Trump's Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him  —  You'd be forgiven for thinking the saga involving Donald Trump's vile prosecutions of innocent people over his Reflecting Pool fiasco has finally come to an ignominious end.  On Thursday, a judge officially threw …

Trump administration order would upend nation's childhood vaccine schedule  —  The president has pushed to narrow which vaccines are administered to children and split shots into multiple appointments.  —  The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would upend decades …

Too Fun to Check: El-Sayed Refuses to Renounce Hasan ‘America Deserved 9/11’ Piker  —  Give Abdul El-Sayed at least some credit for consistency.  After tossing red meat during primaries to drive base turnout, most politicians will shift to the center afterward to compete in the general election.

Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence  —  “The future is for everyone,” Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta.  —  Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal …

How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal  —  No mentions on primetime shows, and the network also isn't asking Republicans about it on air  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TYLER MONROE & ROB SAVILLO  —  Fox News is keeping its viewers in the dark …

Taylor Farms Voluntarily Recalls Fresh Jalapeños Over Salmonella Concerns  —  The company said it was unaware of any reported illnesses linked to its products containing jalapeños, which were distributed to major retailers across 26 states.  —  Taylor Farms, which has been linked …

Florida attorney general threatens charges after Cunningham is fouled in WNBA game  —  Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) threatened to charge WNBA players with assault after a hard foul against star Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham over the weekend.

Trump demands compensation for US from Iran  —  President Trump on Monday demanded reparations from Iran for those who have died amid the conflict, after Tehran called for compensation for damages.  —  “I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation …

The Moronic Bullshit of the “Third Way”  —  The statements seem as belligerent as Pete Hegseth on a bad hair day.  —  “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” says Jonathan Cowan.  —  Cowan is president of Third Way, described by The New York Times as a “leading centrist Democratic group.”

The Great Delegalization  —  More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.  —  In early 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti—but, even as Haitians in the U.S. had far less to return to, they received a new opportunity to stay.

Ukrainian Drone Attack Deep Into Russia Is Among Its Deadliest of the War  —  The strike, on an industrial center in Tatarstan, killed at least 13 people.  —  A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on an industrial city about 550 miles east of Moscow was among the deadliest on Russian territory since …

Precision Has a Price  —  FOR GENERATIONS, SENIOR MILITARY officers attending professional military education have been taught a simple but enduring truth: Logistics establishes the art of the possible.  No commander can conduct operations without the fuel, ammunition, and other resources needed to sustain the fighting force.

Why Is Iran Acting Like It Is Holding All the Cards in Hormuz Talks?  —  Plus, voters' impressions on the economy pose a midterm challenge for the GOP, and Netanyahu breaks with Trump over the peace plan for Gaza  —  Good morning.  On Tuesday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went …

Trump posted touched-up version of his golf photo to look younger and slimmer  —  Trump appears to have undergone an computer-generated glow-up  —  President Donald Trump posted a touched-up photograph of himself from his weekend golf trip, where he appeared much more youthful, instead of sharing the original image.

243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux  —  Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.  I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks.

Nancy Mace Hit With Humiliating On-Air Lesson on First Amendment  —  Representative Nancy Mace went on an Islamphobic tirade on CNN Sunday and had to be given a lesson on the Constitution.  —  CNN's Omar Jimenez was interviewing the South Carolina congresswoman, who finished fifth …

Ocasio-Cortez on Hong positions: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday quoted a New York City Council member in describing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's (D) past positions, saying “Woke 1 was crazy.”  —  ABC News's “This Week” …

Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched Plates  —  This “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is demanding answers …

Why I Quit the Tenure Track  —  The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia  —  As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming.  On your right, affixed to a pockmarked brick mill—now defunct …

Democratic extremism?  GOP spent a decade riding extremism to power.  —  Republicans have spent the past decade worshiping the most extreme president in our nation's history, a man with an almost impossibly long history of loathsome behavior and malicious dishonesty.

Blanche sworn in as attorney general, formally taking the reins at the Justice Department  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general at the White House on Monday after the Senate narrowly voted to confirm the president's former defense lawyer …

Capitol agenda: Republicans brace for Trump's wrath  —  President Donald Trump has held his fire since senators skipped town for five weeks without advancing his elections security bill.  Some Republicans don't expect that to last.  Senators punted until at least September any vote …

As Voters Grow Anxious Over A.I., Trump Shrugs Off the Concern  —  The president and his top aides have been especially bullish about data centers, despite national blowback against the facilities.  —  The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has started to rattle voters around the country …

Trump officials offer cities tens of millions for Memphis-style police surges - with conditions  —  DoJ to give $300m for enforcement surges in four cities, as long as they abandon progressive ideologies on policing  —  The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars …

Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank  —  There are enormous canyons.  —  Geysers.  —  Majestic cliffs.  —  Waterfalls and wildlife.  —  Rainforests and reindeer.  —  But in America's national parks under President Trump, the most dramatic sight might be the rapid shifting of taxpayer and donor money.

The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  Marc Rosenblum, the top statistician at the Department of Homeland Security for more than a decade, resigned in frustration in late July.

State Department Revokes More Than 175,000 Visas  —  Under President Trump, the United States Department of State has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals who violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against U.S. citizens, defrauded Americans …

Tucker's third way  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Monday morning, we're feeling as strong as a Bull Moose, and hope you are too.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...  — What's next for Tucker Carlson's post-MAGA movement.

Hegseth Renames Base for Lindsey Graham  —  Joint Base Charleston will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham.  The senator served as a judge advocate general before retiring as a colonel in 2015.  —  The Defense Department has renamed a military base in Charleston for Senator Lindsey Graham …

Pelosi unleashes her political machine in fight to replace her  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi is unleashing her political machine to block one of California's most prominent state lawmakers from replacing her in Congress, bringing an increasingly bitter feud to a head inside San Francisco's Democratic establishment.

‘The Nerd Reich’ tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'  —  Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.