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New York Times:
Live Updates: Zelensky and Allies Head to White House to Show Unity on Ukraine  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, whose last Oval Office meeting ended in acrimony, was expected to hear a plan from President Trump to cede land to Russia in exchange for security guarantees.
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Sarah Ewall-Wice / The Daily Beast:
Trump Snubs Greatest Allies With Greeting From Fox News Host  —  LATER!  —  European leaders arriving at the White House were met by the Chief of Protocol, Monica Crowley.  —  After rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite and Raw Story
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
White House Hides Trump's Cankles With Odd Prop in Zelensky Photo-Op  —  COVERED UP  —  A White House photo conveniently placed an Air Force One model in front of the 79-year-old president's swollen ankles.  —  The White House appeared to cover up Donald Trump's cankles in an official photo …
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.
Financial Times:
Ukraine offers $100bn weapons deal to Trump to win security guarantees  —  Document seen by the FT lays out Kyiv's proposals to US president at crucial White House meeting  —  Max Seddon in Berlin, Christopher Miller in Washington and Ben Hall in London  —  Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn …
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Key takeaways from Trump and Zelenskyy's Oval Office meeting to discuss Ukraine
Politico:
Why Munich 1938 concessions to Nazi Germany haunt Washington 2025 talks
Discussion: The Forward
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms  —  President Donald Trump raged at Democrats Monday for supposedly cheating in elections in a long and unhinged Truth Social rant—and buried in his tirade is a clear indication of how he hopes to corrupt the 2026 midterm elections …
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Trump Promises New, Blatantly Unconstitutional Order to End Mail-In Voting  —  President Donald Trump announced he will issue a new executive order as part of a “movement to get rid of” mail-in voting.  —  Trump railed against “MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and, “Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive …
Politico:
Trump allies look to primaries as they escalate Indiana redistricting pressure … “Politics is a team sport, and they prefer to do things with the team ... but if Republicans refuse to play team ball, they will very likely begin to focus on upgrading players,” said the person …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval holds at 40%, lowest level of his term, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Discussion: Breitbart
Ashley Lopez / NPR:
Trump wants to stop states from voting by mail and using voting machines
Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
DOJ to begin sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday, House member says  —  Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), chairman of a House oversight committee, this month issued a subpoena commanding the attorney general to produce documents related to Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday.
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Michael Gold / New York Times:   Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
DOJ to start sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday
Office of Governor Tate Reeves:
Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.  —  Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington, D.C.:  —  “I've approved the deployment …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:   Mississippi and Louisiana Will Send National Guard Troops to D.C.
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Is Trump's DC Military Deployment the Start of a Slow-Motion Civil War?
Discussion: WTTG-TV, Democracy Docket and NPR
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts while claiming American conservatives are ostracized like Jews in Nazi Germany  —  ‘They are not migrants.  They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army.  The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
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Bloomberg:
Trump Administration in Talks to Take a 10% Stake in Intel  —  The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, in a move that could see the US become the beleaguered chipmaker's largest shareholder.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Nationalization of Intel?  —  A 10% federal stake in the computer chip maker would be another dive into corporate statism.
Discussion: The Information
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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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director alongside Bongino  —  Bailey will join the FBI as a co-deputy director with Deputy Director Dan Bongino  —  EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey …
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Washington Post:
Top Air Force general to exit in Hegseth's latest shake-up of Pentagon  —  Gen. David Allvin will retire halfway through his four-year term, becoming the most recent senior military official to be forced out by the Trump administration.  —  Just now  —  The chief of staff of the Air Force …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories  —  A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims  —  The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.
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Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play  —  Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.  —  It is rare for an Attorney General of the United States to venture into the offices of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig
Discussion: New Yorker and Raw Story
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Gut Check Time For Democrats  —  Send this to your senators.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Every lengthy government shutdown in my lifetime has been a consequence of Republican extortion.  —  The structure and rules of our government all but demand that annual budgeting be a cooperative enterprise …
Discussion: Associated Press
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says  —  Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize merger case that led to his firing  —  An antitrust lawyer who was dismissed last month from the Justice Department …
Discussion: UnHerd, The Hill and Bloomberg
Zeteo:
The Vice President Who Can't Stop Taking Vacations  —  8 trips in 7 months - what could possibly go wrong for JD Vance, the tone-deaf veep who wants to succeed Trump in 3 years?  —  Team Zeteo  —  ∙ Paid  —  JD Vance is the talk of the town over in the Cotswolds …
Discussion: HuffPost
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong  —  Jonathan Greenblatt criticized the mayoral nominee for hedging on ‘globalize the Intifada’ and falsely claimed Mamdani hasn't visited synagogues or engaged Jewish groups  —  Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League CEO …
William Foege / STAT:
Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense  —  Three steps to surviving the drought of principles, values, and facts  —  Physician Brendan Phibbs, who wrote “The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II,” said …
 
 
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Simon Kaufman / Scripps News:
Trump increases tariffs on steel and aluminum, which will likely increase consumer prices
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
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Discussion: NewsMax.com
Tara Suter / The Hill:
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