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10:45 AM ET, July 1, 2026

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Washington Post:
Trump's income topped $2 billion in 2025, boosted by crypto, coin ventures  —  Almost 1,000 pages of financial disclosure forms show that the president's earnings far outpaced his $600 million total income in 2024.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump's reported income soared …
Discussion: UPI, Mediaite, Newsweek and The Independent
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New York Times:
Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House  —  The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family's holdings, particularly the president's crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.  —  President Trump reaped a stunning windfall …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, NOTUS and Semafor
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Trump Reports at Least $1.4 Billion in 2025 Crypto Earnings  —  President Donald Trump reported earning at least $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.  —  Trump reported making more than $588 million from sales …
Rob Wile / NBC News:
Trump's financial disclosure lists $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, powered largely by meme coins  —  The annual report also includes $80 million in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against companies like ABC, CBS, Meta and YouTube. … President Donald Trump earned …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump's Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History  —  The president's move to open new business ventures, rather than eliminate potential conflicts, defies a long-held tradition.  —  President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife owned a profitable radio station.
Alex Rogers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year in return to presidency
Discussion: Forbes
Erin Cox / Washington Post:
Voters are angry with Washington, and other takeaways from the Colorado primaries  —  A sitting House member and a sitting senator both lost key races in the state.  —  Summary  —  Democrats in Colorado rode a backlash against Washington to victory Tuesday night, as a surge …
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Denver Post:
Five takeaways in Colorado primaries as DSA candidate ousts congresswoman, Democrats reject senator, big money falters
Torrie Herrington / NOTUS:
Michael Bennet Loses His Bid for Governor
Prem Thakker / Zeteo:   AIPAC Defeated Again - This Time in Colorado
Joe Anuta / Politico:
The left won big in NYC. Now it has to survive a redistricting effort.
Discussion: CBS News
NOTUS:   Schumer's Bad Bets
Wall Street Journal:
Socialist Wins in Colorado as Democratic Unrest Spreads
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship  —  The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Trump's attempt to unilaterally deny citizenship to children born in the United States to foreign nationals, a plan that would have sharply altered who can vote in American elections.
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day
The Hill:
GOP split on path forward after birthright citizenship blow
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dems rocked by another socialist upset: “Wake up call”  —  House Democrats were staggered Wednesday by the loss of yet another one of their longtime colleagues to a democratic socialist challenger. … So why did she become a target of the left?  — “One more case in the growing dynamic …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Emily Davies / New York Times:
Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado
New York Times:
Another Major Precedent Crumbles at the Supreme Court.  3 Legal Scholars Assess the Fallout.  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown …
Politico:
Tom Kean Jr. kept his depression a secret.  Colleagues are questioning that decision. … “You give up the right to privacy in a certain respect when you run for office and represent that many people,” she said.  “And so I do challenge our colleagues to be more transparent when these things happen.”
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks  —  The president has told aides that he is fine if negotiations with Tehran blow past an Aug. 18 deadline for a nuclear deal, officials say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has weighed a return to all-out war with Iran …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump backs MAHA in heated, “shocking” Oval Office fight on pesticides  —  Tensions over pesticide use erupted in an Oval Office meeting last week, as a top agriculture lobbyist warned President Trump that an executive order calling for pest-killing alternatives would cost Trump support from farming interests.
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: Harris reaches out to Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in run-up to 2028  —  Kamala Harris privately called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week and has been holding lengthy, closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives — including pro-Palestinian activists.
Discussion: Townhall and NewsMax.com
Julia Frankel / Associated Press:
A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago.  We still don't know the full story  —  It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.  Most of the victims were children.  —  In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory.
NBC News:
White House task force aims to boost Trump's election claims with declassified intelligence documents  —  The team has been quietly reviewing documents for months, sometimes late into the night, sources say.  —  WASHINGTON — A White House task force is gathering thousands of pages of documents …
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
Bayliss Wagner / New York Times:
A Tabloid Story Gives Talarico a New Opening to Test Attacks on Paxton  —  After a salacious report about Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, his Democratic rival, James Talarico, seized on the news — but focused on corruption and affordability.
Politico:
Trump's court win reignites fight to sink €1.7T data deal with Europe  —  A United States Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump is prompting Europe's most powerful privacy defenders to try to kill a data flow deal underpinning €1.7 trillion in transatlantic trade each year.
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll says Trump wants to delay $5 million payment in sex abuse, defamation case  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Lawyers for President Trump asked for writer E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her by a 2023 jury, and signaled they plan to ask …
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
White House drops restrictions on Anthropic AI models after two-week ban  —  The company can once again provide its powerful Mythos and Fable AI models to customers after the Trump administration lifted export controls that were applied earlier in June.  —  Summary
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Five Words That Changed America  —  There is a moment for every American when she first encounters the Declaration of Independence.  For most, it comes to her as scripture — the highest and most sacred text in the nation's civic religion, encapsulated by its moving assertion of human equality …
Ken B. Morales / ProPublica:
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification  —  ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings …
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump's focus on his construction projects has increased, Post analysis finds  —  The president mentioned his planned White House ballroom, golf course changes and other projects on more than 75 percent of the days in June.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump spent Sunday morning touring several …
Discussion: Wired
Nick Taylor-Vaisey / Politico:
Poll: Canadian patriotism was fading.  Then Trump came back. … As Europeans eye flag-waving with skepticism, prideful Canadians are wrapping themselves in the Maple Leaf.  —  In question after question, Canadians report far greater levels of national pride and patriotism than respondents in the U.K., France, Germany and Spain.
Dominique Vidalon / Reuters:
France sets presidential election dates  —  France will hold the first round of its next presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a run-off set for May 2, the government spokeswoman, Maud Bregeon, said on Wednesday following a cabinet meeting to officially approve the dates.
Discussion: Politico
Ellyn Lapointe / Gizmodo:
Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately  —  Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.  —  Is there anything more annoying than leaving the house in shorts and flip flops, only to get caught in an unexpected downpour?
 
 
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Discussion: Reuters
New York Times:
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Discussion: Colorado Politics
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
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