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Musk says he doesn't want to 'take responsibility' for all Trump actions

(The Hill) Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time as a special government employee came to an end on Friday, said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t want to “take responsibility” for all actions of the Trump administration. In an interview on CBS News’s “Sunday Morning,” Musk said he disagrees with some moves President Trump has made, though he hesitated to discuss them in more detail, saying that doing so might create “a bone of contention.” “It’s not like I agree with everything the administration does,” Musk said in the interview.

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Walmart workers are sharing photos of price hikes of 38% or more -- and some prices are up at Target too

(Business Insider) Walmart employees have been sharing photos recently on the Walmart subreddit showing sharp price increases of as much as 45% at the retail giant. Meanwhile, some of the items have also seen price increases at rival retailer Target. In one example, a Walmart label shows the price of a Jurassic World T. Rex toy jumping from $39.92 on April 27 to $55 on May 21, an increase of nearly 38%. A third-party website that tracks Walmart prices, AisleGopher, shows the price was $29.74 back in November.

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Small businesses struggle under Trump's tariff whiplash: 'I'm so angry that my own government has done this to me'

(CNN) For some small businesses, the last week brought even more twists and turns to the past two months of President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs. The situation was already confusing, with stops and starts of tariffs at different levels. Then on Wednesday, a US court said Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of those import levies – only for an appeals court on Thursday to pause the previous court’s ruling. The confusion has made it challenging for some small companies to plan, business owners told CNN. In certain cases, they have had to consider changing their product strategy, looking into shifting their supply chains, reducing staff hours or delaying products.

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In bizarre cemetery video, Joni Ernst leans into 'we are all going to die' message

(MSNBC) Imagine if, 15 years ago, as Republicans peddled “death panels” nonsense while attacking the Affordable Care Act, Democratic senators responded, “Well, we all are going to die.” If you’re thinking that it’d be a rather major development, you’re right. The difference, however, is that “death panels” were a ridiculous myth, while GOP officials really are trying to advance brutal health care cuts, including the biggest Medicaid cuts ever.

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Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims

(The Independent) South Carolina’s most outspoken member of Congress is reportedly putting her techie background to good use. Mace, a third-term House member with reported ambitions to run for governor, directs staffers to run countless bot accounts and fake social media profiles on her behalf — all with the aim of boosting Mace’s content and messaging, according to a new report from Wired Wednesday that cited several unnamed former staffers and a consultant who publicly ended his contract with the congresswoman.

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Big Companies Are Running From Law Firms That Caved to Trump

(Daily Beast) Some of the nation’s top law firms that folded to Donald Trump’s pressure campaign are now facing the fallout. At least 11 major companies are shifting legal work away from firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, instead turning toward those that stood their ground, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. General counsels at various companies told the newspaper they doubted whether firms that surrendered to Trump could still be relied upon to represent them—in court or at the negotiating table—if they couldn’t stand up for themselves.

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Republicans face new pressure to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits

(NBC News) Kenny Capps is a cancer patient who has been battling multiple myeloma for a decade. A 53-year-old father of three children who lives in North Carolina, he was on the brink of losing his health insurance coverage due to rising costs — until Democrats passed an Obamacare funding boost four years ago.

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'It's completely unsustainable': Republican lawmaker doubles down, knocks Trump tax bill

(USA Today) Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, is doubling down on his concerns about a bill that would make sweeping changes to taxes, Medicaid, food stamps and more after it was passed last month in the Republican-led House at the urging of President Donald Trump. The more-than-1,000-page bill narrowly cleared the lower chamber on May 22. Now, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where some conservatives have raised concerns about the legislation's cost. "It's completely unsustainable," Johnson said in an interview on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures."

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Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war

(Washington Post) The Ukrainians rewrote the rules of warfare again on Sunday. The Russian high command must have been as shocked as the Americans were in 1941 when the Ukrainians carried out a surprise attack against five Russian air bases located far from the front — two of them thousands of miles away in the Russian Far North and Siberia. The Ukrainian intelligence service, known as the SBU, managed to sneak large numbers of drones deep inside Russia in wooden cabins transported by truck, then launch them by remote control.

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Pro-Trump Nationalist Wins Poland's Presidential Election

(Bloomberg) A nationalist candidate backed by Donald Trump won Poland’s presidential election, defeating the centrist mayor of Warsaw in a blow to the country’s pro-European Union government. Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian and former boxer, won 50.9%, while Rafal Trzaskowski took 49.1%, according to Bloomberg News calculations based on data from 100% of precincts reported by the electoral commission.

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