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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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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting  —  RAMPAGE  —  The president clearly had a lot to brain-dump before bedtime.  —  Donald Trump fired off a dizzying barrage of Truth Social posts on Sunday evening, raging at criticism over his summit with Vladimir Putin …
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.
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, Raw Story and Salon
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den  —  European leaders need to get Trump off the dangerous path laid out for him by Putin  —  Memories of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's last disastrous trip to the Oval Office will hang over the Ukrainian president's visit to the White House on Monday.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace”
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 17, 2025  —  On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
New York Times:
Putin's Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
Frank Gardner / BBC:
Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato ahead of Zelensky White House talks
Joanna Coles / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth. Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All
Discussion: Need to Know
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Zelensky Brings Backup to the White House as Trump Aligns More Closely With Putin
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots  —  President Trump has claimed mail voting was a source of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, although his former attorney general said his assertions of widespread fraud couldn't be proven.  —  President Trump said on Monday …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Mail
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Donald J. Trump / Trump's Truth:
Truth Details  —  I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster …
Reuters:
Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections
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
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Pa. Treasurer Stacy Garrity launches GOP challenge to Josh Shapiro for governor … Garrity attacked Shapiro's handling of high prices, schools and infrastructure. … Shapiro has largely demurred when asked directly about the controversy, emphasizing his history of fighting sexual harassment …
Discussion: WITF
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Republican Stacy Garrity Announces Bid to Challenge Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
The Lies Behind Trump's D.C. Troop Surge  —  Past presidents called out troops to defend the capital from invasion and insurrection.  Trump does so to intimidate political opposition. … Support the Washington Monthly  —  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based …
Discussion: The Hill
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New York Times:   Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They're Treading Cautiously.
Ryan Dubé / Wall Street Journal:
Bolivians Vote Out Socialists After Two Decades in Power  —  Voters angered by soaring inflation and fuel shortages back market-friendly candidates to overhaul economy  —  Bolivia's once-dominant left was swept aside in Sunday's presidential election, with voters handing the ruling party …
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Reuters:
Official Bolivia presidential count shows centrist Rodrigo Paz in surprise lead
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Hallmarks of authoritarianism’: Trump banks on loyalists as he wages war on truth  —  Former officials say firing of BLS commissioner emblematic of president's battle against established facts and history  —  Donald Trump is waging a war on truth by firing top officials who present facts …
Laura Reiley / New York Times:
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life  —  Sophie's Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place.  Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dan Ruetenik / CBS News:
As attorney general, William Barr personally investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death.  Now Congress has questions.  —  In the hours after convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan detention cell, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr pledged to intervene personally to lead the investigation into Epstein's death.
Discussion: Fox News and MSNBC
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Flooded Social Media With Self-Praise After Putin Meeting Disaster  —  Trump retreated to memes and QAnon accounts after Alaska flop  —  Trump spent Sunday morning reposting a string of memes and praise-filled posts about himself, following his abysmal meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
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
 
 
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