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Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
South Korea must brace for ‘worst-case scenario,’ President Lee says, as Trump cuts military drills … South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that maintaining peace was “most important” for the country, but it needs to prepare for the “worst case scenario.”
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump explains reduced joint drills with South Korea
Politico:
Ossoff just went viral again.  That was probably the point.  —  Some battleground candidates are going viral for shooting from the hip.  Jon Ossoff is doing it from a carefully controlled script. … It was part of a larger prepared speech that hammered Trump over the war in Iran …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
White House Takes the Bait as Ossoff Targets Trump Aide Natalie Harp  —  The Trump administration is lashing out after Senator John Ossoff referenced Trump's mysteriously close relationship with his much younger assistant Natalie Harp.  —  Ossoff questioned the president's relationship with Harp, 34, at an Atlanta rally on Sunday.
Calen Razor / Politico:
Dems bank on Ossoff's message discipline
Discussion: New York Times
Bloomberg:
Trump Takes Hard Line on Iran as Hormuz Standoff Drags On  —  Trump Takes Hard Line on Iran With Control of Hormuz in Limbo  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 15.67% Playback Rate  — captions off, selected  — English  —  This is a modal window.
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Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
Trump's Bombing Threats Have a Golf Course Problem  —  His Oman resort sits just miles from the strait where he's promising to send in the US military.  —  On Monday morning, President Donald Trump issued a blunt warning to America's erstwhile ally: “If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them.”
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump swings hard at Oman and South Korea, but his foreign policy misses are piling up
Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post:
Rep. Cory Mills's GOP primary offers the latest test of running under an ethical cloud  —  The Florida Republican faces allegations of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse, on top of campaign finance violations.  —  Summary  —  Embattled GOP Rep. Cory Mills is running for reelection Tuesday …
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida Primary Underscores State's New Identity as a Republican Juggernaut
Discussion: The Hill and Al Jazeera
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high  —  Coverage among kindergartners for major vaccines fell in more than half the states, continuing a years-long trend, as measles cases climb.  —  Summary  —  The share of U.S. kindergartners with exemptions from school vaccine requirements …
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Patricia Callahan / ProPublica:   Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
Axios:
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions rose in 2025-2026: CDC
Discussion: The Hill
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Hegseth travels to Iowa in his ‘personal capacity’ amid 2028 speculation  —  Officials familiar with the defense secretary's thinking believe he is considering a run for president or some other office after his time in the Trump administration ends.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CBS News
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Bayliss Wagner / New York Times:   Hegseth Campaigns for Vulnerable House Republican in Iowa
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Allies Flood Iowa to Shore Up Shaky Republicans
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.
Ned Resnikoff / Public Comment:
It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X … If you are still posting on X, you should stop today.  Quitting the site yesterday would have been better, but doing it today is better than doing it tomorrow.  —  The moral and political case for quitting X is so obvious that it scarcely bears repeating …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Zeteo:
SCOOP: Trump's Iran War Has Burned Through Well Over 90% of Key Long-Range Missiles  —  Sources tell Zeteo the percentage of critical long-range missiles that the Trump administration has depleted in its failing war is in ‘at least the high nineties.’  —  However terribly you think the Iran war …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit  —  ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.  —  An expert witness testifying …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Blaze Media
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Jeanine Pirro pushes hard to keep alleged memorial vandal in jail  —  Weeks after being rebuked by President Donald Trump for dropping cases related to alleged damage to the Reflecting Pool, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is going to unusual lengths to try …
NOTUS:
James Talarico Poaches Cornyn Staffer  —  Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's campaign hired a staffer from Republican Sen. John Cornyn, NOTUS has learned.  —  Jacob Smith, who worked for Cornyn for five years as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser …
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Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says  — 3 min Click here to listen to this article … - The phony poll by a company called Median Strategies showed Bass leading Raman by a wide margin, but the company acknowledged Monday that it was fake.
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Votes by Mail Again in Florida  —  The president also voted by mail in 2020 and in a Florida special election in March, even as he has railed against the practice and equated it to cheating.  —  President Trump voted by mail ahead of Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday …
Axios:
Political dirty tricks upend midterm races across the country  —  The 2026 midterms are becoming a watershed election for primary meddling, mysterious super PACs, alleged straw candidates and all other manner of political shenanigans. … - The Pennsylvania Green Party and a group …
Politico:
More than Trump's ‘human binkie’  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Judge Rules Trump Administration Can't Scrap F.B.I. Move to Maryland  —  The ruling is almost certainly not the end of the lengthy fight over the F.B.I.'s future headquarters, which has lasted for years.  —  A federal judge in Maryland blocked the Trump administration from abandoning …
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:
Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care  —  MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration authorities …
New York Times:
Mary Peltola Shakes Up Senate Campaign Staff Days Before Alaska Primary  —  Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate, fired a longtime senior aide and named a new campaign manager.  —  Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Alaska, has shaken up her campaign in the final days …
New York Times:
Lake Powell Hits Lowest Level On Record As Water Crisis Continues  —  Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River.  —  Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation's largest reservoirs …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Argument:
No, Senator Murphy, I don't want to join your cult.  —  Politics isn't where you should find meaning. … - Jerusalem Demsas  —  U.S. Senator Chris Murphy's new book Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America subverts the norms of its genre.
Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Trump administration pauses contentious border construction in Texas' Big Bend National Park  —  The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building …
 
 
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Discussion: Bloomberg
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
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