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Lizzie Porter / The National:
Deterrence and leverage: Iran tries to call the shots with strikes on Israel — Severe escalation complicates advanced peace talks as Tehran signals willingness to risk return to full-scale war, 100 days into the conflict — Monday's escalation suggests Tehran, confident in its ability …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump struggles to end an Iran war he never should have started — All the options are bad, and the president has no one but himself to blame. — On May 23, President Donald Trump said a deal to end the war with Iran was almost finalized and would be “announced shortly.”
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Megan K. Stack / New York Times:
Israeli Expansionism Is Shaking the Middle East
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Israel says it has struck Iran after taking missile fire
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Justina Lee / CNBC:
Oil prices spike over 4% as Iran and Israel trade strikes
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Axios, NPR, Michael Cohen, New York Post, The Irish News, Bloomberg, HuffPost, Associated Press and Reuters
Reuters:
Trump says new Israel, Iran strikes won't affect peace deal
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Forbes, Mediaite, Associated Press, Raw Story and The Guardian
Financial Times:
Trump says Netanyahu will have ‘no choice’ but to accept a deal with Iran — US president tells FT that he ‘calls the shots’ after urging the Israeli leader not to retaliate against Tehran
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The Hill, CBS News, Reuters, Politico, Forbes, The Times of Israel, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, NewsMax.com, Al Jazeera and MS NOW
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump tells Netanyahu not to strike Iran … - The senior U.S. official said the Trump administration didn't give a “green light” to the Israeli strike in Beirut. … - Netanyahu pushed back but ultimately “pseudo agreed” to stand down, the official said. — The official said Sunday's call …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Iranian missile launches target northern Israel, Israeli military says
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Stephen Neukam / NOTUS:
Ken Paxton's Impeachment Defense Lawyer Endorses James Talarico — A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton's defense during a 2023 impeachment trial said Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission.” — Copy — A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton's defense during …
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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Jacques Berlinerblau / MS NOW:
The hypocrisy of Republicans trying to shame James Talarico for his faith
Los Angeles Times:
Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor's race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass — Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman surged past reality television personality Spencer Pratt in the city's mayoral primary election Sunday, capping off a five-day turnaround after she fell behind to Pratt on election night.
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Scott Bland / NBC News:
Nithya Raman leaps past Spencer Pratt in tight, unresolved race to make L.A. mayoral runoff
Joel Pollak / New York Post:
LA voting debacle reflects a democracy in crisis
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twitchy.com and RedState
Matt Burgess / Wired:
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology — A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech. — Europe is done with American Big Tech. Well, sort of.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Pam Bondi was the worst AG in history. Until now. — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — ☀️ Subscribe to PN ☀️ — Pam Bondi has a strong claim to being the most corrupt and subservient attorney general in US history.
Politico:
Spy-powers deal is latest Hill casualty of Trump's impetuous decisionmaking … But Democrats are withdrawing their support in protest of the Pulte appointment, with nearly every Democratic senator joining a handful of Republicans in tanking a procedural vote early Friday morning …
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Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, The Hill and New York Sun
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Capitol agenda: Five days to save FISA — Republicans are about to put one Donald Trump-induced headache behind them — but another is right behind it. The House is expected to send a long-stalled GOP immigration enforcement funding bill to Trump's desk Tuesday after the president threw multiple curveballs into the process.
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and The American Conservative
Steve Vladeck / One First:
231. The Death of Purcell's “Principle” — There is no coherent defense of the “Purcell principle” that can be rationalized with the Supreme Court's behavior over the past six weeks in the Alabama and Louisiana redistricting cases. — Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims …
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Election Law Blog
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Deep in Rural Virginia, a MAGA Pro-Gun Push Takes an Unnerving Turn — When Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a new assault weapons ban in Virginia last month, it got almost zero national news coverage. Yet it amounted to an important milestone: It marked the first time in U.S. history …
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The Daily Caller
Heidi Blake / New Yorker:
Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse — How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. — “I've done this with over 100 girls,” Tate said, about compelling women into sex work. “I almost sound evil. But I'm not.”
Wall Street Journal:
The New York Primary That Is All About Israel — From lower Manhattan into brownstone Brooklyn, events 6,000 miles away are dividing neighbors and consuming a Democratic congressional race. 'It's crazy.' — NEW YORK—Not long ago, Dan Goldman was a hero of the resistance.
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Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
The Justice Department Hasn't Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 Election — The DOJ appears to be quietly scrapping its typical “command center” that would monitor Election Day emergencies. — Copy — President Donald Trump says “if you don't have honest voting, you can't really have a nation.”
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Hidden Figure With Close Ties to Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein — Melanie Walker was a confidante to Gates and Epstein. Her lawyer says she was in a ‘coercive relationship’ with Epstein. — It was September 2017, and Dr. Melanie Walker's work with Bill Gates was coming to an end.
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Border Chief Vows New York ICE Surge, Says 'It's Coming' — The Trump administration has drawn up a plan to surge US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel to New York City, a move that threatens to escalate tensions with New York Governor Kathy Hochul over the president's migrant crackdown.
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
How America Gave Up on Its Own History — Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country's schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all. — Seek — on a july afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America's great estates.
Milan Singh / The Argument:
Why centrists can't win the Democratic presidential primary — The liberal wing of the party is now the majority wing — On Wednesday, I went to WelcomeFest, the annual gathering of centrist Democratic operatives and D.C. types.1 The purpose of the conference is to advocate for moderation …
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