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Associated Press:
Trump's slight of South Korea in favor of the North raises broader US security concerns — President Donald Trump's decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea does not just slight a longtime ally but raises broader concerns about the security interests of the United States in Asia and elsewhere.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump torches allies as Iran exposes limits of hard power — President Trump has a new rule for America's partners: Cross him in one theater, and the consequences will follow you into the next. … - The Iran war has only deepened those impulses: Trump is growing angrier at allies that stayed …
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New York Times:
Facing Quagmire in Iran, Trump Turns to a Familiar Face: North Korea's Kim Jong-un — Seven years ago, President Trump failed to disarm North Korea and walked away. Could the same thing happen with Iran? — The last time President Trump vowed to halt a country's nuclear weapons program …
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Raphael Rashid / The Guardian:
South Korea president calls for military independence in wake of Trump call to cut joint drills
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
South Korea must brace for ‘worst-case scenario,’ President Lee says, as Trump cuts military drills
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Jose Lev Alvarez / Washington Examiner:
If South Korea won't defend Hormuz, Trump should pull the nuclear umbrella
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Stars & Stripes and The Korea Herald
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
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.”
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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.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC, Claiming Trump Administration “Retaliatory Campaign” Against Its Free Speech — ABC filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the FCC on Tuesday, claiming that its investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC — Disney's ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, raising the pitch of the company's efforts to countermand unusual pressure from the federal government to force the company's stations to submit licenses for early renewal proceedings.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida Primary Underscores State's New Identity as a Republican Juggernaut — Republicans hold every statewide elected office and have drastically swung voter registration in the state. A newly gerrymandered congressional map has added four Republican-leaning seats.
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Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post:
Rep. Cory Mills's GOP primary offers the latest test of running under an ethical cloud
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Tim Balk / New York Times:
What to Watch in Tuesday's Primaries in Alaska, Florida and Beyond
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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 …
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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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Axios, Straight Arrow, New York Times, STAT, CBS News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Ars Technica, The Hill, NewsMax.com, KQTV-TV and MS NOW
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trump — CNN says attack ‘beneath the office’ after Kristen Holmes asked president about Jon Ossoff's comments on key aide — The White House launched a personal attack against a CNN reporter on Monday with a social media post …
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 monitors to the polls this fall — The move to send 1,000 poll monitors is likely the largest number under a Republican president, a DOJ official said. — Summary — The Justice Department plans to dispatch about 1,000 monitors to the polls this fall …
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com and Democracy Docket
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 …
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The Hill, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, The Independent and New Republic
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.
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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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
‘A Blatant and Gargantuan Conflict of Interest’ — The Trump family's crypto business exemplifies all of the sleaziest aspects of the president's code of conduct, if we can call it that. — It is almost certainly unconstitutional and may well be illegal.
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Marie-Rose Sheinerman / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Putting His Face on Everything — We Americans remember our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait—we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead, before we bestow such honors.
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 …
Maya Vinokour / The Nation:
How Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores — Everyone from RFK Jr. to social media influencers are telling us that the nutrient needs to be maximized in our diet as much as possible. But is that actually good for our bodies? — Pocket — This article appears in the September 2026 issue …
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch:
Family Member Warns USS Spruance Sailors May Be Left Behind — The destroyer could remain deployed for months after the USS Abraham Lincoln returns, a claim not publicly confirmed by the Navy. — Add us on — A family member of a sailor aboard the USS Spruance says the destroyer …
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.
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Carole Cadwalladr / How to Survive the Broligarchy:
A Digital Lynching — A note on who I am: I'm an investigative journalist who's spent a decade reporting on the collision of technology and democracy including exposing the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal for the Guardian and the New York Times. I'm now a co-founder of The Nerve …
NBC News:
U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents — After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents. — FORT WORTH, Texas — Two Fort Worth teenagers, suddenly on their own. For nearly a year, 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda …
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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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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Democrats enter their thirst trap era — Democrats seem to be leaning into a specific midterm strategy, especially on socials: bringing sexy back. — Unbuttoned shirts on CNN. … - “We see a rise in young millennials, or the top part of Gen Z, trying to get into office,” …
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 …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Justice Department asks court to reinstate criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia — Add CBS News on Google — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported …
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