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2:00 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
Mike Zapler / Axios:
Pulte pick sparks a Senate GOP rebellion
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.
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New York Times:
John Bolton Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty Over Classified Information  —  The former Trump national security adviser plans to plead guilty to a count of illegal retention of classified information, which could result in a fine and possibly prison time of up to five years.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and NewsMax.com
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: Reason and The Independent
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’
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: New York Times and Bloomberg
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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CNN:
Sen. Booker says Todd Blanche won't have the votes to be confirmed for Attorney General
Discussion: Blaze Media, RedState and KRDO
Jacqueline Alemany / MS NOW:
Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general
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.
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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Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
Journalists Ditch Colbert, Mourn Scott Pelley's ‘60 Minutes’ Exit
Discussion: Newsbusters and twitchy.com
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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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
Bret Devereaux / The Bulwark:
Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong  —  HOMER IS BACK in the discourse on account of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film, The Odyssey.  The latest controversy began with Elon Musk, among others, protesting the supposed inaccuracy of casting Lupita Nyong'o as Helen …
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.
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.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 3, 2026  —  Last night, in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its finding in the recent Louisiana v. Callais decision.  That decision overturned decades of law to declare that states could not construct majority-minority voting districts, as they had done under Section 2 …
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New York Post:
Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY law  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The New York Post on Google  —  Mom's not the word.  —  A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws …
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Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:   New York Assembly sends bill to Hochul's desk to replace ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with gender neutral terms
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 …
The Economist:
How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism  —  The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity  —  Something new is stirring on the left.  A fresh crop of socialists want to remake the economy with price controls, hefty wealth taxes and a spree of nationalisations.
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.
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
Luke Fountain / CNBC:
Inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center ahead of its Juneteenth opening … For the first time, the public is getting a look inside the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center ahead of its Juneteenth opening on Chicago's South Side.  —  The sprawling, 19.3-acre …
 
 
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CNN:
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Discussion: STAT
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
The Men Defending Graham Platner in All the Wrong Ways
Discussion: Bloomberg and Breitbart
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Can California Still Be Saved?
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
This Is Why You Don't Slash Humanitarian Aid
Discussion: Truthout and Chicago Sun Times
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Waldman / Politico:
A judge said the Trump administration can't dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done.
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Elite Is Souring on the War. Putin Doesn't Seem to Care.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Politico:
What Rubio's 2 days on the Hill foretell for 2028
Discussion: Breitbart
Politico:
Tech ‘got spanked’ in this week's primaries. It could be a preview of more to come.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
The population crisis hiding in California's suburbs
Punchbowl News:
Mamdani infuriates Congressional Hispanic Caucus
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