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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Joint leaders' statement on Peace for Ukraine  —  Statement by President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Starmer, President von der Leyen and President Stubb on Peace for Ukraine ahead of President Trump's planned meeting with President Putin.

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 …

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.”

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Florida's universities face research overhaul courtesy of Trump and DeSantis … “The Trump administration is working hard to get some of the rot out of higher education, the intellectual rot, the ideological rot,” DeSantis said last month during an event in Jacksonville.

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.”

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death  —  The latest Los Angeles protest march against President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation arrests took off from the city's MacArthur Park uneventfully on Friday night, which might have been just as well for a British photojournalist named Nick Stern.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn't believe women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

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.

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 …