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Axios:
“You're fucking crazy”: Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon  —  President Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's escalation in Lebanon in an expletive-laden call on Monday, two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call told Axios.
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New York Times:
Iran War Live Updates: Israel Strikes Southern Lebanon After Pulling Back From Threat to Beirut  —  Under pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held off from attacking Beirut.  But he vowed to continue Israel's campaign against Hezbollah, which could threaten peace talks with Iran.
Punchbowl News:
6/2/26☀️ AM: … President Donald Trump is suddenly taking losses from his own friends and allies, especially on Capitol Hill.  —  GOP lawmakers are bucking Trump on his White House ballroom, shelving plans to spend $1 billion to secure the new facility and other areas of the presidential compound.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans to drop “weaponization” fund
Jordain Carney / Politico:
DOJ's ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ backtrack fails to calm Senate Republicans
Politico:
Trump administration retreats on ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
New York Times:
Trump Backs Off Plan for $1.8 Billion Fund That Drew Political Backlash
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport  —  Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.  —  The Maryland woman arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
Bloomberg:
Trump Appoints Loyalist Bill Pulte as Acting Spy Chief  —  President Donald Trump appointed Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as the acting director of National Intelligence, elevating a loyalist with no national-security background to US spy chief.
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump names William Pulte as acting intelligence head
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show  —  Pelley reportedly rebuked CBS ousting show's executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents  —  Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Pelley's ‘60 Minutes’ Revolt
Christopher Maag / New York Times:
A Congressman Was Suddenly Absent.  So We Looked.  And Looked.  —  Will the mystery of Tom Kean Jr., a New Jersey representative, finally be solved on Tuesday?  The reporters covering the story will have questions.  —  Representative Tom Kean Jr. has not been seen in public for nearly three months.
New Republic:
Trump Rages Over Fresh Iran Humiliation as GOP Angst Grows: “Screwed”  —  Donald Trump is hitting many new difficulties.  On Monday, Iran abandoned talks with the U.S., angering Trump.  Speaking to CNBC, he raged that he “couldn't care less” if the negotiations die, threatened again to blow Iran …
Discussion: CNBC
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Eric Niiler / New York Times:
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System  —  The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.  —  The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alex Roarty / NOTUS:
Mystery Money Is Displacing Actual Campaigns in Democratic Primaries  —  Races in Montana, Iowa and Michigan are being shaped by outside groups.  — Copy  —  More than $2 million has been spent on ads this year in the Senate Democratic primary in Montana.
Discussion: New Jersey Globe
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Jeff Singer / The Downballot:
The biggest primary night of the year is here
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space  —  The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts.
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Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, saying it has become a ‘classified space’
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Politico:
Pentagon press office is now a classified area and off-limits to reporters
Discussion: American Greatness
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The Heart of the American Left Is Picking Its Next Standard-Bearer … Yet when San Franciscans go to the polls Tuesday, they will be presented with a very different set of Democratic candidates — and who voters select will offer keen insights on the party and this city, perhaps the capital of American liberalism.
Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
America's Bipartisan Birthday Commission Is Losing to Trump  —  America 250 is facing a $100 million “shortfall.”  The Trump-created group Freedom 250 has received $80 million in taxpayer dollars.  — Copy  —  The Trump administration is withholding tens of millions in taxpayer funds …
New York Times:
Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline  —  Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as well as more adults refusing tetanus shots.  —  Doctors around the country say they are seeing more cases of serious …
Associated Press:
Trump taps housing finance director Pulte as acting director of national intelligence after Gabbard  —  The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.  Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate …
Discussion: Fox News
Erin Doherty / Politico:
Trump ally admits political risk of Iran war at campaign event … It's a stark acknowledgement for a representative who has positioned herself as a loyal ally of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, including on the ongoing war, and repeatedly voted against limiting the president's military powers.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated  —  Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.  —  Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.
New York Times:
Trump Megadonor Gave $5.5 Million Estate to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nonprofit  —  A Mellon heir transferred the adjacent Connecticut properties, covering about 300 acres, at no cost to Children's Health Defense last year.  —  Timothy Mellon, a reclusive banking heir who was one of President Trump's …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
The Biggest Threat to JD Vance Is Spencer Pratt … There are only three real threats that could complicate Vice President JD Vance's path to the Republican nomination in 2028.  —  One would be a spectacular betrayal by President Donald Trump.  America's gossip-in-chief has played enough 2028 parlor games …
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Iranian Endgames? … The Trump administration has bent over backward to negotiate an end to Iran's grand plans to develop nuclear weapons—before the June 2025 bombing, afterward, and again during the follow-up diplomacy of spring 2026.  —  Yet Iran is unlikely ever to abandon its pursuit of the bomb voluntarily.
Discussion: Slate and The Guardian
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Presses Neutral Oman to Pick a Side and Cut Ties With Iran
Discussion: New York Sun and Israpundit
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Melania Named in Bombshell New Epstein Claims  —  GLOVES OFF  —  Allegations by a former Brazilian model contradict the first lady's claims.  —  A former associate of Melania Trump has sensationally claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Jeffrey Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.
Discussion: Raw Story
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Why young America is trending socialist  —  Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z  —  “When they go low, we go high,” is a Democratic mantra.  But it only works if people think liberals have the credibility to trumpet high morals.  Not enough of America does.
Ali Winston / Wired:
The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI.  Now It's Coming for Protests  —  The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.  —  A right-wing think tank responsible …
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
Trump demands New York civil, criminal cases be thrown out  —  President Trump is demanding that his criminal conviction and civil fraud judgment in New York be tossed, months after his former lawyer claimed he felt “pressured and coerced” to testify against Trump during the investigations.
 
 
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