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Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Stine Jacobsen / Reuters:
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.
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
What to know about Canada's escalating trade war with the US as Carney retaliates with tariffs  —  Canada struck back at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday with tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, in response to the latest round of tariffs on Canada.
Josh Marcus / The Independent:
Trump throws fuel on international feuds with Truth Social post bathing multiple countries in the American flag
Paul Waldman / MS NOW:
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.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Veterans and Democrats intensify fight against Trump's planned arch  —  Opponents of the 250-foot triumphal arch project say it could disrupt military burials at Arlington, during construction and after its completion.  —  Summary  —  Veterans and Democrats are escalating efforts …
Discussion: NPR and The Hill
Haaretz:
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
Discussion: Associated Press
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Here's the latest.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump will speak soon at an event …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
UK government bans goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank in a toughening of its stance  —  The United Kingdom on Tuesday banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says “settler terrorists” are carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing
New Republic:
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 …
Discussion: Politico and VINnews
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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
U.S. sanctions Iranian airlines in aim to tighten economic squeeze as war spreads, oil rises
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
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 …
Jörg Lau / The Guardian:
Friedrich Merz is now on borrowed time.  But that's not why the AfD's triumph is seismic  —  The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy.  But that, shockingly, is being shattered  —  As shock at the scale of the far right's resounding state-election victory …
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Hill
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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Europe's centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame
Ben Rhodes / New York Times:
Voters Have Spoken.  Why Aren't Democrats Listening?  —  In 1932, amid a Depression worsened by tariffs, inequality and isolationism, Franklin Roosevelt accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a cautionary note: “Those nominal Democrats who squint at the future with their faces turned toward …
Discussion: Fox News
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
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.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
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.
Paul Krugman:
Where's the Beef (Coming From)?  —  Meat and freedom!  —  Transcript  —  “Mary had a little lamb, but when she saw it sicken, she sent it off to Packingtown, and now it's labeled chicken.”  —  Hi, Paul Krugman here.  That's a little ditty that was circulating, I can't find any original source …
Discussion: New York Times
Russell Contreras / Axios:
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.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
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.
Politico:
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.”
Discussion: NewsMax.com
NOTUS:
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.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Matt Margolis / PJ Media:
Amy Acton's ‘Assassination Attempt’ Narrative Is Falling Apart  —  You may have heard about the alleged assassination attempt against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the weekend.  —  “While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people.
Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
Lindsay Clancy's attorney makes public plea for Trump pardon  —  Kevin Reddington also said he hoped to arrange an agreement with prosecutors that would be “acceptable to both sides.”  —  Summary  —  An attorney for Lindsay Clancy, the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing …
Washington Post:
With Ohio's governorship up for grabs, a toxic race turns violent  —  An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said.  Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.  —  Summary
Daniel McCarthy / New York Post:
Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms  —  American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
 
 
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
60 Minutes' 59th season will debut September 13 with an in-depth look at the LA Rams, the first edition of the remade show under Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: Channel 4 is set to cut about 300 jobs, around a quarter of its staff, in its biggest round of layoffs as it seeks to limit cuts to the content budget

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