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Wall Street Journal:
Kennedy Center Misses Deadline, Wants More Time to Remove Trump's Name — The center asked for an extension just before midnight Friday, saying it expects to have the name removed by Saturday — The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board of trustees blew past the court-ordered midnight deadline …
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Letters from an American, Associated Press, HuffPost, Mediaite, The Contrarian, WTTG-TV, Grabien, The Independent, Forbes and Raw Story
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Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center — After courts knocked down attempts to delay the signage change, the Kennedy Center missed the Friday deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name by midnight. — Summary — President Donald Trump's name is now being taken off the Kennedy Center.
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Politico, The Guardian, Wonkette, Associated Press, CBS News, Grabien, Axios, The Wrap, Advocate and Forbes
Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Trump's name is still on the Kennedy Center, though officials say it will be down by noon
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MS NOW, Straight Arrow, NBC News, NPR, Los Angeles Times, PoliticusUSA, New York Sun, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Independent, The Hill, TheGrio, MeidasTouch, CityNews Toronto, Scripps News, The Wrap, Washington Times, Mediaite, Forbes, Raw Story, ABC News, Deadline, The Guardian and CBS News
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Bets on South Lawn UFC Spectacle to Energize His Political Base — Sunday's fights at the White House promise a violent show and chance for Trump to project power — WASHINGTON—Justin Dritschel is driving seven hours for the chance to see a knockout on the White House South Lawn—and maybe some blood.
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The Guardian, RealClearPolitics, American Prospect, Deseret News, New Yorker, Deadline and CBS News
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New York Times:
The Spectacle of Trump at 80 — An octogenarian president for a 250-year-old republic. — What does it say about President Trump — and America — that the soon-to-be octogenarian plans to celebrate his 80th birthday with a series of U.F.C. matches on the White House lawn?
Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Trump at 80 Works to Project Strength As Political Woes Mount
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New York Times
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age
At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age
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New York Post
Reuters:
Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change — President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
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Reuters, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Associated Press:
Judge orders Trump administration to restore National Park changes at sites that ‘disparaged’ US
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs
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Los Angeles Times
Uwa Ede-Osifo / The Guardian:
Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive
Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive
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CNN, Mother Jones and The Hill
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files — ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. … - Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens …
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NewsMax.com
Anthropic:
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States …
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Washington Examiner, Fortune, CNBC, RedState, The Hill, Associated Press, The Independent, Politico, Axios, The Times of Israel, NBC News, Tom's Hardware, Al Jazeera, Marginal Revolution, The Decoder, The American Conservative, Semafor, Wired, The Verge, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Information and The Post Millennial, more at Techmeme »
Public Notice:
Trump's systemic attack on whistleblowers, explained by an expert — “The cost to democracy is a loss of accountability and oversight.” — ∙ Paid — This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️
John Yoon / New York Times:
A Tren de Aragua Leader Is Killed in a Joint Strike, U.S. and Venezuela Say — A strike this week in Venezuela killed a gang leader known as Niño Guerrero who was wanted in the United States, officials in both countries said. — A joint strike by the United States and Venezuela killed …
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UPI, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, RTÉ, CBS News and Al Jazeera
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Reuters:
Trump says U.S. military carried out a strike on leader of Tren de Aragua
Trump says U.S. military carried out a strike on leader of Tren de Aragua
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Progressive Champions PAC is a GOP front — Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” On Friday, according to FCC records, it booked nearly $400,000 worth …
Samuel Benson / Politico:
'They Don't Know How to Accept Him': Vivek Ramaswamy Navigates Identity in Ohio … This tiny Appalachian town, population 2,000, turned out several hundred for the county GOP's Lincoln Day dinner. The guest of honor, Vivek Ramaswamy, liked what he saw. — “We call it the American dream …
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Raw Story and Vivek for Ohio
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy … Among blue-collar white voters, President Trump's approval rating on the cost of living stood at just 36 percent in a New York Times survey.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times — The last time President Trump faced a midterm election …
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NewsMax.com and Mediaite
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
The Former GOP Operative Running a News Site for the ‘Politically Homeless’ — Sarah Longwell's profitable startup, the Bulwark, approaches the news with a raw candor subscribers crave — Sarah Longwell recently screened a tape of a focus group of Catholic participants discussing President …
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The Bulwark
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies — Hard-line conservatives in the House are mounting an uphill push to codify President Trump's border policies, demanding a vote by July 4 and warning that policies that have significantly cut down crossings at the southern border …
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NewsMax.com and Issues & Insights
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy. — As Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, workers are facing higher prices and fears of A.I.-driven job losses. — Two events from the past week help crystallize this strange, contradictory moment for the U.S. economy.
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USA Today, America, America, Glenn's Substack, Straight Arrow and Forbes
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz — President Trump said more than 200 commercial vessels had safely traveled through the strait. That's still far fewer than before the start of the war. — Even as the United States tries to negotiate an end to the war …
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RTÉ and Washington Examiner
James Downie / MS NOW:
GOP voters pick Trump over Epstein victims — For months, it seemed as though this was the one area of disagreement between the GOP base and the president. But recent primary results suggest otherwise. — “On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o'clock in the evening, President Trump's top officials filed …
CNN:
'She's a gift': How Epstein exploited his fashion world connections to reach young women — Epstein files Fashion and beauty Crime People in entertainment — In email after email, modeling scouts on the global hunt for talent shared updates with an unexpected correspondent: Jeffrey Epstein …
Lowell / Blue Virginia:
Saturday (6/13) News: “The world's first trillionaire is a killer”; “Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace” — “How America's Birthday Got Hijacked”; “Trump as Don Corleone”; “The Kennedy Center, Minus Trump” — Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines …
Politico:
Trump lawyers: No collusion with Trump administration to create ‘Anti-Weaponization’ fund … Trump's lawyers invoked a federal court rule that allows plaintiffs in a case to drop it early in the litigation without explanation or substantive involvement by the judge.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
White students drop below 50% nationwide … - How schools, colleges and policymakers respond to this demographic shift will define opportunity for a generation. … - White students account for 48.8% of all Americans enrolled in public, private and homeschool systems as of October 2024 …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Screwworm spread tests US readiness after Trump staffing cuts — The U.S. spent decades driving the New World screwworm far into South America. But now the parasite has reemerged, and officials are working to beat it back yet again using many of the same tried-and-true methods as the government did in the 1950s.
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Washington Examiner and Houston Public Media
