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8:00 AM ET, August 18, 2025

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Axios:
Trump-Zelensky summit: The suit question, again  —  The White House asked Ukrainian officials if President Volodymyr Zelensky will wear a suit to his meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, two sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
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Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?  —  A good or bad agreement may depend on the quality of Western security guarantees.  —  President Trump conducts foreign policy on personal instinct and tactical impulse, and his abrupt Friday turn on Russia and Ukraine is a classic illustration.
Joanna Coles / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth.  Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All  —  CANKLE SAM  —  It's Trump's turn under the unflattering fluorescent lights of mortality.  —  Forget the orange makeup on his hand.  Forget the newly grey hair hovering above his scalp.  Forget the slits for eyes.
Discussion: Need to Know
John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
A Bad Summit's Silver Lining
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and HuffPost
Frank Gardner / BBC:
Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato ahead of Zelensky White House talks
Amanda Macias / Fox News:
‘Our position is clear:’ Zelenskyy and EU dismiss ceding Ukrainian land to Russia
Discussion: Breitbart
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
White House envoy claims Russia agreed to ‘Article 5-like’ security guarantees for Ukraine
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump's former NATO ambassador warns ‘Xi is watching’ Trump's approach to Russia
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Washington Post:
Amid pressure on Zelensky to make deal, U.S. to offer some security guarantees
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says
Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC Host Says Karoline Leavitt Looked ‘Ashen’ After Putin Meeting
Discussion: Mediaite
Lucian K. Truscott IV / Lucian Truscott Newsletter:
WTF is wrong at the New York Times?
Jordan Fischer / WUSA:
Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump's police takeover  —  Online reservations dropped more than 25% in the days following President Trump's announcement that he was federalizing DC Police, according to OpenTable data. … WASHINGTON — D.C. restaurants saw a more than 25% drop …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Rolling Stone
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Politico:
Playbook: Zelenskyy's White House do-over  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  On today's Playbook Podcast, Adam Wren and Dasha Burns talk about the two gigantic meetings looming over the discourse today: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit …
Discussion: CNBC, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is hosting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday.  But he won't be alone.  —  Joining him will be several key European leaders …
Rick Bright / New York Times:
America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA  —  In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, scientists were ready.  Within hours, they began designing a vaccine.  Within weeks, clinical trials were underway.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Kristen Welker of NBC Meet the Press  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.  —  QUESTION: And joining me now is Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio.  Secretary Rubio, welcome back to Meet the Press.  —  SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you.
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CBS News:
Full transcript: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Aug. 17, 2025
WUSA:
ICE boasts about ripping Mount Pleasant sign with anti-border patrol message  —  “We're taking America back, baby,” one of the masked men says in the video posted to ICE's official X account.  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials proudly claimed responsibility …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Inside the DNC's money problems … Major Democratic donors have withheld money this year amid skepticism about the party's direction, while the small-dollar donors who have long been a source of strength are not growing nearly enough to make up the gap.  And the party has quickly churned through …
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
Heartbreak (but also hope) at the still-essential Washington Post  —  One of the thrills of my life as a newly minted editor in chief at the Buffalo News was attending a very fancy — white tie, no less! — dinner in Washington, DC, and being introduced to Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post.
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
What to know as GOP governors plan to send National Guard units to D.C.  —  National Guard troops in D.C. may soon be armed.  Separately, GOP governors say they'll send their own troops to the city.  —  Sporadic protests have sprouted up across D.C. this weekend, as GOP-led states announced …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Bondi: 68 arrested overnight in DC
Discussion: Fox News, IJR and Washington Examiner
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
The unusual GOP alliance pushing earmarks in this fall's funding fight … “We've been very clear with the speaker: An overwhelming majority of our members want community project funding in this budget,” said Main Street Caucus Chair Mike Flood (R-Neb.) in a recent interview.
Nick Reisman / Politico:
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw … The tactic is a gamble for a battleground district lawmaker whose election next year is considered crucial for maintaining GOP control of the House. … Lawler will unveil the ads today, which trumpet the measure for having …
Discussion: Semafor
Max Tani / Semafor:
The left gets a new publication  —  The Scoop  —  A group of left-leaning writers and journalists are starting a new publication on Monday aimed at arguing in favor of what liberalism is for, rather than just what it's against.  —  Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Whitmer's big gamble for '28: Working with Trump  —  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is taking a gamble that other potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders are not: that party voters might reward her — or at least not punish her — for working with President Trump.
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump's war on numbers  —  The Trump administration is undermining — or has stopped collecting — key, once-nonpartisan data that kept the public informed about the state of the nation. … Without it, leaders risk making costly mistakes that could affect millions.
Discussion: Votebeat
 
 
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Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon:
UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Drawing Scrutiny From Trump Admin
Discussion: Associated Press
Adam Aleksic / New York Times:
The Insidious Creep of Trump's Speaking Style
Discussion: Althouse
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Common Sense about Negotiations
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Rising Food Prices Are Likely to Continue, Thanks to Trump's Trade Wars
Discussion: Axios, Fortune and Newsweek
 Earlier Items: 
Kayla Jimenez / USA Today:
Oklahoma will require teachers from NY, CA to prove they back ‘America First’
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Chicago Tribune
Terry Tang / Associated Press:
Black mayors of cities Trump decries as ‘lawless’ tout significant declines in violent crimes
Discussion: The Guardian and Salon
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Food pantries in St. Louis face longer lines and rising prices
Discussion: On Democracy … and Deseret News