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9:35 PM ET, June 3, 2026

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Sarah Ferris / CNN:
Senate Republicans drop Trump ballroom funding from immigration bill  —  Congressional news Donald Trump Immigration  —  Senate Republicans have formally removed funding for President Donald Trump's ballroom security as part of their sprawling immigration funding package, according to revised legislative text released Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP-Led House Votes to Limit Trump's Iran War Powers  —  Effort to constrain White House comes as war has morphed from a heavy bombing campaign to a fragile ceasefire  —  WASHINGTON-The GOP-led House voted to restrict President Trump's ability to continue the war against Iran without congressional approval …
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Trump Humiliated After Senators Pull Ballroom Cash
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House passes resolution to end Iran War, challenging Trump  —  House lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation designed to force President Trump to end the Iran War, marking a victory for Democrats and the constitutional purists who say the conflict is illegal without explicit congressional approval.
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
House moves forward on new aid for Ukraine package, spurning Trump  —  Six Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday to push through a vote on military aid for Ukraine, a blow to President Trump's handling of Russia's war against the country and his withdrawal of U.S. support for Kyiv.
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, in a rebuke of Trump  —  The House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined …
Washington Post:
In a first, House votes to block Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran  —  The Senate advanced a similar war powers resolution last month on a procedural vote, reflecting growing impatience with a conflict Congress hasn't authorized.  —  Summary  —  The House passed a resolution Wednesday …
Erich Wagner / GovExec.com:
Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F  —  President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order formally converting nearly 10,000 career federal workers into Schedule Policy/Career, making them effectively at-will employees.
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers  —  President Trump has issued an executive order turning an estimated 8,000 federal workers into at-will employees, which means the government could fire them without providing any reason.  —  The move culminates an effort Trump launched during …
Reuters:
Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump Sports Swollen Eye Days After Surprise Medical Checkup … President Trump was sporting a swollen eye and hand in an interview with New York Post's Miranda Devine on the conservative podcast Pod Force One.  —  Trump's right eye clearly showed puffiness and looked oddly misshapen compared …
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Magan Crane / Bloomberg:
Trump Blames Court Block for Collapse of ‘Weaponization’ Fund
NBC News:
Trump says 'maybe we'll never' take down the UFC structure outside the White House
Robert Tait / Reuters:
Trump suggests he will make Todd Blanche permanent US attorney general
New York Times:
Bari Weiss Speaks on Scott Pelley's Firing: 'That's the Path That He Chose'  —  In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.  —  Bari Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief …
New York Times:
This Man Should Not Be in Charge of National Intelligence  —  In the 20th century, Americans learned how government abuse of secrets can threaten liberty.  It happened during Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the McCarthy era and J. Edgar Hoover's long reign at the F.B.I. After the Watergate scandal …
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Hayes Brown / MS NOW:
Bill Pulte is Trump's most dangerously sycophantic promotion yet
New York Times:
The Narrow Path to a Democratic Senate Runs Through Very Red States  —  Democrats cheer there is a way, even as new worries emerge over whether Graham Platner can flip a Maine seat.  Republicans remain confident they will prevail in Texas, Iowa and Alaska.  —  When President Trump met …
Discussion: The Status Kuo
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance  —  The Heritage Foundation's “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” — popularly known as Project 2025 — was much more than a wish list of conservative policy preferences.  It was much more, even, than a blueprint for a second Trump administration.
David Strom / HotAir:
Judge: Paedo Sex Offenders May Use Girls' Locker Room  —  Because of their allegiance to alphabet ideology, liberal jurisdictions are about as sex offender-friendly as is possible in the First World.  —  Scott Wiener, the utterly degenerate California State Senator Scott Wiener …
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democratic unity, Republican crossovers shape Ohio Senate race  —  President Donald Trump carried Ohio by more than 11 percentage points in 2024, but a new Fox News survey finds his standing in the Buckeye State has deteriorated — a development that is benefitting Democrat Sherrod Brown in the Senate race.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Olivia Ralph / The Daily Beast:
Trump Suffers Crushing Poll Defeat Against Sex Attack Victim  —  TRUST GAP  —  A new poll finds Americans overwhelmingly believe E. Jean Carroll over the president.  —  Donald Trump is losing bigly in the court of public opinion to the woman who successfully sued him for sexual abuse and defamation.
Discussion: USA Today and YouGov
Matt Burgess / Wired:
xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity  —  Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm …
Discussion: The Guardian
Justmindy / twitchy.com:
Code Pink Thug Slaps Rep. Anna Paulina Luna After Hearing — Luna Files Charges and Demands Ban  —  Earlier, we told you about the crazy hearing with Marco Rubio and a House Committee.  Rep. Luna was part of the hearing and she questioned Sec. Rubio about Code Pink.  Code Pink was apparently in the audience and took offense.
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Rubio grows exasperated with Democrats at heated House hearing
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Centrist Democrats launch new pledge: ‘We are capitalist, not socialist’  —  A pair of Democratic House members who won Republican-held seats want others to sign a vow for moderate policies.  —  Summary  —  Two Democrats in Congress who flipped Republican-held seats in 2024 plan to debut …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Be A Federal Judge  —  Katie Lane, the first of Trump's judicial nominees to earn the abysmal ABA rating in his second term, now has a lifetime seat on a Montana district court.  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans voted Tuesday …
Discussion: Reuters
Ben Chapman / New York Post:
Feds raid $35M SoCal mansion of tech boss charged with sending secret shipments to Iranian military, nuclear programs  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The California Post on Google  —  Federal agents, in a daring predawn raid Wednesday, pounced on the opulent …
Dan Maurer / Lawfare:
Rules of Engagement When the Troops Appear at Polling Sites  —  State election officials can mitigate the perils of federal “armed men” at the polls.  —  Meet The Authors  —  Open, noncoercive, and safe elections are a hallmark of a healthy democracy.  Today, those characteristics are in jeopardy.
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Aftermath: Something Is Going to Snap  —  This story was first featured in the Aftermath newsletter, a series from David Dayen exploring the economic consequences of the war in Iran.  To have these stories delivered to your in-box as soon as they are published, sign up for the newsletter here.
Discussion: Washington Post and Asia Times
Cate Brown / The Guardian:
Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show  —  Ben Black's lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions  —  Ben Black, the head of a little-known government investment agency funded by billions …
G. Elliott Morris / Substack:
G. Elliott Morris  —  This chart from the latest YouGov/Economist poll result is really quite stunning.  Trump's net approval is not only deeply negative, but about 15(!!) points below what it was at this point in 2018.  With this data you'd expect this year's midterms to be even worse …
Reuters:
Trump says Iran has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran has agreed not to have a nuclear weapon and that he would probably meet with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei at some point if things “work out”.  —  “They've already agreed they're …
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump attacks CNN's Collins: ‘Hatred in her eyes’  —  President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, accusing her of having “hatred in her eyes,” while he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office.  —  The president was answering a question about the recently defunct …
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Mitch McConnell statement suggests he considers Bill Pulte unfit for national intelligence director role - US politics live  —  Republican senator does not name Trump pick but points to importance of eligibility requirements, which Pulte is widely considered to be lacking
 
 
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Nigel Farage / Telegraph:
Henry Nowak's murder should be a wake-up call for Britain
Ja'han Jones / MS NOW:
New Mexico truth commission approves subpoenas, isn't letting Epstein fade
Discussion: WTTG-TV and The Hill
Washington Post:
Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges
Ryan King / New York Post:
Speaker Johnson knows what happened to missing NJ Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — but refuses to disclose it
Zana Cimili / Associated Press:
What to know: Protests grow over Trump family-linked resort in Albania
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Trump Plans $700 Million to Build Coal Plants, Export Site
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Cassandra Dumay / Politico:
Appropriators bicker over Trump's arch
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Josephine Walker / Axios:
MAGA isn't sold on Trump's face on the $250 bill
New York Post:
Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds
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