NATO Secretary General Rutte says Trump-Putin summit is about ‘testing Putin’  —  Rutte also said Russia must acknowledge Ukraine's right to self-determination.  —  NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte appears on “This Week” on Aug. 10, 2025.  —  NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte …

Vance urges Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ against Dems in nationwide redistricting feud  —  Vice President JD Vance speaks on gerrymandering concerns, President Donald Trump's calls for a new census, the latest on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russiagate, the Epstein case and the possibility of a Vance-Rubio ticket in 2028.

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.

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.”

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Netanyahu rebuffs ‘shameful’ European plans to recognize Palestinian state  —  Several European countries have recognized Palestinian statehood during Israel's war in Gaza, in which tens of thousands of people have died.  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday poured scorn …

In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails  —  The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act.  —  President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony …

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.”

Vance Tries to Convince Americans That Trump Wants ‘Full Transparency’ in Epstein Case  —  The vice president pointed a finger at Democratic billionaires and politicians in an attempt to distract from the president's close relationship with the deceased sex trafficker

Dr. Phil's Road From Oprah to ICE Raids … My session with Dr. Phil had reached an impasse.  —  About three hours in, seated inside the Dallas mega-mansion where he is steering his herky-jerk transition from daytime TV behemoth to MAGA-friendly newsman, the once-licensed psychologist …

China Detains Senior Diplomat Who Aided U.S. Relations  —  Liu Jianchao gained warm reception during visit to Washington and New York where he was seen as potential foreign minister  —  Liu Jianchao, a senior Chinese diplomat widely seen as a potential foreign minister …

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.