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NBC News:
Speaker Mike Johnson unveils funding bill one week before potential shutdown  —  The stopgap measure would keep the government funded through Sept. 30.  But Democratic leaders are opposed, and it's unclear if Johnson can pass it with only Republicans.  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Infighting Stalls Trump's ‘Big, Beautiful’ Tax Bill
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Examiner
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House Unveils Trump-Backed Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
Aris Folley / The Hill:
House GOP seeks spending cuts, defense increases in plan to avert shutdown
New York Times:
Elon Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers  —  DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks about planned operations.  —  The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests …
Washington Post:
HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections  —  An HHS official said the associates of Elon Musk's group had sought ‘read-only’ access.  —  just now  —  The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
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Associated Press:
Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans  —  A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.
eutoday.net:
US Intelligence Ban Leads to Heavy Ukrainian Losses  —  The decision by the United States to suspend military intelligence sharing with Ukraine has contributed to significant battlefield losses, with Russian forces advancing along key frontlines.  —  Reports indicate that the halt …
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The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak:
Ukraine fought alongside US in Iraq; never demanded minerals
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking About Trump's Economy: “Weakening!”  —  Fox News figures are willing to propagandize on President Trump's behalf on pretty much every horror that he throws our way.  Do Fox personalities back Trump when he sells out our allies in tandem with murderous tyrant Vladimir Putin?
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Mail, Politico and TheGrio
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Trump says brief economic pain is worth long-term gain. Will Americans agree?
Discussion: NBC News
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Is Pivoting to No Pain, No Gain as Economic Message
Discussion: Associated Press
Viktoria Lytovchenko / online.ua:
The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out  —  Читати українською  —  US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has.
Discussion: Forbes
Peter Stubley / The Times:
Pro-Palestinian activists vandalise Trump's Turnberry golf course  —  The Palestine Action group spray painted the clubhouse and gates and dug up the greens, in protest over the US president's plans for Gaza  —  Pro-Palestinian protesters have vandalised one of Donald Trump's golf courses …
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Craig Williams / BBC:
Trump Turnberry vandalised by pro-Palestine group
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Trump signs order to limit who gets public service student loan forgiveness  —  The president says some nonprofit organizations that qualify for the program are engaging in illegal activity, without offering any proof.  —  In a move that could upend a popular federal program …
Alan J. Keays / VTDigger:
Shelburne police officer had YouTube video playing in cruiser at time of fatal crash, court records say  —  Kyle Kapitanski is set to be arraigned next week on a felony charge stemming from the crash that killed Sean Hayes, a cyclist, in South Burlington.  —  A Shelburne police sergeant …
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Golf Weekends' Cost To Taxpayers Hits $18.2 million  —  Donald Trump has played golf at his own courses in Florida on six of the seven weekends since his second term began.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's insistence on playing golf at his Florida courses has now cost American taxpayers …
Discussion: The Independent
Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers joins lawsuit against President Trump, calls widespread federal workforce firings illegal  —  Natalie Eilbert Mary SpicuzzaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that Wisconsin has joined a multistate lawsuit against President Donald …
Discussion: KTLA and MPR News
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
States sue Trump administration over mass firings of federal employees
Discussion: Daily Kos and Business Insider
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
'You Can't Pin Him Down': Trump's Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover  —  President Trump's shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn.  —  What does President Trump really believe?  —  Does he want to run for a third term, or is that just a joke?
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Tim Walz has some sharp critiques of the Dem 2024 campaign  —  The Harris-Walz campaign should have “rolled the dice” more, he told POLITICO.  —  HELENA, Montana — Tim Walz thinks he and Kamala Harris played it too safe last year.  —  He thinks they should have held more town halls.
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
Trump's Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge  —  The transferring of at least three national security officials amounts to a complete gutting of leadership in the highly sensitive National Security Division.  —  just now  —  The Justice Department …
Discussion: New York Times and Reuters
Washington Post:
Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots  —  The string of violence against Tesla storefronts, charging stations and vehicles exacerbates the company's woes, analysts said.  —  The woman in the black hoodie walked onto the Tesla car lot prepared to inflict damage.
Discussion: Mediaite
Jason Sattler / The Last Billionaires:
Why America is on the verge of committing atrocities against our neighbors  —  People have to be ‘coached’ into evil with propaganda.  Trump and Musk have turned what our right has done for decades up to 11.  —  During Trump's first regime, IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis became …
Jesse Coburn / ProPublica:
How the Terrorgram Collective's Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill  —  This story contains references to homophobia, antisemitism and racism, as well as mass shootings and other violence.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
Discussion: FRONTLINE and prima donna …
New York Times:
Musk Doesn't Understand Why Government Matters  —  Elon Musk's life is a great American success story.  Time and again, he has anticipated where the world was headed, helping to create not just new products but new industries.  His achievements, from his pioneering role in online payments …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal  —  Americans would never accept another nation threatening our country the way Trump insists on doing with Canada  —  As an American teenager who grew into a semblance of political consciousness during the height of George W. Bush's War on Terror …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Insiders Loaded Up On Firm's Stock—Right Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump's Involvement Sent Shares Soaring  —  Dominari Holdings insiders, as well as Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, acquired 1 million shares through a private placement and bonuses just before the stock surged on news …
NBC News:
HHS sends all employees a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer  —  The agency's approximately 80,000 employees were emailed Friday night with the offer of a “voluntary separation incentive payment.”  —  Health and Human Services employees were offered voluntary buyouts to resign from their jobs on Friday night …
Discussion: UPI, Business Insider and The Hill
Ryan Murphy / WHRO Public Media:
Controversial military-themed brewery shuts its doors after a year in Norfolk, citing “woke mob”  —  Financial filings show the brewery was struggling financially before it relocated and had failed to start turning a profit after opening in Norfolk.  —  A controversial military-themed brewery championed …
Discussion: Daily Press
 
 
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Some Republicans act as if Musk is the first to uncover waste. He isn't.
Discussion: Citizens Against …
Claude Malhuret / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
Stephen Council / SFGATE:
Trump's 2.2 billion-gallon dump from California reservoirs just got even uglier
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
Discussion: Heatmap News
New York Times:
Trump Administration Sends Politically Charged Survey to Researchers
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
FBI Director Patel asked for private security team and personal direct line to Trump: WSJ
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
David Smith / The Guardian:
What will it take for a former president to speak out against Trump?
 Earlier Items: 
Molly McKew / Great Power:
America needs to stop cheering for the pickled egg
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Putin Won  —  The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.
Discussion: New York Times
The Kyiv Independent:
US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports
Discussion: Telegraph and Euromaidan Press
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
How A Tiny Federal Agency's Lawsuit Could Provide The Smoking Gun Against DOGE
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Stephen Miller's outside army
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power
 

 
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CNBC:
OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months”

Ian King / Bloomberg:
At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more
 
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