Wall Street Journal: “Iran was at its weakest point in decades, senior aides and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him, providing Trump the rare opportunity to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and bolster his legacy as a peacemaker. The question was whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime.” “Then-Director of National […]

New Yorker: “It’s reasonable to worry that the RFK, Jr. era has set American science and medicine back in ways that might not be corrected for years, if ever. Yet it’s also possible to read Kennedy’s efforts, especially the new vaccine recommendations, less as triumphs than as flailing attempts to enact an unwelcome vision. Kennedy […]

“Ticket sales and fundraising collapsed after President Donald Trump’s name was added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, even as the center’s leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround,” the Washington Post reports. “Ticket sales had already dropped in the 10 months following Trump’s takeover, but both ticket sales and donations plunged […]

“Four weeks before President Trump signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail voting, he filed four nominations for vacancies on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service,” the New York Times reports. “All four were Republicans. Three have expressed doubts about who won the 2020 presidential election and the security of voting.” […]

“Nothing is driving more new U.S. economic investment or political volatility than data centers,” Axios reports. “They’re the Great Subplot of 2026, THE topic animating the AI race and elections. Everyone needs to understand the size, scope and sentiment surrounding them.” ”It’s almost impossible to wrap your brain around the scale of the cash dedicated […]

“Vice President JD Vance has attacked several conservative icons in recent weeks, unnerving many in the Republican Party’s old guard ahead of the 2028 presidential primary,” NOTUS reports. “Last month, Vance criticized British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an ally of Republican President Ronald Reagan, for economic policies that he said moved the country ‘further away’ […]

“Four officials in Avenal, Calif. who refused to step down after being recalled earlier this year are ‘not lawfully’ in office, a judge ruled on Monday,” the New York Times reports. “The officials — including the longtime mayor, who is part of the City Council, and three other council members — have remained in office […]

“The Trump administration is planning what may be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history, targeting up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for asylum status,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The government is looking to take away business and tourism visas from immigrants who officials say came to the U.S. for a short-term […]

New York Times: “Ordinarily, Washington approaches a problem like dismantling Iran’s nuclear program with straightforward diplomacy. If that goes nowhere, officials mix in escalating economic sanctions, adding an element of coercion. Military action is a last resort, and only if the president determines that risking American lives is worth the possible benefit.” “But Mr. Trump […]

“Florida is set to roll back four vaccine requirements for children attending the state’s public schools, according to a new rule published Monday by the state Department of Health. The proposed guidelines come after Florida’s surgeon general launched an effort last fall to eliminate all vaccine mandates for school children,” NOTUS reports. “The rule would […]

“A super PAC aligned with President Trump is opening up its wallet to boost Sen. Darline Graham ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election in South Carolina, as the president looks to prevent an embarrassing loss by a candidate he encouraged to enter the race,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “MAGA Inc. is spending more than $800,000 […]

The trade war between the U.S. and Canada erupted into an extraordinary exchange of insults and threats between President Trump and Doug Ford, the leader of Ontario, Bloomberg reports. Trump posted on Truth Social calling Ford “the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford.” He also called Ford the […]

“Rep. Al Green (D-TX) is trying to impeach President Donald Trump, even though the lame-duck lawmaker knows he doesn’t have the votes,” NOTUS reports.

“President Trump has stuck his neck out for Senator Darline Graham,” the New York Times reports. “In the weeks leading up to South Carolina’s primary election runoff for Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Trump traveled to Myrtle Beach to rally supporters and personally called high-level state officials to compel them to endorse Ms. Graham. A super […]

“Speaker Mike Johnson crisscrossed New York and New Jersey last week promoting tax cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act while mostly warning voters: Vote Republican to save us from the communists,” NOTUS reports. “House Republican leaders are relying on keeping and flipping a handful of swing seats in and around New York state […]

Ontario premier Doug Ford took questions from reporters: REPORTER: You sound more subdued than you did this morning when you said Donald Trump can kiss your ass. Did the Prime Minister tell you to tone it down? FORD: No, he didn’t. I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a […]

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“I don’t respond to a dictator like President Trump, a bully like President Trump… I’m not gonna take any advice off a guy that’s the king of bankruptcies… Your own people, President Trump, don’t even like you. And they’re gonna speak loud and clear in the midterms. If I was allowed to, I’d be down […]

“The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections,” the Associated Press reports. “The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow […]

“President Donald Trump invested as much as U.S.$50,000 ⁠in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser,” Reuters reports.

“U.S. public approval of the war with ​Iran fell to its lowest level since the ​conflict’s early days, helping to hold President Donald Trump’s ⁠popularity at a record low,” according to a new Reuters/Ipsos ​poll. “The four-day poll showed just 31% ​of Americans support U.S. military action against Iran, down from 37% in a March […]

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised deficit reduction plan due in the coming days will plow headlong into a stark reality: there is no sign the Republican-controlled Congress is going to make any net budget cuts this year,” Bloomberg reports. “House and Senate Republicans earlier this summer dropped plans to make hundreds of billions of dollars […]

“A local business group sued New York City and Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday over the mayor’s plan to open five government-owned grocery stores around the city,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Multicultural Business Coalition, a nonprofit that represents supermarkets, grocery stores and bodegas, filed the lawsuit in the New York County Supreme Court, […]

Rolling Stone: “In broadcasts of the event, Harp was clearly visible among Trump’s guests. In the president’s suite she was spotted standing behind and to the right of Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, who has reportedly found herself at odds with Harp over her increasingly controversial relationship with her husband. Shocking. Someone in the […]

“The South Carolina Senate runoff election is shaping up to be a crucial test of President Donald Trump’s influence amid low approval numbers and after candidates he’s endorsed recently lost congressional races in three states,” NewsNation reports.

“Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said Sunday he is ‘very confident’ in Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) winning her GOP primary runoff for Senate in the Palmetto State this week,” NewsNation reports. Said Scott: “It’s one of the reasons why I waited 30 days to make sure that I felt like she was ready. I can tell […]

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday unveiled a sweeping campaign of financial sanctions and diplomatic pressure designed to sever Iran’s remaining links to the global economy,” the Washington Post reports. “Dubbed ‘Operation Economic Outcast,’ the initiative is aimed at closing loopholes in the existing U.S. financial dragnet. The Trump administration has repeatedly put sanctions on […]

“Ted Cruz laughed off questions Monday about a potential presidential run in 2028, telling CBS News correspondent Major Garrett, ‘We’ll have this conversation another time,'” The Wrap reports.

Phillips O’Brien: “If your entire policy is to lie, all the time and with malice, it makes a mockery of international relations.” “Yet, that is precisely where the USA is now. It has reached the state where there is no national interest or even national policy. There is the will of a fundamentally dishonest president, […]

“America’s path to lower inflation depends in part on trade wars and actual wars becoming less economically disruptive. In recent days, both have taken turns that threaten the opposite,” Axios reports. “A period of relative calm on those fronts is now giving way to renewed tensions, with Canada, China and Iran all posing fresh economic […]