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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Sen. Thom Tillis rails against Trump's fixation on voting legislation … Rather than promoting the bill — which would require voters to present a photo ID at the ballot box and effectively end widespread mail-in voting — Tillis said Republicans should tell voters about …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Johnson says he will send housing bill to Trump on Monday … The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Johnson's remarks. — The bill is the product of almost a year of back-and-forth between all four congressional corners and aims to increase affordability by boosting housing supply and home ownership.
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NewsMax.com, The Hill, RedState and UPI
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Sen. Bill Cassidy on Trump: ‘Sometimes he acts as if Congress is merely an appendage’ … “If I were president, I would be focused on those people that they have, my people, our people, us at the kitchen table. How do you make their life better? And that's what I think the president should be focused on,” Cassidy said.
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Wall Street Journal:
Iran Asserts Sole Control of Hormuz, Warns Challenges Will Bring More Violence — The comments by Iran's foreign minister followed several days of back and forth fighting with the U.S. — Iran has the exclusive right to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz under the preliminary peace deal signed …
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Associated Press:
Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war
Erika Solomon / New York Times:
Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
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Al Jazeera and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ali Bianco / Politico:
The Dem primary on ICE
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S.-Iran ceasefire could go up in flames … - Over the past few days, tension between the U.S. and Iran has been escalating with another exchange of strikes on Saturday. … - With the situation escalating by the day, it isn't clear if the next round of negotiations between the U.S …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. and Iran agree to halt strikes and meet this week, U.S. official says — The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar's capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz.
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New York Times:
Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Attacks With Few Signs of De-escalation
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Jewish Insider and UPI
Financial Times:
US and Iran exchange strikes as ceasefire falters
US and Iran exchange strikes as ceasefire falters
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The Guardian, The American Conservative, Metro.co.uk, Daily Mail and Washington Post
New York Times:
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. — An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten.
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Raw Story and Mother Jones
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Paul Sonne / New York Times:
Kazakhstan's Leader Deepens U.S. Ties, Saying Trump Was ‘Sent by Heaven’
Kazakhstan's Leader Deepens U.S. Ties, Saying Trump Was ‘Sent by Heaven’
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NewsMax.com and RedState
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
'It's dangerous and it's going to erode trust': redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears — The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites — An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk's …
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The Parnas Perspective
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Cassidy seeks to explain RFK Jr. confirmation vote for Health and Human Services — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a Sunday interview sought to explain his controversial vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as he said Kennedy is dug …
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Max Rego / The Hill:
Social Security's insolvency is No. 1 issue, says Sen. Bill Cassidy
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health “upon a foundation of lies”
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health “upon a foundation of lies”
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The Hill
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Leaves Trump's Fed, Citizenship Gambits for Last — President Donald Trump is on the brink of learning whether the US Supreme Court will bless two of his most audacious gambits, his bids to oust a Federal Reserve governor and roll back automatic birthright citizenship.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn't true — President Donald Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the speech he gave the day prior to kick off the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech …
New York Times:
White House Secretly Swayed Board Meant to Stop Civil Service Politicization — Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government.
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Raw Story
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump sets Sept. 1 start for D.C. golf course overhaul — President Trump said the federal government will begin renovating East Potomac Golf Links on Sept. 1, with plans to reopen the redesigned course to the public after construction. … - Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony, bragged about his success, ignored the problems, claimed his enemies had sabotaged him …
Mike Zapler / Axios:
The Republican Party is starting to turn on Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu lost the Democrats. Now a growing number of Republicans are souring on him and his country, too. … - For 15 years, Netanyahu offset collapsing Democratic support by cultivating Republicans.
Kylie Williams / Politico:
Amid stark opposition, data center developers think twice about Florida … “Everybody's concerned about their quality of life, and nobody wants to lose it for a data center next door,” said Margaret Kirkland, the chair of Conserve Nassau, a local conservation group in the Northeastern corner of Florida.

