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Why Zohran Mamdani’s win matters - and why it doesn’t

1 day ago | politico.com | Calder McHugh

New York democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves to the crowd during his first campaign rally at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn on May 4, 2025.
Trump adversaries see silver linings in his ‘monumental’ Supreme Court win

1 day ago | politico.com | Kyle Cheney |Hassan Kanu |Erica Orden

And both contain an element of truth. The 6-3 decision has a single headline holding: Federal district judges “lack authority” to issue “universal injunctions,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the conservative majority. It’s a breathtaking pronouncement given that district judges, with increasing frequency, have been issuing those sorts of injunctions for decades. It was precisely the bottom-line result that Trump’s Justice Department asked for in the case.
Birthright citizenship patchwork?

1 day ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu
Supreme Court leaves open the question of nationwide injunctions when states sue

1 day ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu |Ankush Khardori
Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call

1 day ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

The amount is nearly identical to Dominion Voting’s 2023 defamation settlement with Fox News. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Gavin Newsom is taking a page right out of Donald Trump’s media playbook.
How Trump could get his July 4 megabill

1 day ago | politico.com | Lisa Kashinsky |Mia McCarthy |Calen Razor |Benjamin Guggenheim |Cassandra Dumay

IN TODAY’S EDITION:— When the Senate might vote on the megabill— Lawmakers consider Kaine’s Iran resolution— Possible federal pension changes incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune's megabill timeline keeps slipping. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” is in tatters. President Donald Trump still wants it on his desk by July 4.
She Delivered Intelligence Briefs to Trump. Here’s Her Reality Check on the Iran Strikes.

2 days ago | politico.com | Amy Mackinnon

“We can have two things be true,” Sanner said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine.
Trump claims Iran’s nuclear program has been ‘obliterated.’ Senate Republicans aren’t entirely convinced.

2 days ago | politico.com | Connor O'Brien |Joe Gould |John Sakellariadis |Lisa Kashinsky |Calen Razor

Asked whether Iran’s nuclear program was set back months, years or was obliterated, as Trump has claimed, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said, “All of those things are true.” “Everybody’s got their own word: setback, obliterated, destroyed, greatly diminished,” Cramer told reporters. “It’s all of those things.
Kennedy’s vaccine panel met for the first time. Here’s what to know.

2 days ago | politico.com | Lauren Gardner |Sophie Gardner

Here are the takeaways from the two-day meeting at CDC headquarters in Atlanta: Its agenda was Kennedy’s The panel voted Thursday to stop recommending that anyone get a flu vaccine that contains thimerosal, a preservative that Kennedy has long wanted gone. Kennedy, in 2014, wrote a book about thimerosal, arguing that it likely causes autism and should be banned.
Kennedy’s vaccine panel votes to remove preservative long targeted by activists

2 days ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Lauren Gardner

The CDC director usually needs to endorse the recommendations before they are official. But Kennedy will likely be the one to endorse these recommendations because there is currently no CDC director or acting director.