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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid

ProPublica · Jun 22, 2026

Breaking · Jun 22, 2026 Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters AP

Breaking · Jun 22, 2026 Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war AP

Politics

Senate GOP headed for showdown with Trump over SAVE America Act, Iran deal The Hill · Jun 23, 2026
I Cold-Called President Trump. Here’s What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor. ProPublica · Jun 23, 2026
Trump doubles down on Reflecting Pool vandalism claims without providing evidence ABC News · Jun 22, 2026
35 Retired Federal Judges Slam Trump's 'Laughable' Defense of His 'Obviously Collusive' IRS Settlement Reason · Jun 22, 2026
UPDATE: The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs Popular Information · Jun 22, 2026

Opinion

The hidden rebellion against returning to the office The Hill · Jun 23, 2026
June 22, 2026 Letters from an American · Jun 23, 2026
What Online Platforms Can and Must Do to Help Mitigate Escalating Political Violence Just Security · Jun 23, 2026
Still Radical, Still American The Bulwark · Jun 23, 2026
MAGA agenda struggling as judge, Republicans rebuke Trump initiatives The Hill · Jun 5, 2026

Law

After losing jobs for posting about Charlie Kirk, some are getting 6-figure payouts NPR · Jun 23, 2026
Gas stations are using AI to inflate prices, new lawsuit alleges Popular Information · Jun 23, 2026
First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws Lawfare · Jun 22, 2026
How The Death Penalty At 50 Is Far More Broken Than We Knew The Marshall Project · Jun 22, 2026
Is Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Slush Fund Dead? Or Is It Undead? Lawfare · Jun 5, 2026

Economy

US giving grew 3% in 2025, crossing the $600B mark for the first time The Conversation · Jun 23, 2026
K-shaped economy is still ‘firmly intact,’ Moody’s economist says The Hill · Jun 23, 2026
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI TechCrunch · Jun 22, 2026
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100 AP · Jun 22, 2026
U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May, even as inflation squeezed consumers NBC News · Jun 5, 2026

Culture

Advertising, training fairs, free tuition: How one state is trying to get more men into college The 19th · Jun 23, 2026
‘Country Roads’ is taking the World Cup by storm NBC News · Jun 22, 2026
Are Public Libraries Becoming Children’s Libraries? 404 Media · Jun 22, 2026
Bears say they are moving forward with Northwest Indiana location for new stadium AP · Jun 5, 2026
K-pop Fans Are Calling Out Creepy Deepfakes of Idols 404 Media · Jun 5, 2026

Health

Kenya minister stops construction of US-backed Ebola quarantine facility ABC News · Jun 23, 2026
Medicare’s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays KFF Health News · Jun 23, 2026
Medicaid and ACA enrollment falls by more than 5 million, new report finds NBC News · Jun 22, 2026
Measles is still spreading in the U.S., with more than 2,000 cases this year NBC News · Jun 5, 2026
Tracking the 2026 Ebola outbreak NBC News · Jun 5, 2026

Environment

European temperatures soar with heat set to break UK, French records ABC News · Jun 23, 2026
Outrage rescued an important ocean research program. Crucial ones remain at risk. Grist · Jun 23, 2026
The Colorado River is vanishing — and the fixes are getting weird Grist · Jun 23, 2026
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem TechCrunch · Jun 22, 2026
A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies Inside Climate News · Jun 22, 2026

Tech

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates TechCrunch · Jun 23, 2026
Quantum sensors could spot hidden damage in the thousands of US bridges rated ‘structurally deficient’ The Conversation · Jun 19, 2026
Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches TechCrunch · Jun 5, 2026
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute TechCrunch · Jun 5, 2026
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web Wired · May 7, 2026

World

Dozens of ships head through Strait of Hormuz after US-Iran deal BBC News · Jun 23, 2026
Iran's president heads to Pakistan as U.S.-Iran teams work on war-ending deal NPR · Jun 23, 2026
How Starmer went from Labour Party hero to calling it quits within 2 years AP · Jun 23, 2026
The Law of Armed Conflict and the Attack on Kyiv’s Monastery of the Caves and Dormition Cathedral Just Security · Jun 22, 2026
Putin shoots down Zelensky’s request for face-to-face meeting The Hill · Jun 5, 2026

Science

Europe as science superpower: what it will take to rival the US and China Nature · Jun 23, 2026
A spacecraft is falling to its doom — can NASA save it? Nature · Jun 22, 2026
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns Quanta Magazine · Jun 22, 2026
Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague’s timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago AP · Jun 17, 2026
The US Has a Plan to Combat Screwworm. It Involves a Lot More Flies Wired · Jun 5, 2026