New deal bars IRS from tax audits of Trump, his family and businesses

President Donald Trump has been feuding with the IRS for many years over audits into whether he and his business empire paid enough taxes.

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Trump administration halting $10 billion in social service funding to 5 Democratic states

The Trump administration plans to halt billions of dollars in federal funding for social services programs in five states led by Democrats following allegations of fraud.

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University of Nebraska is eliminating a key climate research department

As Nebraska's weather intensifies, farmers are losing a critical resource to understand it.

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Oklahoma instructor who gave student a zero on gender essay barred from teaching duties, school says

The failing grade has prompted protests at the University of Oklahoma in recent weeks, and the state's governor weighed in.

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Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center — NPR

The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.

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Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP 5 more House seats

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional.

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CDC Changes Webpage to Say Vaccines May Cause Autism, Revising Prior Language

The text on vaccines had been a focal point for both vaccine skeptics, who criticized it, and public health advocates, who wondered how far RFK Jr. would go to change it.

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TikTok Billionaire Is Making Bari Weiss's 'Anti-Woke' College Tuition Free

The University of Austin just received a generous gift from a deep-pocketed benefactor.

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The United States of Stupid: How a Smart Nation Keeps Outsmarting Itself

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory (1931).

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Elon Musk's Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here's How It's Different

Grokipedia exists. You can read it if you want.

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The bulldozer and the ballroom: Trump puts permanent stamp on the White House

This symbolizes a presidency that has taken a wrecking ball to norms, institutions and world order.

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US energy department cracks down on workers’ use of climate crisis language

Efficiency employees reportedly told to avoid ‘climate change’ and similar terms in their work in latest clampdown

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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of product safety agency

A judge had reinstated three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressure.

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US has wasted hundreds of thousands of vaccines meant for Africa, health officials there say — POLITICO

The expiration of shots the Biden administration promised to send comes after President Donald Trump cut deeply into foreign aid.

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Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of Education Department workers

The Trump administration appealed a court order blocking mass layoffs and other changes at the Education Department.

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Supreme Court lets Trump administration resume deportations to 'third countries'

Plaintiffs in the case want the right to challenge deportations to countries other than their own because of the risk of persecution, torture or death.

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English - Open Letter Against the rise of Fascism in 2025

June 14th, 2025 A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s f...

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Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits

More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades

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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics

HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

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The Environmental Protection Agency delays limits on PFAS in drinking water

Federal rules to reduce the levels of "forever chemicals" in drinking water are getting delayed.

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3 Months of Chaos

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack

Rachel Maddow has a gift for filtering out the noise and distractions and narrowing her focus on the things to pay the MOST attention to - here’s her top 3 things to keep an eye on.

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Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department

The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

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‘60 Minutes’ chief resigns, saying show’s independence was compromised — NPR

The longtime head of CBS’ 60 Minutes resigned Tuesday, as the network’s parent company grapples with President Trump's lawsuit over an interview the show did with Kamala Harris last fall.

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Trump signs orders to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open

Move aimed at addressing rise in power demand for data centers, AI and EVs, but environmentalists say it is a step back

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Top 15 Signs at Hands Off Protests

Protests in over 1,300 cities and towns all across America.

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Tariffs welcomed in Ohio's industrial Trump country

As economic uncertainty swirls and the markets take a hit, many in this deeply Republican area back the president's plan.

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