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11:00 AM ET, August 11, 2025

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Paul McLeary / Politico:
Trump will send National Guard into Washington … The White House plans to activate around 800 National Guard troops in Washington to support local law enforcement, according to a senior defense official.  —  They will assist with logistics, transportation, and guarding facilities …
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Washington Post:
Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, takes over D.C. police  —  The president is planning to flex his law enforcement power over Washington, declaring that he would clear the city of homeless people and crack down on crime.  —  President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would place …
Idrees Ali / Reuters:
US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say  —  The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.  —  The officials, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity …
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
WUSA:
Sources close to DC mayor and police say, Trump will deploy National Guard on Monday  —  To stream WUSA9 on your phone, you need the WUSA9 app.
Discussion: Politico, Free DC and The Independent
Steve Vladeck / One First:   172. “Federalizing” D.C.  —  Like any federal enclave, the federal government has plenary power over the District of Columbia.
Al Jazeera:
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza  —  Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.  —  Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack …
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Lorenzo Tondo / The Guardian:
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza  —  Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital  —  A prominent Al Jazeera journalist …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China  —  In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.  —  Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to pay …
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Financial Times:
Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government  —  Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration  —  Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of the revenues from chip sales in China …
Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
Crime is down.  But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.  —  🗣️ Public Notice is 100 percent reader funded.  If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please sign up and support us.  👇  —  The White House has seized …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Trump Administration to Put F.B.I. Agents on Night Patrol in Washington  —  The move is part of President Trump's pledge to crack down on street crime in the nation's capital.  —  The Trump administration plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties …
Washington Post:
FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics  —  President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy  —  A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America's.
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC  —  President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests  —  In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump demands homeless residents of Washington DC leave …
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Max Matza / BBC:
Trump demands homeless people ‘immediately’ move out of Washington DC
Eliyahu Kamisher / Bloomberg:
Newsom Says He'll Halt State Redistricting If Trump Backs Down  —  California Governor Gavin Newsom urged President Donald Trump to call on the Texas governor and leaders of other Republican-led states to halt efforts to redraw congressional maps, saying the most populous US state will stand down if they do.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Proportional representation is the solution to gerrymandering
Washington Post:   He was the first to tell Biden to step down. Now, will he?
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Rages at Nobel-Winning ‘Deranged Bum’ in Late-Night Meltdown  —  JEALOUS, MUCH?  —  The president went after economist Paul Krugman in an irate Truth Social post.  —  Donald Trump has lashed out at Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in a late-night rant after he weighed …
Discussion: New York Post, Mediaite, Raw Story and IJR
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Paul Krugman:
The Political Economy of Incompetence
Discussion: Deadline and Raw Story
Charlotte Graham-McLay / Associated Press:
Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Albanese says  —  Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada in signaling they would do so.  His remarks followed weeks of urging …
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Alaska Summit: Trump and Putin Planning to Carve Up Ukraine
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Considers Longtime Critic to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics  —  Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency  —  The Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau …
Discussion: Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Small US Firms Paying Trump Tariffs Face $202 Billion Annual Hit  —  Small US companies, the source of more than half of the country's job creation in recent years, are struggling to comply with President Donald Trump's new tariffs and cope with growing financial strains clobbering them from higher import costs.
Politico:
The CDC shooting aftermath  —  GUNMAN HITS THE CDC — CDC employees across all of the agency's campuses will be teleworking today, agency leadership told employees, according to a partial recording of a staff call obtained by POLITICO, after a gunman shot multiple rounds into four buildings …
 
 
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The Bulwark:
Et Tu, JD?
Discussion: CNN, New Republic and Washington Post
Devi Sridhar / The Guardian:
RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge rejects unsealing Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts
Financial Times:
The story behind Spain's solar power meltdown
Discussion: Semafor
David Hogberg / The American Spectator:
DC May Be More Receptive to a Trump Takeover Than Many Assume
Discussion: News Talk 105.9 WMAL
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Disinformation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
Discussion: Quillette
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Immigration crackdown causing ‘Trump slump’ in Las Vegas tourism, unions say
James Downie / MSNBC:
Trump's Oval Office chart charade can't hide the truth
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Jessica Costescu / The Washington Free Beacon:
Inside the DSA Convention, Where Socialists Declared Dominance Over Dems and Set Their Sights on 2028
Discussion: IJR and Jacobin
ProPublica:
They Can't Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota's Oversight Program Hasn't Helped.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
Riley Rogerson / NOTUS:
GOP Lawmakers Left Washington to Escape the Epstein Issue. It Followed Them Home.
Discussion: Punchbowl News and Toledo Blade
New York Times:
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’
Discussion: Althouse
Politico:
Another megabill? Senate Republicans have their doubts.
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

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The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

David Pierce / The Verge:
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