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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 …
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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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.
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
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Alex Rogers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year in return to presidency
Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year in return to presidency
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New Republic and Forbes
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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Straight Arrow, MS NOW and New York Post
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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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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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, Axios, Colorado Politics, Reuters, MS NOW, NewsMax.com, CNN, Bloomberg, The Hill and Fox News
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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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Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
First Draft: AIPAC Defeated Again - This Time in Colorado
First Draft: AIPAC Defeated Again - This Time in Colorado
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Associated Press, TheGrio and NewsMax.com
Joe Anuta / Politico:
The left won big in NYC. Now it has to survive a redistricting effort.
The left won big in NYC. Now it has to survive a redistricting effort.
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CBS News
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 — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🏛️ Subscribe to PN 🏛️ — It won't come as news to Public Notice readers that the Supreme Court, in the hands of the worst chief justice …
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Amy Qin / New York Times:
The Birthright Decision Was Surprisingly Close, Some Legal Scholars Say
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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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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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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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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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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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Townhall and NewsMax.com
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
ICE's arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas — The president's deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister's release. — Summary — SAN ANTONIO — Sister Leticia …
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The Texas Tribune
Ken B. Morales / ProPublica:
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification — In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions …
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New York Times
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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Raw Story
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
The US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest - and vice versa. Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Pulte to be acting DNI for ‘a month or two’ and can ‘declassify almost everything,’ Trump says … Trump's comments come after he killed a Senate plan last month to quickly confirm Clayton as the new DNI, paving the way for Pulte to helm the agency on a temporary basis.
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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.
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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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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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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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.
New Republic:
MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly — After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it. Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which it can't do, and he lamely claimed it was a …
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Washington Examiner
Max Grinstein / Washington Examiner:
MKUltra hearing turns into intense grilling of NIH researcher about the origins of COVID-19 — A House of Representatives hearing on the CIA's MKUltra mind control program descended into a political thrashing when Republicans quizzed former NIH researcher Elizabeth Ginexi about “integrity problems” …
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