Top Items:
Washington Post:
Russians cheer Putin's Alaska invitation, envision no concessions on Ukraine — Analysts noted Alaska was once part of the Russian Empire, and some nationalists believe it should be returned. — MOSCOW — Russian officials and commentators crowed about landing a summit between President Vladimir Putin …
Discussion:
The Hill, Sputnik News, Reuters and Atlantic Council
RELATED:
Paul Sonne / New York Times:
With Ukraine in the Balance, Trump and Putin Head Into Summit With Mismatched Goals — For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, it is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms but to split apart the Western security alliance. — Late last month, President Vladimir V. Putin …
Discussion:
Reuters, The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, OutsideTheBeltway, Semafor, NBC News, The Hill, Bloomberg and Washington Post
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit
Discussion:
Bloomberg, European Commission, CNN, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, CBS News, Politico, Al Jazeera, Blue Virginia, The Hill, Reuters and NewsMax.com
The Atlantic:
Trump Invites Putin to Step Foot in America
Trump Invites Putin to Step Foot in America
Discussion:
New York Times, Reuters, Hackwhackers, Newsweek, NBC News and NewsMax.com
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Lindsey Graham says Russia and Ukraine would likely need to swap land in a ceasefire deal
Lindsey Graham says Russia and Ukraine would likely need to swap land in a ceasefire deal
Discussion:
Al Jazeera, New York Post, Washington Post, Washington Times, Hackwhackers, The Hill, Politico, New York Times and The Guardian
Nicholas Kerr / ABC News:
NATO Secretary General Rutte says Trump-Putin summit is about ‘testing Putin’
NATO Secretary General Rutte says Trump-Putin summit is about ‘testing Putin’
Discussion:
CBS News, Reuters, The Hill, Bloomberg, Politico, NewsMax.com, Washington Times and Al Jazeera
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Trump-Putin summit in Alaska resembles a slow defeat for Ukraine
Trump-Putin summit in Alaska resembles a slow defeat for Ukraine
Discussion:
Washington Post, Must Read Alaska, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Reuters, Townhall, CBS News, Human Events, Al Jazeera and Wall Street Journal
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Declares War on Unhoused D.C. Residents: ‘No MR. NICE GUY’ — The president said he will forcefully relocate them “FAR from the Capital” — Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.”
Discussion:
Fortune and NewsMax.com
RELATED:
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Orders DC Homeless to ‘Move Out IMMEDIATELY’ — ‘NO MR. NICE GUY’ — Around 5,000 people in the nation's capital are unhoused on a given night. — President Donald Trump wants homeless people to evacuate the nation's capital. — “We're having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Fox News, CNBC, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg
Jones Hayden / Politico:
Thousands in Israel march against Netanyahu's plan to escalate Gaza war — Families of hostages were among the protesters amid new fears over the 50 remaining captives, with 20 of them thought to be alive, held by Hamas. — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Israel …
Discussion:
New York Times, Reuters, BBC, The US Sun, Sky News, UPI, DCReport.org, Associated Press, Hackwhackers, Informed Comment, The Times of Israel and Truthout
RELATED:
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Netanyahu rebuffs ‘shameful’ European plans to recognize Palestinian state
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Vance urges “decisive action” on GOP redistricting efforts — Vice President JD Vance said Republicans must take “very decisive action” with redistricting, arguing in an interview aired Sunday that those efforts and a new census will make “the congressional apportionment fair.”
Discussion:
IJR, The Hill and Los Angeles Times
RELATED:
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Newsbusters, New York Post, Raw Story and Chicago Sun Times
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘We are at war - bring it on’: Democrats ready to fight dirty to stop Trump
‘We are at war - bring it on’: Democrats ready to fight dirty to stop Trump
Discussion:
PoliticusUSA
Maya Goldman / Axios:
RFK Jr.'s vaccine pullback stokes fears of lost medical breakthroughs — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cut federal funding for mRNA vaccine research is the latest in a series of moves that have the potential to crush future medical breakthroughs and accelerate a brain drain.
Discussion:
Al Jazeera
RELATED:
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science—and Screwed Us in the Process … EVERYTHING ABOUT THE ABOVE SCENARIO is hypothetical—except the final part about the funding. That part happened last week. — On Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced …
CBS News:
Transcript: Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Aug. 10, 2025 — The following is the transcript of an interview with Dr. Jerome Adams, the former U.S. surgeon general during President Trump's first term, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Aug. 10, 2025.
CNN:
Trump moves Obama, Bush portraits to hidden stairwell — Once a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the yearslong tensions between the 44th and 47th presidents.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
New chatbot on Trump's Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him — An “answer engine” on Trump's social media site says the 2020 election wasn't stolen, tariffs aren't boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably. — Just now — President Donald Trump …
Coral Murphy Marcos / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn't be allowed to vote — Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’ — The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say women …
Discussion:
Althouse, Letters from an American and Crooks and Liars
RELATED:
Julia Simon / NPR:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Discussion:
Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman:
The Economics of Smoot Hawley 2.0, Part II — This trade war is really a class war — Most of Donald Trump's tariffs are clearly illegal. There is a special court, the Court of International Trade, which is supposed to have jurisdiction over these issues, and it ruled the tariffs illegal on May 28.
ABC News:
1 dead, 5 wounded, including 5-year-old girl, in Baltimore ‘mass shooting’: Police — The victim was pronounced dead early Sunday, police said. — Police in Baltimore said they responded to a “mass shooting” in a neighborhood in the northwest part of the city on Saturday night.
Discussion:
Washington Times, The Post Millennial, Fox News, NewsNation, The Gateway Pundit, The US Sun, New York Post and KHOU-TV
RELATED:
Politico:
Appeals court rules Trump clamp-down on spending data defies Congress' authority … “No court would allow a losing party to defy its judgment. No President would allow a usurper to command our armed forces,” Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, wrote in support of the decision …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age … Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times — Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives …
Jerome Adams / STAT:
Former surgeon general: The CDC shooting must be a wakeup call — We need better discourse, leadership, and action to protect public health workers — At approximately 4:50 p.m. on Friday, a gunman — opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — headquarters in Atlanta.
Discussion:
New York Times, NBC News, CNN and Rolling Stone
RELATED:
Keren Landman / The Atlantic:
'I'm Actually Surprised It Didn't Happen Sooner'
'I'm Actually Surprised It Didn't Happen Sooner'
Discussion:
STAT, Washington Post, MSNBC and New York Times
Caroline Orr Bueno, PhD / Weaponized:
Silent Coup: How Trump's Allies Are Gaming Algorithms To Seize Your Feed — New research unravels the secret tactics behind Stop the Steal and other right-wing disinformation campaigns. — A sophisticated strategy is playing out in plain sight that few outside of digital war rooms truly understand or even notice.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump suggests “MAGA” stock listing for mortgage giants Fannie, Freddie — Days after the administration confirmed plans to start selling the government's stakes in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Trump suggested they might be combined and trade as “MAGA.”
Discussion:
Townhall, The National Pulse, UPI, NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
Michael G. Holzman / The UnPopulist:
Yoram Hazony's National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel — The Israeli political theorist, Yoram Hazony, recently appeared on The Ezra Klein Show to defend his vision for society. Hazony is best known as the leading luminary …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
