UPDATED SCOOP: Biden and Trump camps have had direct, private, informal back-channel discussions about debates in recent weeks, focused on events outside the commission system. w Josh Dawsey washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

For the second year in a row, Peter Wallsten wins a Pulitzer for shepherding coverage of one of the country’s most difficult and polarizing issues. He edits with patience, an open mind, and an unflinching commitment to telling stories that don’t let you look away.

Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Sarah Conway City Bureau Invisible Institute Reuters Congratulations to The Washington Post. #Pulitzer

Bill Daley: “To analogize what’s going on in the country today with 1968 is ridiculous. Only people who weren’t alive in ’68 have that idiotic perception.”

But Daley said he’s heard more angst in recent days about the scenes that might unfold this August

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Hope Hicks and Trump have not spoken since late 2022, when she was compelled to testify before Congress about Jan. 6.

Now, she’s set to appear in court talking about Trump again: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Attorney General Merrick Garland will formally make the recommendation to the Office of Management and Budget TODAY to reschedule marijuana

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Post Exclusive: Indian spy agency secretly directed assassination plot on U.S. soil as part of global repression campaign targeting Sikh dissidents. Gerry Shih Ellen Nakashima wapo.st/3w3RrgT

TONIGHT on the #sundayshow :

Adrienne Broaddus
Congresswoman Kathy Manning
Congressman Jamaal Bowman
Adam Klasfeld
Jim Wallis
Ameshia Cross
Joe Walsh
Tyler Pager
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There are threats made every day now, and no way to count them all. This is the story of what happened to a man who told Marjorie Taylor Greene, “You spread hatred, and you’re gonna pay for it”: washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

The front page of today’s Wall Street Journal.

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Joe Biden told aides that Thursday's event with the Kennedys was one of the best days of his campaign.

Meanwhile, in private conversations, the Kennedys have tried to get RFK Jr. to reconsider. It hasn't worked.

On Biden and the Kennedys:

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Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency after alleged 2015 gun incident washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

New excerpt of FINISH WHAT WE STARTED just dropped! The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

New: The Biden campaign’s internal polling has found that abortion outranks the Gaza war in importance to many voters

More in my look at the Biden playbook for abortion and how officials hope it’s a silver bullet for the president’s struggles

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Biden and Kishida in the Rose Garden

In audio I obtained, former WH Chief Ron Klain told a crowd 'the president is out there too much talking about bridges. He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge.'

Says the focus should be on prices.

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Biden in Madison, Wisconsin to announce his newest plan to cancel student debt

Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…