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President Trump said on Truth Social that the three outlets are banned, then told reporters there is something wrong with a country that allows people to write purposely negative stories. The clash is not subtle: the White House is testing the boundaries of press access, and the press is invoking the First Amendment.

Jeremy Stern’s profile of Mark Zuckerberg is, at bottom, a study of concentrated power: how it was built, how it works, and how it can distort reality when no one tells the boss what he needs to hear.

Erick Erickson says donors, activists, intellectuals, and online personalities are pushing a vision shaped by racial grievance, authoritarianism, and a rejection of liberal democracy. The record points to a broader fight over who gets to define the American right.

The Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence sold a Manhattan home after unaffordable repairs forced a closure. New York attorney general Letitia James approved the sale, but she has not released the remaining proceeds.

Retired Army major John Spencer revisits his combat experience and argues that the United States is in a war with Iran. The stakes are not abstract: the cost of conflict is paid in blood, readiness, and national security.

The energy secretary argues that abundance, not scarcity, should guide policy as electricity prices rise and demand grows. His case is simple: keep power available, reopen plants, and the cost to households and businesses should come down.

The former Sequoia Capital chairman, worth an estimated $7.6 billion, says he wants to help revive the city he calls home. His latest move is a competition offering up to $50 million to as many as three organizations with ideas to make San Francisco better.

General David Petraeus recounts how a president facing collapsing polls, a lost Congress, and a skeptical military made the one decision no political logic could justify — and why that still matters.

The Free Press and Populace asked Americans what they truly believe about billionaires, data centers, Israel, and antisemitism — and the gap between public and private opinion is the story.

Jona Affholder says her surgeon boyfriend pinned her down and tried to administer abortion medication by force. Her account raises hard questions about who, exactly, medication abortion 'access' has protected.

A Gainesville nonprofit has given 172 formerly incarcerated people nearly $10,000 each, no strings attached. The evidence on whether it reduces recidivism is still being written.

A South Brooklyn branch meeting approved co-chair compensation for New York City DSA leaders Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo — over the objections of members who said the organization has no real budget process.

Karyann Parkinson allowed her 5-year-old to collect goose feathers in a gated community. She was convicted of a misdemeanor and placed on the child-abuse registry. The state had a different lesson in mind.

Stratolaunch CEO Zachary Krevor says a Chinese hypersonic missile aimed at either U.S. coast would leave roughly ten minutes of warning time — and that China and Russia have outpaced the United States in developing these weapons.

The Utah governor recounts the 48 hours after the September 10, 2025 killing at Utah Valley University — and what the aftermath revealed about American politics.

Victor Davis Hanson's new book on Trump's comeback poses the question conservatives cannot avoid: does MAGA survive once the man who founded it steps aside?

A Michigan mother decided her daughter would repeat kindergarten before any school official raised the question — a small act of parental judgment against a system built for averages.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation removes one of the last internal safeguards against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's purge of senior military leadership, according to military and congressional insiders.

Rep. Tom Suozzi says a small but disciplined socialist faction is winning primaries and could define his party for voters this November — a warning Democrats ignore at their own risk.

Writing in The Free Press, Douglas Murray warns that conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks — from the right, the left, and Islamist propagandists alike — are gaining ground as the anniversary approaches and firsthand memory fades.

A new episode of the ‘School of War’ podcast argues that today's fights over isolationism and American power trace back to the ideological fault lines opened by the Korean War.

Officials disclosed that two measles victims in Lancaster County were unvaccinated — and stopped there. A prominent physician says that selective disclosure, not the virus, is the story worth scrutinizing.

At his convocation address, University of Austin president Carlos Carvalho told incoming freshmen that college is not about finding yourself — it is about losing yourself in something larger. The argument is older than the institution, and more urgent than ever.

Defense Innovation Unit Deputy Director Travis Metz lays out the Pentagon's billion-dollar push to build a U.S. drone arsenal — and why dependence on Chinese components is the first problem to solve.

Joel Rubin, Sanders's former Jewish outreach director, says anti-Zionism has become a loyalty test inside the Democratic Party — and his old boss is at the center of it.

From New York City to Florida, socialist-aligned candidates are winning primaries — and AOC is now the front-runner for 2028, according to prediction markets.

State representative Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist and union organizer, defeated retired lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary — a result that scrambles assumptions about where the socialist left can and cannot win.

Senator Rand Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci's government-server diaries last month. What they reveal about the distance between his public statements and his private beliefs is the story.

The Trump administration is pushing a border wall through one of America's most spectacular landscapes. The people who actually live there, most of them conservatives, say it is expensive security theater. This week, the bulldozers paused. The fight is not over.

A Supreme Court ruling has put roughly a dozen former inmates back in legal jeopardy — men released under the First Step Act who may be reincarcerated unless the president acts. The record on who built this problem, and who can solve it, is unambiguous.

Flock cameras have helped solve more than 700 crimes. They have also been used by officers to stalk ex-girlfriends. Troy, New York is now the test case for where the line gets drawn.

The Pennsylvania senator and West Point graduate says the U.S. defense establishment is unprepared for the conflicts ahead — and that unchecked inequality may be capitalism's own undoing.

A small upstate city has become ground zero for the national debate over license-plate surveillance — and the activists fighting it are raising questions that go well beyond one company's hardware.

A New York tattoo shop and two state residents are challenging laws that bar artists from inking anything above a client's shoulders — and cost one local contractor clients every single day.

Colonel Reyes and Lieutenant Colonel Smith of the 1st Cavalry Division push back on the fashionable argument that armored vehicles are obsolete on the modern battlefield.

From AOC's egg-freezing announcement to a $12.5 billion Lakers deal, the news of August 13, 2026 reveals a Democratic Party in crisis and an American establishment rewriting its own rules.

Leo Lewis, a New York high school student, documents a new right-wing antisemitism spreading through memes and TikTok — and warns that adults are underestimating its reach.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley defeated DSA-affiliated state assembly member Francesca Hong in Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary — a last-minute reversal that stopped the party's hard-left insurgency at the state line.

A JPMorgan software developer took six months of job-protected leave because he didn't like his manager. He is not alone — and employers are footing the bill.

A 39-page investigative summary concludes that Arlington County Public Schools violated antidiscrimination law by failing to protect Jewish students at Yorktown High School — for years.

Jake Altman spent nearly a decade inside the Democratic Socialists of America. His account of what the organization became — and what that means for the Democratic Party — is worth reading carefully.

The Middle East Children's Alliance, founded by the late Barbara Lubin and backed by Hollywood and academia, is drawing federal attention over suspected funding to a terrorist organization.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer argues that Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is evidence of a deepening antisemitism crisis inside the Democratic Party.

Trump Media's interim CEO spelled out the business model in plain English: monetize market-moving presidential posts by selling algorithmic traders a few milliseconds of advantage. Major banks are passing. Others are not.

Dr. Karla Solheim's firsthand account of being pushed from an executive role at America's leading ob-gyn organization is the latest evidence that institutional medicine has not finished punishing dissent.

Dr. Karla Solheim says America's leading ob-gyn association gave her an ultimatum over her public criticism of gender-medicine guidelines. She went public instead.

A 41-year-old with no elected office experience defeated an incumbent congresswoman in Michigan — and his allies say the template travels.

A one-point margin in Tuesday's Senate primary does not diminish what the result reveals: the party's left wing, openly aligned with figures who have praised Hamas and said America deserved 9/11, now sets the terms.

Evan Barker spent years as a Democratic fundraising insider — working with everyone from establishment figures to Bernie Sanders-backed progressives. She has decided to go on the record.

Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller faces abuse allegations from his ex-wife and a public rebuke from her father, Sen. Bernie Moreno — but no criminal charges have been filed, and Miller has denied everything.

Trailing Abdul El-Sayed in the polls, moderate Democrat Haley Stevens is making a direct bet on Detroit's Black community to carry her through Tuesday's vote.

The 58-year-old Colorado head coach, who has endured amputations, blood clots, and cancer surgery in recent years, appeared at Cleveland's training camp and traded banter with Shedeur about a possible prosthetic.

From a 40-year disappearance in Illinois to a 2016 stabbing in Colorado, law enforcement is turning to narrative audio to reach witnesses the evening news never could. The results are uneven — but the trend is real.

A Guatemalan national charged with rape and multiple sex crimes in Massachusetts walked out of state custody before federal immigration officers arrested him. The detainer system exists precisely to prevent this sequence of events.

The president said the $1.776 billion fund was dead on Friday, then threatened to resurrect it on Saturday — and to bypass the Senate entirely if Cornyn and Tillis don't confirm Todd Blanche.