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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Made More Than $1 Billion on Crypto Deals, Part of 2025 Windfall — The president also brought in vast sums from licensing and legal settlements, according to an annual disclosure — President Trump's forays into cryptocurrency delivered him a windfall of more than $1 billion last year …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump filing shows he took in about $1.2 billion from crypto businesses last year — President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion dollars from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.
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Alex Rogers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year in return to presidency
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The Guardian:
Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025
Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025
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Kali Hays / BBC:
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office
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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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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
A vote away from undoing the civil war
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day
Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day
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Amy Qin / New York Times:
The Birthright Decision Was Surprisingly Close, Some Legal Scholars Say
The Birthright Decision Was Surprisingly Close, Some Legal Scholars Say
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Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
AIPAC Defeated Again - This Time in Colorado — Democratic socialist and underdog Melat Kiros won the Democratic primary for Colorado's first congressional district. Plus: Rep. Delia Ramirez demands answers about the Gaza ‘Board of Peace.’ — ∙ Paid … Good morning, friends.
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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
Michael Bennet Loses His Bid for Governor
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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 …
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
DeGette loses reelection bid to DSA challenger in major upset for Denver-based House seat
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Emily Davies / New York Times:
Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado
Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado
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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 …
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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.”
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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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 …
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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 …
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR retracts story about Alito retirement — NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg misheard an announcement about retirements as she was leaving the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. As a result, an NPR headline erroneously claimed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring.
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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.
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?
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.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: SCOTUS Upholds Sex-Based Restrictions in Sports - Unanimously? — Two miracles took place at the Supreme Court today in two cases involving Title IX and women's sports. The first miracle is that common sense and biology prevailed. The second miracle is that the decision was unanimous ... at least in part.
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Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning … In September, Trump and Kennedy held a press conference in which they stated without clear evidence that the common fever and pain reducer acetaminophen—sold as Tylenol in the US and also known as paracetamol …
New York Times:
Control of the Senate Is Up for Grabs, Times/Siena Polls Find — Republicans are defending seats in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas as they try to maintain their majority. Democrats are competitive in all six states — but not leading in enough to take the chamber.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A fourth appeals court rejects ICE mass detention policy … “In our circuit, thousands of noncitizens are likely subject to mandatory detention under the Government's newfound statutory reading and policy,” wrote Federico, joined by Obama appointee Robert Bacharach and Reagan appointee David Ebel.
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Colorado Politics
Joe Anuta / Politico:
The left won big in NYC. Now it has to survive a redistricting effort. … “You had people yelling 'you're next' at a screen showing Hakeem,” said Basil Smikle Jr., the former head of the state Democratic Party, referring to democratic socialists calling for Jeffries' defeat at a primary night watch party.
