Trump’s top border official, Rodney Scott, unpacks wins and path forward

Satellite images show the loss of forest in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands between 1984 and 2022, mostly from expanding farmland. | Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the planet. Much of that deforestation has occurred in three countries: Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. But in the last few years, another, smaller nation has risen

In today’s issue: Democrats are feeling increasingly bullish about their prospects for the midterm elections with less than six months remaining before voters head to the polls. History is on their side, as the party out of power has typically gained seats in Congress in most midterms. But they’re starting to show signs of a chance to flip control of both...

Some of the people building AI have started acting like it might be dangerous.

A photo of law enforcement detaining the White House Correspondent’s dinner shooting suspect in Washington, DC, on the night of April 25, 2026. | US President Trump via Truth Social/Anadolu via Getty Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, is unusual among attempted assassins — in his normalcy.  His political grievances, laid out in a manifesto and social media posts, are not dissimilar from those of an ordinary Democrat. He believed that Pre