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Monday Morning Politics: Trump's Saudi Nuclear Deal

The United States and Saudi Arabia reached a landmark 30-year civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, but within a day, President Donald Trump threw it into limbo by conditioning its approval on Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel. Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories...

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Exploring an Olympics Bid for New York

NYS Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D Brooklyn 44th) talks about his appointment by Gov. Hochul to the exploratory committee for a joint upstate/downstate bid for the Winter Olympics and why he thinks it would be good for the state. Photo: Lake Placid is in the Adirondack Mou...

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America's History with Moving Past Divisions

Greg Jackson, creator, host, and head writer of the popular US history podcast "History That Doesn’t Suck," associate professor and senior fellow at Utah Valley University’s Center for National Security Studies and the author of Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome (Simon & Schuster, 2026), looks at eight moments in America's 250 years when our politics were more divisive and how we moved past them.

Photo: Walter Lynwood Fleming Photograph by J. W. Black and Co., Boston., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


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Prenups to Protect the Stay-At-Home Parents

Erin Mulvaney, national legal affairs reporter with The Wall Street Journal, shares her reporting on couples who add specific clauses to prenuptial agreements to protect the stay-at-home parent and establish equity in marriage.

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Fauci Was Disillusioned with ‘Rambling, Crazy’ Trump

“Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top U.S. government science adviser’s growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president ‘rambling,’ ‘crazy,’ ‘desperate,’ ‘bumbling,’ ‘incompetent,’ ‘an idiot,’ ‘a true embarrassment,’ ‘totally nuts’ and ‘truly an obnoxious […]

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Operation Southern Spear Has Not Slowed Cocaine

“The Trump administration’s deadly military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the United States, but they’re prompting criminal organizations to develop new strategies and tactics and undermining traditional investigative methods,” the Washington Post reports.

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Jeffries Kicks Off Midterm Sprint With Economic Pitch (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Bryan Kohberger, Convicted in Idaho College Killings, Seeks to Take Back Guilty Plea (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Trump Reimagines America by Putting Himself on Its Money (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release. (chicagotribune.com)

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(S+) Und dann sagt der Landeschef: »Sie führen kein Unternehmen, das ist eine Partei« (spiegel.de)

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Show Off Your New York Summer In Farmers' Almanac Photo Contest

I bet you have a bunch of pictures on your phone that are worthy of being in this contest. You'll have to scroll through and see which one is your favorite before submitting! Continue reading…

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Grandpa, Hudson Valley Business Owner Killed In Freak Accident

A well-known Hudson Valley business owner, grandfather and U.S. military veteran was killed in a tragic accident. Continue reading…

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Q: Are you worried that the Fed is going to hike rates to counter inflation?

Trump: Kevin Warsh is fantastic. He wants to do the right thing. Rates should be lowered.

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Jon Ossoff: Only one man attempted election fraud in Georgia in 2020, Donald J. Trump. The failure of that scheme has enraged him ever since. Now, he reanimates his 2020 obsession while he spirals in fear of the accountability that will follow the midterms. Because accountability is coming.

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Q: President Zelenskyy says Russia is giving Iran satellite imagery of U.S. bases in the Gulf to help them target. What can you do about that?

Trump: I'll ask Putin about it

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Trump on Iran: I have plenty of time, plenty of time. The Strait is in good shape.