New from @NewYorkFed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9 percentage points to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods. Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." 😯

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show. nyti.ms/4xSMsu7

I made my 1st bet of college football season and it may be my strongest play of the year. Rutgers -29.5 to beat umass by 40 plus

The Portland Trail Blazers reportedly believe that Ja Morant, Damian Lillard, Jrue Holiday, and Scoot Henderson can all coexist together, per @jwquick “The Blazers believe the four guards can co-exist, in large part because the team believes Holiday can alleviate the redundancy by playing him off the ball as a shooting guard or small forward.” (Via nytimes.com/athletic/live-bl…)

Sure. You'd just need to: 1) Forge her signature (commit a felony). 2) Hope your forgery is sufficiently accurate 3) Hope that she (intended voter) doesn't call election office and ask about why she never got a ballot (in which case that mail ballot would be deactivated, and it would be investigated if returned) 4) Hope that she doesn't send back a replacement ballot or show up to vote in person (in which case the same as #3 would happen). But more importantly, instead of showing us a picture of a mail ballot (which could just be from anywhere and is not evidence of material fraud), why don't you answer: Where are the mass arrests? Trump has been in office for 18 months now. And there have been lots of ambitious Republican prosecutors and sheriffs in office for 6 years since the 2020 election. And together they've scraped up a handful of individual voters. A few noncitizens vote. A few people voting in multiple jurisdictions. Hundreds of thousands of hours have been searching. And yet... What you have is, at best, evidence of a clerical error that yielded no harm.

The FBI closed a 2020 election fraud inquiry ordered by Nevada's top federal prosecutor after finding that only 38 non-citizens may have voted in the 2020 presidential election. cbsn.ws/4sGajKg

EXCLUSIVE: A classified report found that Kristi Noem created security vulnerabilities at airports after she declared that passengers could wear shoes during screening. Homeland Security's IG found that some airport scanners can't scan shoes. When Noem’s office was briefed on the report, they gave it a higher level of classification and blocked it from being publicly released wsj.com/politics/national-se… @tparti @jdawsey1 @MHackman

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday, citing a jump in annual deficits that owes in part to tax cuts enacted by President Trump. abcnews.link/bLPMZcf

Consumers and businesses paid nearly 90% of Trump tariffs in 2025, new analysis found. cbsn.ws/4rSlM9m

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from @David_J_Bier. ow.ly/Ce9W50Y8kAi