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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: Truthout, Daily Kos, New Republic and Mediaite

Irie Sentner / Politico:

Probing the polling problem — A string of unexpected independent poll results in this year's midterm elections is bringing national attention to a slate of candidates who otherwise would be considered long shots as campaigns turn to the general election sprint — but some recent major misses …

Discussion: Washington Post

David Gilmour / Mediaite:

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.

Discussion: The Daily Wire and Associated Press

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: VINnews

Politico:

Republicans are hoping ‘Trump-a-palooza’ isn't only about Trump — President Donald Trump will be at the center of this week's GOP midterm convention. Many of his fellow Republicans are hoping he doesn't make it all about him. — The parade of lawmakers, candidates …

Discussion: New Republic, MPR News and Robert Reich

Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Which Republican Senate Candidates Are Skipping Trump's Convention?

Discussion: NewsMax.com, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Independent, The Hill and The Texas Tribune

CBS News:
What to expect from the first-ever Republican midterm convention

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Independent, Fox News, Bloomberg, NPR, Reuters, The Hill, NewsMax.com and Blaze Media

New York Times:

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 …

Discussion: NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Axios, New York Post, The Hill, MS NOW, Washington Post, NOTUS, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Capital B News, New Republic and The Guardian

Kelsey Ables / The Atlantic:

Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian — After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. — Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year …

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, Townhall, RedState, Joe.My.God., Deadline, The Independent and New York Times

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: New Republic, The Guardian, New York Post, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, NewsMax.com and Associated Press

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

GOP senator defends Bombardier after Trump threat — Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is defending private jet maker Bombardier from growing pressure from President Trump, who on Monday declared the Canadian aerospace company would no longer be able to sell planes in the United States.

Discussion: CNBC, Al Jazeera, NewsMax.com, Courthouse News Service, Joe.My.God., KBSL-TV and NBC News

Bloomberg:
Canada's Carney Takes Calculated Risk in US Trade War

Discussion: NPR, New York Times, Courthouse News Service, The Hill, CBS News, Mediaite, The Independent and Los Angeles Times

Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
What to know about Canada's escalating trade war with the US as Carney retaliates with tariffs

Ian Austen / New York Times:
Carney Tells Canadians: Retaliation Against U.S. Tariffs Was Unavoidable

Discussion: Breitbart, One America News Network, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and NewsMax.com

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, NOTUS, Financial Times, RÚV, New York Post, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Independent, MeidasTouch, The Hill, New Republic and Joe.My.God.

TheJournal.ie:
Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump map portraying it as part of America

Discussion: The Independent

New York Times:

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Examiner, CNN, Bloomberg, Axios, Fox News, Joe.My.God., NewsMax.com and City & State New York

Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
Trump honors 9/11 victims at the Ellipse, pledging to ‘never forget’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The White House, Daily Mail and NewsMax.com

Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Here's the latest. — Here's the latest. — President Trump will speak soon at an event …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

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.

Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Veterans and Democrats intensify fight against Trump's planned arch

Discussion: NPR and The Hill

Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:

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.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, SCOTUSblog, Joe.My.God. and NewsMax.com

Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Asked to Enter Voter Verification System Fight

Discussion: New York Times, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Hill and Courthouse News Service

Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg:

Trump's Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos — Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting method used by one-third of all Americans.

Discussion: New York Times, MS NOW and Daily Mail

Kevin Frey / MS NOW:
Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump's mail-in voting crackdown

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God. and KQED

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 …

Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:

Appeals court upholds ruling barring IRS from sharing data with ICE — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling blocking information sharing between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the immigration agency requested the last known address of millions of people.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New Republic and All Rise News

Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal: IRS's Data Sharing With ICE Violated Law, Appeals Court Rules

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.

Wall Street Journal:

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

Discussion: New York Magazine, Forbes, RedState, The Parnas Perspective, The Independent, New Republic, TMZ.com and Mediaite

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 …

Discussion: Associated Press, Fox News, Reuters, CNBC, Townhall, Al Jazeera, CNN, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, New York Times, CBS News, Breitbart, Israpundit, Straight Arrow, Newsweek, The Spectator, The American Conservative and Semafor

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: The Hill, NewsMax.com and Joe.My.God.

Financial Times:

Putin praises US peace efforts in call with Trump — Russian president denies waging ‘hybrid war’ against Europe — Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that Russia did not have “aggressive plans” against Europe and praised US peacemaking efforts to end his war in Ukraine in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin said.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Sputnik News and NewsMax.com

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.

Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:

Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team's Handling of Anniversary Data — This summer, the Trump administration celebrated the country's 250th anniversary with a series of splashy events that it insisted were nonpartisan. Tens of thousands of Americans signed up online to grab free tickets …

Discussion: The Hill and 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.

more at Mediagazer »

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.

Beth Reinhard / New York Times:

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.