The Trump Campaign's ‘Please Shut Up’ Phase  —  That was a crazy public service provided by Elon Musk and X.  —  The X Spaces interview delivered Donald Trump without makeup or dress-up, talking unselfconsciously: manic, boastful, untruthful, aggrieved, abusive, obsessive, random, ignorant …

The Media's Double Standard Favors Donald Trump, Not Kamala Harris … Conservatives are complaining about media bias, as is their wont, especially when Republicans are losing.  They are correct that Kamala Harris has enjoyed fairly positive coverage to date.

Missouri voters could face choice between continued abortion ban and new constitutional amendment  —  Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state's near-total ban on the procedure.

UAW hits Musk, Trump with federal labor charges over union-busting comments … The United Auto Workers union on Tuesday filed federal labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board against former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for publicly applauding the practice of firing employees who threaten to strike.

Trump Email Hack Is A Moment Of Reckoning For Him—Or The News Media  —  Outlets like the New York Times owe their readers frenzied coverage of his campaign's emails, or a mea culpa for their history-altering emails fixation in 2016  —  You might say Politico won the weekend with a metascoop.

Harris in ‘striking distance’ of Trump in Florida, pollster says  —  Vice President Harris is nipping at former President Trump's heels in his home state of Florida, a pollster from Suffolk University says after a new Sunshine State survey.  —  The USA Today/Suffolk University/WSVN-TV poll found Harris …

Republican who voted to convict Trump says he'll support him in November  —  Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says he plans to vote for former President Donald Trump this November, even though he voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial.  —  What You Need To Know

Workers allege ‘nightmare’ conditions at Kentucky startup JD Vance helped fund  —  As a venture capitalist, JD Vance repeatedly touted his guiding principles for investing in a company: A business should not only turn a profit, it should also help American communities.

Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines … - According to Google's ad transparency center, the Trump campaign isn't running these types of ads, but this technique has been used by campaigns before.  — The ads say that they are sponsored, but it's not immediately clear …

Donald Trump Says He Will Go to Venezuela if He Loses Election  —  During his interview with billionaire donor  —  said they could “meet next time in Venezuela” if he loses November's election.  —  “If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show …

Recent Voter Registration Data Offers Hint of Enthusiasm for Democrats  —  Two swing states have seen a boost in Democratic sign-ups since Kamala Harris entered the race.  —  Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential campaign three weeks ago, polls and campaign finance data have shown how the race has changed.

Starbucks gets new CEO following boycott sparked by Gaza conflict  —  Starbucks announced a new CEO seeking to caffeinate the coffee chain's sales, which fell slightly in the previous quarter due to lighter customer traffic.  —  New CEO Brian Niccol, the current CEO of Chipotle, will replace outgoing CEO Laxman Narasimhan.

Historic Gun Suit Survives Serious Legal Threat Engineered by Indiana Republicans  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.

A Consensus No Longer  —  The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.  —  / Eye on the News / Health Care, The Social Order  —  The main justification for …

Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk  —  Internal market commissioner's warning to owner of social media site X was not approved  —  Brussels has accused its internal market commissioner of going rogue by sending a letter to Elon Musk threatening punishment …

Exclusive: Harris to detail plans to cut costs in key policy speech in North Carolina  —  U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver on Friday the first policy-centered speech in her new role as Democratic presidential candidate, tackling ways to lower costs, a concern that routinely tops voters' lists.

Nate Silver on Kamala Harris's Chances and the Mistakes of the ‘Indigo Blob’  —  Nate Silver came to fame in American politics for election forecasting.  But before Silver was in politics, he was a poker player.  And after getting into politics, he went back to being a poker player.

Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works?  —  Once again Monday night, he claimed that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property.”  —  There was no shortage of false claims and exaggerations offered by former president Donald Trump during his conversation with Elon Musk on Monday night.

Watergate convinced us that the system works — until Trump showed otherwise  —  Fifty years ago last week, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency.  His resignation was compelled by the impending release of the infamous White House tape recordings, which the Supreme Court, in a case that I argued, had just ordered disclosed.