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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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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.
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New York Times:
Putin's Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
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Politico, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Daily News, Ukrainian National News, Breitbart, The Guardian, Financial Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, Blaze Media, NewsMax.com, Raw Story, Fox News, The Independent, New York Post, The Kyiv Independent, The European Conservative and HuffPost
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 …
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Reuters 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 …
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New York Post, The Hill, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Sun, Election Law Blog, The Daily Signal, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller, NewsMax.com, The Post Millennial and Newsweek
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
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Raw Story, Politico, ABC News and The Parnas Perspective
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 …
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Washington Examiner
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Ed Martin Confirms Ed Martin's Witch Hunt Against Elected Democrats
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed
Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed
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WyoFile, New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC to Change Its Name—And Lose the Peacock Logo — The cable news network will adopt the new name MS NOW ahead of its spinoff from NBCUniversal — MSNBC is changing its name in its spinoff from Comcast's NBCUniversal. — The left-leaning cable network will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News — As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also dropping the NBC from its name. — Later this year, the channel will become MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Democrat That Republicans Fear in Red-State America — Rob Sand's campaign for Iowa governor could offer template for others in his party — DES MOINES, Iowa—Rob Sand could almost pass for a Republican: He frequently quotes the Bible, owns two SIG Sauer handguns …
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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House
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KXTV
Nick Reisman / Politico:
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
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Semafor
Public Notice:
Gavin Newsom's moment — Democrats have found their fight. Newsom is leading the charge. — ∙ Paid … Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he's moving forward with a ballot initiative which would allow Democrats to put in place a partisan gerrymander in the state.
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Associated Press, CNN, CalMatters, New York Magazine and Semafor
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Washington Post:
California kicks off sprint to redraw House districts for Democrats
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Sabato's Crystal Ball, Associated Press, NOTUS and American Prospect
Liz Crampton / Politico:
Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff
Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff
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Washington Post, NBC News, The Hill, Fox News, Daily Caller News Foundation and NewsMax.com
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 …
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The Status Kuo, The Daily Caller, New Jersey Online, NBC News, The Independent, KXTV, The Hill, Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Washington Examiner
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 17, 2025 — On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting …
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The Kyiv Independent
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
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The Daily Caller, NBC News, BBC, IJR, Raw Story, The Hill, CBS News, Axios, RedState, Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, HuffPost, Associated Press, NewsMax.com, Reuters, Israpundit, Agence France-Presse and The Kyiv Independent
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.
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Bloomberg
Diana Stancy / Fox News:
Rubio's State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorism — Students who've publicly protested supporting Palestine have faced heightened scrutiny — EXCLUSIVE: The State Department has yanked more than 6,000 student visas in 2025 for overstays …
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Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian:
Israel's foreign minister revokes visas of Australian representatives to Palestinian Authority
Israel's foreign minister revokes visas of Australian representatives to Palestinian Authority
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Reuters, israelhayom.com, The Times of Israel and Agence France-Presse
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They're Treading Cautiously. — Democrats see the federal takeover of Washington as a way for President Trump to stoke fear for political gain. But they are mindful that issues of public safety continue to resonate with their own supporters.
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Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
The Lies Behind Trump's D.C. Troop Surge
The Lies Behind Trump's D.C. Troop Surge
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The Hill
Corey Atad / Defector:
Selling Zohran — On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump's re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE?” on one side and “LET'S TALK ELECTION,” on the other.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy” — Yes, it's a weird sex thing. But it also reveals secret insecurities — The MAGA movement is determined to make politics as disgusting as possible, destroying democracy one juvenile 4chan meme at a time. It turns out that American fascism isn't just wrapped …
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Raw Story
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.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, IJR and MSNBC
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 …
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 …
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War — Many Israelis feel that freeing the hostages cannot happen if the government refuses to come to terms with Hamas and pursues its policy of trying to eliminate the group militarily. — Protests that culminated …
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