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7:15 AM ET, August 30, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Inside Trump's Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela's Oil Riches  —  The deal caps months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world's largest proven oil reserves  —  President Trump spent months declaring his ouster of Venezuela's leader had secured the country's oil for America.
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Associated Press:
What we know about Trump's deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in Venezuela
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting  —  Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.  —  When leaders from the world's …
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Ed Markey Defends Transgender Athletes in Massachusetts Senate Race  —  Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.  —  Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts might …
Discussion: Washington Post and Roll Call
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Associated Press:   The Earth is sizzling, but climate isn't a hot topic for Democrats in this year's campaigns
Washington Post:
Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations  —  A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.  —  Summary  —  Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth …
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Congress Is Finally Talking About Saving Social Security  —  Discussions on how to stave off automatic benefit cuts accelerated this summer, but concrete action remains elusive  —  WASHINGTON—Social Security's looming insolvency is the country's most foreseeable problem …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Postal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From Voting By Mail  —  A judge temporarily blocked the agency from refusing to deliver ballots in noncompliant states, which could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.  —  Voting by mail would become much more difficult …
New York Times:
How Trump's Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas  —  For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O'Connor's district.  Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.  —  President Trump's Justice Department had a problem.
Bloomberg:
Far-Right Party Wins Closely Watched Western Australia Vote  —  The far-right One Nation party has secured its first lower house seat in the state parliament of Western Australia, defeating the ruling Labor Party to win a special election.  —  The election was watched as an indicator …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Reuters
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump's DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: 'It's outrageous'  —  Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies  —  The Trump administration has been deploying …
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Gov. Abbott blocks funding in Texas for Flock cameras as bipartisan fury brews  —  The automated license plate readers aren't popular with the public.  Politicians are catching on.  —  Summary  —  Republicans and Democrats once praised Flock Safety as a protection tool for American communities.
David Blair / Telegraph:
Estonia's spy chief: ‘Russia is in a very bad place - revolution could come overnight’  —  In his first interview with a British newspaper, Kaupo Rosin discusses Putin's fractured inner circle and the looming threat against Nato  —  It was, perhaps, the highest praise ever offered …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
CIA director floated Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit during Moscow visit, sources say  —  CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow earlier this week in an effort to end the war …
 
 
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:
New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State
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Politico:
How Trump took control of Venezuela's democratic transition
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New York Times:
Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
An ICE Shooting, an Extradition Showdown and the Federal Case That Stalled
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Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden's body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not
New York Times:
Critics Blast Metropolitan Museum's Plan to Honor John Galliano
CFTC:
CFTC Orders Gabriel Perez to Pay $172,000 for Insider Trading of Mention Market Event Contracts
Bloomberg:
Trump Backlash Adds New Risks to the Stocks the Government Owns
Mac William Bishop / Rolling Stone:
No One Knows How to End the War with Iran
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
Trump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn't paid for.
Discussion: Politico and OutsideTheBeltway
 

 
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