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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Gun Silencer Provision In GOP Tax Bill Violates Rules, Says Senate Rules Ref — The parliamentarian ruled that the provision making it easier to get silencers, rifles and shotguns is irrelevant to the budget bill and has to come out. — WASHINGTON — A provision in the GOP's tax …
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Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Times and Los Angeles Times
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Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
School choice, religious school tax carveouts run afoul of Senate's Byrd rule — A Republican proposal to enact a multibillion-dollar private school tax credit program would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if it is included in conservatives' domestic policy megabill, the Senate parliamentarian …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
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New Republic:
MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls
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Axios:
House GOP fumes at changes to Trump bill: “Insulting and disgusting”
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Politico:
How Trump could get his July 4 megabill
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Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Newsom Sues Fox News for Saying He Lied About Call With Trump — The lawsuit, which seeks at least $787 million in damages, comes as the California governor adopts an increasingly combative style with the president and his allies. — Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sued Fox News on Friday …
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call — The amount is nearly identical to Dominion Voting's 2023 defamation settlement with Fox News. — Gavin Newsom is taking a page right out of Donald Trump's media playbook. — The California governor accused Fox News …
New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign — The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said. — The Trump administration has privately demanded …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Where Are the University Presidents? — Mostly playing with live ammo and coping with existential threats. — The hard-working staff here at Drezner's World has occasionally referenced Wesleyan University president Michael Roth in this newsletter. And he is making headlines yet again!
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New York Times, The Harvard Crimson and Inside Higher Ed
Axios:
Trump administration tries to oust the University of Virginia's president — The Trump administration has moved to oust University of Virginia President James Ryan because of a disagreement over the institution's diversity policies. — Why it matters: President Trump has tried to assert control …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
On Iran, a reminder that party trumps values — Last week, I wrote in my weekly chart article “The myth of Republican isolationism” that the GOP is not in fact the party of isolationism, despite the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump and his coalition. I pointed out that support …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Most voters back Iran strikes, but worry about attacks on U.S. — The U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities Saturday have left American voters with contradictory feelings, a new poll finds: — A majority favored limited strikes, but nearly as many said they were worried …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Support Rises For Giving Most Undocumented Immigrants A Pathway To Legal Status vs. Deportations, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor's ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN — Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN.
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The Bulwark:
The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren't. — The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren't with him. — Back in April, the White House took a sledgehammer to America's trading relationships with the rest of the world …
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Newsweek
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani — In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park, not far from where I live. The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the River to the Sea,” which I found clever but some of its Jewish neighbors considered threatening.
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Althouse
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Cuomo Doesn't Blame Himself for Losing the Primary. Others Do. — Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani. — For Andrew M. Cuomo, the rally rolling out a $20-an-hour minimum wage proposal …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines — Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans. — An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk …
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Associated Press:
CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends against flu vaccines containing thimerosal
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
With Flu Shot Vote, Kennedy's Vaccine Skepticism Comes Full Circle
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Wired:
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration — Edward “Big Balls” Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government. — Edward “Big Balls” Coristine …
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Harvey Milk's Name Is Stripped From U.S. Navy Vessel — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the decision to rename the replenishment vessel was “taking the politics out of ship naming.” — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the U.S. Navy was changing the name of the U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk …
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Hegseth announces USNS Harvey Milk is being renamed USNS Oscar V. Peterson
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Miami Herald:
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami — Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident. — On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami …
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Kelsey Ables / Washington Post:
Canadian citizen dies in ICE custody; Ottawa ‘urgently seeking’ information
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Axios
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 26, 2025 — This morning's press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth featured an apparently angry Hegseth yelling at the media for contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that last weekend's strikes against Iran had “completely obliterated” its nuclear weapons program.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting — The president has criticized media coverage of a preliminary classified report that ran counter to his assertion that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran's nuclear program. — President Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue …
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers — As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay away and undocumented workers hide at home. — Alexandra, a 55-year-old undocumented immigrant …
NBC News:
Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard — A bill by Sen. Tom Cotton would cut the Office of the Director of National Intelligence by 60%. The move comes as Gabbard appears to have fallen out of favor in the Trump administration.
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The Hill
Politico:
California donors cool on Kamala Harris: ‘No one is incredibly pumped.’ — Some party funders have privately shared their ambivalence as the former vice president ramps up her outreach ahead of a potential run for governor. — LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris is ramping up her outreach …
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Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets — 🗣️ Paid subscribers make Public Notice possible. If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please support us. 👇 — Narciso Barranco was trimming the grass with a weed whacker …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery — The nato Secretary General goes all-in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.” — Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump …
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The Economist and The Guardian
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments — The responses to Zohran Mamdani's showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.
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New York Daily News
Wall Street Journal:
Alina Habba Stood by Trump in Court. Now She's One of His Most Loyal Prosecutors. — As U.S. attorney for New Jersey, she has targeted Democrats and jolted staff and defense lawyers alike — When Alina Habba began her interim post as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey …
Wall Street Journal:
Harvard Is Asking Corporations to Fill Its Federal Funding Gap — Top universities look to big tech and pharmaceutical companies for support after Trump's cuts to government grants — Harvard University and other top research schools are seeking corporate funders to support …
Associated Press:
Migrant family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids — A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging …
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