A Bad Summit's Silver Lining  —  Trump's announcement that a cease-fire won't precede peace talks is good news for Ukraine.  —  Vladimir Putin led Russia out of international isolation on Friday, striding down a red carpet to greet an applauding Donald Trump.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Official Bolivia presidential count shows centrist Rodrigo Paz in surprise lead  —  Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz was leading Bolivia's presidential election late on Sunday, according to early official results, which showed the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) on track for its worst election defeat in a generation.

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