Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. nytimes.com/2025/08/04/bus…

In newly published Jan. 6 footage vis ⁦NPR⁩, a senior adviser to the Trump Justice Dept is shown urging people to “kill” police. npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-…

russian attacks on ukraine have doubled since trump took office.

Six months after his last visit to the White House, according to U.S. intelligence, MBS ordered the murder of Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

via Kristen Holmes, Trump aides still had their secret meeting to discuss what to release and what to hold back of Epstein info — they just changed the location to do it in the White House to avoid more scrutiny, after denying the meeting was going to happen cnn.com/2025/08/07/pol…

That's because Democrats in some blue states imposed restrictions on themselves to stake out a moral high ground on gerrymandering. Now they're regretting it.

Incredible video + still photo images here.

“For a while, work was staring at a blank screen”: CDC workers describe disruptions in HIV programs amid White House-unleashed restructuring. Andy Miller + Rebecca Grapevine report for KFF Health News/Healthbeat + CNN ⤵️ cnn.com/2025/08/11/hea…

There's a reason: it's a different group of reporters. In the White House, you had fawning questions from Brian Glenn ("can we get a big, beautiful briefing room?") of One America News. In the Wilson Building, you have the local DC press corps who cover the city on a daily basis.

NEW: More than 7% of emergency departments across the U.S. don’t have an attending physician on-site 24/7, a recent study found. About 90% of those departments were in small or rural hospitals. Arielle Zionts reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…

Leavitt: "The president is very honored and looks forward to hosting President Putin on American soil."

Hey, can I interest you in a fantasy football draft board from 1984? It is both glorious and terrible. I love it so much. thedeepshot.com/2025/08/13/fan…

Putin hasn't been able to visit any place but former Soviet republics and other dictatorships since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Simply being invited to Alaska is a victory for him. apnews.com/article/russia…

Treasury issued a license to allow Vladimir Putin & his Russian team to land in Alaska despite US sanctions. It is good through August 20th.

“Presence patrols” are good and the *DC police* ought to do more of them all around the city. Nat’l Mall isn’t exactly a hotspot for crime, though.

Big Derek Wallbank energy

(Bloomberg) -- US wholesale inflation accelerated in July by the most in three years, boosted by a surge in the costs of services.

There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived at the emergency room in the small hospital at intersection of two dirt roads in Ekalaka, MT. There never is. Experts believe ERs, especially in rural areas, increasingly operate with few or no doctors. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…

Pretty cool -- congratulations to all of our staff involved and our partners in the work.

Finland's President is usually up by 5 am for triathlon training and a sauna. These days, his morning routine is often interrupted by a call from Donald Trump: “Why are you up already?” My latest from Helsinki on the unexpected—and high-stakes—bond between the two presidents