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Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to 'Behave' in Trump Meeting (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)

Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to ‘Behave’ in Trump Meeting  —  It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine's leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.  —  As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine headed into a high-stakes meeting …

2025-08-21 18:00:00 UTC

New York Times

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Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to 'Behave' in Trump Meeting (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)

Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to ‘Behave’ in Trump Meeting  —  It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine's leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.  —  As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine headed into a high-stakes meeting …

2025-08-21 18:00:00 UTC

New York Times

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Divided Court Eliminates Trump's Half-Billion-Dollar Fine in Fraud Case (New York Times)

New York Times:
Divided Court Eliminates Trump's Half-Billion-Dollar Fine in Fraud Case  —  New York appeals judges said that the judgment was excessive, but agreed to uphold the case so the appeal could continue.  —  A divided New York appeals court on Thursday threw out a half-billion-dollar judgment …

2025-08-21 17:55:01 UTC

New York Times

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Transcript: Stephen Miller's Crazed Fascist Rant to Media Is Revealing (New Republic)

New Republic:
Transcript: Stephen Miller's Crazed Fascist Rant to Media Is Revealing  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 21 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.

2025-08-21 17:55:01 UTC

New Republic

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Trump lays out his redistricting endgame: A 100 seat Republican majority (April Rubin/Axios)

April Rubin / Axios:
Trump lays out his redistricting endgame: A 100 seat Republican majority  —  President Trump shared his ultimate voting reform goal in a Wednesday Truth Social post, saying he wants the GOP to pick up 100 congressional seats. … - “If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats …

2025-08-21 17:30:02 UTC

Axios

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One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems (David French/New York Times)

David French / New York Times:
One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems  —  On Nov. 8, 1787, a pamphleteer who wrote under the pseudonym Cato published one of the most prescient warnings in American history.  —  Cato looked at the proposed Constitution and declared that it might well turn into a vehicle for tyranny.

2025-08-21 17:25:01 UTC

New York Times

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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles  —  Wired and Business Insider have removed news features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated works of fiction.  —  Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process …

2025-08-21 17:20:00 UTC

Press Gazette

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Trump says he will join police, military on D.C. streets Thursday (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Trump says he will join police, military on D.C. streets Thursday  —  The move continues his administration's efforts to exert control over the capital city.  —  just now  —  President Donald Trump said he will join law enforcement officials on D.C. streets Thursday …

2025-08-21 17:15:00 UTC

Washington Post

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White House suspends tours for ballroom construction (NBC News)

NBC News:
White House suspends tours for ballroom construction  —  The White House announced last month that construction on the ballroom would start in September.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is suspending public tours because of the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom initiated …

2025-08-21 16:50:00 UTC

NBC News

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Trump's 'Law and Order' Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Trump's ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid  —  Nearly half of the arrests under the security crackdown have been of people in the country illegally  —  WASHINGTON—In the neighborhood of Mount Pleasant, which has a large Hispanic population …

2025-08-21 16:45:01 UTC

Wall Street Journal

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Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump (Associated Press)

Associated Press:
Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump  —  An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump, ruling Thursday in New York state's lawsuit accusing him of exaggerating his wealth.

2025-08-21 15:50:00 UTC

Associated Press

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I'm a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. (Rachel Roth Aldhizer/New York Times)

Rachel Roth Aldhizer / New York Times:
I'm a Proud Conservative.  My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.  —  I'm a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid.  I'm also here to tell you why I'm an unlikely supporter of the program.  My son's life depends on government assistance.

2025-08-21 15:35:00 UTC

New York Times

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Revealed: Israeli military's own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war (The Guardian)

The Guardian:
Revealed: Israeli military's own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war  —  Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000  —  Emma Graham-Harrison and Yuval Abraham in Jerusalem

2025-08-21 14:40:01 UTC

The Guardian

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Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)

President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade  —  The United States and the European Union are pleased to announce that they have agreed on a Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade ("Framework Agreement").

2025-08-21 14:20:00 UTC

The White House

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Weaponizing the Housing Regulator (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Weaponizing the Housing Regulator  —  Bill Pulte, the FHFA chief, goes after Trump's political opponents.  —  Click for Sound  —  Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director William Pulte on Wednesday accused Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a Biden appointee, of mortgage fraud.

2025-08-21 12:50:01 UTC

Wall Street Journal

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Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant--and Reveals a Big Weakness (New Republic)

New Republic:
Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant—and Reveals a Big Weakness  —  Stephen Miller exploded in a long, unhinged rant about demonstrators who are protesting President Trump's military occupation of Washington, D.C. It was classic authoritarian agitprop, attacking demonstrators as …

2025-08-21 12:35:00 UTC

New Republic

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In Trump's Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
In Trump's Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo … A demonstration in May for the protection of Black history and against the removal of artifacts from the National African American Museum of History and Culture.Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

2025-08-21 12:15:06 UTC

New York Times

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How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies (ProPublica)

ProPublica:
How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies  —  When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to federal health agencies earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was getting rid of excess administrators who were larding the government with bureaucratic bloat.

2025-08-21 11:35:00 UTC

ProPublica

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Russian attack hits US electronics plant in western Ukraine (Kateryna Denisova/The Kyiv Independent)

Kateryna Denisova / The Kyiv Independent:
Russian attack hits US electronics plant in western Ukraine  —  A massive Russian attack struck the U.S.-owned Flex factory in the western Ukrainian city of Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, overnight on Aug. 21.  —  “This was an ordinary civilian facility with American investment.

2025-08-21 11:15:01 UTC

The Kyiv Independent

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Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024 (Jake Tapper/CNN)

Jake Tapper / CNN:
Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024  —  US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered a Russian medal to the grieving family of an American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024, a senior administration official told CNN.

2025-08-21 08:05:00 UTC

CNN

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Adams Adviser Suspended From Campaign After Giving Cash to Reporter (New York Times)

New York Times:
Adams Adviser Suspended From Campaign After Giving Cash to Reporter  —  A campaign volunteer for Mayor Eric Adams of New York was suspended after giving a journalist cash in a potato chip bag.  —  A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election campaign on Wednesday …

2025-08-21 04:50:01 UTC

New York Times

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Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care  —  A June subpoena to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia sought Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received gender-related care, as well as “every writing or record” made by doctors on such treatments.

2025-08-21 03:35:00 UTC

New York Times

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A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally (Drew Shaw/ProPublica)

Drew Shaw / ProPublica:
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally  —  The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year's midterm elections.  —  Co-published with Fort Worth Report

2025-08-21 02:40:00 UTC

ProPublica

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Gabbard to slash Director of National Intelligence staff by nearly 50% (Beatrice Peterson/ABC News)

Beatrice Peterson / ABC News:
Gabbard to slash Director of National Intelligence staff by nearly 50%  —  Gabbard wants to create “a leaner, faster, and more agile institution.”  —  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.

2025-08-21 02:25:00 UTC

ABC News

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White House tours canceled indefinitely because of Trump's ballroom (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
White House tours canceled indefinitely because of Trump's ballroom  —  Officials have canceled all tours that were scheduled for next month, when the president wants construction to start.  —  Just now  —  Public tours of the White House have been suspended indefinitely because of planned construction …

2025-08-21 01:25:01 UTC

Washington Post