In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Park Slope gives Mandami an enthusiastic reception

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Mamdani speaking in Brooklyn

Breaking: A CDC advisory panel filled with RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine skeptics just unanimously recommended limiting the COVID shot to people 65 and older or those with underlying health conditions, based on a decision individually or with their doctor.

When President Trump returned to the Oval Office, he promised that he would protect free speech. But after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, those pledges have given way to threats against critics. Here are how the views of Trump and top officials have changed. nyti.ms/46siz7o

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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A quiet street in a small town in the southwest corner of Utah is now near the epicenter of the world’s attention on Charlie Kirk.

In a broken system, New Yorkers with wrongful convictions have limited options for getting their cases reviewed. For many, the attorney general’s conviction review bureau is the only option. But deference to prosecutors can get in the way. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @nysfocus.bsky.social

Hi New York! Someone please solve this riddle: this is purportedly the F express schedule: www.mta.info/schedules/su... 14th street in Manhattan (Brooklyn-bound) is not even listed. And yet... twice now the express has stopped there. Where and when does the train stop? Signed, confused commuter.

NEW: The House Oversight Committee just received files from the Epstein estate. The estate was expected to include Epstein's now-infamous birthday book in the materials it handed over. @MSNBC

It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.

Federal Government Agrees in Court That D.C. Chief Controls City Police www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

BREAKING: Trump and Putin take no questions in what was billed as a press conference. No deal made. Trump thanked Putin "very much."

“There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

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We at Louisville Public Media just lost $376,000 due to Congress passing the rescission bill last night to claw back funds from public media across America. Today we’re asking those who value our work to help make up those funds in an emergency drive so we can maintain the staff/services we provide:

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Crucial roles were vacant at local National Weather Service offices as severe rainfall hit parts of Central Texas on Friday morning. Some experts question whether it hurt coordination with emergency officials.

Breaking News: The sprawling tax and health care bill that Senate Republicans are trying to pass would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

Senate Republicans narrowly advanced President Donald Trump’s mammoth tax and immigration agenda Saturday evening in a key procedural vote that tested the GOP’s fragile congressional majority.

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BREAKING: New York City's comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, a Venezuelan activist tortured inside Nicolás Maduro's notorious El Heliocoide prison, is seeking asylum in the U.S. Weeks before his initial hearing, he was making a routine check-in when ICE detained him @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports wapo.st/3HE9dwu

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BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The city of Glendale has ended its contract with ICE to house federal detainees. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tourism TO the U.S. is down. Will vaccine tourism FROM the U.S. become a thing?

The FTC has announced a workshop called "“The Dangers of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors" which it says will focus on "unfair or deceptive trade practices". www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

June 24th, online at 12pm ET. Hope you can join! www.eventbrite.com/e/covering-a...

Tesla’s shares dropped 14% on Thursday in New York, the stock’s biggest decline since March 10, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump feud devolved into a public war. The rout erased about $150 billion from the electric-vehicle maker’s market value

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So... as beef continues, a look back at a piece that our WIRED readers are reading... Elon Musk appears to have worked in the US without authorization. Could he have his citizenship revoked?

Love is dead. thehill.com/policy/techn...

My new story about estate planning! Some things I learned: • Plan for when you are still ALIVE • 💰 planning is smart, obvs, but you also need the softer kind. Ie, Don't just chuck things in your will leaving surprises and poss fights over who gets your VACUUM CLEANER(!) www.npr.org/2025/06/03/1...

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump formally asks Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has set aside for all public broadcasters for the next two years.

The Supreme Court effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4.