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New York Times:
Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin — A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.
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Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump says Netanyahu “knows who the boss is” ahead of possible WH visit — President Trump told Axios Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked him for a meeting at the White House, and that it could take place as early as next week after Trump returns from the NATO summit.
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The Moscow Times:
Leningrad Region Port, Oil Terminal Hit in Major Ukrainian Drone Attack — Russia's second city of St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region came under a large Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure struck, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said.
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Sophia Barnes / NBC4 Washington:
Masked men with Confederate flags seen chanting, marching, riding Metro in DC … Masked men, some carrying Confederate flags, were seen marching in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July. — “Reclaim America, reclaim America,” the crowd was heard chanting in a video captured near Union Station …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Democrats Clash With Trump, as Political Tensions Rise on America's 250th — Gavin Newsom and Wes Moore, potential 2028 contenders, cast President Trump's record as a betrayal of American ideals, while the president disparaged their party as extreme. — Patriotism met partisanship as America celebrated its 250th birthday.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler — I found myself gazing at George Washington's teeth the other day. — They weren't wooden, as lore has it. On a trip to Mount Vernon, which I had somehow never visited as an adult, even though my hometown is named after him …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Prepares July Fourth Address as Heat Tops 100 Degrees in D.C. — Festivities include military flyovers and a record-setting fireworks show — WASHINGTON—America is ringing in its 250th birthday in the nation's capital with a record-setting fireworks show, military flyovers, a speech by President Trump—and a heat wave.
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ABC News, The Hill, CNN, The Daily Signal, MS NOW, New York Post and CBS News
Sam McNeil / Associated Press:
A Belgian diamond group is gifting Trump a lavish ring after that industry won tariff relief — Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter T's next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman's logo.
Maggie Miller / Politico:
AI security questions loom over NATO summit — President Donald Trump enters the annual NATO leaders' summit in Ankara next week with powerful leverage over the military alliance: The U.S. has the world's most advanced artificial intelligence technology and can decide which of its allies gets access.
Safiyah Riddle / Associated Press:
Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in Napa County wine country, car left with major damage, authorities say — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's husband was involved in a hit and run on Friday in California's wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities …
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CBS News, Fox News, Daily Mail, TMZ.com, RedState, SFist, New York Post, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots — It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they're not without risk. — Mia Taylor looked down at her Los Angeles County election ballot …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood — Planned Parenthood's beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans' failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year.
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NewsMax.com
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The Trump admin went so far Thursday night that even Judge Reed O'Connor put a case on hold — The Trump administration apparently found a way to go so far afield of appropriate litigation tactics that even U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor has agreed to put a case before him on hold.
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Politico:
DOGE self-deletes on July 4th. The grand experiment fell apart long before that. — President Donald Trump's cost-cutting commission that once plunged the government into chaos is nearing its destiny — becoming a former federal initiative. — Up for debate: how and when the end …
Toluse Olorunnipa / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Getting Tired of Losing Election Cases — Earlier this year, President Trump claimed a new area of expertise: election law. “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject,” Trump wrote on social media, and found an “irrefutable one” that he would soon present.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Mercury News
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Targets Not Just Georgia's Vote, but Also Trust in Elections
Trump Targets Not Just Georgia's Vote, but Also Trust in Elections


