News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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The simmering tension between President Trump and Elon Musk exploded in public, with the president sharply criticizing the Tesla CEO's attacks on the Republican spending bill and Musk firing back that the president would have lost the election without his help. nbcnews.to/3FLnuXu
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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SCOOP: Trump thought Ukraine's surprise drone attack over the weekend was "strong" and "badass," sources who discussed it with him tell Axios
— Axios (@axios.com) June 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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JUST IN: The bodies of Judy Weinstein Haggai, 70, an Israeli who held U.S. and Canadian citizenship, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 72, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, were recovered, the country's military said.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Breaking News: The Trump administration barred people from 12 countries from entering the U.S., primarily from Africa and the Middle East. https://trib.al/fc0FERx
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) June 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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BREAKING: The U.S. government says 247,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the most in eight months.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) June 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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President Trump spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday amid an ongoing dispute over a temporary deal to ease the escalation of tariffs.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) June 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The Trump administration escalated its attack on Columbia University on Wednesday by taking a warning shot against its accreditation, a key credential that U.S. universities need to receive federal student aid.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) June 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC's National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to state-administered initiatives aimed at fighting the disease.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) June 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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An immigration judge grants bond to a Massachusetts high school student arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has given Elon Musk six more weeks to respond to its civil lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to reveal his large stake in Twitter, the social media company he later bought and renamed X.
— Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com) June 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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President Trump ordered a broad investigation into whether Joe Biden covered up a cognitive decline while in the White House and was incapable of executing presidential decisions — an unprecedented request that in theory could undermine thousands of Biden’s executive actions and pardons.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) June 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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