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8:15 AM ET, April 19, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Behind Trump's Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears  —  The president's impulsive style has never before been tested during a sustained military conflict; ruminating on Jimmy Carter  —  It seemed like Donald Trump's appetite for risk had run out, and his fears were ramping up.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump convenes Iran situation room meeting amid renewed Hormuz crisis  —  President Trump convened a White House Situation Room meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the renewed crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and negotiations with Iran, according to two U.S. officials.
Discussion: PressTV, NewsMax.com, France 24 and Politico
Paul Krugman:
Trump Can't Even Surrender Right  —  When you're losing a war, but it's not an existential defeat, your country, your government can continue pretty much as before.  Aside from the humiliation, there's a well-established technique, which is to declare victory and pull out.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Mediaite and The Mahablog
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say
New York Times:   For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent
NBC News:
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial  —  Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. … Donna Gustafson had a harder time than usual shaking off …
Discussion: STAT
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump's campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election …
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Washington Post:
Trump's fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds  —  The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump had just begun a Jan. 9 meeting at the White House with oil …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Construction on Trump's White House ballroom can continue for now, US appeals court says  —  A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue building a $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling a day after a lower court judge continued to block above-ground construction on the site of the former East Wing.
Discussion: WUSA, Digby's Hullabaloo and CBS News
Advocate:
A forceful opening  —  The opinion opened with unusually blunt language, calling out the case as a broader test of the rule of law.  —  “Unserious leaders are unsafe.  There is nothing more serious than our leaders' dedication to the rule of law so that we might maintain the integrity of our constitutional democracy,” Kasubhai wrote.
Miami Herald:
Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir  —  In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein's plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York.
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Uncovering the Epstein Network:
The Woman Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Amanda Ungaro
Discussion: Newsweek
The Independent:
White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’  —  Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel's alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pete Hegseth Nailed It.  No Really.  —  You've probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted what he apparently thought was a bible verse but was in fact the faux biblicalism delivered by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Pulp Fiction.
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame  —  “I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration has urged professional football's leaders …
Discussion: Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Althouse
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray  —  Good Saturday morning.  This is Irie Sentner, taking the helm.  Get in touch.  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The latest battle in the 2026 redistricting wars …
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Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not.
Discussion: The Independent and The Hill
Erin Doherty / Politico:
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Walz in Spain rips ‘feeble-minded’ Trump, Vance over Iran war  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) issued sharp criticism against President Trump over his administration's military operations against Iran at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona on Saturday.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit  —  Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit …
The White House:
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled …
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Order on Psychedelics to Ease FDA Restrictions
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.  What is going on?  —  Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers  —  Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
 
 
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Politico:
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
In Trump's Orbit, Women Aren't the Only Ones Concerned About Their Looks
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Why Trump's Delusions Are So Dangerous: Psychologist
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump NRA snub fuels questions about key GOP ally's influence
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Kyla Scanlon / New York Times:
Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Read the Supreme Court's Shadow Papers
Discussion: Reason and HotAir
Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
Sonali Verma / India Today:
2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz
Axios:
Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation
Jason Sattler:
How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies?