Greenland leaders call planned visit by US officials a ‘provocation’ as Trump talks of takeover - US politics live  —  Outgoing prime minister says Greenland can no longer trust Americans ahead of visit led by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz  —  IRS nears deal with Ice to share data of undocumented immigrants - report

Law firm targeted by Trump could have been ‘destroyed,’ chairman says in explaining deal with Trump  —  The chairman of a prominent law firm who cut a deal with President Donald Trump last week to avert the consequences of a White House executive order told colleagues in an email Sunday …

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 …

Social Security: A Time for Outrage  —  Trump's policies attack his own base — but who will tell them?  —  Donald Trump is often described as a “populist.”  Yet his administration is stuffed with wealthy men who are clueless about how the other 99.99 percent lives, while his policies involve undermining …

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 …

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.

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.”

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.

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 …

Man charged with assault at Tesla dealership after driving car at protesters  —  The protest was one of several across the country in opposition to Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been slashing government costs and firing thousands of federal workers.  —  A man was arrested and charged …

Youngkin wants controversial U-Va. board member to resign, people familiar say  —  Bert Ellis, appointed by the governor in 2022, has so far refused to step down, the people said.  —  Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) wants to remove one of his appointees on the governing board of the University of Virginia …

The Abundance Agenda  —  I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly to make of it all.

Trump's Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is  —  Who is President Donald Trump's most dangerous enabler?  As his second term got underway, it initially appeared that this coveted title might fall to FBI director Kash Patel, who'd vowed to investigate Trump's enemies.

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 …

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 …

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.

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

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.