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.

What to expect from the first-ever Republican midterm convention  —  Republicans will gather in Dallas, Texas, for their first-ever midterm convention.  President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will headline the event.  CBS News' Shawna Mizelle has more.

Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski's Power Moves at DHS  —  Kristi Noem's close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security.  Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in the agency's contracts.  —  Summer Said

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.

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.

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

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.

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 …

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 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.

UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing  —  In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements  —  Israeli “terrorists” are conducting ethnic cleansing in the West Bank …

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 …

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.

Europe's centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame  —  Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas  —  The numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) …

Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump's mail-in voting crackdown  —  A group of Democratic lawmakers — and some former GOP members of Congress — is asking the Supreme Court to block President Donald Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting, arguing that the president …

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 …

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.

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.”

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.

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.

IRS's Data Sharing With ICE Violated Law, Appeals Court Rules  —  Decision retains block on further sharing of taxpayer records  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration violated federal law when it shared confidential taxpayer information with immigration authorities, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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.

UAE warned Netanyahu of major Hamas attack days before October 7 massacre, Haaretz reports  —  MBZ warned Netanyahu of a major operation planned by Yahya Sinwar, 10 days before October 7  • Netanyahu said to have dismissed the warning, failing to alert Israeli security chiefs

‘Pitchforks Are Going to Come Out’: PAC Aims to Spur Action on A.I.  —  The group is starting with more than $10 million and says it intends to support midterm House candidates in swing states.  —  A group of Democrats, concerned their party is not moving quickly enough to address voter anxiety …

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 …

Supreme Court Asked to Enter Voter Verification Database Fight  —  The Justice Department has asked the US Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to resume expansion of an internal government database available to states to verify the citizenship status of voters.