Losing trust in DOJ, judges call out its lawyers’ behavior

Losing trust in DOJ, judges call out its lawyers’ behavior

The New York Times reports: In late April, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge that her colleagues had been in the midst of negotiations with a Rhode Island hospital about turning over gender-transition treatment health records, only for the hospital’s lawyers to stop responding. But Judge Mary S. McElroy of Federal District Court in Rhode Island concluded that was not true. While the government claimed it had not heard from the hospital since February, emails showed…

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Trump tells CNBC: ‘I don’t care’ if Iran negotiations are over and he tells Netanyahu: ‘you’re fucking crazy’

Trump tells CNBC: ‘I don’t care’ if Iran negotiations are over and he tells Netanyahu: ‘you’re fucking crazy’

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of peace negotiations with Iran, telling CNBC, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.” “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC’s Eamon Javers in a phone interview midday Monday, saying he thought the protracted discussions “started to get very boring.” Trump had been asked about the prospect of Iran ending talks with the U.S. in light of reporting earlier Monday that Iranian negotiators would…

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Scott Pelley accuses CBS News boss of ‘murdering’ 60 Minutes

Scott Pelley accuses CBS News boss of ‘murdering’ 60 Minutes

The New York Times reports: CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a staff meeting and accused Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief, of “murdering” the longstanding Sunday news program. In an extraordinary exchange, Mr. Pelley, his newscaster’s baritone sometimes shaking in anger, told Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, that he had “slender” qualifications for his new job and…

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The Trump administration’s attack on immigrants are all about racism and sadism

The Trump administration’s attack on immigrants are all about racism and sadism

Paul Krugman writes: There was a time when anti-immigration activists claimed not to hate immigrants as people. Their concern, they insisted, was only about illegal immigrants, the purported crime wave they caused, or the loss of jobs for the native born. If you believed any of that, you were naive. The Trump administration is trying to drive out all immigrants, legal as well as undocumented, with almost no pretense that its pogroms serve any wider social or economic purpose. And…

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Hegseth strikes female and Black Navy officers from promotion list

Hegseth strikes female and Black Navy officers from promotion list

The New York Times reports: In a move that disproportionately targets women and minority officers, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior Navy admirals. The net result of Mr. Hegseth’s intervention is a slate of 22 nominees to be one-star admirals that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead. At least two of the officers removed by Mr. Hegseth…

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Why one branch on the human family tree replaced all the others

Why one branch on the human family tree replaced all the others

Nick Longrich writes: On the western slope of Mount Carmel, in Israel, lies the cave of Es-Skhul. About 140,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, nomadic hunter-gatherers made camp here. The sea to the west had receded, exposing a broad plain covered with groves of live oak, almond and olive, meadows filled with asphodel and anemone. Herds of fallow deer, rhinoceros and aurochs roamed the plains. People hunted animals with stone-tipped spears, and foraged wild mustard and olives. And when…

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Was Trump illegally an author of the tax agreement giving him and his family immunity from audits?

Was Trump illegally an author of the tax agreement giving him and his family immunity from audits?

The New York Times reports: The tax immunity agreement was more like a rescue operation than a formal legal settlement. It called for the I.R.S. to absolve Mr. Trump and his businesses of all audits they were currently facing — including a yearslong battle with the tax agency that could have cost the president more than $100 million. That fight stemmed partly from a refund that Mr. Trump had claimed — and collected — starting in about 2010. He justified…

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Exodus of legal talent as one in five lawyers leave Trump administration

Exodus of legal talent as one in five lawyers leave Trump administration

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has led to an exodus of more than 10,000 lawyers since the beginning of 2025, a striking loss of legal talent that has left some agencies pushing to find attorneys to carry out his agenda. Roughly one in five lawyers who worked in the government at the end of 2024 had left by March of this year, according to a New York Times analysis of federal employment data….

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Pulling customs from ‘sanctuary’ city airports would cause chaos nationally, business groups say

Pulling customs from ‘sanctuary’ city airports would cause chaos nationally, business groups say

The New York Times reports: Travel industry and business leaders are denouncing a proposal by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to remove customs officers from airports in liberal cities, saying it would create havoc for travelers and jeopardize the travel economy at some of the nation’s largest ports of entry. The idea, which Mr. Mullin has floated on cable television interviews, is designed to punish so-called sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Customs officers monitor goods…

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Former Trump campaign chief funneled millions of Israeli govt money to longtime allies’ companies

Former Trump campaign chief funneled millions of Israeli govt money to longtime allies’ companies

The Intercept reports: A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several Republican digital strategy firms and allies, according to a previously unreported document filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Parscale was hired in part to influence major right-wing Christian media company Salem Media Group, where he is also an executive. His firm spent hundreds…

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Israeli minister confirms goal of large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza

Israeli minister confirms goal of large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza

The Guardian reports: Israel’s defence minister has said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory. Israel Katz said the government would implement a plan for large numbers of Palestinians to leave Gaza “at the right time and in the right manner”, in a statement on Wednesday marking the targeted killing of Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s most recent military commander. Pushing for mass departures violates Donald…

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Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

+972 reports: Eman Abu Jame had counted her family among the lucky ones. Israel bombed their home in the southern Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war, forcing them to move from one shelter to another. But throughout the first two years of the genocide, neither she, her husband, nor her children suffered any serious health problems. That all changed in October 2025, when they took refuge in a crowded tent camp in Khan Younis. By the time they…

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The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world

The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world

The Guardian reports: The timing was rich with symbolism. As intense heatwaves pummelled Europe and Asia, and oil markets around the world leapt and sputtered, the two big chimneys of one of Australia’s largest power stations were being demolished. Meanwhile, the Australian energy minister was holding a media conference to hail a fall of up to 10% in the benchmark electricity price in parts of the country. Quietly, and with surprisingly little fanfare from the rest of the world, Australia…

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Judge will investigate whether ‘the court was the victim of a fraud’ by Trump and the DOJ

Judge will investigate whether ‘the court was the victim of a fraud’ by Trump and the DOJ

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Miami reopened President Trump’s $10 billion case against the I.R.S. in a striking turnabout, saying that she wanted to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve it was “premised on deception.” The ruling by the judge, Kathleen M. Williams, on Friday to revive the case shortly after closing it was a significant blow both to Mr. Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice…

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