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Politico:
‘Scared s-tless’: Republicans brace for Trump's primetime speech  —  President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security.  Many Republicans wish he wouldn't.  —  The president's speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House …
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump vote-fraud speech traps TV networks … He has promised a “very big announcement” and “really big news” regarding the security of the U.S. voting system.  — He hasn't specifically said whether he'll bring up the 2020 election — an obsession of Trump's since he lost it and cried fraud.
Politico:
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Inside Trump's remaking of American elections  —  President Donald Trump seemingly has a plan for the nation's election apparatus: Dismantle the existing system with a series of cuts, firings and threats, rather than a sledgehammer blow.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
John Sakellariadis / Politico:
House Dems warn of weaponized intel ahead of Trump's speech
ABC News:
Trump to give primetime speech on 2020 election: Sources
Discussion: CBS News and MS NOW
Washington Post:
Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say  —  President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.  —  Just now  —  The lining of the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Evidence Team Visits Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool  —  Officials surveyed the newly drained pool, where the floor began peeling soon after a $16 million repair job.  President Trump has blamed vandals.  —  An F.B.I. evidence-gathering team visited the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool …
Discussion: The Independent
ABC News:
White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources  —  Gabriel Perez is in settlement talks with federal regulators, the sources said.  —  Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Nicholas Kerr  —  President Donald Trump read …
Discussion: CNBC
Reuters:
Iran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if US hits power network, sources say  —  Iran has asked Yemen's Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies.
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Wall Street Journal:
Controlling Hormuz Would Take More U.S. Troops—and Even More Risk  —  The recent escalation of fire has crimped traffic further.  Military experts say opening the strait would require more troops and months of effort.  —  At the start of this week, President Trump asserted that the Strait of Hormuz was open and under U.S. control.
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
US expands strikes into northern Iran and disables ship trying to run blockade
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Vance's security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests  —  On Thursday last week, Secret Service agents groused among themselves as they prepared to deliver another perk to Vice President JD Vance's family: join a military helicopter crew to fly his young son to his golf lesson.
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The Bulwark:
All the Dictator's Men  —  The assault on liberal democracy is a whole-of-government Trumpist project.
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Radley Balko / New York Times:
ICE Is Out of Control.  Here's What to Do About It.  —  In the span of a week, federal immigration enforcement agents took the lives of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian man shot in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man gunned down in Houston.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson preps to punt government funding through midterms  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he plans to hold a House vote next on a stopgap spending measure, one that would likely fund the government through the November midterm elections.  The move is an opening bid in what could become …
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Politico:
Johnson rushes to launch Recon 3.0
Discussion: New York Magazine and UPI
Axios:
How a fuming Trump reversed ICE's pause on vehicle stops  —  Late Tuesday at the White House, a livid President Trump complained to advisers about the Department of Homeland Security's decision to pause the type of vehicle stops by ICE agents that had led to two fatal shootings in the past two weeks.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Almost Half of House Democrats Vote to End Aid to Israel  —  The measure failed, but the level of support among Democrats exposed a stark shift in the party away from backing the Jewish state.  —  The House on Wednesday rejected a measure to eliminate U.S. aid to Israel …
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CNN:
GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law  —  Race & ethnicity Social media Senate election US elections  —  Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur …
New York Times:
Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone  —  Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday a new mandatory screening program to test …
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NBC News:
U.S. military will test service members' testosterone levels, Pete Hegseth says
Lauren McGaughy / New York Times:
Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio  —  The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas recently bought three condominiums at a luxury resort in Utah …
Discussion: MS NOW
Naomi LaChance / Rolling Stone:
Maine Mourns After ICE Killing: ‘A Man Was Lynched Here’  —  The state's residents are taking to the streets after federal agents killed a 25-year-old father on Monday … It is not roped off by crime scene tape.  It has a red tint, but it could be mistaken for some kind of spill.
Discussion: People For
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The Boston Globe:
Maine Governor Janet Mills tried to visit a memorial site for the man killed by an ICE agent. Protesters chased her away.
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Rubio puts entire world on notice against rise of ‘poisonous’ far-left terror ‘masked as equality’  —  Scott Bessent and Stephen Miller to address terrorist financing and critical infrastructure at the ministerial  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Thursday that violent far-left political terrorism …
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Washington Post:
Trump approval stuck in the 30s amid pessimism on Iran and economy, poll finds  —  Americans give President Trump broadly negative assessments, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.  —  Summary  —  Americans give President Donald Trump broadly negative reviews for his handling of key issues …
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century  —  A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible.  When the various agencies designed to protect the American people from all manner of threats are working perfectly …
Discussion: The Cross Section and STAT
The Kyiv Independent:
‘Utterly baffling’: Ukrainians outraged, call for protest after Zelensky ousts Fedorov  —  This is a developing story and is being updated  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky's dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister has drawn a wave of criticism from soldiers, veterans …
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says  —  Coin commemorating 250th anniversary will be released this fall and marks first time a living president appears on currency  —  The treasury department announced on Wednesday that the US Mint has started producing …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Administration Argues for Fencing Off Park Next to White House  —  The Commission of Fine Arts is set to consider the administration's proposal regarding Lafayette Square Park, which has been the site of numerous protests.  —  A federal design panel on Thursday will consider …
Discussion: NPR and Associated Press
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 80, Unravels in Weird ‘Magnets’ Rant  —  MAGANET MANIA  —  The president is urging more defense contractors to “do magnets” after Donald Trump Jr. invested in a company that makes them.  —  Donald Trump suffered a senior moment at a security conference where defense contractors …
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
CNN:
DA says he doesn't believe that drugs were found in van involved in Houston ICE shooting, countering FBI suspicion  —  Crime Gun violence Federal agencies Immigration  —  Prosecutors in Texas' Harris County believe the substances collected in the van in which Lorenzo Salgado Araujo …
Discussion: The Hill and Click2Houston.com
 
 
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US to change visa regulations for foreign students, journalists
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Peter Walker / The Guardian:
Keir Starmer wants Fifa investigation into Argentina players who held Falklands banner
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
New bill would prohibit ICE from separating parents from children
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