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: Grading the Census

An internal check finds the COVID-complicated count likely missed the mark in 14 states.

The Morning Dispatch: COVID Case Counts Creep Higher

Plus: What’s the deal with monkeypox?

The Morning Dispatch: After the Fall of Mariupol

Plus: Did Texas just break the internet?

The Morning Dispatch: Breaking Down Tuesday’s Primaries

Ted Budd up, Madison Cawthorn down, and other highlights from last night’s GOP contests in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

The Morning Dispatch: Grappling With the Buffalo Mass Shooting

Plus: U.S. troops to return to Somalia after most left in late 2020.

The Morning Dispatch: Sweden and Finland to Seek NATO Membership

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called Russia's Vladimir Putin Saturday to deliver the news.

The Morning Dispatch: New Leaders Elected in Philippines, Hong Kong

Plus: A report from pro-Roe protests outside SCOTUS homes.

The Morning Dispatch: Inflation is Tanking the Stock Market

Plus: We’re running low on baby formula.

The Morning Dispatch: Congress Poised to Send Ukraine Another $40 Billion in Aid

Is the United States’ weapons stockpile large enough to keep pace?

The Morning Dispatch: Hungary Resists EU Push to Ban Russian Oil

Budapest officials want a total exemption from the ban, or five years minimum to phase out usage.

The Morning Dispatch: Post-Roe Plans Come Into Focus

Groups on both sides of the abortion issue plan next steps if the Supreme Court upends abortion law.

The Morning Dispatch: Could a Roe Reversal Affect More than Just Abortion?

Plus: David Perdue struggles to find a rationale for his gubernatorial candidacy in Georgia.

The Morning Dispatch: Fed Moves on Inflation

Plus: An excerpt from the Dispatch Podcast interview with Sen. Mitt Romney.

The Morning Dispatch: Supreme Court Reportedly Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Plus: Explaining the Biden administration’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and previewing Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.

The Morning Dispatch: How Russia’s War on Ukraine Could Escalate

'If I were Vladimir Putin, it would be less humiliating to lose a war to the United States or NATO than it would be humiliating to lose a war to Ukraine.'