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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump's Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms — A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could ‘derail’ midterms — The U.S. Postal Service could “derail” the midterm election if it continues rushing out “untested” technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, a newly released whistleblower report warns.
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Axios:
USPS whistleblower warns new ballot system could fail — A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots. … - The system stems from an executive order signed by President Trump …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House votes to pass short-term funding bill and prevent a shutdown before the election — The legislation, which already passed the Senate, now goes to President Donald Trump to become law, checking off the main item on Congress' to-do list ahead of the midterms.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrats fume about GOP's anti-socialism bill — House Democrats are grumbling that Republicans are setting one last political trap for them before November by attaching language touting their marquee voter ID legislation to a resolution denouncing socialism.
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Fox News, Truthout, NewsMax.com, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
House passes short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown before the election
House passes short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown before the election
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The Atlantic:
Dan Driscoll's Parting Shot — The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned. — During a white house meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly …
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Axios:
Why Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned — Two key reasons led to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation, announced Monday: the feeling that his modernization initiatives were being blocked, and the chaos created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's firing of senior generals.
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Hegseth's Pentagon Lurches off the Rails
Hegseth's Pentagon Lurches off the Rails
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New York Times, Reason, The Independent, Straight Arrow, MS NOW, CBS News, RedState, The Guardian, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, IJR News, Alternet.org and Reuters
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
College student steps into highway traffic, is killed after losing TPS — Pierre Damas Bel's family said he took his own life after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle monitor. — Summary
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The Signorile Report, The Parnas Perspective and twitchy.com
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Jessica Orozco / SpringfieldNewsSun.com:
Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say — A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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The Haitian Times, New Republic and The Post Millennial
Paul Krugman:
The Plot to Steal Venezuela's Oil — A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid — The United States has an ugly reputation in Latin America — a reputation that, I'm sorry to say, is mostly well deserved. Our government has a long track record of supporting dictators …
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CBS News and Business Insider
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
The secret history of Trump's Venezuelan oil baron — President Trump's historic Venezuelan oil deal revolves around a colorful and controversial man from Caracas with a long history of supporting U.S. interests — including the operation to remove former strongman Nicolas Maduro.
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New York Post, NOTUS, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The White House, France 24, Al Jazeera, Semafor, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, NewsMax.com, Financial Times and WPLG-TV
Tampa Bay Times:
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa — Yasmany Moreno thought he was being transferred. Again.The 32-year-old Cuban who traveled between Tampa and Miami for work had already spent more than a year in immigration detention centers across the United States.
Mickey Djuric / Politico:
‘Stop doing memes’: Carney urges US to drop theatrics — Canada's prime minister said talks can resume once the Trump administration ‘starts being serious.’ — OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney still sees a path to a mutually beneficial trade deal with the U.S. — once Washington stops playing games.
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RedState, Canadian Press, New Republic, The Independent, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Los Angeles Times, twitchy.com, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
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Politico:
Canada grinds Trump's Greer
Canada grinds Trump's Greer
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The Hill, Heartland Signal, The Guardian and Washington Examiner
Oliver Darcy / Status:
CBS' El-Sayed Scandal … At 8:18 a.m. on Monday morning, CBS News published a post on X that immediately drew an avalanche of criticism: “As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001,” the post said, “Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan …
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump's Lake Ontario order — Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting 'we're not changing it' — A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism. — Vice President JD Vance put his relationship with Tucker Carlson back in the spotlight this week when he was asked about the right-wing podcaster's history of promoting antisemites at a meeting of Jewish Republicans …
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New York Times, The Post Millennial, Jewish Insider, IJR News, Instapundit and Washington Post
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Frank Kendall / New York Times:
The U.S. Military Must Learn to Say No to Trump — I attended a military retirement ceremony last month at which Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the presiding officer and featured speaker. It was eerily, even alarmingly normal.
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Marianne LeVine / Wall Street Journal:
An $88,600 Photo With Trump: GOP Hopes to Raise Millions During Convention — Republican National Committee plans pair of high-dollar fundraisers during this month's midterm convention in Dallas — WASHINGTON—Republicans are planning to raise millions of dollars during the coming GOP midterm convention …
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Washington Examiner and Houston Public Media
Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Mullin Highlights Success of Operation Rotten Apple: ICE Arrests Over 2,100 Illegal Aliens in New York — New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Mamdani released more than 13,000 criminal illegal aliens from jail back onto the streets of New York to terrorize innocent Americans
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Washington Examiner, The Independent and The Gateway Pundit
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
A Familiar Media Failure — There are only two parties, and only one election; legacy media is once again creating false impressions about the stakes; Democrats once again aren't helping their own cause. — ∙ Paid — Wherever you fall on the question of whether Abdul El-Sayed …
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump approval stuck at lowest level of political career: Survey — President Trump's approval rating has remained stagnant at the lowest point between his two presidencies, according to a new poll. — The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey shows that Trump's approval rating has remained at 33 percent …
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MS NOW, NewsNation, Reuters and New Republic
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
We Found Her: The Most Absurd General-Election Candidate in America — It was a close call, but it sure looks like Donald Trump is going to get his East Wing ballroom, at least for now. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that construction could continue.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America's Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 — A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. — Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields behind Belgian draft horses …
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Kevin Harrish / Yahoo News:
Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: 'I'm not going to do that' — Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don't expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. — During a recent interview …
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump's anti-voting order — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a new webpage that will help carry out President Donald Trump's plans to create a national voter registry and shape who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections.
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Max Miller's Democratic challenger highlights (his own) family in TV ad — Democrat Brian Poindexter's first general-election ad in his campaign to unseat Rep. Max Miller doesn't directly mention the Republican's well-publicized family drama — but it makes the subtext impossible to ignore.
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New York Post, Washington Examiner, TMZ.com and Jewish Insider
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Mike Johnson tells House GOP leaders he met with Elon Musk — Speaker Mike Johnson told a closed-door meeting of senior House Republicans on Monday night that he met with GOP megadonor Elon Musk in Austin last week, according to two people who were in the room, as House GOP leaders hope he'll bolster …
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Mediaite
ippsr.msu.edu:
Institute for Public Policy and Social Research — MSU Poll Shows Democrats Lead, Republicans Coalesce Behind Rogers — The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University (IPPSR) released the latest iteration of the long-running State of the State Survey.
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MS NOW
Ryan Mancini / NewsNation:
Hunter Biden says Harris was not ‘loyal to a fault’ to his father — Hunter Biden on Monday said former Vice President Kamala Harris was not “loyal to a fault” to his father, former President Biden. — The president's son sat for an interview in Los Angeles with Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan …
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Townhall, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, TMZ.com and HotAir
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Mullin says DHS could deploy to polling sites for ‘specific’ threats, arrests — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin provided more details Tuesday about the kinds of operations which would see immigration agents enter polling places, as Democrats have worried the Department …
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Fox News, Bloomberg, National Politics and Mediaite
Max Rego / NewsNation:
Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago’ — Thank you for signing up! — Your Money — Submit — Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quipped Monday that a company should build an AI data center near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort after he said communities will be …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Independent, MeidasTouch, Adam Kinzinger, Truthout, The Hill, HuffPost, Forbes, New York Times, Mediaite, Quartz, The Daily Wire, MS NOW, The Guardian, CNBC and New Republic
Andy Campbell / MS NOW:
Midterm candidates jump on one of Trump's most effective, and controversial, tactics — Your favorite influencer could be quietly taking paychecks from politicians in exchange for supportive messages and campaign endorsements on social media. — Recent revelations about the working …
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The Daily Wire and The Independent
Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US says it's hitting targets in Iran as hostilities flare again after month with no military action — The U.S. military says it's striking targets in Iran as hostilities flare again after a month without military action. U.S. Central Command said Tuesday that the strikes …


