WASHINGTONPOST (Annie Gowen) - Ranchers’ loyalty to Trump wavers as some bristle over beef imports
Rural Americans, including some who say they feel “betrayed” by Washington policies, could seek change at the polls in November.
WASHINGTONPOST (Brianna Sacks, N. Kirkpatrick, Jake Spring) - Park officials pushed for a Grand Canyon trail to remain closed. Then the floods came.
Months before August’s deadly flash flood, current and former officials say they warned that the fire-ravaged North Kaibab Trail posed safety risks. It reopened anyway.
WASHINGTONPOST (Lauren Lumpkin) - These students weren’t alive on 9/11. They’re reading letters from teens who were.
In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, history teacher John Buglione asked his students to write letters to the future. Now he uses those documents to teach his current students about the event.
WASHINGTONPOST (Riley Beggin) - U.S.-Canada trade war set to hit hard in midterm battleground states
Republican candidates in some of the nation’s most competitive races are treading carefully as local industries brace for President Trump’s tariffs.
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Jay Maisel, a cigar-chomping giant of photography, has died
He photographed Marilyn Monroe and took the cover photo for Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” For 50 years, he lived in a vast graffiti-covered bank building.
NYTIMES (Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman) - How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
NYTIMES (Megan Specia) - In Doonbeg, Trump’s Irish Open Visit Prompts Protests and Praise
As the U.S. president heads to his Doonbeg hotel for the Irish Open, locals expressed both appreciation for the resort’s economic benefits and opposition to his politics.
NYTIMES (Ana Ionova and Edward Wong) - Visa Issue Threatens U.S.-Brazil Cooperation on Crime
Officials say the Trump administration is blocking some of Brazil’s efforts to expand cooperation on fighting transnational crime.
NYTIMES (Tony Romm) - Inflation Complicates Trump’s Midterms Pitch to Voters
Gas prices are high, mortgage rates are climbing and inflation remains well above target, complicating the president’s midterm appeal.
NYTIMES (Tim Balk) - Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists
Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.