U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain  —  USS George Washington is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 250 days  —  The U.S. is preparing to send the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace …

Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard  —  A district court judge dismissed the Trump administration's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard on Thursday, concluding that the incidents pointed to by the government were “too isolated and episodic” …

Pollsters missed again in Wisconsin.  Here's why.  —  Pollsters appeared to blow another high-stakes Midwest election Tuesday, as center-left Democrat David Crowley stunned socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's primary for governor.  — But on Wednesday, the reasons for the miss seemed clear …

Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump's Name on Building  —  The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge's order to remove his name.  —  The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday …

What's Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All  —  On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver's license.  She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letters when Senate Bill 244 …

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown  —  The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.  —  Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot …

Why Isn't the Price of Oil Even Higher?  —  Donald Trump is not a well man.  He is, unfortunately, also President, which means that we all pay a price for his inability to accept reality.  Notably, while he insists that he has “total control over the Strait of Hormuz,” …

Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes.  Then It Parked Them.  —  The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights.  But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.  —  Starting last fall, the Department …

Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats … The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program, The Washington Post has learned.

Haberman: 70% of Trump's brain on monuments  —  The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects.  — “He is spending a huge amount of energy …

Fox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summer  —  Since June 25, Fox has dedicated at least 206 segments to the WNBA … Since June 25, Fox News has devoted at least 13 hours and 34 minutes of programming to the WNBA, much of which criticized the league …

Karoline Leavitt's possible successors emerge after WH press secretary's surprise departure  —  WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's Wednesday announcement that she's leaving her role stunned many insiders — who immediately began buzzing about who might replace her behind the briefing room lectern.

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight … The amendment was one of hundreds filed this summer to an annual defense bill making its way through Congress.  Along with her proposed change, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's office had sent a summary of what it would do.

Trump Secret Plane Swap Suddenly Looks Darker as Damning New Leaks Hit  —  By now you've heard that when Donald Trump left the NATO summit in Turkey last month, he was clandestinely transferred from Air Force One to an alternative plane to avert a credible Iranian threat.

CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Iranian threat before Trump switched planes in Turkey  —  CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.  —  Summary  —  U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat …

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues  —  Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues' cell phones.

Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  💥 Subscribe to PN 💥  —  Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids.

Texas 2026 Poll: Paxton and Talarico Deadlocked in U.S. Senate Race; Abbott Leads Hinojosa by Four Points  —  Economy, immigration top issues among Texas voters  —  A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media survey of Texas likely voters finds the U.S. Senate race in a dead heat …

U.S. military has lost roughly 25% of its Reaper drones as Iran war depletes arsenal  —  The aircraft, which cost up to $50 million each, have seen heavy use around the Strait of Hormuz — but they are relatively easy targets for Iran and its proxies.  —  Summary

Trump Pocketed $2.2 Billion in 2025 While American Families Lost $219 Billion to Rising Costs, New Report Finds  —  New calculations from the Joint Economic Committee, Minority, show a staggering gap between how President Trump fared financially in 2025 and how ordinary American families fared.

It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted  —  The recliner really is made in Vietnam.  The plant, just north of Ho Chi Minh City, is legit — it's got thousands of workers making real furniture.  The motor inside the recliner is another story.  —  The motor arrives from China finished …

Youth poll: Thumbs down on everything  —  More than a quarter of younger Americans (27%) believe they or someone they know has lost a job because their employer replaced them with AI, according to a new Axios-Generation Lab poll of 18- to 34-year-olds.

Josh Kushner, the Trump-in-Law Swiftie Billionaire Buying the Lakers  —  There's a Kushner who has been in the news a whole lot lately, and for the first time in a while it's not Jared.  Sure, the first son-in-law still gets plenty of press for the bang-up job he's been doing on behalf …

No One Wants to Talk About the Debt  —  Plus, Iran's ability to make the Strait of Hormuz too risky to cross with limited firepower, and a progressive reckoning in the Midwest  —  Good morning.  Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrats' nominee for the Senate in Michigan, campaigned on Medicare for All.

Democrats demand Trump reveal stock managers, explain suspicious trades … Two top Democratic lawmakers are pushing President Donald Trump for answers on the mountain of stock trades made in his name since he returned to the White House.  —  In a 17-page letter sent Wednesday and seen by CNBC …

Congress Needs a Select Committee That Focuses on Trump Family Corruption  —  With midterm elections only months away, Democrats have come together at conferences and in conversation to sketch out what their agenda should look like should they retake control of the House or Senate.

About 110,000 fewer foreign students expected after visa crackdown, report says  —  A report released this week forecasts a decline of about 111,000 international students at U.S. colleges and universities.  —  There will probably be far fewer foreign students on campuses nationwide …

The government is recruiting tech companies to help fight its cyber battles  —  President Donald Trump is paving a legal pathway for U.S. companies to launch cyberattacks on foreign cybercriminal gangs — a significant and potentially controversial measure that would put approved tech …

Trump Administration Lets Key Gun Law Lapse Following Court Ruling  —  The retreat by the Justice Department effectively allowed a pillar of the Prohibition-era National Firearms Act to lapse.  —  The Justice Department declined to appeal a court ruling that effectively dismantled longstanding restrictions …

In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.  This loss comes after Trump ally Representative Andy Ogles lost his primary in Tennessee.