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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
South Carolina's redistricting effort fails in the state Senate amid GOP opposition — Some Republican lawmakers changed their stance on enacting a new map before the midterms when early voting for the June primary began on Tuesday. — The Republican-led South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted …
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Associated Press:
Early voting begins in South Carolina as senators weigh scrapping primary for congressional races — Early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina's primaries, as state senators considered whether to cancel the congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed …
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NBC News:
10 Texas counties to watch in the Cornyn-Paxton clash: From the Politics Desk — Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.
Emily Goodin / New York Post:
Trump to make rare trip to Camp David as Iran tensions rise over US strikes — See more of our coverage in your search results. — Add The New York Post on Google — President Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David Wednesday to hold a cabinet meeting as peace talks with Iran near crunch time, The Post has learned.
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
Trump still thinks he's winning in Iran — There's an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace talks with Iran.
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NBC News:
Deal or no deal? Trump's social media posts add confusion to Iran conflict
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Washington Post:
Iran threatens retaliation after U.S. strikes in southern Iran
Iran threatens retaliation after U.S. strikes in southern Iran
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters — Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would redraw one majority-Black district. — A panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected Alabama's effort to use …
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Associated Press:
Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Florida judge blocks effort to halt new GOP House map
Florida judge blocks effort to halt new GOP House map
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Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Florida congressional map survives first court test
Florida congressional map survives first court test
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Washington Post:
Trump administration proposes NDAs for all federal workers — The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies. — Summary — The Trump administration is planning a government-wide …
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Cameron Peters / Vox:
Trump's new plan to quash leaks
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Ramsey Khalifeh / Gothamist:
Exclusive renderings of Penn Station overhaul show Trump's name with presidential seal — Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations — The winning plan to rebuild Penn Station features renderings of a new train hall with American flags at the entrance, gold-accented railings …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries — Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents. — Grand juries are the heart of the criminal justice system …
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New York Times:
Iran Begins Lifting Monthslong Internet Blackout, Officials Say — Organizations that track online traffic confirmed an uptick in activity on Tuesday, as Iranians reconnected to the global internet after a government-imposed shutdown. — Iran began restoring internet access for tens …
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Paul Krugman:
The Dumpster Fire of the Vanities — On Memorial Day the New York Times published an article with the headline “Trump is the only person who can save America, according to his cabinet.” The article offered a quantitative analysis of senior-official sycophancy.
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Rick Wilson / Rick Wilson's Against All Enemies:
Trump Is Dying — This post is brought to you free by Incogni. — Let me say what the White House press corps cannot bring itself to say, what the Sunday shows have agreed to murmur around rather than at: — Donald John Trump is dying. — He is dying in the ordinary biological sense …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers — Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump's first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began?
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Revisionist History Of Trump's Impeachments — No, they did not help him.... but they could've hurt him more. — ∙ Paid — Democrats remain favored to win back control of the House in November, but after state-level GOP officials stole several seats on Donald Trump's orders …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. is now handling snakes. What does this mean? — Decoding the latest manly video from our secretary of health and human services. — Summary — It is time to stop whatever you are doing, take off your shoes, leave on your dress socks, and wrestle two snakes on the patio of a house owned by Mehmet Oz.
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Noah Shachtman / Vanity Fair:
Todd Blanche Is Trump's Legal Enforcer. But There's One Wild Case From His Past He Can't Seem to Escape. — A fake Mossad agent. Twin grifters. The nation's top lawman. A head-spinning legal drama has the attorney general fighting off accusations of forgery, malpractice, and more.
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Supreme Court Reverses Ruling in Immigration Judges' Free Speech Lawsuit — A group of immigration judges in 2020 challenged work-related restrictions on their public speaking engagements, saying they violated their free speech rights. — The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court tosses Florida lawsuit against states for drivers' licenses issued to undocumented immigrants — The politically tinged lawsuit arose after a high-profile crash in Florida last year involving a commercial truck driver from India, in which three people died.
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STAT:
Trump wraps up three-hour medical visit to Walter Reed and declares ‘Everything checked out PERFECTLY’ — The medical exam comes as the president tries to project strength ahead of midterm elections — on Tuesday, putting his health under renewed public scrutiny as he has — over his age and stamina.
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump — In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party's ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election — Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting …
Ross O'Keefe / New York Post:
‘The Simpsons’ writer known as ‘The Prophet’ launches run for president — See more of our coverage in your search results. — Add The California Post on Google — A high-profile Simpsons writer is hoping his prophetic chops can change America. — Dan Greaney, best known for the 2000 episode …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
UFC Unveils Plans for White House Fight on Trump's Birthday — The Ultimate Fighting Championship bout is scheduled for June 14, President Trump's 80th birthday. — The Ultimate Fighting Championship has released its latest rendering of the octagonal cage that officials are building …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Southern Poverty Law Center Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution — Defense lawyers are increasingly accusing the Justice Department under President Trump of using its powers to prioritize the president's political imperatives above the pursuit of actual justice.
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Rahm Emanuel, a Possible 2028 Contender, Calls for Higher Education Reforms — Republicans have made gains with voters on education issues. A plan championed by Mr. Emanuel, a Democratic former mayor of Chicago, centers on college affordability. — Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor …
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops — The Trump administration has mass-deleted information about prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including cases of defendants who assaulted police officers.
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Panel upholds US judge's private reprimand for affair with police officer — A national judicial panel has upheld a private reprimand of a federal judge in the U.S. South who engaged in an extramarital affair with a high-ranking police officer and had sexual intercourse in the judge's chambers within earshot of staff.
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New York Times:
Scientists Ditched a Scary Climate Scenario. What Now? — While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether some risks have been overstated. — It's rare for technical papers about climate modeling to kick off …
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Poll: Trump's approval rating hits another low on prices as Democrats hit +8 on generic ballot — Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Trump's job approval on prices falling to -47, and a record 39% of Americans naming prices as the single most important problem facing the country
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