Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call  —  US president encouraged Ukrainian leader to step up deep strikes on Russia  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Henry Foy in Brussels and Max Seddon in Berlin  —  Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine …

U.S. Inflation Accelerated in June as Trump's Tariffs Pushed Up Prices  —  The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7 percent from a year ago, as the global trade war started to bite.  —  Inflation accelerated in June as President Trump's tariffs started to leave a bigger imprint on the economy …

Trump is flunking his Epstein test  —  For years he insisted on a deep-state plot that only he could expose.  Now he says there is nothing to show  —  Cult loyalty is blind until it isn't.  Donald Trump's populist truth test now seems to be at hand.  Whether or not the “Epstein files” exist is secondary.

House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files  —  House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers' Data With ICE  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program …

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food  —  Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.  —  Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order …

Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature  —  House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., used a digital signature to send out letters and subpoena notices related to the Biden autopen investigation.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’  —  Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation  —  Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland …

More than 75 former judges urge Senate committee to reject Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove  —  More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, to a prestigious appeals court judgeship.

The Enshittification of American Power  —  First Google and Facebook, then the world.  Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.  —  For decades, allies of the United States lived comfortably amid the sprawl of American hegemony.

Trump's Brazil tariffs are ‘grotesquely illegal,’ says Nobel Prize-winning economist  —  President Trump's threat to impose higher tariffs on Brazil is “grotesquely illegal,” says Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.  —  Brazil was among the countries Trump threatened with tariffs in letters posted to social media last week.

Workers at the CFPB watch hopelessly as the GOP undoes the work they did to help consumers  —  The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid.  But, in practice, the bureau has been mostly inoperable for nearly six months.

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength  —  Research cuts aren't about shrinking government, they're about killing science  —  I start almost every morning the same way.  First I start the coffee brewing.  Then I feed Jack, our cat.  Then I fire up the weather app on my phone, to help plan my day.

DOJ urges Supreme Court to turn away Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal  —  The former Jeffrey Epstein associate is currently serving a 20-year sentence.  —  Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising …

I'm a Genocide Scholar.  I Know It When I See It.  —  A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I believed there was evidence that the Israeli military had committed war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity in its counterattack on Gaza.

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws  —  In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department's political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.  —  The Justice Department is accelerating …

Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally behind voting maps  —  Republicans in Congress are reviving a controversial push to alter a key set of census numbers that are used to determine how presidents and members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected.

Bessent Suggests Powell Should Leave Fed Board in May  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should step down from the central bank's board when his term as chair is up in May 2026.  —  “Traditionally, the Fed chair also steps down as a governor …

Andrew Cuomo on His Loss, Zohran Mamdani's Win, and the Rematch Ahead  —  “This time I have to be more aggressive across the board.”  —  Andrew Cuomo admits now that he never saw Zohran Mamdani coming.  He didn't pay attention to the polls that showed the young upstart closing the gap …