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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison  —  Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump's crackdown on dissent  —  A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received harsh sentences …
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges  —  Defendants who dressed all in black hit with max sentences  —  Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people charged in connection with a July 2025 demonstration outside …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Alleged antifa members in Texas are sentenced for ICE protest  —  Eight people got prison terms ranging from 30 to 100 years for their roles in a protest that turned violent outside an immigration detention center last summer.  —  Summary  —  FORT WORTH — Federal judges in Texas …
Matthew Ablon / CBS News:
Leader of group convicted in antifa-inspired attack on Texas ICE facility handed 100-year prison sentence  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Eight people who were found guilty of terrorism-related charges earlier this year for a 2025 attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, learned their punishments on Tuesday.
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Check Trump's War Powers, Rebuking Him on Iran  —  A few Republicans joined Democrats in favor of a measure instructing President Trump to halt military operations against Iran or seek congressional authorization.  —  The Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution instructing President Trump …
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Senate for first time approves a war powers resolution in a rebuke to Trump over Iran conflict  —  The Senate for the first time approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block U.S. military action against Iran, as lawmakers warily watch President Donald Trump's efforts to resolve …
Sam Kessler / Wall Street Journal:   Senate Democrats Call for Hearings Into $500 Million Trump Deal With Emirati Royal
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Senate votes to halt Iran war despite Trump's push for peace deal
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and NewsMax.com
Lizzy Lawrence / STAT:
STAT+: Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient.  Who was it?  —  WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans with obesity are eagerly awaiting a powerful new drug from Eli Lilly called retatrutide, which has demonstrated bariatric-surgery levels of weight loss.
New York Times:
Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool.  Internal Documents Raise Doubts.  —  The documents do not indicate that the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally.  —  President Trump says the peeling blue coating and algae blooms that mar his $16.4 million renovation …
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump says 6 people have been arrested for damaging the Reflecting Pool
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Lonely 80-Year-Old Trump's Plea to Blonde Aide, 34, Revealed  —  NEVER LET ME GO  —  The aide who has gained outsize influence in the president's second term reportedly holds a special place in his heart.  —  President Donald Trump bragged to his staffers that the adoring young female aide …
Discussion: MS NOW, Raw Story and The Independent
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold  —  Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news.  —  In 1996, Joan Didion unholstered the X-Acto knife that was her pen and went to work on Bob Woodward.
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
New Trump book's authors detail how they pried loose White House secrets: ‘We nearly killed ourselves’  —  Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the reporters behind Regime Change, were up against an administration that is ‘very good at keeping secrets’  —  They cracked the White House situation room …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House passes sweeping bill to lower housing costs, sending it to Trump's desk  —  The bill, a rare bipartisan breakthrough this Congress, will put restrictions on large investors buying up single-family homes and seek to build new houses.  —  WASHINGTON — The House passed …
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Justin Papp / CNBC:
House passes affordable housing bill, sends it to Trump's desk
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOJ issued, then withdrew subpoenas to force Post, WSJ reporters to testify  —  Subpoenas for reporters to appear before a grand jury are exceedingly rare.  The journalists have not testified.  —  Summary  —  The Justice Department took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters …
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New York Times:
A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees  —  The United States is putting together bags with a children's book on so-called reverse racism, and with a document that defends the country's founding on the basis of slavery.  —  In the coming weeks …
Discussion: New Republic
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New York Times:
How Trump Turned America's Refugee Program Into a Pathway for White People
Discussion: Vox and RedState
Washington Post:
A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool.  Then two more were found nearby.  —  The two ducks that were recovered from Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine their cause of death.  —  Summary  —  When the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool was replenished this month …
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New York Times:
Social Security Is Running Out of Money, Fast  —  One of us is a Republican from Ohio who built a business that generated hundreds of jobs.  The other is a Democrat from Massachusetts who built a career protecting consumers from financial tricks and traps.  —  We don't agree on everything …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can't sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The ‘CBS Mornings’ Mess … Earlier this month, in the immediate aftermath of Scott Pelley's dramatic firing from CBS News, the Bari Weiss-led network appeared to suffer an immediate repercussion in the ratings.  Notably, “CBS Mornings,” the perpetually third-place morning show centered around Gayle King …
The Atlantic:
Another Top General Is Out at the Pentagon  —  C. D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures.  —  General chris “c. d.” donahue was the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan during the chaotic 2021 withdrawal.
Bloomberg Law:
Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights  —  White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
New cope from Iran hawks: Once the midterms pass, Trump will attack Iran again  —  The right-wing hawks who applauded Donald Trump for launching the war with Iran earlier this year are adopting a new argument to avoid criticizing the president as he fumbles toward enacting a weaker …
Discussion: CNN
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Immigration case dealing with green card holders, Supreme Courts sides with Trump administration  —  The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Tuesday in an immigration case dealing with the government's power over green card holders accused of crimes.
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Appeals Court Allows Trump to Resume Expedited Deportations Nationwide  —  In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that the president can expand the procedure, previously used primarily near the border, to arrests nationally.  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed …
Aleksandra Vaca / Transitics:
She Changed Her ID to Comply with Kansas' New Anti-Trans Law.  Now, the State is Trying to Put Her in Jail for Having an ‘Inaccurate’ License.  —  Transitics aims to provide grounded news and political explainers on issues affecting the trans community.  If you want to stay up-to-date …
Talking Points Memo:
Taxing Billionaires Is the Easiest Way Democrats Could Gain Voter Trust  —  Ask voters in the country's most competitive congressional districts what's wrong with America, and you'll hear two answers.  First, everything costs too much.  Second, the government is corrupt.
Financial Times:
Vladimir Putin sours on Donald Trump over his latest Ukraine shift  —  US president ‘impressed’ with Ukrainian drones hitting targets deep into Russia, say officials  —  Russia has accused the US of abandoning efforts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine after Donald Trump appeared to be shifting again in favour of Kyiv.
Colin Demarest / Axios:
Pentagon leaders observe laser-weapon tests in New Mexico  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon's chief technology officer, Emil Michael, on Tuesday attended a demonstration of laser and microwave weapons in New Mexico. … They have yet to be widely adopted in the real world, however.
Discussion: Laser Wars and NewsMax.com
Pamela Evette / NBC News:
South Carolina Governor Primary Runoff Results 2026  —  Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson are competing for the Republican nomination after finishing first and second in the initial primary.  President Donald Trump endorsed Evette before that June 9 contest …
Lydia Moynihan / New York Post:
Woman who emptied Knicks trashcan on street— then stole it — fired from JPMorgan Chase, was DEI exec  —  A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City's Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Post Millennial
 
 
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Senate NDAA adds protections for ‘political speech’ by military retirees amid Hegseth-Kelly battle
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New York Times:
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Emilio Perez Ibarguen / Politico:
Matt Gaetz announces he's ‘returning to public service’ on Florida nonprofit board
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC's chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it's in a top medical journal.
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Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
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Pew Research Center:
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Alex Cuadros / ProPublica:
I Cold-Called President Trump. Here's What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.
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Associated Press:
A ransom note about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance says she died, CNN reports