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Two Ukrainian soldiers crouch in a muddy field beside a small interceptor drone, a tablet, and a white satellite terminal under an overcast sky

After Denials From Trump, Rubio and Hegseth, the WSJ Says Musk Ordered the Starlink Speed Cap on Ukraine

Five days ago we wrote that nobody would own the speed cap on Ukraine’s…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 21

Christiane Amanpour seated at a news anchor desk in a dark blazer, facing the camera with printed pages in front of her and a newsroom behind

Christiane Amanpour Is Leaving CNN After 43 Years. In May She Warned That What Ellison Did to CBS Could Happen Next.

Christiane Amanpour told viewers on Monday that she has “decided to separate from CNN,…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 20

Freshly cut tree stumps and sawdust on a golf course fairway with orange safety fencing and the Washington Monument in the distance

A Federal Judge Found a Strong Showing of Bad Faith in Trump’s East Potomac Golf Course Tree Cutting

“There is no universe in which all of this just coincidentally happened at the…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 20

Two election workers in gloves sort stacks of returned mail-in ballot envelopes on a long table in a county election office, one looking toward the camera

28 Noncitizens Charged With Voting in California After DHS Said 190,000 Were on the Rolls

“I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians based solely upon an unsupported and likely…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 20

Smoke drifts from a fire-damaged stone building as riot police walk away down a street strewn with debris and broken glass

France Now Counts 1,800 Arrests and 1,500 Damaged Businesses, Not the 400 First Reported

France now counts 1,800 arrests from Saturday’s marches, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said on…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 19

Riot police in helmets and shields advance through tear gas toward masked protesters near a burned car and newspaper kiosk on a Paris street.

France Arrests 1,200 After Masked Protesters Burn a Town Hall During Nationwide Marches Over Schools and Prices

Masked protesters set fire to the 143-year-old town hall in Limoges on Saturday, and…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 17

Smiling Georgia residents hold NO KINGS and VOTE signs and American flags on a courthouse square in autumn

No Kings Rallies Hit More Than 40 Georgia Towns Tomorrow. Early Voting Just Set a First-Day Record.

Tomorrow’s No Kings rallies in Georgia are not protests in the old sense: organizers…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

Katie Zacharia stands at the White House briefing room lectern as reporters raise their hands

Trump’s Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Is Out After Five Days, Six Fewer Than Scaramucci

Katie Zacharia stood at the lectern on Tuesday for under 15 minutes, could not…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

Rally attendees in red caps press against a metal barricade under hazy desert hills, some cheering with phones raised, an older man pointing toward the camera

Trump Says Leakers “Should Be Shot.” The Law He Would Charge Them Under Caps the Sentence at 10 Years.

Donald Trump stood in front of a rally crowd in Bullhead City, Arizona, on…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

An archivist in cotton gloves lifts the lid of a gray archival box beside a cart in a corridor of steel shelving lined with records boxes

Trump’s Justice Department Tells an Appeals Court the Presidential Records Act Is Unconstitutional, a Law Its Own Lawyers Backed in 1978

“At least insofar as declaring the President’s official papers to be public property ……

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

Two Ukrainian soldiers in helmets crouch at a folding table in a muddy field, looking at a laptop beside a flat satellite terminal and a small interceptor drone launcher

Ukraine’s Military Starlink Got a Speed Cap Days After the US Threatened to Cut Its Intelligence, and No One Will Own It

Overnight on Oct. 13 and 14, Ukraine’s military Starlink terminals began dropping their connection…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

The Fort Hood entrance sign and guard booth under an overcast sky, with a military police soldier at the gate and cars waiting at the barrier

Six Days After Saying He “Absolutely” Approved It, Trump Cancels the Livestream of the Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday that Nidal Hasan “will die, as…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

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Evacuated office workers stand in a wet parking lot behind yellow caution tape outside a low-rise government building while a firefighter and a responder in a white protective suit confer beside a fire engine

White-Powder Letters Hit Election and Senate Offices in a Nationwide Wave, Not One-Off Scares

A diesel pickup truck raised on a lift in an auto repair bay, its removed exhaust filter canister lying on the concrete floor beside a diagnostic laptop cart

Trump Pardoned Two Alaska Diesel Mechanics Onstage, Men He Said Faced ’10 Years’ for Fixing an Engine

Kimberly Guilfoyle in a navy blazer and bow blouse stands outside the glass entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Athens with two men in dark suits behind her

The White House Asked ‘Wonderful Asset’ Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign as Ambassador to Greece

Freshly cut tree stumps and stacked trunks on a flat golf course fairway, with two workers beside a wood chipper and the Washington Monument in the distance

Nearly 400 Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Aired After a Judge’s Ban, the Same Weekend 430 Trees Were Cut at a Golf Course He Wants Rebuilt

A camera operator in a rain jacket and a correspondent holding a microphone stand beside a row of television cameras under tents on the White House lawn.

The Justice Department Sent Antitrust Demands to Five TV Networks for Pausing Their Coverage of Trump

Rep. Ilhan Omar in a navy blazer and patterned hijab speaks into a cluster of microphones outside the US Capitol as reporters and a camera operator look on

Homeland Security Agents Searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home 22 Days Before the Midterms, a Warrant the DOJ Has Not Explained

Volodymyr Zelensky in a black field shirt speaks at a lectern with two microphones, a Ukrainian flag behind him

Twice in 27 Days, Trump Has Declared a Russia-Ukraine ‘Energy Ceasefire.’ Zelensky Calls the New One ‘News for Me.’

Illustration of an airport departures board in a darkened terminal with flights to Jeddah, Dammam, Medina, Abha, Tabuk and Jizan all marked cancelled in red

A Missile Killed 12 at Riyadh’s Airport. Trump Says “We May” Join Saudi Strikes on the Houthis.

Emergency rescuers in reflective-striped uniforms carry a stretcher down the rubble of a collapsed section of a yellow-brick apartment block, with spruce trees around the courtyard

Seven Hours After Trump Lifted Sanctions on Russian Diesel, Putin’s Glide Bombs Killed at Least 15 in Zaporizhzhia

A utility lineman in a yellow rain jacket and white hard hat walks along a debris-strewn coastal highway at dusk in driving rain, with a line of bucket trucks behind him and palm trees bending in the wind

Hurricane Isaias Makes Landfall on the Florida Panhandle as a 105 MPH Category 2 Storm

A gray SUV with bullet holes in its windshield behind yellow police tape on a brick-lined Marble Hill street, as neighbors and an NYPD officer look on

An ICE Officer Fired Seven Shots Into a Car in Manhattan with a 5-Year-Old Inside, and DHS Blames the Boy’s Father

A tired woman in a cardigan at a kitchen table in the evening with a laptop, a binder and a stack of opened envelopes, looking toward the camera

The Education Department Froze PSLF Payment Counts Over ‘Data Issues,’ Not a Backlog

An elderly South Asian woman with short grey hair, in a grey tweed jacket, seated at a hearing table with a microphone and papers, looking at the camera

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, a Founding Judge of the Court Trump Sanctioned

Supporters holding red, blue and white Serbian flags cheer at night outside a building as flares burn behind them

Trump Calls His Top Political Aides ‘Outside Consultants’ After They Were Paid by Bosnia’s Pro-Russian Serb Government

Supporters in red caps applaud and wave small American flags in an arena rally crowd under stage floodlights

Trump on Iran at Nebraska Rally: ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego.’

An older woman at a sunlit kitchen table holds a smartphone beside a stack of mail, a pill organizer and an unopened cream envelope

20.8 Million Seniors Will Get $90 From Medicare Followed by a Letter From Trump

An antique clock and a smartphone on a marble ledge with the US Capitol dome in pre-dawn darkness

After Trump Posted His Cell Number, Tom Cotton Is Still Blocking Permanent Daylight Saving Time

Two Okinawa Prefectural Police officers stand at the lit entrance of a Naha business hotel at blue hour, one writing in a notebook, on a wet empty street

A US Marine Was Arrested Over a Woman’s Killing in Okinawa. Japan’s Prime Minister Protested the Same Day.