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Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post:
Patel's FBI raids John Bolton's home in high-profile national security probe  —  FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's FBI Raid of John Bolton's Home Looks Like a “Five-Alarm Fire”  —  Whatever we end up learning about the rationale for the FBI's early-morning raid on former national security adviser John Bolton's Bethesda, Maryland, home on Friday, there's plainly a major escalation underway …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton's House  —  Shortly before 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor for part of Donald Trump's first term.  Montgomery County police sealed off …
Discussion: Hackwhackers, Raw Story and MSNBC
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton  —  The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling …
Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
FBI Raids the Home of John Bolton  —  Kash Patel wrote on X, “NO ONE is above the law.”  —  The FBI on Friday raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during President Donald Trump's first term before becoming a vocal Trump critic.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
About Courage  —  1. John Bolton and Tina Peters  —  I was up early this morning reporting on the FBI's raid of John Bolton's home.  It's a bad sign of where we stand as a country.  —  We do not know what the allegations against Bolton are.  We do know that five years ago …
Discussion: Axios
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Vance denies the FBI is investigating John Bolton because he's a Trump critic  —  Vance told NBC News' “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in an exclusive interview Friday that the FBI would be “careful” in its investigation.  —  Vice President JD Vance on Friday confirmed …
Discussion: Scripps News and NewsMax.com
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Searches John Bolton's Maryland Home  —  Where Things Stand  — John Bolton: F.B.I. agents early Friday were searching the Maryland home of John Bolton, President Trump's former national security adviser, said an F.B.I. official.
April Rubin / Axios:
FBI raids former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home: Reports
Benjamin Wittes / Dog Shirt Daily:
FBI action at John Bolton's House—Live
Discussion: The Bulwark
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton, AP source says
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
FBI Targets Yet Another Former Trump Official Because He Made Trump Mad
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Trump's peace bid flops as Kremlin says no plans for Putin-Zelenskyy summit  —  Moscow obfuscates again in new remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  —  Russia's top diplomat said Friday the Kremlin is “not ready at all” for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin …
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Garrett Haake / NBC News:
White House to announce World Cup draw is coming to the Kennedy Center
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
National Guard Members On DC Streets Will Be Armed, Military Says  —  The Pentagon and the Army said last week that troops would not carry guns.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's law …
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Fox News:
Hegseth authorizes 2,000 National Guard troops to carry weapons in DC if necessary: US official
Discussion: CNN, RedState and The Post Millennial
ProPublica:
Getting “DOGED”: DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media.  Then the Taliban Took His Family.  —  It was early morning on April 1 when Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar, got a panicked message from his son.  Halimi's name had just appeared in a viral post on X …
New York Times:
Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now  —  A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered …
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Landon Mion / Fox News:
Federal judge blocks Florida from further expansion of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention facility
NBC News:
Judge rules ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ can stay open for now, but no further detainees or construction are allowed
Politico:
Playbook: Can Dems talk their way out of the wilderness?  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  On today's Playbook Podcast, Adam Wren and Megan Messerly talk about Democrats' focus on their own language, why the White House is leaning in on its D.C. crackdown and the expected …
Washington Post:
Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse  —  The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon's main intelligence wing — of the Iran military strikes, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.  —  just now
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Powell indicates conditions ‘may warrant’ interest rate cuts as Fed proceeds ‘carefully’ … Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave a tepid indication of possible interest rate cuts ahead as he noted a high level of uncertainty that is making the job difficult for monetary policymakers.
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Politico:
Treasury Department's No. 2 official is leaving … Faulkender, the deputy Treasury Secretary, oversees the agency's operations and has a broad policy portfolio that spans tax, international finance, sanctions and financial regulation.  He previously was a finance professor at the University …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Department's No. 2 Official Set to Depart
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump and the case of the nonexistent $600 billion EU ‘gift’  —  Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC.  As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave the United States …
Chris Nalls / WZTV:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.  This comes after a U.S. magistrate judge …
Zachary Small / New York Times:
White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable  —  The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.  —  The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants  —  Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration's decision to cancel numerous public health grants.
Washington Post:
Trump seeks funding to clean up D.C. in latest effort to control city  —  Trump has falsely claimed he has solved the city's crime problem.  Now he seeks to transform Washington into a place reminiscent of his private golf clubs.  —  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would request funding …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Thanks, Trump: ICE Just Gassed a Public School Into Submission  —  Federal riot police are bombarding a Portland neighborhood with so many chemical munitions it forced a public school to flee  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald Trump's forces have tear gassed a public school into submission.
Discussion: KATU-TV, New Republic and KGW-TV
Clint Smith / The Atlantic:
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad  —  The president's latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.  —  In what looks to be an intensifying quest to reshape American history and scholarship according to his own preferences, President Donald Trump this week targeted …
 
 
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Trump's Florida man for RNC chair officially takes the role
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth's church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Your Rectitude Isn't Helping  —  Gavin Newsom is getting a lot of attention for something …
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