The Best of the Week’s News
 

• An American slaughtered three strangers in Spain and set the building on fire. Donald Trump brought him home and set him free. (NYT)
   

• Trump-appointed judge tosses White House lawsuit aimed at ending collective bargaining in large parts of the federal civil service. (Politico)
   

• Too racist to get paid? IRS considers eliminating tax services in multiple languages. (WaPo)
   

• In Iowa, heaps of rotting swine emit deadly gasses as “digester” tech goes awry and hundreds of meatpackers get their visas revoked. (Sentient)
   

• The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence and that time is running out to save their lives. (CPJ)
   

• How the Trump administration botched their review of the Epstein files. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump threatens a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports unless they stop trying to hold their former fascist president accountable for his failed coup. (Prospect, NYT)
   

• Aid to Texas flood victims was delayed because Kristi Noem has to personally sign off on all expenditures over $100,000. Plus, the head of warning coordination at the National Weather Service was pushed out by DOGE. (WaPo, NYT)
   

• Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling critical workplace protections. (EPI)
   

• Benjamin Netanyahu dragged out the war in Gaza in order to stay in power. (NYT)
   

• Lawsuits allege Eric Adams created a culture of cronyism at the NYPD, including selling promotions. (Gothamist, Hellgate)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers dies at 91. (AP)
   

• Senate Republicans consider hiking federal employees’ pension contributions—except for members of Congress and their staff. (Politico)
   

• Emil Bove told his DOJ subordinates he was willing to defy court orders to enforce Donald Trump’s agenda, now he wants to be a federal judge. (NYT, ABC)

   

• 68-year-old Mexican man becomes the first ICE detainee in a decade to die in transit from a jail to a detention center. (Guardian)
   

• DOGE cuts could cost the US $10 billion in lost economic activity. (CREW)
   

• “I feel like I’ve been lied to”: Measles outbreak shakes faith in antivax platitudes as RFK takes his anti-vaccine ideology global. (NYT, NYer)
   

• The Republican budget could kill one of the most effective tools for bird conservation. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Can you prove you’re a citizen? ICE detains some U.S. citizens for months. (NYMag)
   

• Jeffrey Epstein invested with Peter Thiel, and the disgraced financier’s estate, not his victims, are reaping the returns. (NYT)
   

• Women who have miscarriages could be prosecuted in West Virginia. (Newsweek)
   

• Trump puts a 22-year-old former Heritage Foundation intern in charge of key program countering hate crimes. (ProPublica)
   

• Israel kills three journalists in attack on Gazan hospital as press freedom groups demand access to Gaza. (Middle East Eye, CPJ)