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Jennie Taer / The Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Orders Agents To Cease All Vehicle Stops After Recent Shootings … Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas. — Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told “no more vehicle stops for now.”
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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit — Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving a vehicle stop in a week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Liana Castano sent out an email …
New York Times:
ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After 2 Killings in a Week — Agents fatally shot a man in Houston and another in coastal Maine, both in their vehicles. The killings were the latest in a string of ICE shootings during President Trump's second term.
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
ICE agents halt most vehicle stops following deadly shootings in Maine, Texas, sources say
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Clarissa-Jan Lim / MS NOW:
E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump's $5 million — plus interest — Writer E. Jean Carroll finally has the $5 million — plus interest — that a jury ordered President Donald Trump to pay her in damages in one of her two cases against him, after Trump fought the payout for years.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
E. Jean Carroll officially receives more than $5M from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation judgment
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Steve Benen / MS NOW:
GOP's Ron Johnson shares, then retracts, a conspiratorial ‘rumor’ about Mitch McConnell — We've known for a month that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was hospitalized, but neither he nor anyone on his team has been willing to say why. Over the weekend, McConnell finally took steps …
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Ben Binday / Washington Post:
McConnell took a photo with that day's newspaper. The internet has questions.
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Keeps Bombing, Nothing Keeps Changing. — The National Mall has a new feature. No, not the once-again-drained Reflecting Pool. And no, not the mysterious gash the president insists some vandal (or “Vandal") made in it—the length of which has grown, somehow, to 300 feet since the last time he complained about it.
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New York Times:
Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation — The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. — The lead investor in a South Korean aluminum company …
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New Republic
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Hakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aid — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told fellow Democrats Tuesday he will oppose an amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, wading directly into a contentious issue that is dividing the party.
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Miami Herald:
Man killed by truck as he fled immigration agents in St. Augustine — A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Backs Off 20% Strait of Hormuz Fee — The decision comes just a day after the president floated the idea of charging other countries shipping cargo through waterway that Iran has sought to control — President Trump's Iran strategy abruptly reversed course Tuesday when he announced …
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
How Low Would Sam Alito Go? — Brace yourself for LEGAL judicial election interference, and another heist. — ∙ Paid — Catching up with post-vacation news over the weekend, I happened upon this somewhat mortifying story about NPR's veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show — The cooperation of Todd Blanche in President Trump's retribution against enemies will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday. — Todd Blanche, then the Justice Department's No. 2 official …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The See-No-Evil Supreme Court … The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship intact—and that by only one vote. Across multiple cases dealing …
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
House Republicans Feel Left in the Dark Over Reconciliation — As Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House push forward with a third reconciliation bill, many rank-and-file Republicans are growing frustrated about being excluded as top leaders leaned mostly on conservatives in its discussions.
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Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Mike Johnson Is Plotting a Narrow, Fast Reconciliation Bill
Mike Johnson Is Plotting a Narrow, Fast Reconciliation Bill
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
New York to impose the country's first statewide moratorium on data centers — New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.
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David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump administration and Heritage Foundation for ‘conspiracy’ against him — Pro-Palestinian protester and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil is suing multiple parties, including the Trump administration and the Heritage Foundation, for waging a “conspiracy” against him since last year.
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Jake Johnson / Truthout:
Marco Rubio Threatens to “Teach” the ICC the “Full Meaning of American Resolve” — The secretary of state announced what he characterized as a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court. … US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced what he characterized as a …
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Cate Brown / The Guardian:
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
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Katie Jerkovich / New York Post:
Trump rages about Spencer Pratt losing Los Angeles mayoral election — President Trump continued to raise red flags about Spencer Pratt's election results in his baid for Los Angeles mayor — saying something has to be done about the “crooked” elections in our country.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Jim Jordan explores immigration deal with hard-liners amid floor impasse — House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said Tuesday he is negotiating with a key GOP holdout in hopes of drafting an immigration bill that can help unlock the ongoing floor impasse. Jordan (R-Ohio) said he is speaking …
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Raw Story
Alex Kirshner / Slate:
Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate — Elon Musk's X transformed his campaign into a political mirage. … It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular …
José Olivares / The Guardian:
‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds — Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’ — It's been a brutal tactic deployed …
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Orlando Sentinel:
Alligator Alcatraz is no more. Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site — The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Democrats lead by 26 points among “double haters” in the 2026 House midterms vote — One in five Americans rates both parties unfavorably. These voters lean Democratic and say Trump has hurt the economy — ∙ Paid — Americans have never liked their political parties less.
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THE FARCE
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Senate Dems block defense bill in protest of Iran war — Senate Democrats blocked a $1.15 trillion Pentagon policy bill on Tuesday, as the sprawling legislation became a casualty in the monthslong fight to rein in President Donald Trump on Iran. — The National Defense Authorization Act fell …
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Steve Benen / MS NOW:
Stumped on ICE killing, Mike Johnson keeps struggling with the basics of current events — By any fair measure, one of the biggest stories in the United States yesterday unfolded in Maine, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero …
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Miller's Wife Melts Down Over What's Sitting on Trump's Desk — STICKY FINGERS — The president failed to hide the embarrassing item while appearing before the press. — Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, failed to see the funny side …
Associated Press:
Bipartisan group of senators introducing legislation to avert looming Social Security shortfall — With Social Security's looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is announcing plans to introduce a proposal to grapple with one of the most consequential …
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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Trump to shrink 2 Utah national monuments by 90% — Utah Gov Spencer Cox praised the move, citing Antiquities Act limits on monument size as coal and uranium deposits open up — President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrinking the size of two national monument areas in Utah on Monday.
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Ken Griffin Has Poured $40 Million Into Helping Republicans Win the Midterms — Megadonor is heavily focused on Senate races — Billionaire Ken Griffin has already invested roughly $40 million into this year's midterm campaigns—a total that could easily double by November …
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Reuters:
Pollution from Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities — Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged, and the pollution is hitting predominantly …
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CBS News:
Republicans consider future of Lindsey Graham's Senate seat as Darline Graham Nordone fills in — Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, will serve out the remainder of his term. Meanwhile, Republicans are discussing potential candidates who could compete …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations following Epstein revelations — Warren Buffett confirmed he has stopped donating money to the Gates Foundation, following revelations about interactions between the Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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