President Trump Is Predicting Midterms Success but Republicans Are Starting to Panic w/ @AnnieLinskey @jdawsey1 New WSJ poll finds Trump’s approval rating drops to 37%, the lowest of any president heading into midterm elections in Journal polls dating to 1990 wsj.com/politics/elections/t…

BREAKING!! 14 senators, including Shaheen, McConnell and Cornyn, are pressing Trump over reports that Putin was invited to the G20 summit in Miami this Dec. The bipartisan group urges Trump to rescind the invitation and bar sanctioned Russian officials from G20 events. 👇

Here’s the full UN human rights report detailing the evidence of Russian forces’ mass execution of civilians in Bucha including young children Some of the bodies showed signs of torture and sexual assault before they were massacred ohchr.org/sites/default/file…

Exclusive: Early this month, diplomats worked toward a treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons. But U.S. and Russian diplomats removed a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of AI in weapons, according to people familiar with the talks. wapo.st/4hxyvuz

The White House sends this incredibly short, incredibly non-specific readout of the meeting with Xi that says nothing about deliverables or exactly what was discussed. A single sentence. “President Trump and President Xi discussed the economy, trade, Super Intelligence, and cooperation on numerous issues of shared importance.” Also referred back to Trump's Truth Social post: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…

Many readers asked us why Xi wore a Mao suit to the state banquet Trump held in his honor. This story is for you. Plus, who’re the 30-40 dinner guests asking for photographs? With @Kubota_Yoko @PhilipWegmann wsj.com/world/china/deep-div…

‘U.S. Troops Are Now Fighting the Drug War on the Ground in Ecuador’ Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) Operator in the photo wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-t…

“Does not support” independence has been pretty standard official state department language for quite some time

The man who bought Sierra Leone. Jos Leijdekkers’s is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals. His greatest caper yet looks to be the takeover of a country. In half a decade Leijdekkers has turned Sierra Leone, a place previously best known for blood diamonds, into a hub for billions of dollars’ worth of Colombian cocaine, disguised as rice or plantain chips, which pass through each year en route to Europe. By funnelling a share of the profits to Sierra Leone’s political elite and funding large parts of the state itself, Leijdekkers has amassed perks that would be the envy of a Bond villain. He is believed to have a Sierra Leonean diplomatic passport. The police and military establishment bow to him, squadrons of container ships and submarines ply the shores at his command, and he is escorted in a motorcade by the presidential guard beneath a cloud of drones economist.com/interactive/18…

Amazing story by terrific colleagues @rebeccaballhaus @DanaMattioli and co. Read until the end. wsj.com/articles/kimberly-gu…

👀 Some lawmakers have privately discussed Costa's behavior with women at CODELs and said that "he definitely has a problem" washingtonsun.com/congress/j…

A top U.S. Treasury Department official hopscotched across the Middle East and Europe this month with a warning to Iran’s trading partners: you either trade with Tehran or Washington wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-… via @WSJ

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." wsj.com/articles/kimberly-gu…

Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.    This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.     Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.   The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.   I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites. on.wsj.com/4yXPD3y

i never considered that you used to have to send a letter to the newspaper to make this sort of tweet

It’s too kind to say the Xi-Trump summit was big on pageantry and light on substance. Given the urgent problems that can’t be tackled without China and America, to squander the meeting was a selfish dereliction of duty. My take economist.com/international/… from The Economist

Russia continues to target American companies in Ukraine to discourage investments.

1. How easy is it to create Russian AI propaganda? We put it to the test. A fake showing @christogrozev and me with a NATO general cost $80 to make. Six Russian websites published it as fact. In our new video, we show how Russia’s AI disinformation machine works. piped.video/watch?v=62hWVaNz…

A data breach at the Pentagon’s vast HR system has exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of current & former military personnel, raising counterintelligence concerns among national security experts. cnn.com/2026/09/25/politics/…