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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 …
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Dana Bash / CNN:
US Ambassador to NATO: 'It's possible' Zelensky will attend Trump-Putin summit
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The Atlantic:
Trump Invites Putin to Step Foot in America
Trump Invites Putin to Step Foot in America
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New York Times, Hackwhackers, Reuters, Newsweek, NewsMax.com and NBC News
Paul Sonne / New York Times:
With Ukraine in the Balance, Trump and Putin Head Into Summit With Mismatched Goals
With Ukraine in the Balance, Trump and Putin Head Into Summit With Mismatched Goals
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CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, OutsideTheBeltway, Semafor, NBC News, The Hill and Washington Post
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
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Politico, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Washington Times, Hackwhackers, The Hill and New York Times
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’
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The Hill, Fox News, Reuters, CBS News, One America News Network, NewsMax.com, Washington Times, Politico and Al Jazeera
Fox News:
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.
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Pritzker: Trump Is ‘Cheating Americans Out of Their Votes’ With Gerrymandering Plans
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CNBC, Breitbart and Washington Post
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Vance urges “decisive action” on GOP redistricting efforts
Vance urges “decisive action” on GOP redistricting efforts
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Washington Examiner, New York Sun, IJR, The Hill and Los Angeles Times
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans
Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans
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RedState, IJR, The Independent, The Guardian, Newsbusters, Raw Story, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Chicago Sun Times
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.
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Rolling Stone and Raw Story
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.”
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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 …
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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.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
The Most Damaging RFK Jr. Decision Yet
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 …
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.
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Washington Examiner, Politico and Mediaite
GOV.UK:
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.
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Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit
Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit
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Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Netanyahu rebuffs ‘shameful’ European plans to recognize Palestinian state — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday poured scorn on plans by some European countries to recognize the state of Palestine. — France and the United Kingdom, along with Canada …
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Jones Hayden / Politico:
Thousands in Israel march against Netanyahu's plan to escalate Gaza war
Thousands in Israel march against Netanyahu's plan to escalate Gaza war
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Reuters, New York Times, BBC, Jewish Insider, Sky News, Associated Press, DCReport.org, Hackwhackers, The US Sun, UPI, Informed Comment, The Times of Israel and Truthout
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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 …
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Washington Post:
FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime — The Trump administration has assigned FBI agents to work overnight shifts to combat carjackings and other crimes. — just now — The FBI has begun dispatching about 120 of its agents in overnight shifts …
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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 …
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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.
Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
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.
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NewsMax.com and Forbes
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.”
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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.
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
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
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
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 …
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Raw Story, Mother Jones and Fox News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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.
