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MS NOW on YouTube:
LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens  —  Today is the court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.  Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board filed a last-mi...
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Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Judge denies Kennedy Center request for pause in ruling ordering Trump's name removed from building
Yasmin Khorram / Politico:
Justice Department approves Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. … The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  Paramount did not respond to a request for comment.  —  The public scrutiny intensified after Netflix dropped its own bid for Warner Bros. following …
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NBC News:
Justice Department approves Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery  —  The Justice Department said it determined that the massive merger was “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers.”  —  The Justice Department has signed off …
Reuters:
Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change  —  President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
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Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs  —  The ruling accused the Trump administration of engaging in censorship by taking down materials at parks across the country.  —  A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the National Park Service from removing or revising signs …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Hill
Kinnia Cheuk / Politico:
Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes … An Interior Department spokesperson said that the current algae is “residual” from supply lines that sat dormant for eight weeks during construction.  The residue is part of the normal startup process, the spokesperson said.
New York Times:
Elon Musk Becomes the World's First Trillionaire  —  With SpaceX shares soaring on their first day of trading, the world's richest person crossed another milestone — one with 13 digits.  —  Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday.  —  The tech mogul reached that milestone …
Anthropic:
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5  —  The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States …
ABC News:
Just 3% of recent ICE detainees had a violent felony conviction, government data shows  —  Trump had pledged to target the “worst of the worst” criminal offenders.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator after he exited an immigration courtroom, June 17, 2025, in New York.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Guardian
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Allison McCann / New York Times:
ICE Wants Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law. These Officers Signed Up.
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center  —  The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration's takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.  —  The Washington National Opera …
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:
White House UFC Event Lighting Nearly Blinded Flight Crew on Approach to Reagan National  —  A commercial airline pilot that spoke to MeidasTouch this evening has filed aviation safety reports after powerful lighting used during the construction and testing of the UFC octagon …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Says It Will Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing  —  The response came after a federal judge rebuked officials for failing to immediately comply with the order he issued last week.  —  The Trump administration said on Friday that it would comply with a court order …
Discussion: Newsweek and Washington Post
Washington Post:
U.S. and Iran close to signing peace deal, officials say  —  Pakistan's prime minister says “text of the peace deal has been reached,” though Trump administration official adds some uncertainty remains.  —  Summary  —  After days of uncertainty and tit-for-tat military strikes …
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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial.  I'm Its First Target  —  The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.  —  For many journalists, blowback is just part of the business.
Paul Krugman:
Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme  —  With Wall Street's help, you're about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX  —  Yesterday I took a short trip.  I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company.  Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi.
NBC News:
At least 1 dead, 10 injured in Texas shooting; suspect dead after standoff  —  The scene in Midland, Texas, was quickly secured and the area cleared, the city said in a Facebook post. … The gunman who barricaded himself in a Midland, Texas, building on Friday after a shooting that killed …
Reuters:
Exclusive: UAE to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, sources say  —  The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.
NBC News:
He took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president's hotel in Doral.  Instead he was detained by ICE.  —  A honeymoon plan ended in an arrest, months of detention and over $80,000 in debt for Venezuelan immigrant Bryan Rojas, who's married to a U.S. citizen.  —  Bryan José Rojas Galofre wanted …
TC Sottek / The Verge:
The world's first trillionaire is a killer  —  Elon Musk's empire of wealth is built on suffering. … Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet.  And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood  —  About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025).  In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law …
Politico:
Trump lawyers: No collusion with Trump administration to create ‘anti-weaponization’ fund … Trump's lawyers invoked a federal court rule that allows plaintiffs in a case to drop it early in the litigation without explanation or substantive involvement by the judge.
Discussion: Raw Story, TiffinOhio.net and Axios
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump closed his eyes and appeared to nod off while seated in a suite this week at an NBA Finals game in New York City as cameras caught him snacking on french fries and pizza.  He returned to the White House after 2 a.m.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
“It rips my heart apart”: U.S. military veteran calls on ICE to release wife  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  An American citizen who served in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard for roughly 20 years is desperately urging federal immigration officials to release his wife, who is facing deportation to her native Honduras.
Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump's inexperienced federal prosecutors are running into trouble in court … People with traditional resumes, he added, may be reluctant to take the job.  “I suspect that those with prosecutorial experience value the professional capital they gained by getting it, and will think twice …
David Rohde / MS NOW:
Republican senators block effort to bar federal troops from election interference  —  A Democratic senator said he was “fearful” that GOP resistance was a sign the administration is planning “illegal domestic deployment of our military.”  —  Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee blocked …
Discussion: New Republic
CNN:
Exclusive: US military rushed to prepare ground mission to capture Iran's uranium, but Trump paused it, sources say  —  The US' top general made a secret, rushed visit to US Central Command headquarters in Florida late last month to be briefed in person on plans for the US military …
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
The Trump DOJ's Disparate Impact Changes Are About Putting Black People In Their Place  —  Finally, this administration has identified a form of “disparate impact” it finds objectionable.  —  For decades, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House all recognized that seemingly neutral policies …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis zings Florida GOP over lack of governor primary debates … “There should be a debate, they said there would be a debate,” DeSantis told reporters at a press conference on battling Medicaid fraud in West Palm Beach.  “Having an open process and having people be able …
 
 
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Republican Group's Case Against the University of Florida
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Foreign surveillance program set to expire after Democrats reject short-term renewal
Discussion: New York Post and Blaze Media
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: US forces shoot down Iranian attack drones, source says
Discussion: RTÉ
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters
Discussion: Raw Story, STAT and Fox News
Reuters:
Trump says U.S. military carried out a strike on leader of Tren de Aragua
Heather Richards / Politico:
Trump's massive arch could snarl traffic for years
Discussion: USA Today and The Art Newspaper
NBC News:
Trump mulls inaugural flight of new Air Force One at Mount Rushmore event
 Earlier Items: 
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Spencer Pratt Concedes in L.A. Mayor Race: ‘You Have No Idea How Bad Things Are About to Get’
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Freedom 250's fair on National Mall highlights conservative groups
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Scoop: ICE detention numbers slip
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Newsbusters and El País
Emily Pontecorvo / Heatmap News:
Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Wind Energy
Discussion: Raw Story
Public Notice:
The Art of the Cave  —  Can Trump sell his loss to Iran as a win?
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Trump keeps insulting female journalists. It's time for the press to stop tolerating it
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Black Mold Of Republican Lies
Discussion: Yahoo Entertainment
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories

 
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