For months, President Donald Trump has boasted that his most sweeping tariffs amount to powerful leverage to win trade concessions from Beijing to Brussels. His hand just got weaker bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEWS: CBO Says Republican Tax Bill Adds $2.4 Trillion to US Deficits Over 10 Years

Here what to know about the fight over rare earths that is imperiling US-China trade bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Everyone thinks this is a grift." "completely nuts." "lol." Biden WH vets have a lot of thoughts about Karine Jean-Pierre leaving the Democratic Party — timed to the roll-out of a book. politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

“The attention-grabbing ploy lit up Democratic and Biden alumni texting groups and reignited frustrations that burned for years about Jean-Pierre, according to seven former Biden administration officials ….” Eli Stokols politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Thursday, according to Chinese state media, amid trade tensions that have roiled relations between the world’s two largest economies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

A Trump-branded Serbia tower shows the blurry boundaries between public priorities and private profit for the president’s family. On the government-owned site of a former defense ministry building bombed by US-led NATO forces in 1999, the project faces local backlash

"No fat soldiers." Military.com digs into how the crowd was built for President Trump's appearance yesterday at Fort Bragg and finds that soldiers were checked for their allegiance, and their appearance. military.com/daily-news/202…

"This is a Chinese TACO" via Catherine Lucey and Jennifer A. Dlouhy bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ABSOLUTE CINEMA J.J.’S PUTT TO WIN THE U.S. OPEN FROM EVERY ANGLE

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EXCLUSIVE: Senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign that Washington is assembling the infrastructure to directly enter a conflict with Tehran. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Almost 10 days since Trump declared a “done” trade deal with Beijing, US companies remain largely in the dark on when they’ll receive crucial magnets from China bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The White House has begun hiring more staff at the National Security Council, people familiar with the matter said, reversing course weeks after Donald Trump significantly cut the size of the council bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

On this, the most sacred of days, the New York Mets #lgm will pay $1.19 million to a 62-year-old soon-to-be empty nester who last stepped into a batter’s box in 2001. To celebrate Bobby Bonilla Day, here’s a gift link so everyone can read: wapo.st/3TfnrGN