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Erica Orden / Politico:
Todd Blanche pulls his most eyebrow-raising move yet  —  When Todd Blanche announced charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center last month, critics accused him of placating President Donald Trump in an effort to secure the attorney general job permanently.
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Politico:
GOP calls off votes after contentious meeting on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  —  Senate GOP leaders have canceled plans to vote this week on a party-line immigration enforcement bill, a major setback as lawmakers contend with President Donald Trump's personal political agenda.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Dumb and dumber, Republican-style  —  Purging Sens. John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy sacrifices intelligence in scarce supply in the GOP.  —  This week, the Republican Party has accomplished something difficult: It made itself stupider.  It subtracted from its already shallow reservoir …
NBC News:
Exclusive: Michael Cohen says he will apply for payments from DOJ's ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Semafor:
How Trump lost Senate Republicans
NBC News:   Trump's $1.8B fund isn't officially open yet. That hasn't stopped applications.
Sara Tenenbaum / CBS News:
All charges dismissed against “Broadview Six,” defense says grand jury transcript revealed “gross misconduct”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  All remaining charges against the “Broadview Six” defendants have been dismissed with prejudice, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced in court Thursday afternoon.
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Audit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind
Democratic National Committee:
A Message from DNC Chair Ken Martin on the DNC's 2024 After Action Report
New York Times:
Potential 2028 contenders are among those dismayed by the D.N.C. autopsy.
Alayna Treene / CNN:
Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding will be on a small island in the Bahamas — without his father present, sources say  —  Relationships Trump family The Caribbean  —  The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., will wed Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson on a small island in the Bahamas this weekend …
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Politico:   The $5.02 ghost: Trump's team faces a symbolic blow to one of its favorite economic talking points
New York Times:
G.O.P. Pulls Measure to End Iran War, Lacking Votes to Defeat It  —  House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.  —  House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
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Axios:
House Republicans scrap vote to rein in Trump's war in Iran
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Politico:
Trump yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns … But during a conversation with Trump, Sacks told the president that companies were already cooperating, and that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm …
Discussion: UPI, more at Techmeme »
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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
Homeland Security's Plan to Squeeze International Flights  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox News …
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Reuters, Mediaite and WTTG-TV
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Tom Kean Jr.'s absence from Congress makes Democrats bullish they can flip his seat … But others caution they're being “cocky” about taking down Kean, who's never been big on unscripted public appearances anyway.  On Thursday, Kean spoke to the New Jersey Globe and reiterated that he'll …
Discussion: NBC News
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Kean says he expects full recovery, confirms re-election bid
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump, facing GOP blowback, sends 5,000 troops to Poland  —  President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. is sending 5,000 additional troops to Poland, a week after the Pentagon cancelled the long-planned deployment of 4,000 service members to the Central European country.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump officials tried to ban half of U.S. voting machines, citing conspiracy theories  —  U.S. President Donald Trump's election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare …
Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
UF Interim President to Receive $2M Exit Package  —  University of Florida interim president Donald Landry is set to receive a $2 million payout as part of an unusual contract provision entitling him to severance pay if he didn't get the permanent job.  —  On Monday UF announced …
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes  —  On May 7, amid the din of protesters, Tennessee's Republican-majority legislature met to vote on a bill that would eliminate the state's lone majority-Black and Democratic House district, divvying its voters up between three heavily white ones.
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Acting Navy secretary: Taiwan weapons sales paused to ensure munitions for Iran war  —  Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said Thursday the U.S. is pausing a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan because of the Trump administration's war with Iran.  —  Speaking during a Senate Appropriations Defense …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House rejects Smithsonian women's history museum bill after partisan split  —  The House rejected legislation Thursday to advance construction of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum after a partisan battle broke out in recent days over the long-sought building.
Washington Post:
Poll shows voter confidence in economy plummeting to a nearly 4-year low  —  Concerns about rising costs are a problem for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections as Trump struggles to deliver on affordability pledges.  —  Summary  —  Americans' confidence in the economy has hit a nearly four-year low …
Politico:
RFK Jr. announces ‘the largest autism fraud bust in American history’ and it's in Minnesota … Minnesota was also at the center of Democratic resistance to President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.  Federal agents killed two protesters in the state earlier this year …
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
DOJ charges 15 fraudsters who stole $90M in Minnesota — with one defendant on the lam after jumping off 4th-floor balcony
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Federal Panel Approves Trump's Plans for a 250-foot Arch in Washington  —  The panel, whose members were selected by President Trump, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power.  —  The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump's plan …
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CBS News:
Design plan for 250-foot “Arc de Trump” is approved, but 4 lions on the base are now gone
 
 
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NBC News:
Suicides rise in ICE detention, 911 calls detail serious cases of self-harm
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
Trump's Endgame Is Surrender
Discussion: Raw Story and Al Jazeera
Aura Bogado / The Guardian:
US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Grok falls flat in Washington, undercutting SpaceX's AI growth story
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump's Tax Immunity Could Save Him More Than $600 Million
Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Fraud mastermind behind Minnesota child nutrition program scheme handed stunning 4-decade sentence
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The New Blood Libel  —  This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.
The Intercept:
ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities

Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion
 
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