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

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 …

US strikes Iranian tankers after more attempted missile attacks on Navy warship  —  The U.S. has struck multiple Iranian tankers in response to more attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship, according to a U.S. official, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Politics News Site NOTUS Rebrands as The Washington Sun  —  A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.  —  Here comes “The Sun.”  —  The Washington Sun, that is — the new name for the news website NOTUS …

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.

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.

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.

Veterans group launches new campaign against Trump's planned arch  —  VoteVets, the largest Democratic veterans group in the U.S., on Tuesday launched a new messaging campaign against President Trump's planned arch across from Arlington National Cemetery.  —  Paul Eaton, a retired major general …

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.

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.

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 …

Newsom's Buttigieg walkback and Villegas' Valley test  —  DRIVING THE DAY — Gavin Newsom distanced himself from spokesperson Izzy Gardon's recent jab at Pete Buttigieg, telling Will Steakin — and with Gardon sitting beside him — “Awkward sitting in front of Izzy — I didn't like that.”

Voters Have a Message for Democrats  —  Fight harder.  —  During the early trump era, focus groups taught me everything about the disconnect between Washington and what voters really care about.  An early revelation came in July 2018; I had flown to Columbus, Ohio, to hear from a group …