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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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 …

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.

Federal officers detain, tackle moped driver amid Trump D.C. police crackdown  —  Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.  —  just now

UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Drawing Scrutiny From Trump Admin  —  The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon is largely funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, money it has used to pursue left-wing programs like …