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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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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 …
Axios:
House Republicans scrap vote to rein in Trump's war in Iran  —  House GOP leadership pulled a scheduled vote Thursday to rein in President Trump's military campaign in Iran after it became clear they did not have the votes to defeat it. … - Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) …
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Semafor:
How Trump lost Senate Republicans
NBC News:   Trump's $1.8B fund isn't officially open yet. That hasn't stopped applications.
NBC News:
Republicans cancel votes amid fight over Trump's ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
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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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
‘Broadview Six’ charges dropped as Chicago's top federal prosecutor admits case was tainted by misconduct  —  Chicago's top federal prosecutor announced Thursday he was dropping charges against the remaining members of the “Broadview Six” in a stunning hearing that revealed apparent misconduct …
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Audit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind  —  Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides.  —  5 MIN READ  —  Critics Say the Deal Creates a ‘Slush Fund.’ The Phrase Has a Colorful History.  —  7 MIN READ
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Wire
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Democratic National Committee:
A Message from DNC Chair Ken Martin on the DNC's 2024 After Action Report
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Autopsy of the autopsy: How the DNC's 2024 post-mortem turned into a crisis
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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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says He Will ‘Try and Make’ Son's Wedding, but Timing ‘Not Good’  —  President Trump said the war with Iran and “other things” would make it difficult for him to make the wedding this weekend.  —  It's your classic dilemma.  —  You are president of the United States, and you've started a war in Iran that's not going your way.
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
Trump's Endgame Is Surrender  —  He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.  —  The outlines of President Trump's endgame in the Iran war are now emerging.  In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday …
Discussion: Raw Story and Al Jazeera
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
NBC News:
Exclusive: Michael Cohen says he will apply for payments from DOJ's ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  —  Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer who served nearly three years in prison on tax evasion and other charges, told NBC News he plans to apply for a payout from the Justice Department's so-called anti-weaponization fund.
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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
Washington Post:
Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump's expected order on AI  —  Industry leaders warned in last-minute calls to the president that the proposed safety vetting system could inhibit development of the pivotal technology.  —  Summary  —  Eleventh-hour phone calls with industry leaders …
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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 »
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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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
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 …
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 …
CBS News:
Design plan for 250-foot “Arc de Trump” is approved, but 4 lions on the base are now gone  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved the design for the triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built at an entrance to the nation's capital, a key step in the project's process.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Federal Panel Approves Trump's Plans for a 250-foot Arch in Washington
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students  —  The bill requires educators to get parental consent for changing a student's pronouns or preferred names on any school forms.  It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The New Blood Libel  —  This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.  —  the synagogue where I was bar mitzvahed was built in 1963.  The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews of Europe had ended only 18 years before.  But those nightmares seemed remote from the verdant and prosperous cul-de-sac …
 
 
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Reuters:
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: new Doctor Who episodes are likely to remain off TV until at least 2028; the BBC says it will use a competitive process to find producers for Season 16

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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