Allison McCann / New York Times:
ICE Wants Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law.  These Officers Signed Up.  —  Sheriff's deputies in Laramie County, Wyo., briefly detained a man from Venezuela after a traffic stop last month.  The sheriff's department in the county has an agreement with the federal government to perform immigration arrests.

Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Scoop: ICE detention numbers slip  —  ICE has empty detention bed space and the average daily number of detainees has slid to 58,000, Axios has learned from two sources familiar with the data.  —  Why it matters: ICE went on a $38 billion buying spree to rapidly expand the number of available beds.

Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood  —  About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025).  In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law …

Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump's inexperienced federal prosecutors are running into trouble in court … People with traditional resumes, he added, may be reluctant to take the job.  “I suspect that those with prosecutorial experience value the professional capital they gained by getting it, and will think twice …

Yasmin Khorram / Politico:
Justice Department approves Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. … The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  Paramount did not respond to a request for comment.  —  The public scrutiny intensified after Netflix dropped its own bid for Warner Bros. following …

Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ohio progressive group searched by FBI accuses Trump's DOJ of intimidation  —  The Justice Department investigation is focused on the group's voter registration efforts, and is part of the administration's ongoing effort to pursue allegations of voter fraud.

Emilio Perez Ibarguen / Politico:
House Oversight requests Alan Dershowitz testify in Epstein probe  —  The House Oversight Committee requested that Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer who once represented Jeffery Epstein, testify as part of its investigation into the federal government's handling of the Epstein files.

Josephine Walker / Axios:
Judge upholds order to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center … - He also noted the center had “apparently taken substantial steps toward complying with the Court's May 29 permanent injunction order on renaming. ”  — “These efforts undermine the notion that Defendants face irreparable harm in complying with the order in full.

TC Sottek / The Verge:
The world's first trillionaire is a killer  —  Elon Musk's empire of wealth is built on suffering. … Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet.  And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books …

Emily Pontecorvo / Heatmap News:
Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Wind Energy  —  Trump's Department of Justice is giving up on defending the president's wind permitting moratorium.  —  The DOJ filed a motion on Wednesday to dismiss its appeal of a federal court's December decision vacating the order to halt wind energy approvals.

MS NOW on YouTube:
LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens  —  Today is the court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.  Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board filed a last-mi...

Public Notice:
The Art of the Cave  —  Can Trump sell his loss to Iran as a win?  —  In this week's PN Pod, co-host Paul Waldman and I discussed the outlines of the emerging Iran deal, which looks like something close to a complete Trump cave, and unpacked whether the president can sell his humiliating loss as a win to the American people.

Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Trump keeps insulting female journalists.  It's time for the press to stop tolerating it  —  ‘Piggy’, ‘corrupt’, ‘stupid’: the president keeps lashing out.  Here's how journalists can stand up to him  —  For many years now, Donald Trump has been saying awful things to - or about …

David Gilbert / Wired:
A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots  —  After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.  —  Within an hour after a horrific …

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's very public inner dialogue on Iran  —  TRUMP'S VERY PUBLIC INNER DIALOGUE ON IRAN.  On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States would attack Iran that evening.  “The United States will be hitting Iran ... VERY HARD TONIGHT,” Trump wrote.

Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Middle East crisis live: final text of peace deal between US and Iran agreed, says Pakistan's prime minister  —  Islamabad working with both sides to finalise next steps, says Shehbaz Sharif  —  Switzerland offers to host peace deal signing, AFP reports  —  Senior US official tells Reuters ‘we are very close’ to deal with Iran

Reuters:
Exclusive: UAE to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, sources say  —  The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.

Kinnia Cheuk / Politico:
Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes … An Interior Department spokesperson said that the current algae is “residual” from supply lines that sat dormant for eight weeks during construction.  The residue is part of the normal startup process, the spokesperson said.

Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center  —  The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration's takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.  —  The Washington National Opera …

Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Judge denies Kennedy Center request for pause in ruling ordering Trump's name removed from building  —  A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Donald Trump's name removed from building.  Last month, U.S. District Judge Christopher …