memeorandum: Tom Kean Jr., absent for months, to hold fundraiser on the day of his return (Joey Fox/Politico)

8:40 PM ET, June 25, 2026

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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:

The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.

Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:

Supreme Court Expands Trump's Power Over Immigration — The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrants at the southern border. — In a pair of sharply divided decisions on Thursday …

Elora Mukherjee / New York Times:

This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Law — On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration sweeping power to remove the legal right to live in America for Haitians and Syrians who are here under a program known as Temporary Protected Status.

Discussion: Mother Jones, HuffPost, twitchy.com, Slate, Documented, The Haitian Times and NOTUS

Melissa Cruz / American Immigration Council:
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings

Discussion: The Guardian, NewsNation, Breitbart, American Greatness, KRDO, One America News Network, RedState, Raw Story, HotAir, The Daily Wire and Fox News

Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, Legal Insurrection, Washington Times, Raw Story, SCOTUSblog, The Daily Signal, Texas Standard, Washington Examiner and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries

Politico:
Supreme Court allows Trump to end temporary protections for Haitians, Syrians

Discussion: NewsMax.com, Slate, The Hill, New York Times and Ohio Capital Journal

Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:

Trump calls on House GOP hard-liners to end floor blockade — President Donald Trump instructed a band of his GOP hard-liner allies to end their House floor blockade with multiple major bills at risk of being derailed. “House Republicans should unify, and stop voting down ‘Rules’ or …

Discussion: Axios, The Hill, NBC News, Bloomberg, Fox News, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, New York Times and Townhall

Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:

Trump told us exactly what he did — This was a members-only piece we decided to share with all of our readers. Notes like this from Marc go out almost daily to our members — upgrade now so you don't miss the next one. — Donald Trump visited a Mack Trucks facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania, this week.

Discussion: New York Magazine and MS NOW

Michael Gold / New York Times:
Johnson Says He Will Send Housing Bill to Trump

Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico and GV Wire

Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:
Hard-liners grind House agenda to a halt over SAVE America Act demands

Discussion: Scripps News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Newsweek, New York Sun and NewsMax.com

New York Times:
Federal Judge Strikes Key Parts of Trump Order Restricting Mail Voting

Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Under pressure from Trump, Republican-led Senate reverses course on Iran

Washington Post:
Trump's latest declaration of an emergency leaves GOP allies scrambling again

Discussion: Diplomatic,, The Bulwark, Forbes, Raw Story, Staff Stories, Wonkette, LGBTQ Nation and MS NOW

Finya Swai / The Hill:
Postmaster general confirms plan to hold back mail ballots in states that won't share voter data

Discussion: NPR, Washington Post, RedState, WisPolitics, Senator Elissa Slotkin, New York Post, MS NOW, Politico, NewsNation, PBS NewsHour, The Floridian, Instapundit and NewsMax.com

Wall Street Journal:

Iran Attacks Cargo Ship, Testing Trump's Deal to Reopen Strait — Attack takes place hours after Iranian warning to ships not to use routes that the regime hadn't sanctioned — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Atlantic, Straight Arrow, Washington Post, Breitbart, New York Times, Bloomberg, Euronews, Legal Insurrection, Townhall, GV Wire, The Hill, Al Jazeera, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, Military.com and National Review

James Bikales / Politico:

Hormuz evacuation effort on hold after new ship attack … “I have decided to temporarily pause its implementation in order to reconfirm that the necessary safety guarantees continue to be in place for the ships on our evacuation list and all those in the region,” Dominguez said.

Discussion: imo.org, CNN, CBS News, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NewsNation and Bloomberg

Wall Street Journal:
Iran Plans to Make Billions in Fees From Reopening the Strait of Hormuz

Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News, New York Times, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com, The Times of Israel, Raw Story and Washington Times

Derek Thompson: The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost.

Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:

The Supreme Court's New Expansion of the Second Amendment Is Genuinely Deranged … The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority's Second Amendment jurisprudence: It is a freewheeling policy project utterly unmoored from history …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Ace of Spades HQ

Ilya Somin / Reason: Guns, Property Rights, and the Second Amendment

Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii's ‘vampire rule’ for gun owners

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill, Blaze Media, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg

Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's embarrassing new Second Amendment decision, explained

Discussion: Straight Arrow, Axios, SCOTUSblog, Balls and Strikes, Legal Insurrection, The Daily Wire, RedState, Roll Call, Washington Times, Reason, NPR, One America News Network, MS NOW, New Republic and The Independent

Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
SCOTUS to Hawaii on #2A: Welcome to America, Pals

Discussion: Bearing Arms, The Daily Signal and The Federalist

Matthew Choi / Washington Post:

After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back — Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for an initiative that commits them to centrist principles. — Summary — Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced …

Discussion: Axios, Truthout and News Talk 105.9

Emily Davies / New York Times:
Here's What It Means to Be a Democratic Socialist

Discussion: HotAir, New Republic, Washington Examiner and Fox News

CNN:

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say — Federal agencies Fighting disinformation — A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.

Brianna Sacks / Washington Post: FEMA official who said he teleported to a Waffle House steps away from post

Joey Fox / Politico:

Tom Kean Jr., absent for months, to hold fundraiser on the day of his return … A former state legislator in New Jersey who unseated a Democratic incumbent in 2022, the 57-year-old Kean last cast a vote on March 5, 112 days ago. His office said on March 20 that he was “addressing a personal health matter …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Representative Tom Kean, Missing for Months, Is Back Home in New Jersey

Discussion: NOTUS, New York Magazine, New Jersey Globe, The Daily Wire, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit and Mother Jones

Dan Diamond / Washington Post:

RFK Jr. urged Iowa candidate to make deal to help GOP win House seat, per audio recording … Summary — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged a Libertarian congressional candidate in Iowa to drop out of a competitive House race to help Republicans keep control of Congress …

Discussion: Raw Story, Roll Call, MS NOW and Washington Examiner

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

Trump 250 Gala Takes Humiliating New Turn as More States Pull Out — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro occupies something of an intriguing position among Democrats. He represents a state that Donald Trump won twice—a state that's both deeply divided and pivotal in deciding presidential elections.

Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:

Texas Public School Students May Soon Be Required to Read the Bible — Texas is set to pass what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts. — Texas is on the verge of passing a sweeping …

Discussion: The Independent, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Truthout and The Texas Tribune

Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:

First felony conviction from Operation Midway Blitz on rocks amid grand jury scandal — One of the only felony convictions secured by federal prosecutors in Operation Midway Blitz now appears to be under threat as a scandal over alleged grand jury misconduct continues to swirl around the U.S. attorney's office.

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:

Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election — Billionaires make up the top individual donors with the exception of Elon Musk. … Just now — The top donors in American politics have poured more than $1.3 billion so far this cycle into influencing the country's politics …

Discussion: Blaze Media, Washington Examiner, MS NOW, NewsMax.com and Diane Ravitch's blog

Sarah Davis / The Hill:

Alito appears testy during Sotomayor's asylum dissent reading from the bench — Justice Samuel Alito responded tersely to Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday morning after the liberal justice read her blistering dissent to his majority opinion in a case on asylum seekers.

Discussion: Esquire, Raw Story, NBC News, RedState, Mediaite, New York Post and The Gateway Pundit

John Sexton / HotAir:

Trans Cultist Charged with Murder of ‘Her’ Parents — Do you remember the trans cult known as the Zizians? I wrote about them several times last year because members of this group have been tied to a number of murders. Like a lot of bad ideas, this one started in Berkeley.

Discussion: Associated Press, CBS News, The Daily Caller, NBC News and Metro.co.uk

Jason Beeferman / Politico:

A district that went +20 for Trump now in play for Democrats … Constantino, the CEO of a sticker company who's self-funding his campaign with $10 million, earned Trump's endorsement in April, a blow that proved fatal for Smullen's primary campaign. — Constantino is an eccentric …

Laura Strickler / NBC News:

DHS watchdog announces new ICE reviews — One of the reviews will focus on a recent increase in ICE detainee deaths, while the other will look into whether ICE detention facilities are using proper use of force standards when interacting with detainees. — WASHINGTON — The watchdog …

Discussion: Politico, Human Rights Watch, The Independent and Techdirt

Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:

Billionaire Trump Envoy's Superyacht Stunt Blows Up in His Face — COASTAL DIPLOMA-WHAT? — The trip couldn't have come at a worse time. — President Donald Trump's billionaire ambassador to Italy has infuriated members of his host country with plans to “flaunt” his $450 million mega yacht during …

Discussion: Raw Story

Politico:

Todd Blanche ‘conceded’ violating law on Epstein files, judge finds … Sullivan also issued a preliminary injunction that gives Blanche a week to release certain names and other information redacted by DOJ from the millions of pages of the Epstein files, or provide a more detailed explanation for withholding them.

Discussion: NOTUS, The Hill, CBS News and Raw Story