A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested.  Now He's a Senator.  —  Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found.  Some had bank accounts garnished.  —  It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez's home in rural Kansas.

Smithsonian's Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution  —  In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.  —  After a seven-year run marked most recently by attacks …

Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7.  He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs  —  Article printing is available to subscribers only  —  Zen reading is available to subscribers only  —  Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format

Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms  —  This piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members.  We're sharing this one with everyone because the stakes for this election are too high not to.  Become a member to get Marc's exclusive analysis first.

Karl Rove Says He's ‘Nervous’ About Republicans' Midterm Convention  —  Republican strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday he is “a little bit nervous” about the GOP's unprecedented midterm convention, warning that Republicans are making a late and risky bet on President Donald Trump with control of Congress on the line.

Trump won the battle over his awful arch.  The next Democratic president can win the war.  —  Donald Trump is in a hurry.  He cannot wait for cumbersome bureaucratic processes, slow-moving courts or even the law itself.  —  He must have his arch, and he must have it now.

Trump's next trade weapon  —  Trump is reaching for a more drastic trade war weapon, with new threats to shut foreign goods out of the U.S. altogether. … - Trump may also have firmer legal footing for some import bans than emergency tariffs. … - Businesses can absorb the cost of a tariff …

Iceland summons US ambassador after Trump posts map showing island under American flag  —  Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday after President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RUV said.

A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over  —  Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans' financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people …

Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’  —  Ashley St Clair was speaking at the Venice film premiere of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, where she warned of his dangerous influence  —  Elon Musk is sowing “deliberate division” via his social media platform X …

U.S. downplays Iran's seizure of unmanned sub in Hormuz Strait … Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality  —  The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.  —  In the harrowing months …

Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run  —  The Trump administration is planning to significantly reorganize the National Park Service and other bureaus of the Interior Department, the second major shake-up of the nation's public lands infrastructure in less than two years.

Paxton Aide Turned Whistle-Blower Appears in Ad Endorsing His Rival, Talarico  —  David Maxwell was among the staffers in the Texas attorney general's office who accused Ken Paxton of abusing the power of his office, allegations that led to his impeachment.  Mr. Paxton was acquitted.

DOJ asks Supreme Court to let it use immigration database to purge state voter rolls  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use a flawed federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges.

Why We're Suing the State Department Over International Agreements  —  Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help.  —  S_R_Anders  —  sranderson.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors  —  For the past six months, Lawfare has quietly been doing something a little out of the ordinary.

Supreme Court declines Catholic mother's bid for son's vaccine exemption in N.Y.  —  The justices tackled the issue of religious rights versus public health mandates.  —  Summary  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a New York woman's bid to send her son to kindergarten without receiving …

Witkoff Reports $107 Million From Entity That Held Crypto Stake  —  President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff earned $107 million in 2025 from the holding company that owned his share of a crypto venture he and his boss helped co-found, according to a recent financial disclosure report.

US Hit Targets Near Iran's Kharg Island, Fox News Says  —  The US military has struck targets near the strategically crucial export hub of Kharg Island and the port city of Jask, Fox News reported Tuesday, the latest military escalation in a war now in its seventh month.

The hidden dangers of Musk's votesafe.org  —  The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.  —  With the midterm elections approaching, it's a good idea to make sure you are registered.

Yemen's Houthi Militants Attack Saudi Energy Infrastructure  —  Attacks come as U.S.-Iran war continues to disrupt energy flows through Strait of Hormuz  —  Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen fired drones and missiles at a number of Saudi Arabia's southern energy facilities Tuesday morning …

Trump Tailspins as Leaks About GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn  —  Donald Trump's tailspinning continues.  A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium.  That's worse than Joe Biden in 2022 …

Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads.  Some Included Images of Real Kids  —  Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse.  Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

Exclusive poll: GOP's gains among Latinos fade in House battlegrounds  —  Democrats have gained sharply with Latino voters in some of the country's most competitive House districts since 2024, a new Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision poll shared exclusively with Axios shows.

At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him to Safety  —  President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.  —  At an event honoring those who died …

Iran Seizes Underwater Drone That US Forces Say Malfunctioned  —  Iran's military claimed that it captured a state-of-the-art underwater drone from US forces amid ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, but the US dismissed the sea drone as “defective and malfunctioning,” and said it didn't have any classified equipment on board.

Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🫡 Subscribe to PN 🫡  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suffered a significant defeat last week as one of his signature policy initiatives was quietly shelved.