover — Members of the Judge Advocate General Corps are set to join the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. — WASHINGTON — As members of the National Guard deploy to the nation's capital as part …
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New York Times:
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis — The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows. — Florida has had a significant shift of registered voters in the Republican direction, a remarkable inversion that explains the state's transformation …
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard green-lights plans to slash ODNI staff — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is moving forward with the next phase of plans to eventually cut staffing in her department by almost half. … - “When the president asked her to do this job, that was part of the conversation,” the official added.
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Beatrice Peterson / ABC News:
Gabbard to slash Director of National Intelligence staff by nearly 50%
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Washington Post:
Most D.C. residents oppose Trump's city police takeover, poll finds — Though crime continues to be a concern, most residents don't think Trump's actions will make D.C. safer, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. — Washington, D.C., residents overwhelmingly oppose President …
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John R. Lott Jr / The Federalist:
D.C.'s Murder Rate Is More Than 500% Higher Than The Average State
D.C.'s Murder Rate Is More Than 500% Higher Than The Average State
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Ketrin Jochecová / Politico:
Russia wants ... Russia to have veto over Western security guarantees for Ukraine — The Kremlin's recalcitrant comments indicate the Trump administration's whirlwind diplomacy has yielded little in the way of results. — Moscow isn't shifting on what it considers to be acceptable security guarantees …
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Washington Post:
Hegseth's expansive security requirements tax Army protective unit — The agency tasked with protecting Defense Department leaders is under significant strain, and the secretary's atypical needs are becoming untenable, officials say. — Just now — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's …
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Washington Examiner, Federal News Network, Fox News, The Wrap, New Jersey Online, Mediaite, MSNBC, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail, The Hill, The Independent and NewsMax.com
Jessica Nix / Bloomberg:
RFK Jr. Blamed by HHS Staff for Misinformation That Sparked CDC Attack — A group of current and former staff members at the US Department of Health and Human Services are publicly blaming Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spreading misinformation that led to a deadly shooting …
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Maya Goldman / Axios:
HHS workers accuse RFK Jr. of stoking violence against them
HHS workers accuse RFK Jr. of stoking violence against them
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NBC News:
Israel enters first stage of planned assault on Gaza City — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a settlement project that would effectively split the occupied West Bank in two, possibly destroying hopes for a future Palestinian state. — TEL AVIV — Israel on Wednesday entered …
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Trump's Tactics Mean Many International Students Won't Make It to Campus — Students from some countries won't make it to class this fall because of President Trump's travel ban. Others can't get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.
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Pooja Salhotra / New York Times:
Judge Halts Texas' Law Mandating the Ten Commandments in School — The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1. — A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted on Wednesday a state law …
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Jason Lalljee / Axios:
Sony will hike PS5 prices Thursday as a result of Trump's trade war — Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles by $50 each in the U.S. beginning Thursday, the company announced on Wednesday. … - “As a result, we've made the difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price …
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Paul Krugman:
ICEing the U.S. Economy — Mass deportations will hurt more than people realize — Donald Trump has been able to convert Immigration and Customs Enforcement (and Customs and Border Protection, which is effectively part of the same operation) into a huge secret police force …
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Raw Story
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ — The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history. — President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday of focusing too much on …
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Target's CEO is stepping down as customers turn away — Video Ad Feedback — Why customers turned away from Target — Why customers turned away from Target — JFK Jr. explains his magazine's controversial Cindy Crawford cover — This three-Michelin-starred chef opened a restaurant in a Singapore car factory
New York Times:
Two Big Law Firms Said to Be Doing Free Work for Trump Administration — After making deals with the president to avoid punitive executive orders, Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis are helping the Commerce Department. — At least two large law firms that struck deals with President Trump …
Pew Research Center:
How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age — Americans largely value journalists' role in society but see their influence declining - and often differ over who fits the label — Table of Contents Table of Contents — Pew Research Center has been studying how Americans get news …
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Ivan Pereira / Reuters:
Protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank DC National Guard — The vice president and defense secretary bought troops lunch at Union Station. — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, greet members …
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Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
National Guard truck collides with civilian car in Trump DC police takeover — A National Guard vehicle on Wednesday collided with a civilian car in Washington, D.C., amid President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the district. — The accident, which occurred early Wednesday morning …
Adam Bonica / On Data and Democracy:
Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors — One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666 — In a recent article, I broke down how the spam PACs flooding our phones and inboxes spend exorbitant amounts on fundraising and consulting fees. The kind of Democratic fundraising …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge — Vinh Nguyen, an expert in artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics, was among the current and former officials whose security clearances were revoked by the president. — The acting director of the National Security Agency tried …
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Richard L. Hasen / New York Times:
Would You Trust This Man With Your Elections? — With Republicans potentially losing their current seven-vote majority in the House in next year's midterm elections (or, less likely, their six-vote majority in the Senate), President Trump has been sending clear signals of his intent to interfere …
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics — mRNA technology saved America's bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before a Senate committee, May 14, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington.
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Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump — The strawberry delivery driver was making his last drop-off in Little Tokyo, unloading nearly a dozen boxes onto the sidewalk outside the Japanese American National Museum. — Inside the building …
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Fired LA fire chief accuses Bass of ‘misinformation’ campaign after wildfires — The Los Angeles Fire Department chief, who was removed in February over the department's response to the raging wildfires, accused LA Mayor Karen Bass of waging a “misinformation” campaign against her.
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Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, New York Post, FOX 11 Los Angeles and Los Angeles Times
New York Times:
More Adams Associates and Supporters Are Said to Face Corruption Charges — Among those expected to surrender in the coming days are Mayor Eric Adams's closest adviser and a friend whom the mayor installed in a powerful city position. — Several associates and supporters of Mayor Eric Adams …
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New Republic, New York Post, The City, ABC News, New York Daily News and Politico
Sharon Lerner / ProPublica:
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. — Slashed Autism Funding: RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research.
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