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The Lincoln Memorial beyond the waters of the reflecting pool on the National Mall.

Trump, still mired in distractions, turns his attention to the reflecting pool in D.C.

Steve Benen

Lisa Philips speaks at a podium as other survivors stand behind her.

One key detail about DOJ’s new Epstein files audit is going largely unnoticed

Lisa Rubin

Zohran Mamdani during a live taping of MS NOW's Chris Hayes interviewing Mamdani at the Bronx Children's Museum.

Mamdani reflects on ‘important’ relationship with Trump during MS NOW town hall

Allison Detzel

This split image shows Donald Trump on the left and Barack Obama on the right.

Trump threw out a perfectly good Obama-era deal. Now he’s left with nothing.

Hayes Brown

As Trump’s Iran war drags on, Republicans urge patience

Kevin Frey

Is Donald Trump OK?

Symone D. Sanders Townsend

Roy Moore, former Alabama Chief Justice.

Appeals court overturns Roy Moore’s $8.2 million defamation award

Ebony Davis

Jaafar Jackson dressed as Michael Jackson.

‘Michael’ does a disservice to its subject — and to everybody watching

Soraya Nadia McDonald

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a "Trump Gold Card."

With just one approval, Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ program is off to an embarrassing start

Steve Benen

Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff.

Iran says no direct talks with U.S. planned as officials travel to Pakistan this weekend

MS NOW staff

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, sits down and looks away from the camera.

Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before Tumbler Ridge killings

The Associated Press

Jason Jin as JB, Youn Yuh-jung as Chairwoman Park, and Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in "BEEF".

‘Beef’ Season 2 reflects our ugliest, most human instincts. And we can’t look away.

Noor Noman

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building.

Is there a double standard with Justices Sotomayor and Thomas?

Jordan Rubin

Donald Trump listens, as he sits at his desk, to RFK jr. speaking while standing behind him.

Trump and RFK Jr. pick a losing fight over arithmetic, defend a ‘different’ kind of math

Steve Benen

Jerome Powell at the IMFC Plenary Session during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings.

Trump DOJ drops probe of Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable with Latino leaders Florida.

Trump did shockingly well with one voting bloc in 2024. Now that support is spiraling.

Zeeshan Aleem

Todd Blanche speaks at a podium while Kash Patel stands behind him on the right.

Trump says a bit too much in his weird rant about the Southern Poverty Law Center

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump wearing a red "USA" hat.

Appeals court rules Trump’s asylum ban at southern border illegal

Sydney Carruth

Photoillustration including images of Donald Trump, newspaper print, the New York Times building, the Voice of America building, and a statue signifying justice.

Trump has dinner plans with an unlikely group of tablemates

Fallon Gallagher

Donald Trump; Mojtaba Khamenei.

The U.S. and Iran are fighting an economic war. Experts say Iran may win it.

Julia Jester & David Rohde

Photoillustration of Black voters in voting booths. Several of the spaces where there should be voting booths are noticeably empty.

This wrongly convicted Black man won public office. His state’s response is shocking.

Jarvis DeBerry

Nicolás Maduro is seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed federal agents.

U.S. special forces soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400,000 bet on Maduro’s capture

Ebony Davis

Laura Loomer; Bill Maher.

Laura Loomer loses defamation suit against Bill Maher and HBO over Trump relationship joke

Jordan Rubin

Samuel Alito looks on as he sits at a table with others.

New book sheds more light on Justice Alito’s refusal to recuse himself in a Jan. 6 case

Jordan Rubin

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill.

FBI reportedly investigated a reporter after she wrote article Kash Patel didn’t like

Steve Benen

Pence on JD Vance: ‘We haven’t spoken’

Trump voter presses Mamdani: ‘Show me what I’m paying for’

 ‘We don’t have exceptions’: Mamdani on Trump paying new NYC tax

Trump pressures companies not to claim tariff refunds

Velshi: Chaos surrounds Trump as his Iran war drags on

UNICEF spokesperson describes conditions in Lebanon: ‘So much death, so much destruction’

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  1. The exterior of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

    What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about

    Michael Edison Hayden

  2. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In the background, people in military uniforms are visible.

    The dangerous irony of Pete Hegseth’s absurd anti-flu vaccine mandate

    Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

  3. Photoillustration of Kahn Davison and his parents, layered with a newspaper report detailing their deaths.

    I only know a fraction of what the children of Justin Fairfax and his wife are about to endure

    Kahn Davison

  4. Tucker Carlson looking up.

    It’s too late for Tucker Carlson’s apology over supporting Trump

    Lyz Lenz

  5. President Donald Trump — only his hands and torso visible — holds a Bible.

    Trump’s participation in a marathon Bible-reading event is a cruel joke on America

    Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

  6. Photoillustration of a person seated at a desk with one wrist handcuffed to the desk leg, rendered in a blue-green duotone style.

    Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk Act’ should terrify us all

    Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones

  7. Signs during the Virginia redistricting referendum.

    The hardest part is still to come for Virginia Democrats after redistricting win

    Paul Waldman

  8. People hold one another during a memorial. The surround a large wooden cross.

    The violent killings of eight children aren’t just about mental illness

    Denese Shervington

  9. People call for a regime change in Iran, waving lion and sun Iranian flags.

    Trump has only one real option left when it comes to Iran

    Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward (ret.)

  10. Kevin Warsh sits, hands clasped, in front of a microphone.

    Elizabeth Warren’s deceptively simple question for Kevin Warsh was a test. He failed.

    Hayes Brown

  11. Photoillustration of Kash Patel with a collage of torn newspapers and scales of justice.

    Patel’s defamation lawsuit will have real ramifications — even if he’s likely to lose

    Jessica Levinson

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