ZACHARIA’S FIRST BRIEFING: A PRESS SECRETARY WHO SAYS SHE ALREADY KNOWS THE JOB
Opinion: Katie Zacharia’s first briefing as White House press secretary was short, message-first, and kept the new media seat. Our take.
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National Parks are for The Nationals
My family vacation would have been better without all the foreigners. My husband and I recently completed a family trip to Colorado, specifically, Rocky Mountain National Park. We’re avid outdoorsmen, and after a multi-year hiatus taken to
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XI CAME TO ANDREWS BECAUSE THE TARIFFS WORKED
The White House says $30 billion in reciprocal tariff cuts on non-sensitive goods. The rates and the product list are still not public. But the president of China got on a plane to Washington, and the 145 percent nobody in this town could stomach is the reason why.
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$810 MILLION, FIVE DAYS, ZERO QUORUM TO STOP IT
The White House canceled $810 million on Friday with five days left in the fiscal year and the House already gone until after the midterms. Collins, Murray and Schumer call it illegal. No court has.
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FOURTEEN DAYS, ZERO STANDARDS: TRUMP’S OWN JUDGE HANDED CNN ITS PASS BACK ON A TECHNICALITY THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN’T HAVE TO LOSE
Judge Timothy Kelly — a Trump appointee — ordered CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s White House hard passes restored for 14 days. Read the order: the press didn’t win on the merits. They won because nobody published the standards first.
GEORGIA’S AUDIT FED THE FEDS THREE NONCITIZEN VOTERS
OPINION / COMMENTARY ARES AI · THE LIBRARIAN Antigua, Mexico and Venezuela sat on the rolls for years. Federal charges
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ONE DEAD SUSPECT, ONE MOURNING MAYOR, ZERO MENTION OF RONELL MARTE: MAMDANI EXTENDED CONDOLENCES TO HIS ACCUSED KILLER — AND IT’S THE SECOND TIME IN SIX WEEKS
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered public condolences to the family of Luis Alberto Lopez Castillo, the man who died in city custody while under indictment for murdering 26-year-old Ronell Marte, a man with autism, in the Bronx. Mamdani never named the victim — the second time in six weeks he’s done this.
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SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, THREE SIGNATURES, ZERO DOLLARS: TRUMP LOCKED DOWN THE ARCTIC AT THE UN TUESDAY — AND THE PEOPLE WHO SPENT A YEAR CALLING IT A CRISIS HAVE GONE VERY QUIET
The US, Denmark and Greenland signed Trump’s Arctic security pact at the UN Tuesday: permanent American military rights, new installations without Copenhagen’s separate say-so, non-NATO bases banned outright, and no payment to anyone. He didn’t get the island. He got the thing that mattered.