Taegan Goddard

“Iran said $12 billion of its frozen funds were set to be released as part of ongoing talks with the US, with the two sides broadly signaling progress in negotiations to formally end their war,” Bloomberg reports.

Politico: “New Yorkers will decide today whether to support a slate of insurgent progressive candidates who are bullish about bucking the party establishment: Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez.”

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune wasn’t the one who invited President Donald Trump to the Capitol for the Senate GOP lunch on Wednesday,” Punchbowl News reports.

“Two years after former President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 campaign accelerated a Democratic reckoning over aging leadership, a generational battle is playing out in the party’s primaries, putting incumbents on the defensive against a younger crop of candidates to their left,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“On June 23, 2016, the Brexit referendum unleashed a populist tide that rewrote the rules of Western politics,” Axios reports.

“A Senate plan to limit insulin costs in private insurance markets is getting new life after a key committee gave it bipartisan backing,” Axios

Dan Pfeiffer: “Paramount buying Warner Brothers is bad. Full stop. But it’s not the media merger that scares me the most.”

“A Democratic primary in an affluent Manhattan House district has drawn national attention for its bold-faced candidates. But the impact of the race is likely more far-reaching on the future of AI, as the contest has become a proxy battle in a much larger war between big-spending tech giants,” the Washington Post reports.

New York Times: “Before the justices take their annual summer break, they will resolve a series of high-profile cases testing the administration’s policies to expand presidential power and reshape the federal bureaucracy.”

“A conservative challenger to a member of House Republican leadership is homing in on a massive data center in their home state, and their battle could be a proving ground for right-wing skepticism of AI growth,” Semafor reports.