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9:40 AM ET, June 9, 2025

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NBC Los Angeles:
Live updates: Protest spills onto 101 Freeway in downtown LA … What to Know  — Crowds gathered in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights Sunday for a third straight day of protests over recent immigration raids.  — A march that began Sunday in Boyle Heights arrived …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Read: Newsom demands Trump pull National Guard from LA protests  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday formally that requested President Trump's administration withdraw the National Guard from Los Angeles County, where troops are responding to immigration raid protests.
MSNBC:
'Tom, arrest me.  Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.
Wall Street Journal:
The Deportation Wars Begin  —  Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead.  —  Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest.  But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn't tell voters during the campaign.
9News:
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops  —  Tensions in Los Angeles have escalated again as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the National Guard …
Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David  —  President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he's heading to Camp David to meet with military leaders, among others, shortly before he posted a message online calling Los Angeles protesters an “insurrectionist mob.”
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
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New York Times:
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump's Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
Discussion: New York Times and CBS News
Politico:   Playbook: Trump: ‘BRING IN THE TROOPS’
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:   What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 8, 2025  —  Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington …
Discussion: Newsweek and New York Times
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait
Punchbowl News:
6/9/2025_3 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Senate Republicans have three weeks to meet their leadership's goal of passing a massive party-line reconciliation bill before the July 4 recess.  —  Privately, GOP senators, the White House and House Republican leaders are split on whether they can pull it off.
Discussion: E&E News
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Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The stealth Senate dealmaker who could deliver Trump's tax cuts
Discussion: Blaze Media and Punchbowl News
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:   What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
Politico:
Democrats' big bet on the Big Beautiful Bill
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility  —  Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building.  —  Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday …
Yesica Fisch / Associated Press:
Israeli forces prevent aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching Gaza  —  Israeli forces stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists early Monday and diverted it to Israel, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory …
NBC News:
White House struggles to find qualified people willing to work for Pete Hegseth  —  At least three people have turned down potential roles working for the defense secretary and former Fox News host.  Supporters say his leadership has been effective.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House …
Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Silicon Valley's not crying for Musk  —  Few tears will be shed in Silicon Valley or at Big Tech firms over Elon Musk's precipitous fall from White House grace.  —  Why it matters: Musk's brief alliance with President Trump warped the usual dynamics of the relationship between America's …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   Trump's Feud With Musk Highlights His View of Government Power: It's Personal
Reuters:
How Trump defanged the Justice Department's political corruption watchdogs  —  Stripped of its authority and nearly all its staff, the U.S. Justice Department's storied Public Integrity Section is on life support.  Former prosecutors say the overhaul could make it easier to prosecute Trump's opponents.
Graham Lanktree / Politico:
Trump promised Britain a trade deal.  So where is it?  —  LONDON — In a much-hyped split-screen Oval Office phone call a month ago, U.S. President Donald Trump promised Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the two had struck an “historic” trade deal.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Daily Mail
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters  —  Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’  —  ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White …
Associated Press:
NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research  —  In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own.  “Dissent,” he said, “is the very essence of science.”
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
As ivermectin goes over the counter, some pharmacists worry about a lack of guidance  —  The drug, used to treat parasitic worms, has not been formulated or labeled specifically for over-the-counter use, like aspirin or an antacid.  —  Boise, Idaho, pharmacist Matt Murray has no choice …
 
 
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NBC News:
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