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Karoline Leavitt to depart White House at end of month

Erum Salam

In this close-up frame, Donald Trump is seen from his right side as he leans forward.

Trump sued for charging up to $100,000 for early access to his Truth Social posts

Clarissa-Jan Lim

In this close-up frame, Mehmet Oz leans toward RFK Jr. as he speaks to him.

Transgender kids deserve to exist. Mehmet Oz and RFK Jr. seem to disagree.

Katelyn Burns

A man in a blue shirt smiles behind a podium with a microphone. A poster on the podium says "CROWLEY FOR GOVERNOR."

Too many Democrats are making this mistake. It’s going to cost them come November.

Susan Del Percio

Francesca Hong makes a hand gesture like she is greeting or gesturing farewell while speaking on stage.

Why Democratic voters in Wisconsin balked at the risk of Francesca Hong

Hunter Woodall & Will McDuffie

Nicolle Wallace on “Deadline: White House.”

Nicolle Wallace unloads on Trump over stunning Air Force One deception

Allison Detzel

Donald Trump, left, looks on as Mike Lindell speaks at a podium.

Lindell flop in Minnesota’s GOP gubernatorial primary adds to Trump’s endorsement woes

Steve Benen

Silhouettes against the sky of football players in an outdoor stadium.

Anti-trans hysteria spoils Trump’s push to regulate college sports

Ja'han Jones

A woman in a blue dress wearing a cross necklace and an American flag brooch rides an escalator upward.

Darline Graham has already made one thing depressingly clear about her political ideology

Hayes Brown

A ship sails in the ocean. Another ship is visible in the background.

Democratic senator presses Pentagon over ‘broken toilets’ and ‘mental health’ aboard USS Lincoln

Priya Sridhar

President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order to limit mail-in voting in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump administration presses Supreme Court to ‘act promptly’ on bid to implement mail ballot order

Jordan Rubin

Howard Lutnick looks on from the background as Donald Trump speaks standing in front of him.

Draft memo reveals the administration’s latest effort to distort the census

Ja'han Jones

Air Force One sits on the tarmac with an airport catering container adjacent to the body of the aircraft.

Rubio, Bessent stayed behind as Trump secretly switched planes over alleged Iran threat

Jake Traylor & Erum Salam

Two officers point weapons at three immigrants.

The cruelty of Trump’s mass deportation campaign isn’t new. It’s history repeating.

Jacob Soboroff & Erin Clifford

Boris Epshteyn walks through a door while followed by other people.

Trump’s DOJ plans to treat his communications with ‘outside advisors’ as privileged. Why now?

Lisa Rubin

U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near M/V Touska.

On the Strait of Hormuz, Trump increasingly prefers made-up boasts to reality

Steve Benen

Todd Blanche listens during a news conference at the Justice Department.

Blanche says compensation fund is dead, but he still wants rewards for so-called victims

Steve Benen

Rep. Jim Jordan speaks to members of the media as he arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting.

Leading White House adviser says Jim Jordan has been ‘so unhelpful in so many ways’

Steve Benen

A kid, left, recoils in the arms of his father, center. A nurse, right, sticks a needle in the shoulder of the kid. No faces are completely visible.

America’s children don’t deserve what Trump’s executive order just did

Dr. Martha Edwards MD, FAAP & Dr. Deborah Greenhouse MD, FAAP

ICE agents clash with protesters outside the federal immigration center at Delaney Hall.

ICE plans to spend $20 million on electric shock gloves for officers

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Laker logo is on display on the floor of the gym with a bird's eye view lens.

Lakers reportedly to be sold to Josh Kushner, Bob Iger for record $12.5 billion

Sydney Carruth

A woman, left, speaks into a microphone. She sits next to a man, center, who sits next to another woman, right.

Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center official faces federal fraud charges

Fallon Gallagher & Sydney Carruth

A man in a suit grimaces while holding a microphone. People around him stick microphones in his face.

A veteran Democratic congressman lost Tuesday. He’s not the only one to go down this election cycle.

Hunter Woodall

A woman with a neutral expression on her face, seen at profile outside.

The left should listen to AOC’s wise words on ‘woke one’

Zeeshan Aleem

Trump ‘has to accept’ he’s going to ‘lose’ Iran war: Former deputy NSA

Lawrence: With Air Force One switch, Trump fails his self-imposed Hollywood Hero Test

Crowley speaks after victory, says focus on progressives vs. establishment ‘misses the point’

What is going on with the polls this primary season?

Dr. Gupta debunks childhood vaccine myths: autism, spacing shots, and safety

‘I hit rock bottom daily’: Trump economy and cuts leave some Americans unable to afford toilet paper

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Royce White made his case as the U.S. Senatorial nominee for the GOP at the Minnesota Republican state convention.

    These former NBA players are making a mockery of trans women and the WNBA

    Mike Wise

  2. Photoillustration of Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Jeannine Pirro pointing in different directions amid overlapping pointing hands.

    The buck never stops with the boss in Trump’s White House. Hegseth proves it.

    Hayes Brown

  3. A man speaks at a podium, the frame partially obscured by the foreground.

    Bill Cassidy was right about Todd Blanche — just not in the way he meant

    Duncan Levin

  4. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol.

    The powerful vulnerability of AOC’s public egg freezing announcement

    Miranda Yaver

  5. Conservatives’ response to a college student’s $20 burrito gripe won’t win at the ballot box

    Helaine Olen

  6. Elon Musk holds a chainsaw above his head. People in the foreground film with their phones. In the background is a giant photo of Musk, which is visually cut in half by the chainsaw that Musk is holding up.

    The full cost of Musk’s DOGE is still being tallied — but a new report gives a hint

    Hayes Brown

  7. Ariana Grande.

    It’s not problematic to state the obvious about Ariana Grande

    Evette Dionne

  8. Susan Collins walks down the hallway, looking down on the ground.

    Susan Collins is back to her old tricks. Voters should see right through them.

    Max Burns

  9. Education Secretary Linda McMahon appears in front of her “National Call to Action” letter and a college classroom.

    Linda McMahon’s latest directive to universities isn’t about education at all

    Jacques Berlinerblau

  10. President Donald Trump dances as he leaves the stage after speaking at an event in Las Vegas, Nev.

    Trump has long coveted other countries’ oil. It’s backfiring.

    Joseph Zeballos-Roig

  11. Photoillustration of Donald Trump between a sweatshop worker and a chain gang, illustrating forced labor.

    If Trump wants to change countries tolerant of forced labor, he can start at home

    Jeremy Busby

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