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The complex, sometimes uncomfortable, truth behind Brad Pitt’s recent revelations

Katie MacBride

Part of Donald Trump's body is seen as he points at something while standing on stage in front of a yellow curtain.

The staggering hypocrisy of Trump’s latest scheme

Lauren Harper

Photoillustration of Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump in overlapping red and purple portraits against abstract graphic shapes.

Ross Douthat’s final New York Times column was a masterclass in MAGA both-sideism

Anthony L. Fisher

Donald Trump delivers remarks

Trump tramples his own legacy in a desperate pitch to conspiracy theorists

Michael Steele

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A woman in a pink blazer and sunglasses, in focus on the left, stands behind Donald Trump, out of focus on the right, who speaks into a microphone.

Karoline Leavitt knew exactly what she was doing

Glenn Kessler

In this closeup photo shot from above, school supplies such as markers, glue, notebooks, a pencil holder for a 3rd grader fills a red shopping basket.

Parents struggle with back-to-school season as tariffs, Iran war drive up costs

Arielle Hixson

An empty child's car seat in the back seat of a car and a young woman

A 17-month-old tragically died. Georgia wants to jail his mother over the accident.

Gene Weingarten

President Donald Trump speaks in Macungie, Pa.

What’s just barely hiding underneath Trump’s blustering on Iran

Zeeshan Aleem

Police investigate a shooting at Virginia State University in Petersburg on Aug. 15, 2026.

At least 1 student among 5 people shot at Virginia State University

The Associated Press

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin and former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison

It’s official: South Carolina to be first 2028 Democratic presidential primary

Shawna Thomas

E. Jean Carroll looks up as she stands among people.

What is Trump’s immunity argument in his $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll appeal?

Jordan Rubin

In this closeup photo shot from below, Donald Trump is seen speaking to the reporters.

Pressed on conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump says all the wrong things

Steve Benen

A United Airlines Boeing 737.

Senators seek answers after DHS bought 10 planes on a no-bid contract but didn’t use them

Steve Benen

Donald Trump gestures with his hand while speaking into a microphone at a podium. An audience of police officers are visible, but blurred, in the background.

Trump dismisses rising gas prices as ‘OK’ while Vance calls lower prices top goal

Julianne McShane

Donald Trump points at renderings of ballroom in front of its construction site.

Trump asks Supreme Court to green-light ballroom construction

Fallon Gallagher & Sydney Carruth

the White House photoshopped to look gold plated

The price tag on Trump’s renovations is getting absurdly high

Hayes Brown

Donald Trump, top-left, walks down the stairs from an aircraft.

We’re focusing on the wrong part of Trump’s Air Force One ruse

Kevin Baron

A woman in a blue blazer and glasses speaks into a microphone.

Colleges are struggling to combat antisemitism. This one got it right.

Michael A. Cohen

USS Abraham Lincoln conducts operations on April 16, 2026 in the Arabian Sea.

Pentagon accuses media of ‘false narrative’ over troubled USS Lincoln

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building.

Newly confirmed, Blanche addresses DOJ employees as if his record doesn’t exist

Steve Benen

A navy Seahawk helicopter from the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of Southern California.

Hegseth is denying the truth about the USS Lincoln — and sailor families aren’t having it

Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

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Fauci declines request to appear before second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote

The Associated Press

Nicolle Wallace on “Deadline: White House.”

Nicolle Wallace spots an ‘inconvenient truth’ in Trump’s latest poll numbers

Allison Detzel

Military GPS jamming under scrutiny after deadly New Mexico plane crash

Trump shrugs off USS Lincoln crisis, says deployment ‘not nearly long enough’

Psaki calls out Karoline Leavitt for failing to serve the American people as Trump’s press secretary

President Trump destroying Big Bend National Park

‘Marie Antoinette is choking on her cake’: Nicolle rips new Trump plot to cover billionaire crime

The legal fight happening over the DOJ redaction in the Epstein files

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Attendees hold "Elect Democrats" signage during a general election kick-off rally.

    What a Democratic voter surge means for November

    Paul Waldman

  2. Donald Trump, right, claps as confetti flutters down from above. A young man on the left wears a medal while holding a trophy and a check. An audience is visible in the background.

    Trump’s Patriot Games were clearly designed for select groups of Americans

    Kavitha A. Davidson

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

    Helaine Olen

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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