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New York Times:
Platner's Wife Flagged His Sexual Texts With Other Women as Maine Senate Race Began  —  The wife of Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine, told the campaign he had sent sexual messages to other women.  —  Graham Platner's insurgent bid for Senate in Maine was gathering steam …
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Wall Street Journal:
Graham Platner's Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign  —  The wife of the Maine Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women  —  Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid …
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Platner's campaign confirms he sent sexual texts to women while married
Discussion: twitchy.com and Mediaite
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump to hold a rally at the ‘Great America State Fair’ after several artists back out
Wiktoria Gucia / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Brutal Vance Mockery Exposed in White House Leaks  —  PREVIOUSLY ON SUCCESSION  —  The 79-year-old president has reportedly been fixated on his vice president's embarrassing moments.  —  President Donald Trump has reportedly been busy privately venting to allies about all the things …
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
White House Releases Results of Trump's Latest Physical Exam
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Military Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Drug Trafficking  —  Around 200 people have now been killed in the attacks since last year, in an operation critics say has failed to slow the smuggling of cocaine.  —  The U.S. military killed three men in a strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific …
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New York Times:
Trump Sends Tougher Terms to Iran for Peace Framework, Officials Say  —  His changes to the proposed deal were potentially designed to speed up the process by putting pressure Iran to accept the current framework, one official said.  —  President Trump has toughened the terms of a potential framework …
Discussion: Middle East Monitor and Axios
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Axios:
Trump requests edits to Iran deal his envoys negotiated  —  President Trump asked for several amendments to the deal his envoys reached with their Iranian counterparts during a Situation Room meeting on Friday, according to a senior administration official and a second source briefed on the issue.
New York Times:
Inside the Deal to Drop Trump's $10 Billion Suit Against the I.R.S. … Time was running out.  —  President Trump had sued the I.R.S. for $10 billion, and a federal judge was pressing the Justice Department to explain how it could muster an independent defense of the agency against the man who ultimately controlled it.
Discussion: Straight Arrow and Althouse
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Washington Post:
Judge probes whether deal creating Trump's $1.8 billion fund constitutes fraud
Zachary Basu / Axios:
GOP's anti-"woke" playbook faces ultimate test in Texas  —  The Texas Senate race has become a national laboratory for anti-"woke" politics, testing whether voters still recoil from the language of 2020 amid the economic pain of 2026.  —  Why it matters: Republicans came away from 2024 convinced …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   The Terrifying New Wave of Republican Candidates on the Ballot This Year
New York Times:
5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Trump  —  A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to take President Trump's name off the building.  What happens next?  —  In his ruling that President Trump's name must be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts …
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Trump blasts judge over Kennedy Center ruling in angry statement
Riley Rourke / CBS News:
Meteor explodes off coast of Massachusetts, causing loud boom  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  A meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom that could be heard throughout the state Saturday afternoon, according to WBZ-TV chief meteorologist Eric Fisher.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
California 2026 Poll: Becerra Leads, Steyer and Hilton Toss-up for Second Spot  —  Home Polls California 2026 Poll: Becerra Leads, Steyer and Hilton Toss-up for Second Spot  —  The final Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics survey of the California governor's race finds Democrat …
Wall Street Journal:
A New ‘Wounded Bear Caucus’ in the Senate Means More Trouble for Trump  —  Why the GOP's split with the White House over a $1.8 billion fund could be first of many public fights  —  WASHINGTON—The congressional recess is typically a cooling-off period that helps ease tensions between the White House and Capitol Hill.
Discussion: The Independent and Reuters
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Best News in America  —  I lived in Baltimore for a brief time just before the Great Recession, when the city seemed like a great experiment in gentrifying can-do — the wealth spillover from Washington, D.C., funding youthful forays in exposed-brick living, top-to-bottom renovations …
Discussion: HotAir
Diana Gitig / Ars Technica:
Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents … Stanley Plotkin, 93, was instrumental in developing a number of vaccines over the course of his career.  He recently said that he's “beginning to regret having lived so long—because we're going downhill.”
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Senator Dan Sullivan Has a New Challenger in Alaska: Dan Sullivan  —  Two candidates with the same name will be on the ballot seeking the same seat in the state's primary.  “It's going to be confusing,” one Republican said.  —  In Alaska this election season, the biggest supporters …
Alfred Ng / Politico:
Trump's immigration enforcers look into buying ad data.  Industry insiders fear what comes next. … “It's very shocking to see it in black and white that the government is trying to use the digital advertising ecosystem to find and target immigrants,” said O'Kelley, who is the CEO …
Discussion: Raw Story and Blaze Media
 
 
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New York Times:
Among Mamdani's Priorities, Economic Development Seems Low on the List
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Why $1bn in Balkans energy contracts are going to an obscure company connected to Donald Trump
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump's new ‘anti-weaponization’ fund despite backlash
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Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence, with a new architecture built on Apple Foundation Models developed with Google and adapted to run on device and on servers

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company”

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them
 
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