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.

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 …

Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House  —  Jamie Ager has spent much of the past year rebuilding his farm in the foothills of western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene tore through the region, cutting power, destroying fences and scattering livestock.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers  —  Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.  —  The ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, seen on March 21, 2025

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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.

AI Is Power-Hungry  —  And consumers are paying the price  —  This is a post about AI, whose proponents are downright messianic in describing it as the technology of the future.  Maybe.  But much of their advocacy seems to ignore some mundane limits to AI's growth …