CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban  —  The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump's war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.  —  Journalists from CNN and MS NOW were denied access …

U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says  —  The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.  —  President Trump said on Friday that his administration had reached a deal with Denmark and Greenland …

Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’  —  The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.  —  Summary  —  Thousands of supporters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts gathered Friday …

Behind Trump's public confidence, his private view of midterms is sobering  —  In private, the president has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.  —  Summary

Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash  —  The White House budget chief argued the agency has been funding “woke” priorities and suggested the president create a commission to review grants from the National Institutes of Health.  —  Summary

Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump's drug-pricing deals  —  Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration's confidential deals with pharmaceutical companies …

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children  —  Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist  —  Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across …

Trump's Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States  —  A Trump administration proposal to exclude some types of immigrants from the 2030 census might not expand the congressional map for Republicans, and could even result in fewer House seats in red states.

Governor Newsom signs new laws to protect California elections from Trump interference … Governor Gavin Newsom

Big break with Trump  —  Good morning and happy Friday.  —  The biggest GOP midterm split with President DONALD TRUMP in his home state happened with less than seven weeks to go until the election — right in the state's most populous county.  —  It came in the form of a TV ad out Thursday …

Mike Waltz Has Quietly Signaled He's Looking Past the UN … Failure doesn't have to kill ambition.  Mike Waltz ought to know.  —  After the infamous Signal chat debacle, which contributed to President Donald Trump's decision to oust him as national security adviser, Waltz was sent to serve …

Iran war causes global pain at the pump  —  The Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the economies of countries that have nothing to do with the war. … - The surge in prices squeezes consumers, and worsens the finances …

Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson's Hair to Hemings's Children  —  A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.  —  For more than 200 years, the question has nagged at the edges …

Voting rights lawsuit prompts South Dakota to fix ‘confusing’ proof-of-citizenship system  —  A federal judge Friday denied a voting rights group's request to block part of South Dakota's new proof-of-citizenship voting system after the state changed its voter notices and gave the group much of what it had asked for.

Farm-state Republicans are having a cow over Trump's beef imports as Election Day approaches  —  Farm-state Republicans don't support President Donald Trump's move to import cheap beef — but they're still getting grilled for it.  —  Trump's plan to combat sky-high beef prices by introducing discounted …

Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America's Parks  —  Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president's favored projects in Washington.  —  An unstaffed entrance station at Zion National Park in Utah.Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax  —  Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy  —  A group of progressive Nobel Prize-winning economists has joined the fray in California's battle …

German general Breuer elected to head top NATO military body  —  General Carsten Breuer, Germany's chief of defence, was chosen on Saturday as the next head of NATO's military committee, the alliance's top military authority and a key advisory body for its political leaders.

A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think  —  After multiple incidents of A.I. agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech's most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing.

Has Trump Lost Touch With Reality?  —  Three Opinions writers debate whether the president's recent behavior is really that different from what we've seen from him over the years. … Michelle Cottle: We are going to talk about this unnerving week in A.I.-related news.

Why Trump's Latino voters are fleeing him  —  In 2024, Donald Trump's victory was powered in large part by massive gains with Latino voters.  He won 48 percent of those voters that year, up from 36 percent in 2020 and 28 percent in 2016.  But now, that support is plummeting …