ABCNEWS - Strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake recorded coast of Venezuela
A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake was reported near the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami warning.
NYTIMES (Matthew Cullen) - Trump Cancels Plans to Sign a Bipartisan Housing Bill
Also, Western Europe is sweltering. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
ABCNEWS - Mamdani won big, but it's a mistake to think all Democrats swung left: ANALYSIS
All three Mamdani-backed candidates in New York City won their races.
WASHINGTONPOST (Karen Tumulty) - Socialist election wins spawn wider identity questions for Democrats
Tuesday’s primary victories for a slate of leftist candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani foretell bigger battles for a Democratic Party trying to win back power nationally.
ABCNEWS - Trump and Cassidy clash over war powers vote in meeting with Republican senators
President Trump clashed with Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy in a meeting with Republican senators over his vote on the war powers resolution passed Tuesday in the Senate.
NYTIMES (Michelle Goldberg) - The Left Is Ascendant in New York. Swing States Could Be Next.
Tuesday’s primary demonstrated the astonishing political power of Mamdani and of the Democratic Socialists of America.
NYTIMES (Robert Jimison) - Trump Clashes With Senate Republicans Over Iran in Heated Closed-Door Meeting
The president had a lengthy and angry exchange with Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and lit into other Republicans who voted to check his war powers.
NYTIMES (Christina Jewett) - Shortage of Chemotherapy Drugs Brings Rationing Fears for Cancer Patients
Doctors are contending with low supplies and unfilled orders of generic chemotherapy infusions that are central to the treatment of a long list of cancers.
NYTIMES (Catie Edmondson) - Trump Asks Congress for $88 Billion, Mostly for War With Iran
The proposal was all but dead on arrival in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support, and comes amid growing G.O.P. skepticism about the conflict.
AXIOS (Stef W. Kight) - Inside the Trump-Senate meltdown
President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). Why it matters: Trump's handling of the war in Iran and the Senate's passage of a war powers resolution consumed the conversation, despite Trump's renewed pressure to pass a voter ID bill and kill the filibuster. - Trump kicked things off by calling out the four Republican senators who voted Tuesday for the war powers resolution to rein in his military campaign in Iran. - Cassidy then stood up, telling Trump, "You have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last four weeks. It's lasted four months," the senator told reporters afterward. It went off the rails from there. The…
President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). Why it matters: Trump's handling of the war in Iran and the Senate's passage of a war powers resolution consumed the conversation, despite Trump's renewed pressure to pass a voter ID bill and kill the filibuster. - Trump kicked things off by calling out the four Republican senators who voted Tuesday for the war powers resolution to rein in his military campaign in Iran. - Cassidy then stood up, telling Trump, "You have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last four weeks. It's lasted four months," the senator told reporters afterward. It went off the rails from there. The…Open