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New York Times:
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won't Touch It  —  After the oil, President Trump went for Venezuela's gold.  The White House brokered deals potentially worth billions.  I went to Venezuela's mines to see for myself how it was playing out.  —  Anatoly Kurmanaev
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’  —  The less popular Trump gets, the more shameless his open lawlessness becomes.  This weekend, an old Trump campaign ad was back on airwaves across the country, with Trump railing against the “communists, Marxists, and fascists,” vowing to expel the …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Steeling the election  —  President Donald Trump is steeling Republicans for a tough midterm contest.
New York Times:
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees  —  In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.  —  The theft by a criminal hacking group of reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens …
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students  —  The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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ProPublica:
The Untold Origins of Trump's Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting  —  Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos.
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Natalie Hausmann / Democracy Docket:   Report: Trump wanted all mail ballots sent by certified mail
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project  —  The announcement comes as Trump is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump will announce a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Largest-ever US steel plant is coming to a key red state as Trump unveils $15B investment
Telegraph:
Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Farmer tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men  —  Exclusive: Gloucestershire villager feels lucky to be unharmed after she encountered suspicious group near RAF air base  —  Driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across …
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Associated Press:
5 men arrested near a US-run air base are bailed as UK police probe whether there's a link to Iran
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Release of 5 Men in U.K. Prompts New Questions Over Possible Terror Plot
New York Times:
Andrew Bailey, a Deputy Director at the F.B.I., Leaves His Job  —  Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.  —  Andrew Bailey, who has served as deputy director of the F.B.I. as part of an unusual leadership arrangement …
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Washington Post:
Andrew Bailey, No. 2 at FBI, resigns in latest shake-up at bureau
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state's voting machines  —  Republican members of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) adopted a resolution Monday seeking the Trump administration to intervene in a vague crusade against the state's voting system just weeks before the midterm elections.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:   Feds can't withhold counterterrorism funds from states to force election admin changes, judge rules
ABC News:
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University ‘gang rape’  —  A student alleged that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted her in 2024.  —  Peter Charalambous, Olivia Rubin, Courtney Wilson, and Aaron Katersky  —  Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies  —  This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell.  But it sounds quite sleazy and another example of the US government becoming a de facto investment arm of the Trump Corporation/TrumpaNostra.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Texas governor declares emergency to bring down fuel prices  —  Gov. Greg Abbott, in a tight re-election race, allows for commercial use of diesel normally reserved for agriculture.  —  Loading...  HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared a statewide disaster Monday to address high fuel prices …
Patrick Svitek / CNN:
‘We cannot ignore the elephant in the room’: Ken Paxton's estranged wife speaks to GOP women  —  Relationships Congressional news Senate election US elections  —  Angela Paxton, who is divorcing Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, posted a video Monday of recent remarks urging Republican women …
Discussion: New York Times and RedState
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
‘I want public executions’: Texas GOP candidate's extreme posts extend beyond racism  —  Race & ethnicity Oil & gas DOGE Social media  —  Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas' most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shopping potentially explosive book: sources  —  Amid the current “Midterm Madness,” former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is shopping a book, sources exclusively tell Page Six Hollywood.  —  Details on the book proposal that's making …
Discussion: The Independent
Scott MacFarlane / MeidasTouch:
“They don't understand the scale of the hunger!”  - An unfolding crisis at the nation's food banks  —  Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states  —  Add MeidasTouch as a preferred Google sourceUse your Google account to add this to your settings
Breanne Deppisch / Daily Mail:
Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ case in crisis as lawyers defy Todd Blanche and QUIT in mass exodus  —  Longtime Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen and at least six other prosecutors have departed the so-called ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation in the Southern District of Florida - delivering a major blow to the Justice Department's long-running probe.
Nicholas Wu / Semafor:
Democrats prepare to spend in red districts  —  House Democrats are looking confident.  —  Their campaign arm is rolling out $11 million in ads across 35 districts, including some redrawn by Republicans in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, according to an announcement …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
In reversal, Justice Samuel Alito steps aside from major climate case  —  Alito will sit out the first case heard by the Supreme Court this term after facing calls from the left to do so because he owns stock in oil companies.  He had previously pushed back.
Axios:
Exclusive: Hegseth directs Defense Dept. to fight foreigners who “meddle” in U.S. elections  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has assigned personnel to use “advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities to identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference” in the upcoming elections, Axios has learned.
Giovanna Faggionato / Politico:
Block US sanctions on ICC, EU lawmakers tell Commission  —  Automatically applying U.S. sanctions “stems from the time when we thought that the Americans were still our friends,” said Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink.  —  EU lawmakers are calling for the Commission to forbid European firms and banks …
Discussion: Associated Press
Associated Press:
NFL asks Homeland Security to take down video of Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins  —  The NFL has asked the Department of Homeland Security to take down a video on social media showing highlights of Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins in reference to a purported caravan of immigrants approaching the U.S. border.
Heather Cherone / WTTW News:
Firm Set to Buy Chicago's Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations  —  The New York-based investment firm set to buy Chicago's parking meters announced Monday it had sold an airline that has been carrying out deportations for the Trump administration, officials announced.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump offers Iran economic relief for concrete nuclear concessions  —  President Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release Iranian frozen funds in return for concrete Iranian steps regarding the nuclear program, U.S. officials say. … - At the moment, the two sides are far apart on key issues.
Carmen Paun / Politico:
Vance, RFK Jr. and Iron Mike to headline MAHA Summit  —  Vice President JD Vance and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak for the second year in a row Tuesday at an event organized by Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again allies in Washington.  —  Vance and Kennedy will close …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Harry Litman / Talking Feds Substack:
Crucial Hearing on Team Trump's Contempt for the Rule of Law  —  On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear argument in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a federal judge ordered two planeloads of Venezuelan men returned to the United States and the administration …
Discussion: Newsweek and New Republic
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Blurred lines  —  Donald Chase is the kind of voter Democrats are fighting over in Georgia.  —  The Oglethorpe peanut farmer has voted Republican for nearly his entire adult life.  He's supporting and contributing to GOP candidates elsewhere on the November ballot.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The Last Recession Wasn't Trump's Fault.  The Next One Will Be—Utterly. … About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up.  Most of the time, the headlines are reassuring: “Despite downturn, experts don't see recession coming”—that sort of thing.
Umar Farooq / Al Jazeera:
American and six Ukrainians released by India after six months in jail  —  Matthew VanDyke and six Ukrainians were accused of smuggling weapons and drones to armed ethnic groups fighting India.  —  Add Al Jazeera on Google  —  Matthew VanDyke, a United States citizen held in India …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fetterman joins Democrats in warning Mullin, DHS about election interference  —  Centrist Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joined Senate Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warning him not to let immigration enforcement officials interfere with voting in the midterm election.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and MS NOW
 
 
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
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Justice Department Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas Involving 12 Individuals for Election Crimes
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Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:
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