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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 — Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. — 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 …
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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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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Maine Democrats criticize GOP Sen. Susan Collins after the fatal ICE shooting in the state
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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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Scripps News, New York Times, The Guardian, Vox, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and KVIA-TV
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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Washington Examiner, Deadline, NPR, Mercury News, Forbes, NBC News, The Hill and The Jim Acosta Show
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages
E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages
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The Daily Wire, Associated Press and Los Angeles Times
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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Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
The Battle for Hormuz: Trump Shifts Into Dangerous New Phase in Iran War
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Time, 19FortyFive, Truthout, Tangle, New Republic and CNN
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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Raw Story and New Republic
Ben Binday / Washington Post:
McConnell took a photo with that day's newspaper. The internet has questions. — The Post reviewed metadata that appears to show the photo was taken Sunday, but online speculation about McConnell's health continued. — Summary — Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a photo Sunday night …
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Steve Benen / MS NOW:
GOP's Ron Johnson shares, then retracts, a conspiratorial ‘rumor’ about Mitch McConnell
GOP's Ron Johnson shares, then retracts, a conspiratorial ‘rumor’ about Mitch McConnell
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The Guardian, Breitbart, The Hill, Daily Mail, New Republic, Mediaite and Raw Story
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.
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Authorities investigate Taco Bell and lettuce as cyclosporiasis outbreak surges — CDC identifies link among four Midwestern states, the first public indication of a common source in multiple outbreaks that have sickened more than 4,000. — Summary — Federal and state health officials …
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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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CBS News and NewsMax.com
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 …
Anthony L. Fisher / MS NOW:
How MAGA cynically created a moral panic about Zohran Mamdani and Italian Americans — MAGA trolls and their allies in right-wing media joined forces last week to gin up an exceptionally dumb, cynically engineered culture war “outrage.” Apparently, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “hates” …
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 …
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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Raw Story, The Federalist and Political Wire
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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NewsMax.com and Raw Story
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 …
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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Degenerate Art:
Little Gitmos everywhere — The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide. — Last week, I got a message from journalist Charles Davis. He asked me to comment for an article about a call for contractors he'd noticed on Sam.gov. The U.S. government, it seemed …
The Atlantic:
Marco Rubio's Disappearing Signal Chat — The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn't use disappearing messages. By this spring, it had dropped that claim. — Secretary of state marco rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job.
Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times:
US state department offers $3mn grants to Maga-aligned groups in Europe — Agency seeks to repurpose foreign aid funds to help organisations that support Trump administration policies — The US state department is offering grants of up to $3mn for Maga-aligned European groups that combat …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Kagan, Coney Barrett break on whether high court needs independent ethics code panel — Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett shared differing views on Tuesday regarding a potential independent enforcement mechanism to ensure they and their colleagues are upholding the court's ethics code.
Jonas Loesel / Politico:
French soccer team arrives in Dallas on an ICE deportation jet — The French national team arrived in Dallas on Sunday aboard an Airbus A320 jet. The day before, the same jet had been used for an ICE deportation flight to Nicaragua. The French team has traveled on GlobalX charter flights …
Associated Press:
Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says — Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found. — The Wisconsin Elections Commission …
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
ICE reverses, admits it may have trove of documents on agents at polling places — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats' demand for the Trump administration's possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall.
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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.
Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
'I'm Joe Lombardo': Nevada governor not ticketed after being pulled over in a traffic stop — Nevada's governor was pulled over by a Las Vegas police officer in May for allegedly failing to stop at a red light before making a right turn in his pickup truck. He wasn't ticketed after identifying himself.
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Washington Examiner, TMZ.com, KLAS, Raw Story and New Republic
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 …
Politico:
Judges grow skeptical about DOJ's use of grand juries — An “arbitrary fishing expedition.” “An unconstitutional effort to coerce.” “A convenient pretext for launching a criminal investigation.” — Federal judges are increasingly peering under the hood at the Trump-led Justice Department's use …
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MS NOW and Above the Law
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in U.S. institutions remains historically low, as reflected in their average view of 14 institutions measured each year since 1993. Currently, 27% of Americans express “a great deal” or …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The College Fix, Fox News, Axios and Pluribus News
Emily Briski / The Daily Wire:
New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Director Rejects ‘Politically Correct’ Casting … Andy Serkis said his upcoming “Lord of the Rings” film will not embrace “politically correct” casting, saying he won't prioritize diversity for its own sake. — Speaking to the BBC, Serkis, who is directing …
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BBC, The Post Millennial, Fox News, The Hollywood Reporter and NewsMax.com
Fox News:
‘Did you call 911?’ Tuberville recounts Graham's frantic final phone call — A Senate Republican added further detail to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's, R-S.C., final moments thanks to an unlikely connection. — Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., revealed that it was a former member …
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 …
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Raw Story
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Trump administration gives Tom Kean Jr. a new headache in tough midterm fight — The Trump administration is not making Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s tough reelection fight any easier. — On Friday, less than two weeks after Kean explained that his lengthy absence from Congress was due to his treatment …
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New Republic and Raw Story
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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The Hill
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.
