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11:45 AM ET, August 18, 2025

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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.
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 …
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?
New York Times:
Putin's Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
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
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
Discussion: KXTV
Brian Beutler / Off Message:   Gut Check Time For Democrats
Nick Reisman / Politico:
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
Discussion: Semafor
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: 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 …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
Reuters:
Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections
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.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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New York Times:   Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They're Treading Cautiously.
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 …
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
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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
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
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.
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: Washington Examiner, Fox News, IJR and MSNBC
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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Dana Sherne / Foreign Policy:
Debriefing the Trump-Putin Summit
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Ed Martin Confirms Ed Martin's Witch Hunt Against Elected Democrats
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Once Filed a Brief Embracing Birthright Citizenship
Discussion: Raw Story
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Court Split Leaves Trump's Civil Fraud Appeal Stuck in Slow Lane
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Flooded Social Media With Self-Praise After Putin Meeting Disaster
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
As Medicaid cuts loom, North Carolina shows the stakes
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Paul Krugman:
AI Is Power-Hungry  —  And consumers are paying the price  —  This is a post about AI …
Eyal Press / New Yorker:
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
Heartbreak (but also hope) at the still-essential Washington Post
Discussion: Fox News
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump's war on numbers
Discussion: Votebeat
Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon:
UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Drawing Scrutiny From Trump Admin
Discussion: Associated Press
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ICE boasts about ripping Mount Pleasant sign with anti-border patrol message
 

 
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