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It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black — U.S. and Chinese officials will meet today in London to give deescalation from the current trade war the old college try. This might have been more difficult before, when Trump's saber-rattling was focused primarily on China.
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Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV — An Australian television journalist reporting live from downtown Los Angeles amid the large-scale protests over President Trump's immigration crackdown was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet, her network said.
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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 …

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.
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'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.
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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.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state — The national guard's deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results — Now that Donald Trump's tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied …
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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 …
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ICE: Crossing State Lines to Incite Riots
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Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
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What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
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Center — this street. — The third day of protests in downtown Los Angeles began …
Center — this street. — The third day of protests in downtown Los Angeles began …
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Robert Reich:
Trump's Police State
Trump's Police State
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
June 8, 2025 — Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington …
June 8, 2025 — Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Most Dangerous Week in American History (So Far)
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration
Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration
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Donald Trump tests limits of presidential authority by sending troops into Los Angeles
Donald Trump tests limits of presidential authority by sending troops into Los Angeles
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The Week Ahead — Saturday, as President Trump invoked his Title 10 authority to federalize …
The Week Ahead — Saturday, as President Trump invoked his Title 10 authority to federalize …
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Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Newsom Slams Trump as ‘Stone-Cold Liar’ Over Phone Call
Newsom Slams Trump as ‘Stone-Cold Liar’ Over Phone Call
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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.
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The stealth Senate dealmaker who could deliver Trump's tax cuts
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators' Competing Demands Risk Pulling Trump Megabill Apart
GOP Senators' Competing Demands Risk Pulling Trump Megabill Apart
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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 …
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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 …
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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.”
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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