The Associated Press reports: Representative Mikie Sherrill on Tuesday won the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for governor of New Jersey, capping a hard-fought primary that featured a large field of prominent and well-funded candidates. With about 90 percent of the estimated vote reported, Ms. Sherrill, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot who represents New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, was …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies on their own. “We’re moving it back to the states, so the governors can …

First, a reminder from Trump’s speech yesterday: President Donald Trump announced the renaming of several military bases and proposed jail time for flag burners during a military-themed speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Along with remarks honoring military members, including a 100-year-old World War II veteran, Trump noted that Los Angeles protesters have brandished foreign flags and burned U.S. …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night accused President Trump of intentionally fanning the flames of the Los Angeles protests and “pulling a military dragnet across” the city endangering peaceful protesters and targeting hardworking immigrant families. The Democratic governor’s comments were a forceful rebuke to the president’s claims that deploying the California National Guard and U.S. …

CBS News reports: Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for downtown Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests continued on Tuesday. The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. tonight, last until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, and apply to one square mile of downtown L.A., “to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” Bass said during a press conference Tuesday night. “If you …

The San Antonio News-Express reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has deployed National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of planned protests in the city against a Trump administration crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The San Antonio Police Department said Chief William McManus contacted state officials Monday night seeking to confirm the presence of guardsmen in the city. McManus “was able …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk said in a social media post early Wednesday that he regretted some of his posts and comments about President Trump last week, which had led the president to disparage the tech billionaire, a feud that played out in real time on social media. Both men traded barbs on social media, and Mr. Trump …

Variety reports: COVID conspiracy theories abound in the first full trailer for Ari Aster‘s latest film, “Eddington.” Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the Western goes back to the politically charged summer of 2020, following a mayoral race between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and the incumbent electee (Pascal). The new footage pulls viewers back five years, with sequences of six-foot-enforced …

Axios reports: Current and former employees of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, warning that job cuts and proposed funding reductions will hurt the agency’s ability to protect the public from future health outbreaks. Dozens of current employees at the facility walked out in protest of the cuts and …

“You know what November 5th was? It was the election of a president that loves you. And that’s when it all changed. That’s when it all changed. “Within the span of a few decades, Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest, and most beautiful cities on Earth, to being a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under …

The Christian Post reports: Michael Tait, the former lead singer of Christian rock band Newsboys and member of Grammy-winning group DC Talk, publicly confessed Tuesday to a history of “reckless and destructive behavior,” including drug and alcohol abuse and unwanted sexual conduct involving men. In a written statement on Instagram, the 59-year-old singer acknowledged that “recent reports of my reckless …

The New York Times reports: Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. The denomination has long opposed gay marriage, but Tuesday was the first time its members have voted to work to legally end it. Expanding on conservatives’ success in overturning Roe v. Wade in …

NBC News reports: A federal judge in California scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state’s request for an emergency order to bar the Trump administration from using the military for immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles. State officials asked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to issue a temporary restraining order today, but he instead granted the Trump administration’s request …

The Associated Press reports: Correspondent Terry Moran is out at ABC News, two days after the organization suspended its correspondent for a social media post that called Trump administration deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.” The network said Tuesday that it was at the end of its contract with Moran “and based on his recent post …

First, a reminder from Reason: Five years ago last Tuesday, The New York Times, after considerable internal turmoil, published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.) advocating that the federal government unilaterally send military troops to quell the riots ripping through the country in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The piece led directly to the …

“Instead of simply targeting illegal aliens, the president should use his authority to immediately terminate all migration from the Third World. We should start being extremely selective about the legal migration we allow, which means not allowing an unchecked flood of Third World migration into this country. The United States has for far too long functioned as essentially a giant …

NBC News reports: The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed budget for 2026 eliminates specialized suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth and young adults. The budget proposal, which the department published Friday, designates $520 million for 988, the suicide prevention line, and behavioral health crisis services, which is the same amount the Biden administration provided for 988. However, the …

The New York Times reports: Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday announced that he was backing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the New York City mayor’s race, giving Mr. Cuomo an endorsement coveted by many of the Democratic candidates in the race. Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement that it had been difficult to watch the city struggle since …

Politico reports: The Trump administration is considering cutting federal education funds to California, according to people familiar with the administration’s thinking. The discussion comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom and Trump feud over the president’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop immigration protests. A Trump administration employee told POLITICO the Education Department may stop the disbursement of …

“Antisemitic hate crimes are wrong, but so are all hate crimes. Yet Congress never votes on hate crimes committed against white people, Christians, men, the homeless, or countless others. Tonight, the House passed two more antisemitism-related resolutions, the 20th and 21st I’ve voted on since taking office. “Meanwhile, Americans from every background are being murdered — even in the womb — …