JD Vance Is Going to Eat This Turd and Love It  —  What is the architect of the Big Beautiful Iran Surrender playing at?  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Sin Eater  —  Donald Trump wants his name and face on everything—office buildings, banners, passports, palatial ballrooms, $250 bills, stimulus checks, arts centers.

Trump goes after critics who want a more comprehensive deal with Iran … The deal does not explicitly address whether Iran gets to keep its ballistic missiles and the country would be allowed to have a nuclear program for civilian purposes, Trump said, calling both “common sense.”

READ: Full text of U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding  —  Below is the full text of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, as delivered by a senior administration official in a briefing with reporters. … The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts …

Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects  —  It's the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

Trump settles lawsuit against niece over tax records leak  —  President Trump settled a $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, whom he accused of engaging “in an insidious plot” with The New York Times to leak confidential information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 investigation into his tax and financial records.

What Color Is the Reflecting Pool?  An Investigation.  —  Workers on the National Mall, desperate to turn the Reflecting Pool to President Trump's preferred shade of blue, poured jug after jug of hydrogen peroxide into the water yesterday morning.  As they did so, members of the National Guard, deployed to clean up crime, looked on.

Trump Rescinds Endorsement of Right-Wing Pastor After Texting Scandal  —  The pastor, Jackson Lahmeyer, dropped out of the race for a House seat in Oklahoma as President Trump backed Mr. Lahmeyer's Republican rival in a runoff election.  —  President Trump rescinded his endorsement …

Michigan pollster accuses McMorrow campaign of killing unfavorable Senate poll … “The poll, in the eyes of the McMorrow campaign, understated their support,” Mitchell, whose firm Mitchell Research & Communications conducted and paid for the poll, told POLITICO.

Knicks Will Be First NBA Team to Visit Trump White House  —  The president already prompted backlash among the fan base by attending Game 3 at Madison Square Garden.  — Copy  —  New York Knicks owner James Dolan said Wednesday that the team will be the first NBA champion …

Texas's James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom  —  Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, 37, has a single checking account that holds up to $50,000—and he shares it with his mother, a frequent contributor to his political campaigns who pitched …

Elon Musk's Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response  —  If you were on the verge of becoming the first trillionaire in human history, with the press breathlessly reporting on your every move, that would probably be your focus.  Yet in the days before SpaceX's initial public …

Tulsi Gabbard's Not-So-Shocking Revelation of U.S.-Funded Veterinary Biolabs in Ukraine  —  Russian propagandists asserted in March 2022 that the U.S. was funding bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine as a justification for their armed forces' brutal invasion of that country.

Just 16% of Americans Believe AI Will Positively Impact Society, Pew Poll Finds  —  Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in the summer of 2024.  —  Half of adult Americans use AI chatbots, with a quarter using them daily, according to new polling from Pew Research released Wednesday.

Dobbs' Lasting Impact on Abortion  —  Party identification and gender remain important factors in Americans' abortion attitudes  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four years after the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, Gallup's core trends show …

FBI director's post about foiled UFC plot frustrates law enforcement, sources say  —  Kash Patel's post took some federal law enforcement officials by surprise, in part because authorities were still working to take suspects into custody, sources tell NBC News.

“Truly evil” FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted … A gene therapy for Huntington's disease has a new path toward approval from the Food and Drug Administration after the ouster of several Trump officials, particularly Vinay Prasad, who rejected the therapy …