U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War  —  The 145 percent U.S. tariff on Chinese goods will come down to 30 percent for 90 days, while the two sides continue talks aimed at resolving their differences.  —  The United States and China said Monday …

Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage as gesture to Trump  —  Hamas said Sunday it will release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who has been held for over 550 days, as part of an effort to reach a ceasefire deal and resume humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza.

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care  —  House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity … The sale of face-to-face access to President Trump using the Trump family's own cryptocurrency has done more than benefit him financially, though it has certainly done that.  —  Mr. Trump announced last month that leading buyers …

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.  —  Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday.  Their departure for the U.S. came as the Trump administration was halting virtually all refugee admissions.

The Federalist Society is surprisingly ambivalent about Trump  —  Few organizations have profited as handsomely off of President Donald Trump's rise to power as the Federalist Society, a kind of bar association for right-wing lawyers.  —  “We're going to have great judges, conservative …

Flights Could Be Disrupted Across U.S., Transportation Secretary Warns  —  After a series of problems at Newark Liberty International Airport, the secretary, Sean Duffy, said he would meet with airline leaders on Wednesday to plan to scale back Newark flights.

Newsom to Ask Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown  —  “There are no more excuses,” the California governor said in pushing for municipalities to address one of the most visible byproducts of homelessness.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to escalate California's push …

Americans have tuned out Gaza at the worst possible moment  —  Israel's war in Gaza, which has long been a moral atrocity, is on the brink of becoming unimaginably worse.  —  Earlier this month, Israel's security cabinet approved a plan that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “the concluding moves” of the war in Gaza.

“The Wolves Came”: Richard Steigmann-Gall on Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins's *Did it Happen Here?  Perspectives on Fascism and America*  —  Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins has edited a book which he hoped would finally put to bed the hotly contested Fascism Debate that arose from Trump's 2016 candidacy …

Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?  —  I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, Va. courthouse.

Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York  —  Fewer cars.  Faster travel.  Less honking.  And some questions we still can't answer.  —  The reporters sought information from everyone they could think of, including the M.T.A., the Fire Department …