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12:45 PM ET, June 4, 2026

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Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Fuming Trump tears into ‘unpatriotic’ Dems and grandstanding Republicans after war powers vote  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The New York Post on Google  —  President Trump shrugged off the House passage Wednesday of a war powers resolution that would formally end …
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Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
The four Republicans who broke with Trump on Iran and now face his wrath  —  There are still hurdles before Congress could force the president to end hostilities, but the House resolution reflects lawmakers' growing impatience, including within Trump's own party.  —  Summary
CNN:
House votes to limit Trump's Iran war powers in remarkable rebuke
Punchbowl News:
6/4/26☀️ AM: … This will be a difficult nomination for Senate Republicans.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
CNN:
Exclusive: John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive national security documents  —  John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Politico:
Oil industry warns Trump administration of price spikes within weeks … Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes three months ago, kicking off what has become the biggest disruption in crude oil flows ever.
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Eyes Alternative ‘Weaponization’ Payouts After Fund Pushback  —  Some Trump supporters aim to secure government settlements by suing under 80-year-old law  —  WASHINGTON—While the Trump administration has reluctantly retreated from its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund …
Discussion: NBC News and NewsMax.com
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No, Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund isn't ‘dead’
Kat Lonsdorf / NPR:
National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds  —  President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. has reduced petty property crimes, but has had little to no effect on violent crime, despite the high cost to taxpayers …
Discussion: The Independent
Omar Tamo / Bloomberg:
Iran Says No Progress in US Talks as Lebanon Sees More Clashes  —  Iran said there had been no recent progress in talks with the US over an interim peace deal, while fighting persisted in Lebanon despite Washington's declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and the country.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tells Aides He Won't Resume All-Out War With Iran Unless U.S. Troops Are Killed
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 …
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The Tick-Tock on ‘60’ Correspondents … On Wednesday morning, CBS News Editor …
Politico:
Todd Blanche's next big fight  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Thursday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard.  Yes, they're still counting in California. … — For Todd Blanche, winning Trump's approval was only half the struggle.  — Senators brace for vote-a-rama.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Semafor
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Jacqueline Alemany / MS NOW:
Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general
CNN:
Sen. Booker says Todd Blanche won't have the votes to be confirmed for Attorney General
Discussion: Blaze Media, RedState and KRDO
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
The hair-loss drug Trump took for years is now absent from his medical records  —  White House officials say they are not obligated to disclose all of Trump's medications, including whether he still uses finasteride.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump's medical reports no longer include …
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Why does the media ignore Trump's madness?  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Donald Trump frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption.  He's since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime.  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ROB SAVILLO & HARRISON RAY … The 5-minute sum of Special Report's coverage of the conflicts of interest created …
Katherine Pompilio / Lawfare:
The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?  —  The real count is much higher than the public knew.  —  katherinepomps  —  katherinepomps.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors  —  At least 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Christopher Mathias / Talking Points Memo:
Greg Bovino's Retirement Plan?  Go Full Fascist  —  Greg Bovino was welcomed like a celebrity at one of the world's pre-eminent fascist confabs this past weekend.  The former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-At-Large — whose MAGA star turn came when President Donald Trump cast him as the lead …
Discussion: Wired
Washington Post:
Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6  —  Elias Irizarry was filmed moving through restricted grounds and climbing through a broken window, according to a Washington Post analysis.  —  Summary  —  A recent appointee to a sensitive counterterrorism job …
Associated Press:
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds  —  Eleven-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva had just stepped off the plane and into the Miami airport's dim hallways when federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning.  Again.  —  Panic welled up.
ProPublica:
In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations  —  Co-published with Minnesota Star Tribune  —  Reporting Highlights  — A National Problem: Old Apostolic Lutheran Church congregations around the U.S. have been forced to deal with child sex abuse.
Elmira Aliieva / NBC News:
Flesh-eating screwworm returns to U.S. after 60 years, threatening cattle herd  —  The case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said late Wednesday.
David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:
Park Service Awards No-Bid Contract to Cover Bridge Statues in Gold  —  Originally estimated to cost $2.4 million, the government will now spend $5 million to restore the bronzes in time for Independence Day.  —  The Trump administration has handed out no-bid contracts this year to overhaul …
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Cameron McWhirter / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Cities Dust Off Statues They Hid Away in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
New York Assembly sends bill to Hochul's desk to replace ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with gender neutral terms  —  A new bill passed by the New York state legislature on Tuesday is heading to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk, and it seeks to switch language in several laws to so-called “gender neutral language.”
Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal:
The Kennedy Who Says She Left the White House Over Concerns About CIA Spending  —  Amaryllis Fox Kennedy says in an interview that there wasn't enough oversight of the intelligence community's use of taxpayer funds  —  WASHINGTON—Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
The $9 billion liability across the street from the Capitol … “As these facilities age and kind of reach this tipping point, we start having an increasing number of failures as all these systems age out and we start having series of failures on top of each other,” he told the House Administration Committee at a hearing Wednesday.
Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Sherrill Says Immigration Officials Won't Let Her Visit Detention Center  —  The governor said the Department of Homeland Security's actions at Delaney Hall raise “serious questions.”  —  Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey said Wednesday that federal immigration officials were continuing …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Arizona AG to seek new indictment in Trump 2020 election case … The brief, unexplained decision closed the book on a two-year-old case that threatened some of Trump's closest allies, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and nearly …
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on federal regulation of telecom companies  —  The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in a case about the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies.
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
The Men Defending Graham Platner in All the Wrong Ways  —  Graham Platner is at the center of another scandal, this time after reports he sent sexual messages to multiple women during his relationship with his now-wife Amy Gertner.  The information was initially disclosed to campaign officials …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Breitbart
Paul Krugman:
Illegal Tariffs, Round 3  —  Another failing war Trump won't end  —  Remember tariffs?  —  Fourteen months ago, Donald Trump announced that he was starting a trade war by imposing sweeping tariffs on almost every nation in the world.  His move caused shock waves, and not just because of the economic impact.
Politico:
Tech ‘got spanked’ in this week's primaries.  It could be a preview of more to come. … Tech challengers are also stumbling in congressional races in the tech-heavy Bay Area.  Entrepreneur Ethan Agarwal conceded early Wednesday after coming nowhere close to advancing against Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna …
 
 
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
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Scott Waldman / Politico:
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
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Punchbowl News:
Mamdani infuriates Congressional Hispanic Caucus
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Olivia Ralph / The Daily Beast:
Trump Suffers Crushing Poll Defeat Against Sex Attack Victim
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Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18%

Adam Rose / The Guardian:
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