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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. conducts massive bombing of strategic Iran Island, Trump says
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:   Trump's War Alliance With Israel Is Reshaping the Middle East. But It Carries Risks.
Reuters:
US attacks Iran's Kharg Island, Trump says
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New York Times:
TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration  —  The large fee is the latest example of the White House's inserting itself into corporate deal making in unusual and aggressive ways.  —  Investors in a deal to create a U.S.-controlled TikTok are set to pay $10 billion …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery  —  A judge on Friday ordered the immediate removal of a series of depositions of members of DOGE, but not before clips of the depositions, including one in which a member was largely unable to define DEI …
Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Is Moving Additional Marines, Warships to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials.  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request …
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NPR:
All 6 U.S. crew are dead after a plane goes down in Iraq, as Mideast war toll mounts
Axios:
U.S. sending USS Tripoli, thousands of Marines to Middle East
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say  —  Israel is planning to significantly expand its ground operation in Lebanon, aiming to seize the entire area south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah's military infrastructure, Israeli and U.S. officials say.
Discussion: Israpundit
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The Guardian:
Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon  —  Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon and became a naturalized US citizen, lost two brothers, a niece and a nephew in the airstrike  —  The armed suspect who drove a vehicle into the hallway …
Wall Street Journal:
Judge Throws Out Justice Department Subpoenas to Federal Reserve  —  ‘Abundant evidence’ exists that the subpoenas were designed to ‘harass and pressure Powell’ to yield to Trump, ruling says  —  WASHINGTON—A federal judge threw out a pair of subpoenas the Justice Department issued to the Federal Reserve …
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NBC News:
Judge blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, citing ‘essentially zero evidence’
New York Times:
Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy  —  President Trump's son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.  —  Jared Kushner, one of the U.S. government's chief negotiators in the Middle East …
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump is preparing to replace Ric Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center  —  President Donald Trump is expected to remove Richard Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  —  The move comes as the arts and culture institution …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Kennedy Center's President Is Leaving After Tumultuous Year
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Sinema acknowledges affair with Senate bodyguard while in office  —  The acknowledgement is part of a legal filing to dismiss an “alienation of affection” lawsuit against the former senator from Arizona.  —  Former U.S. senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona acknowledged having an affair …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers' dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’  —  Donald Trump National security The Middle East  —  A fundraising email from President Donald Trump's political action committee has a provocative pitch …
Eddie Pells / Associated Press:
WADA to weigh barring Trump, US officials from LA Olympics and possibly World Cup over unpaid dues  —  The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028 in a move …
Discussion: Deadline, Raw Story and WTOP News
J.D. Miles / CBS News:
Wanted fugitive killed by Dallas SWAT officers worked security for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources say  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  A man shot and killed by Dallas police earlier this week was a familiar figure in North Texas law enforcement - and part of the security detail for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett …
Axios:
Scoop: Trump rejected Putin offer to move Iran's uranium to Russia  —  In a phone call with President Trump this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed moving Iran's enriched uranium to Russia as part of a deal to end the war.  — Trump turned him down, sources tell Axios.
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Rose L. Thayer / Stars & Stripes:
Pentagon plan expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content  —  The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication's independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content and transitioning away from a print publication.
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony  —  Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’  —  US immigration agents in Oregon used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods …
Discussion: El País
Brad Brooks / Reuters:
Minneapolis grapples with lingering trauma, economic damage after ICE surge  —  Few federal agents are seen on the streets of Minneapolis these days.  —  While many of the city's residents still wear red whistles around their necks, used to sound an alert if they spot U.S. immigration agents …
Eric Niiler / New York Times:
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab  —  Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company.  —  The Trump administration is reviewing proposals to break up one of the world's leading climate …
NBC News:
DOJ drops case against veteran arrested after burning American flag near White House  —  Prosecutors sought to drop the charges against Jan Carey after a judge said he was entitled to further inquiry into whether the administration was vindictively prosecuting him.
Discussion: CBS News, Raw Story and New York Times
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud  —  Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the American military can drop bombs on scores of schoolchildren and not face serious media scrutiny over it.  And he just might get that world soon enough.
Pratik Pawar / Vox:
The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health — and nearly everything else  —  Revealed in one chart. … Think about the disease that worries you most — the one that runs in your family.  Or maybe someone you love is living with it.  Whether that's cancer, Alzheimer's …
Discussion: MedPage Today and New York Times
Erica Orden / Politico:
Ghislaine Maxwell still seeking Trump pardon, her lawyer says … “I can imagine, for example, maybe you're hoping — not in that case, but in a case — to get a presidential pardon or commutation,” Pollack said, at which point Markus interjected with a smirk to say, “that case, too.”
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
White House plans new visitor entrance under adjacent park  —  The White House wants to construct a 33,000-square-foot building beneath nearby Sherman Park to screen visitors entering the grounds for tours and events, according to plans published by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC).
Discussion: Washington Post and NewsMax.com
 
 
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie Gives Giant Border Contract to Accused People Smugglers
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Associated Press:
Justice Department charges man accused of selling gun to Old Dominion University shooter
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eases Venezuela sanctions on oil, fertilizer to blunt Iran war costs
Discussion: WKZO
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump blames recent attacks on ‘genetics’ of assailants
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Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Fears of a food shock rise as midterms loom
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New York Times:
The Oil Tankers Trump Seized Are Costing the U.S. Millions of Dollars
 

 
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