The Morning Dispatch

Every weekday morning, Mary Trimble and Grayson Logue provide an essential news briefing, along with original reporting and analysis on the day’s biggest stories.

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The Morning Dispatch: BBBack From the Dead

Plus: Fighting over the definition of "recession."

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The Morning Dispatch: How Monkeypox Containment is Failing

'If we have allowed monkeypox to become an endemic virus in the U.S. ... it will be among the most unfortunate public health failures in recent times.'

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The Morning Dispatch: Bipartisan Senate Group Unveils Electoral Count Act Reform

Plus: The diplomatic and logistical headaches surrounding Nancy Pelosi's proposed trip to Taiwan.

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The Morning Dispatch: ‘Russia is Using Energy as a Weapon’

How the European Union is responding to Vladimir Putin’s energy blackmail.

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The Morning Dispatch: Russia Still Wants to Destroy Ukraine as We Know It

Plus: The Dispatch’s pirate skiff continues to grow.

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The Morning Dispatch: Donald Trump’s Inaction on January 6

The latest House select committee meeting covers 187 minutes of chaos at the Capitol and White House advisers’ attempts to urge the president to intervene.

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The Morning Dispatch: The January 6 Committee Presses the Secret Service

Plus: A heatwave wreaks havoc across Europe and America.

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The Morning Dispatch: Will Joe Biden Be the 2024 Democratic Nominee?

His polling numbers are down and potential challengers are doing little to tamp down speculations that they’ll run.

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The Morning Dispatch: The Regulations That Bought the (Dutch) Farm

Plans to cut emissions in the Netherlands will cause some farmers to lose their livelihoods, and they’re not happy about it.

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The Morning Dispatch: Spiking Greitens

As the disgraced former Missouri governor aims for political resurrection, outside groups are pouring in money to remind voters of his alleged past behavior.

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The Morning Dispatch: What’s Keeping Brittney Griner in Russia

Russia has hinted it wants a detainee swap to release the WNBA superstar, but U.S. officials are leery of the terms.

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The Morning Dispatch: June’s Very Bad, No Good Inflation Report

Plus: Putin takes ‘operational pause’ in war against Ukraine, but continues violence in the region.

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The Morning Dispatch: January 6, Not So Spontaneous

'We basically were just following what he said.'

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The Morning Dispatch: What’s Next for Protest-Wracked Sri Lanka

An economic meltdown has led to widespread protest and the resignation of top Sri Lankan officials.

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The Morning Dispatch: Some Surprisingly Good Jobs Numbers

Suppose they gave a recession and nobody came?

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The End of ‘Pen and Phone’

SCOTUS strikes a blow against the lawmaking authority of the regulatory bureaucracy.

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