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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)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump springs debunked conspiracy theory of “white genocide” on South African leader. (Reuters, NYT) 
   

• Inside Donald Trump’s griftocracy. (Bloomberg)
   

• Republicans rush to strip health insurance from millions of Americans in the dead of night in a budget Rev. William Barber calls an act of social and political murder. (Bulwark, Truthout) 
   

• Trump’s pick to lead OSHA is expected to kill workplace heat protections. (MoJo)
   

• Trapped on a factory farm (Sentient Media) 
   

• Mother of mass shooter Elliot Rodger fights to prevent future violence. (MoJo)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Columbia and Barnard issued and dropped interim suspensions of student journalists who covered a pro-Palestinian protest at the Butler Library, just days after World Press Freedom Day. (Columbia Spectator, Guardian) 

   

• Seven Salvadoran journalists from the Hillman Prize-winning outlet El Faro face criminal charges for exposing president Bukele’s pact with the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios gang. (CPJ, El Faro)
   

• Workers at Kentucky’s BlueOval SK plant report broken bones, toxic mold, and a bat infestation. (Courier Journal)
   

• Trump’s tariffs could erase the hard-won gains of Bangladeshi garment workers. (NYT)
   

• With hurricane season approaching, the National Weather Service’s forecasting capabilities are even more degraded than we thought. (CNN)
   

• ICE arrests workers involved in historic unionization struggle. (Intercept)