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Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson and Jon Stewart seated in tan leather armchairs around a black round table with broadcast microphones in the warm living-room set of the IMO podcast

After Michelle Obama Asked If Comedy Helps Politics, Jon Stewart Said He Has No Way to Know

On Michelle Obama's IMO podcast, Jon Stewart questioned whether satire helped or harmed America.…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

A long row of shuttered visa interview windows in an empty consular waiting hall, chairs vacant and a discarded queue ticket on the floor

The State Department Paused Visa Appointments Worldwide Five Days After a Judge Voided Its Country List

On Friday a federal judge in Manhattan threw out the Trump administration’s ban on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

A public health nurse in navy scrubs and blue gloves draws a vaccine dose from a glass vial at a paper-covered folding table, with rows of empty folding chairs behind her in a sunlit community hall

Two Unvaccinated Lancaster County Residents Are the First Americans to Die of Measles in 2026

Pennsylvania’s health department confirmed on Tuesday that two Lancaster County residents have died of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 25

A rancher in a cowboy hat stands at a barbed-wire fence looking out over a dry pasture with only a few scattered black cattle

Trump’s 300,000-Ton Beef Waiver Has Republicans in Cattle Country Breaking Ranks

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will let up to…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 25

A blue United States Postal Service collection mailbox with white ballot envelopes resting on top stands on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington under a heavy overcast sky.

The Supreme Court Unblocked Trump’s Mail-Voting Order Without Ruling It Legal

The Supreme Court paused the injunction blocking Trump's mail-voting order 6-3, without deciding whether…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

A line of stationary transport trucks waits under the lit canopy of a commercial border inspection plaza at night, barrier arms down and booths empty, with a Canadian flag on a pole at the left

Canada Walks Away and Suspends Trade Talks as 50% New Tariff Kicks In

Canada is done with the idiocy of the Trump regime and their use of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

A line of transport trucks waits at customs booths on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge, with the bridge and the Detroit skyline behind them on an overcast morning.

Three Days After Trump Declared a Canada Deal, 50 Percent Tariffs Took Effect Anyway

The United States began charging 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

A blonde woman in a red dress holds a thick stack of printed pages in the Oval Office while a seated figure at the Resolute Desk faces away from the camera

The Natalie Harp Letters Describe a Job the White House Never Formally Assigned

The Daily Beast published two letters on Thursday in which Donald Trump’s executive assistant…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

Firefighters in navy turnout gear direct a hose at a blackened, smoking retail building as a red fire engine and an ambulance with blue lights stand on a debris-covered forecourt.

Russia Waited Thirty Minutes to Strike the Kryvyi Rih Mall a Second Time

Two Russian drones hit a Kryvyi Rih shopping centre half an hour apart, killing…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 21

The granite colonnade of the US Treasury Department building in Washington DC beneath dark storm clouds, with wet pavement in the foreground

Bessent Doubled the Bond Buybacks and the Market Gave Him Exactly One Day

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent walked into a bond market that had pushed the 30-year…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 21

Melania Trump in a cream blazer seated at a wooden conference table with an open document folder, listening during a White House meeting

38 Days in Public: Melania Trump Traded Visibility for a Foster Care Policy Win

Melania Trump has appeared in public on 38 days so far in 2026, roughly…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

Aerial view of a wide circular patch of churning white water on the grey Baltic Sea where gas boils to the surface, with a naval patrol vessel standing off in the distance

Croatia Arrested the Nord Stream Diver Poland Already Let Go

Croatian police arrested the Ukrainian diver a Polish court freed in 2025, leaving two…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

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A Black congressman in a navy suit speaks into a handheld microphone at a podium as an out-of-focus crowd applauds behind him

Byron Donalds Won Florida’s Governor Primary Without the One Endorsement That Should Have Mattered

Disney Sued Brendan Carr’s FCC Instead of Settling With Trump Again

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Mike Caruso Was Arrested a Year to the Day After DeSantis Made Him Palm Beach County’s Court Clerk

A dark-suited American envoy walks past an empty negotiating table in a marble government reception room

Kushner Got Hamas to Say Yes to a Gaza Plan Netanyahu Has Already Rejected

President Donald Trump seated at the Resolute Desk in a darkened Oval Office, speaking, with a blue-lit map of the Korean peninsula displayed on a screen behind him

Trump Cut the South Korea Drills Two Days After Pyongyang Threatened Overwhelming Force

Rescue workers in orange high-visibility jackets and white helmets search the rubble of a collapsed concrete house on a hillside in southern Lebanon, with olive terraces and village homes behind them at dawn

Eleven Killed in South Lebanon Under a Truce Hezbollah Never Signed

A highway gas station price totem at dusk displaying regular gasoline at 4.08 and diesel at 5.43 per gallon, with a pickup truck refueling under the canopy behind it

Record August Gas at $4.08 Is a Refining Story, Not a Crude One

Two poll workers in cardigans lean over a long tabulator printout unspooling onto the floor of a fluorescent-lit county canvassing room, ballot bins stacked on folding tables beside them

Wisconsin Democrats Chose Electability by 3,000 Votes, and It Took a Governor to Do It

Two National Guard soldiers in camouflage standing beside a tactical vehicle on a Washington DC sidewalk while commuters walk past without looking, US Capitol dome in the background

Trump’s D.C. Crime Emergency Turns One, and the Bill Now Runs to Inauguration Day 2029

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A Judge Blocked This Exact Childhood Vaccine Cut in March, and Trump Signed It Anyway

A US presidential Boeing 747 on a wet floodlit ramp with an airport catering truck raised to a cabin door, a man in a dark suit stepping into the container, and empty airstairs at the forward door

Trump Left Air Force One in a Catering Truck and Let the Press Fly On as a Decoy

Rows of grey voting privacy booths with small lamps stand on a wooden gymnasium floor in cold morning light

Minnesota Republicans Spent the Summer Campaigning Against Their Own Front-Runner

A man in a navy suit and red tie raises his right hand and rests his left hand on a Bible during an Oval Office swearing-in, facing another man who reads the oath from a card

Todd Blanche Is Attorney General, and Trump’s Immunity Memo Outlived the Confirmation Fight

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Tyler Boebert Was Charged 30 Months After the Tip That Started the Case

An opened household electricity statement showing a bar chart of rising monthly charges lies on a scratched wooden kitchen table beside a pen, reading glasses, a mug of coffee and a sealed envelope

Data Centers Are Now a Campaign Issue in Both Parties, and the Power Bill Explains Why

Tower cranes and steel framing rise over the cleared East Wing site beside the intact White House residence, behind green construction fencing

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom, but the East Wing Is Already Gone

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The Unemployment Rate Fell to 4.1% Because People Stopped Looking

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More Than 50 Military Spouses and Parents Detained as Parole in Place Slows to a Year