Second lady Usha Vance to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for ownership of the Danish territory  —  Vance will be joined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and national security adviser Michael Waltz, two Trump administration sources told NBC News.  —  Second lady Usha Vance will travel …

Brad Karp's Email To Paul Weiss About Its Deal With The Trump Administration  —  Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat.  You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com.

Mia Love, Utah's history-making former congresswoman, dies at 49  —  A former City Council member, mayor and two-term member of Congress, she died after a three-year battle with brain cancer  —  Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants who went on to become a City Council member …

Universities Sprint from ‘We Will Not Cower’ to Appeasing Trump  —  With much of their funding at stake, schools are quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians amid Washington's quest to rein in academia  —  WASHINGTON—When University of Michigan President Santa Ono sat …

The frog of democracy is nearly boiled.  We can still jump out of the pot  —  I still remember, from when I was a politically precocious teen in the 1970s, my dog-eared paperback copy of one of that fraught decade's defining books: The Gulag Archipelago by the Soviet Nobel laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Gulf of Fear  —  When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it's not just semantics—it's a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure.  —  In China, Taiwan doesn't exist—at least not as a country.  On official maps, it's a province.

Israel's classified military plans for Gaza.  And, defining “buy-now, pay-later” loans  —  Good morning.  You're reading the Up First newsletter.  Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day.  —  Today's top stories

Putin's Aims in Trump Talks on Ukraine  —  Moscow sees economic and geopolitical benefits in humoring President Trump's push for a cease-fire in Ukraine.  But the Kremlin's war aims haven't shifted.  —  President Trump says he is focused on stopping the “death march” in Ukraine “as soon as possible.”

Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk  —  Ahead of expected protests at Tesla locations, the Democratic representative said her calls to action against Musk were nonviolent.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett …

The Voice of America Falls Silent  —  President Trump's efforts to mute Voice of America and other U.S.-government-funded international broadcasters may not have received as much attention as his many other sallies, perhaps because these media outlets do not broadcast within the United States and so are not well known.

The Supreme Court's new religion case could devastate American workers  —  Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin risks giving employers a sweeping new power to ignore laws protecting their workers. … The Court's Republican majority almost always rules in favor of Christian litigants who seek …

Law in Mahmoud Khalil's Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump's Sister  —  Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.  —  The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks …

There's a pattern in Trump's power grabs  —  The White House strategy demands we defend alleged criminals and those with unpopular views. … You've surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller's famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany.

Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump's government cuts and Democrats' resistance  —  As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump's slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans.

Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention  —  Immigrant women say they were held “like animals” in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.  —  Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet.

Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole  —  Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:  — The party has its lowest favorability ever.  — No popular national leader to help improve it.

Liberal group warns Democratic leaders over their strategy against Trump  —  MoveOn's members say they are deeply frustrated with the party's current approach to the president.  —  A major liberal group is warning Democratic leaders that they have deep problems with their base when it comes …

Trump demands Colorado take down ‘purposefully distorted’ painting  —  President Trump is demanding that Colorado take down it's “purposefully distorted” painting of him hanging in the State Capitol.  —  “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado …

Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade.  We're Tossing That Away.  —  When most Americans think about our great universities, they probably don't think about the origins of lasers, FM radio or bar codes; they don't think about the Google algorithm …

U.S. Lodges New Accusations Against Detained Columbia Protest Leader  —  The Trump administration is now accusing the Columbia University graduate and protest leader of having withheld information when he applied for permanent residency status.  —  When Mahmoud Khalil …

U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by July, Analysis Finds  —  The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation's debt limit.  —  The United States could run out of cash to continue paying …

Fans at NCAA Wrestling Championships Show Love For Trump.  But Not So Much Musk.  —  President Trump and Elon Musk took in the Division I wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday.  But some of Mr. Trump's supporters expressed complicated feelings about his billionaire adviser.

Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers  —  As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they're forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job.

Jessica Aber, US attorney found dead at 43, was in charge of high-profile cases targeting CIA leaks, Russian fraud  —  The former US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who was found dead Saturday morning had been in charge of some of the biggest cases targeting leaks in the CIA …

Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks  —  The Venezuelan government had come under intense pressure from the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights.  —  The Trump administration sent a flight carrying deportees from the United States …

Trump gives Harris advice on potential CA governor run  —  Harris' name has been floated as a potential candidate for governor of California  —  President Donald Trump offered up some advice for former Vice President Kamala Harris if she decides to make a run for governor of California.