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8:55 PM ET, June 26, 2025

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U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget:
Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.
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Politico:
Thune says Senate won't overrule parliamentarian  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday the Senate would not move to overrule its parliamentarian after she advised that including key provisions in the GOP's domestic-policy megabill would expose it to a fatal Democratic filibuster.
NPR:
Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in ‘big, beautiful bill’ says parliamentarian
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
Grace Yarrow / Politico:   Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan
Jasmine Li / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is the Senate Parliamentarian and Why Do Some Republicans Want Her Fired?
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Key SALT Republicans reject latest offer from Senate GOP, White House
Discussion: NOTUS, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Semafor
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Al Jazeera
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Meets With Business Leaders Desperate to Stop Mamdani's Rise  —  Daniel Loeb, the hedge fund manager, and some other New York City business leaders are aghast at Zohran Mamdani's success in the Democratic mayoral primary and are considering backing Mr. Adams in the general election.
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's disastrous new abortion decision, explained
Discussion: Slate and The Daily Caller
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91  —  Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
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Fred A. Bernstein / Washington Post:
Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91  —  He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.  —  Bill Moyers, who served as press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and then …
CNN:   Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
Carmel Dagan / Variety:   Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91
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 …
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Bill Goodykoontz / Arizona Republic:
Why did Pete Hegseth attack Fox News' Jennifer Griffin for being right?
Shawn Fleetwood / The Federalist:
CNN ‘Stand[s] 100% Behind’ Natasha Bertrand's Serial Disinformation On Foreign Affairs
Pew Research Center:
Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Trump came close to winning Latino vote in '24
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn't El Salvador  —  A government lawyer laid out a plan in court Thursday, but without a clear timeline.  — Copy  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back in the United States after the Trump administration mistakenly deported …
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Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that's not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why Trump regime shattered the Constitution to crush a 29-year-old Maryland laborer
Discussion: WUSA
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 …
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Gabbard Dropped From Intelligence Briefing as Trump Rages Over Leak  —  SIDELINED  —  The director of national intelligence is being left out after a leaked assessment said the president's strikes on Iran had set the country's nuclear program back just a few months.
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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 …
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 …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …
Discussion: Mediaite
Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed …
Robert Brodsky / Newsday:
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, former congresswoman and prominent gun control advocate, dies at 81  —  Automated narration.  Learn more  —  Carolyn McCarthy, whose personal tragedy propelled her to national prominence after her husband was killed during the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and New York Post
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Laurence Arnold / Bloomberg:
Carolyn McCarthy, NY's ‘Gun Lady’ in Congress, Dies at 81
Discussion: New York Times and Roll Call
Paul Krugman:
Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.
Discussion: Jacobin and Fortune
Jordan Rubin / MSNBC:
Supreme Court set to issue final rulings, as birthright citizenship and other cases remain  —  The last six cases of the term include birthright citizenship injunctions and a parental bid to keep kids from LGBTQ-themed instruction in public school.  —  The Supreme Court is needlessly shrouded in mystery.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court is set to issue rulings on birthright citizenship and five other cases on term's final day
Discussion: Associated Press
WWD:
American Vogue Seeks New Head of Editorial Content  —  Anna Wintour will continue in her roles as chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.  —  It's the end of an era. … Wintour, 75, will remain chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.
Dan Katz / TPR:
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court.  His family is suing.  —  A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Pro-Trump group unleashes first TV ad against Massie
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Kevin Jennings / Advocate:
After 10 years of marriage equality, the fight continues for LGBTQ+ rights
Elaine Mallon / Washington Examiner:
Egyptian man pleads guilty to kicking CBP dog at DC airport
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CNN:
Exclusive: Details emerge of secret diplomatic efforts to restart Iran talks
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 Earlier Items: 
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and New York Times
Andrew Sullivan / New York Times:
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
Discussion: New York Post, Slow Boring and HotAir
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
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ICERaid: The App That Asks You To Report Illegal Immigrants For Crypto
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount faces a backlash for settling with Trump; Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says it “marks a dangerous precedent for the First Amendment”

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order

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