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After Trump threatened to attack Iran, a scramble to stop him … The president announced on Truth Social that a deal could be signed as early as this weekend. — “We just made a great settlement of the war in Iran and we'll be subject to finalization of documents,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office later Thursday.
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New York Times:
A Dangerous Limbo Leaves Iran, and the World, Between Peace and War — Since announcing a nominal cease-fire two months ago, Iran, Israel and the U.S. have remained locked in low-intensity violence that has become a new normal. — In just the past five days, the United States …
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Brussels Signal and Foreign Policy
Milena Wälde / Politico:
Trump says Iran war has ended. Tehran isn't so sure.
Trump says Iran war has ended. Tehran isn't so sure.
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Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, New York Times, Middle East Monitor, Mediaite, Al Jazeera and Semafor
CNBC:
Trump denies Iran's account of deal terms, decries new drone attack: ‘Dishonorable people’
Trump denies Iran's account of deal terms, decries new drone attack: ‘Dishonorable people’
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Townhall, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Straight Arrow
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
After Senate Loss, Cornyn Predicts ‘Miserable’ Final Two Years for Trump — In his first extensive interview since his defeat by a Trump-backed challenger, the Texas Republican said the Senate was in for a “bumpy ride” as he and others flex new political freedom.
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Washington Examiner, MS NOW, RedState, PJ Media, Fox News, The Independent, America, America, The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
FBI raids Ohio voting rights organization — FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, three people briefed on the search told MS NOW. — Agents also fanned out across the state …
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Democracy Docket, NBC News and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Enormous etchings of numbers interpreted as threat to Trump appear on National Mall — Police respond to what appears to be the anti-Trump message “86 47″ etched into the grass near the World War II Memorial. — Summary — U.S. Park Police, the D.C. fire department and members …
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Michael Williams / CNN:
Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
TPUSA's new message to girls: Hate yourself — Speakers at the women's leadership summit continued Charlie Kirk's misogynist mission — Turning Point USA was co-founded by Charlie Kirk and its fundraising apparatus since his death has centered around fading MAGA fantasies that he will be a movement-reviving martyr.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and The Nation
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Democratic voters want the party to be more moderate — and more socialist? — I'm popping my head up from paternity leave for a few hours this morning to write this note on a topical new poll that everyone seems to be reading incorrectly. — If you get value out of data-driven coverage …
Sam Sifton / New York Times:
A Trillionaire? — SpaceX is expected to make Elon Musk even richer when its stock begins trading today. — Good morning. Happy Friday. Let's go to the stock market. — SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket-building, satellite-launching and artificial intelligence company, is set to go public today at $135 a share.
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New York Times:
U.S. Plan Is Said to Pull a Third of Fighter Jets It Provides NATO for Europe — The plan, outlined by officials and in a written document, provides rare clarity about the extent to which the Trump administration intends to reduce its commitment to NATO. — The United States plans …
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Reason, Military.com, NewsMax.com, Modern Diplomacy, Reuters, GB News and The Independent
New Republic:
Trump Hits Record-Breaking Low in Polls as Aides Leak: He's “Furious” — Donald Trump's polling just crashed to new lows. He's hit a net approval on inflation of negative 50 points in numerous surveys, something no other president has done—ever. Trump also is at 80 percent disapproval on gas prices.
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MS NOW, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Kennedy Center board to fight order to remove Trump's name as deadline looms — The Kennedy Center's trustees voted Thursday to seek a last-minute stay of a federal judge's directive to take Trump's name off the center's exterior by Friday. — Summary — The Kennedy Center's board plans …
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, UPI, The Hill, Axios, American Greatness and Forbes
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain — The X owner is using his platform to amplify extremist opponents of multiculturalism in Britain — You might have thought the world's richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history's biggest IPO. The SpaceX listing is happening today.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk's age of impunity
Elon Musk's age of impunity
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Washington Post, Associated Press and Truthout, more at Techmeme »
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Judge extends block on Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration's creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump and Allies Are Working on Plan to ‘Expunge’ Impeachments — Republican-backed symbolic resolution would put lawmakers on record regarding the two impeachments during Trump's first term — WASHINGTON—President Trump and his allies have discussed pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed …
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MS NOW, Reuters, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Mail, Breitbart, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Stefan Becket / CBS News:
Pentagon releases 3rd batch of UFO files, detailing mysterious orb sightings: “Are you seeing this?” — Add CBS News on Google — Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released a new group of documents and videos related to UFOs, or UAPs, the third release since the government began a wave of new disclosures last month.
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Axios, New York Post, Washington Times, The Daily Wire, Dallas Express and The Independent
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr — Desperate US parents pay up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus — Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived …
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Before-and-after photos: Trump's $14.2m makeover delivers ... a blue pool — President steered no-bid contract for project that he said would cost $1.8m to company that worked on his golf resort — The final drops of water have been added, and the nanobubbler switched on.
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Breitbart and Washington Post
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Aftermath: The Economy Is Propped Up by Government Spending — In today's edition, we highlight an underdiscussed reason why damage from the war hasn't eaten the U.S. economy: fiscal stimulus. — Share on Make us preferred on Google (Opens in new window) Make us preferred on Google …
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
Will Democrats become the party of faith? — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🙏 Subscribe to PN 🙏 — Until recently, it seemed Donald Trump would cement the GOP's status as the political home of “faith”-driven voters that it took on decades ago.
Holland Cotter / New York Times:
David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 … David Hockney's “Self-Portrait With Red Braces” (2003). He remained unfailingly productive almost to the end of his life.David Hockney, photograph by Richard Schmidt — David Hockney, the English artist whose deftly designed …
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Associated Press, UPI, Forbes, The Irish News, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, PinkNews, Press Association, RTÉ, Vanity Fair, UnHerd, Southampton News …, Al Jazeera and Variety
Jason Furman / New York Times:
Social Security Is Going Broke. Where Is the Outrage? — The first major public policy issue I worked on in the White House, almost 30 years ago, was President Bill Clinton's call to “save Social Security first.” Though the fund wasn't projected to run dry for another three decades, the country seemed gripped by the issue.
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Robert Reich and Paul Krugman
New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Alabama From Executing Inmate Using Nitrogen Gas — The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method. — The Supreme Court blocked Alabama on Thursday night from using nitrogen gas …
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Associated Press, Alabama Political Reporter, Civil Discourse …, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, Washington Examiner, NPR, NewsMax.com, Law Dork, MS NOW, CBS News and SCOTUSblog
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis / American Prospect:
New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley-Funded Abundance Movement — The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement. — Share on Make us preferred on Google (Opens in new window) Make us preferred on Google - Share on Bluesky …
Kirk Siegler / NPR:
President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn — SEATTLE — Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington. — So as President Trump has already cancelled or suspended about a quarter of all funding …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
How the UFC conquered Trump's Washington — Dana White likes to say he sells “holy sh*t moments for a living.” — Sunday night, the UFC CEO will attempt his magnum opus on the biggest stage in combat sports history. … - White brought Trump cageside — reintroducing …
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MMA Fighting, Bloomberg, Raw Story, Chicago Sun Times, MS NOW, Washington Examiner, The Hill, New Republic, The Dispatch, Fox News and Associated Press
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They're Turning on AIPAC. — Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party. — When Brad Lander opened his Democratic primary bid for New York's 10th Congressional District late last year …
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Jewish Insider

