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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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Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den
Zelenskyy in the lion's den
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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 …
August 17, 2025 — On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting …
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The Kyiv Independent
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace”
Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace”
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Axios, The Moderate Voice and New York Times
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
Joanna Coles / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth. Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All
Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth. Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All
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Frank Gardner / BBC:
Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato ahead of Zelensky White House talks
Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato ahead of Zelensky White House talks
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John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
A Bad Summit's Silver Lining
A Bad Summit's Silver Lining
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New York Times, CNN, Raw Story, The Hill and HuffPost
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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Liz Crampton / Politico:
Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff … The drama in Texas set off a national redistricting battle, most prominently with California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowing to retaliate against Texas Republicans by extracting an equal number of Democratic-leaning districts from California's congressional map.
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The Hill, Washington Post and NewsMax.com
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
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
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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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat — The president demanded that states do what the federal government “tells them,” after announcing an executive order aimed at banning mail-in voting … Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter …
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Raw Story, Politico, ABC News and The Parnas Perspective
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
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.
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 …
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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Fox News, Daily Caller News Foundation 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 …
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
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Christian Science Monitor
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
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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Reuters
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
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.
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Fox News

