With Greenland, Trump Gets the Bases and Skips the Land Grab.

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Tuesday morning in New York, three leaders sit down at the U.N. and sign a piece of paper that ends a fight nobody thought would end this way. Trump wanted Greenland. Not access to it — Greenland itself. He said so for the better part of two years. Denmark said no. Greenlanders said the island wasn’t anyone’s to sell. It got tense. It got personal in places. What got signed instead is smaller than annexation and, if you squint, more useful. The U.S. keeps its flag off the territory and gets everything else: permanent military rights, the ability to build

Every Newsroom Wants Access. Not Every Newsroom Earned It.

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CNN, MS NOW, and Politico lost their White House credentials this week. President Trump made the call Friday. He accused the three of “FAKE NEWS.” By Saturday, it was real. Badges deactivated. Reporters turned away at the gates. The outlets sued Monday. They want a federal court to restore their access, fast. That lawsuit will get the headlines. The more interesting story is what Vice President JD Vance said about it. He cut through the noise. And he did it in a way the outlets themselves would rather avoid. Vance’s point was simple. Nobody is silencing anybody. “They can still

Before the Midterms, a Drug Price Pitch.

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The Trump Administration is about to announce changes to drug prices. All 50 states will get access to most-favored-nation pricing for certain drugs through Medicaid. Semafor broke the story Friday. The president plans to make it official at the White House. He’ll stand with the governors of South Dakota, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The timing is not an accident. The midterms are in November, and prescription costs are on people’s minds. The numbers, if they hold up, are real numbers. The White House Council of Economic Advisers puts state savings at $27.6 billion over ten years. Federal savings: $36.6 billion. That’s

Pound-For-Pound: Piker’s Latest Attack on the U.S.

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Hasan Piker went on Axios this week and said it plainly: America is worse than al-Qaeda. Not close. Worse. “Pound-for-pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” he told host Alex Thompson, who asked him to compare his country to the group that flew planes into the World Trade Center. This wasn’t a slip. He’s been building to it for years. “America is the top dog in terrorism,” he’d said before. This was him doubling down. On camera. Straight face. “We have caused tremendous terror all around the world,” he said. Then further still — framing it as terror

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