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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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Ronda Kaysen / New York Times:
Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat — A lopsided House vote cleared the measure for President Trump's signature after a lengthy back and forth and several nearly fatal blows to the legislation. — The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a landmark housing bill …
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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 …
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Morgan Rimmer / CNN:
Senate votes to limit Trump's Iran war powers in rare rebuke — Congressional news The Middle East Donald Trump — The Senate adopted a resolution on Tuesday directing the president to remove military forces from the conflict with Iran, a significant rebuke to Donald Trump and a strong message that the war lacks support in Congress.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump on Collision Course With Senate Republicans
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Washington Post:
Senate votes to block Trump from resuming Iran war
Senate votes to block Trump from resuming Iran war
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Justin Papp / CNBC:
House passes affordable housing bill, sends it to Trump's desk
House passes affordable housing bill, sends it to Trump's desk
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House passes sweeping bill to lower housing costs, sending it to Trump's desk
House passes sweeping bill to lower housing costs, sending it to Trump's desk
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Sam Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Democrats Call for Hearings Into $500 Million Trump Deal With Emirati Royal
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Housing bill threatened in GOP elections-bill spat
Housing bill threatened in GOP elections-bill spat
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Senate votes to halt Iran war despite Trump's push for peace deal
Senate votes to halt Iran war despite Trump's push for peace deal
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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 …
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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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Matthew Ablon / CBS News:
Leader of group convicted in antifa-inspired attack on Texas ICE facility handed 100-year prison sentence
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Andy Ngo / Ngo Comment:
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: North Texas Antifa Terror Cell Members Sentenced to Combined 450 Years in Federal Prison
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: North Texas Antifa Terror Cell Members Sentenced to Combined 450 Years in Federal Prison
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US Department of Justice:
Leader of Antifa Cell Members in North Texas Sentenced to 100 Years in Prison for Terrorist Attack on ICE Facility
Leader of Antifa Cell Members in North Texas Sentenced to 100 Years in Prison for Terrorist Attack on ICE Facility
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Rachel Kahn / New Republic:
Anti-ICE Protesters Sentenced to Decades in Prison for “Terrorism”
Anti-ICE Protesters Sentenced to Decades in Prison for “Terrorism”
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Alleged antifa members in Texas are sentenced for ICE protest
Alleged antifa members in Texas are sentenced for ICE protest
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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
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Six Arrested for Alleged Reflecting Pool Damage, Trump Says
Six Arrested for Alleged Reflecting Pool Damage, Trump Says
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Rand Paul issues subpoena for Anthony Fauci
Rand Paul issues subpoena for Anthony Fauci
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New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App — The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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.
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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.
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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Federal judge blocks Trump policy of making arrests at immigration courts nationwide — Immigration Immigration politics Federal agencies — A federal judge in California on Tuesday issued a nationwide block against the Trump administration's policy of making arrests at immigration courts …
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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 …
Jackie Hendry / SDPB:
State senator and GOP delegate faces felony election fraud charges — A Republican Party leader is facing felony charges days before the state convention. — State Senator Tom Pischke of Dell Rapids is charged with two counts of Offering a False or Forged Instrument for Filing, according to the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office.
John Hendel / Politico:
‘The View’ is ‘overtly partisan,’ GOP groups tell Brendan Carr … The GOP committees defended the mid-20th-century equal time requirements as “good law” and accused “The View” of overwhelmingly favoring Democrats in its guest lineups. — “In short: The View has a deep and deliberate ideological slant …
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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.
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 …
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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.
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