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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's Signature Is Set to Be Added to America's Currency  —  President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.  —  President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
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David Lawder / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's signature to appear on US currency, Treasury says, ending 165-year tradition  —  U.S. paper currency will bear President Donald Trump's signature to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, a first for a sitting president …
Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President  —  As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump's Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.  —  President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term …
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump's signature to appear on paper currency in a first for a sitting president  —  Dollar bills historically have been signed by the U.S. treasurer and treasury secretary.  —  President Donald Trump is adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president's signature …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump to sign executive order to fund TSA agents amid DHS shutdown  —  President Trump announced on Thursday he will sign an executive order to “immediately” pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers amid the ongoing shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A War No One Wants to Defend  —  Don't look now, but there's yet another major potential energy shock on the horizon: Reuters reported yesterday that Ukrainian drone attacks had forced shutdowns at two major Russian oil export terminals.  The war in Iran has been a godsend for Russia's war economy …
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Push White House to Declare National Emergency to Pay TSA Agents  —  The move could allow Trump to use unspent funds to pay airport-security workers  —  WASHINGTON—Several Senate Republicans are pressing the White House to declare a national emergency to free up money …
Washington Post:
Trump orders TSA officers be paid as Congress remains stalemated
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump says he will order DHS to ‘immediately’ pay TSA officers as partial shutdown persists
Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump faces new oil shock threat as Iran eyes second strait … The strait, hundreds of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, at Yemen's southwestern tip, is a pathway for ships carrying about 10 percent of the world's oil and natural gas supplies.  —  Bab el Mandeb has been targeted previously by the Houthis …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump extends deadline for Iran negotiations
Politico:
‘I have no idea what they are trying to do’: Allies say Trump sends mixed signals on Iran
Discussion: Reuters and PJ Media
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
After markets rattle, Trump once again punts on following through with threat on Iran power plants
Discussion: NewsMax.com and WTOP News
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump's Freestyle Diplomacy
Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive: Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said.
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Wall Street Journal:   The U.S. Military Assets Damaged or Lost in the Iran War
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For  —  from the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept  —  First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining …
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Politico:
Social media trials usher in Big Tech's latest moment of reckoning … The widely popular platforms, along with others like Snap and TikTok, once appeared unstoppable as they designed their algorithms for maximum user engagement.  Now they're suddenly facing a minefield of legal …
Christine Mui / Politico:
Judge pauses Anthropic's supply chain risk designation … Lin added that the court's record supports “an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government's contracting position in the press.”  —  By granting Anthropic's request, Lin removed the stigma of the designation …
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Scott MacFarlane Reports:
NEW: “It's a bad f**ing idea”, Congress blasts Trump Admin. war briefings  —  “It's a bad fucking idea,” he said into the phone in a tone so calm and measured, the words landed unexpectedly, but powerfully.  —  Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat who is the ranking member …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterms, economy … - Trump's team believes the economy — above all other issues, including any anxiety over the president's actions on Iran or immigration — will drive voter sentiment heading into the November elections.
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Gary Grumbach / NBC News:
Kennedy Center to start layoffs ahead of planned closure for renovations  —  It wasn't immediately clear how many workers would be affected.  The arts center has employed more than 2,000 people in recent years.  —  The Kennedy Center will move forward with layoffs “in the days and weeks ahead …
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New York Times:
Trump Eyes White House Treaty Room for Latest Renovation Project  —  President Trump is making new plans in one of the most significant renovations in the history of the White House.  —  President Trump has discussed turning the White House Treaty Room, historically a meeting place for diplomats …
Isa Domínguez / Politico:
The Education Department is poised to lose its longtime HQ … It's unclear how the Energy Department, which has a sprawling portfolio that includes nuclear security and other sensitive matters, will adapt the physical spaces in the current Education Department headquarters.
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Elias Isquith:
“Margin Call” in the age of “Epic Fury”  —  The allegations of insider trading tied to the Iran war had a familiar shape: people close enough to power to know what was coming using their knowledge of a pending catastrophe to profit before it became public.  —  For millennials …
New York Times:
Trump Officials Investigate Stanford, Ohio State and U.C. San Diego Medical Schools  —  The Justice Department's demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, reveal an expansion of its higher-education pressure campaign.
Harold Hutchison / The Daily Caller:
‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’  —  Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Agenda Hits Roadblocks, Diminishing His Clout  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration.  Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.
Discussion: The Guardian
Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Only some driver's licenses usable for voter registration under the SAVE America Act  —  As the Senate debates the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, misleading claims about the bill's impact on voter registration are spreading on social media …
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Notifies California and Maine of Investigations into Whether Housing Biological Men in Women's Prisons Violates Constitution  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the United States Department of Justice notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills …
Ian Ward / Politico:
MAGA is growing anxious over Orbán's fate  —  As the war with Iran continues to dominate headlines in Washington, another overseas battle is quietly capturing attention among the elite echelons of the MAGA movement: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's fight for reelection.
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Weighs Forcing Congress to Vote to Authorize the Iran War  —  Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
Israel says IRGC Navy's commander, other chiefs killed; Qalibaf said removed from hit list  —  Navy chief Alireza Tangsiri said responsible for efforts to close Hormuz; FM Araghchi, parliament speaker Qalibaf reportedly not hunted, at Pakistan's request, to allow them to conduct talks
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Fed, DOJ clash over Powell probe — as government says it has no evidence of misconduct … The case took an unusual turn with the release of the transcript of the initial hearing on the matter, in which the DOJ lawyer said, “We do not know at this time” whether there is evidence of misconduct at the central bank.
Discussion: CNBC and Bloomberg
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind ‘Hide My Email’ Feature  —  This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records.  Subscribe to them here.  —  Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address …
Discussion: AppleInsider
 
 
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Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
Epstein survivors sue Trump administration and Google over release of private information
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House Republicans huddle with Johnson to plot party-line package
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Is Breaking Up with Europe
Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Sheriff in California Seizes More Ballots, Ignoring State Attorney General
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
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Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Justice Dept. close to finalizing deal to hand over states' voter roll data to Homeland Security, sources say
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Democracy Docket and NOTUS
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