Wall Street Journal: “North Carolina, Wyoming, Florida and Oklahoma all have some kind of property-tax limit or rollback on the ballot this November. This follows bills passed in more than 10 states since early last year, including Iowa and Georgia recently, aimed at hemming in a growing source of frustration for many homeowners. Lawmakers in […]

“U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump that was relayed by Israel and prompted an extraordinary clandestine maneuver that saw him secretly fly out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft,” the Washington Post reports. “The assassination threat was relayed by the Israeli government to the CIA, where […]

A new Fox News poll in Maine finds Troy Jackson (D) tops Sen. Susan Collins (R) by 2 percentage points in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 46%, well within the poll’s margin of error.

“Rep. Max Miller’s ex-wife filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the Ohio Republican and his attorney, alleging that they ‘recklessly published’ a nude image of Miller’s 2-year-old daughter online,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals use to launder money and traffic drugs,” the New York Times reports.

“As Paramount Skydance looks to close its pending $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, the David Ellison-led media giant has considered creating an oversight board at CNN to quell concerns about the network’s editorial independence under the combined company,” The Wrap reports.

New York Times: “Researchers have not linked the combination MMR shot to a risk of death, and there is no evidence that it is dangerous or that splitting it into its three components is any safer or more effective, vaccine experts said. Combination shots for the diseases have been used in the United States since […]

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“Sen. Elizabeth Warren is well known for her progressive stances on ‘Medicare for All’ and taxing the rich. But over the past year, the senior Democratic senator from Massachusetts has collaborated with a number of conservative Republicans,” NOTUS reports. “Warren partnered with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina to overwhelmingly pass a bill aimed at […]

“As U.S. employers brace for the largest price hikes on employee health plans in 15 years, a growing number are opting out of group insurance altogether,” Bloomberg reports. “Instead of providing medical benefits directly, more than 20,000 companies entered Health Reimbursement Arrangements in 2026. That’s an increase of 53% from last year.” “Under the HRA […]

“The Senate GOP’s elections chief said Michigan voters have a clear-cut choice: pick a Trump-backed Republican or support an insurgent progressive who is ‘for Hamas,'” Fox News reports. Said Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC): “By going with El-Sayed, you’re talking about socialism, Marxism, communism, and someone who seems to just not like America. The only thing […]

“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the role, will leave the administration at the end of the month,” the Associated Press reports. President Trump announced the move in a social-media post, saying Leavitt wanted to spend more time with her family.

“More than a year after gutting the main federal office tasked with securing U.S. elections and weeks after ousting the remaining members of a key bipartisan election assistance agency, the Trump administration is offering to help states guard their systems ahead of the midterms,” NBC News reports. “It’s assistance that some Democratic secretaries of state […]

New York Times: “The new information about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s private life is coming alongside a spate of speculation that she’s preparing to run for president. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has said she hasn’t ruled out a presidential run or a run for Senate, could now be navigating a possible national or statewide campaign as a young, […]

“Donald Trump’s social media company has been leaning on Wall Street’s fear of missing out in its pitch for a controversial new subscription to faster feeds from the president’s Truth Social account,” Bloomberg reports. “More than ten customers — mostly high-speed trading firms — have signed up for its new Truth API service, executives told […]

“In a never-ending news cycle, any fresh data is quick to draw eyes and make headlines, like it or not…” Politico reports. “Still, the recent misses — asterisks aside — are making operatives and reporters alike question their usefulness ahead of wide open presidential primaries in 2028.”

Politico Poll: “The cost of living remains the top issue across the board, including a 54 percent majority of Trump voters. But many of those voters are sour over his handling of it — particularly those who backed Trump in 2024 but do not identify as MAGA.” “A 41 percent plurality of non-MAGA Trump voters […]

“A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was allegedly living with and had a romantic relationship with at the time,” CNN reports.

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley (D) did just enough down the stretch of the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary to edge out far-left state Rep. Francesca Hong (D).” “Crowley enters the fall campaign as a modest favorite to hold the Wisconsin governorship for Democrats. If Hong had won, the race would have […]

“Senior officials of the World Health Organization, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, criticized the Trump administration’s newest attempt to trigger an overhaul of U.S. vaccination policy on Wednesday, calling it politically motivated and contradictory to the best available science,” Stat reports.

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has moved ahead of California Gov. Gavin Newsom in early prediction-market odds for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination,” NewsNation reports. “As of Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez had an 18% chance of winning the Democratic nomination on Polymarket, narrowly ahead of Newsom at 17%.” “Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff ranked third at about 16%.”

“The Trump administration again on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene — and fast — to save President Trump’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service to place new nationwide limits on mail voting ahead of the November midterms,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “It did so after a lower court judge blocked the […]

“U.S. Army troops faced off against Ukrainian drone operators at a military exercise in Germany earlier this year. It didn’t go well for the Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “During the exercise, called Combined Resolve, Ukrainian drone units easily spotted and defeated U.S. troops and armored vehicles on rotation from Fort Hood in Texas.”

“It’s no secret when I ran for the legislature in 2000, I was a Republican. And I had no idea. All I cared about was getting into the legislature because that seemed to be the place that I could fix some of the problems that were happening in my area. I would’ve ran as anything, […]

“Minnesotans on Tuesday selected all female Republican and Democratic nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, the first time that a state’s ballot for those offices features only women from the major parties,” the Washington Post reports.

“Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) will have at least one Pennsylvania Democrat he doesn’t have to worry about should he run for a second term in the Senate,” the Washington Examiner reports. “Sen. John Fetterman, his home state colleague, told the Washington Examiner he won’t campaign against McCormick in 2030, an unusual promise from a member […]

Hollywood Reporter: “When Michele Tafoya became the Republican nominee for Senate from Minnesota Tuesday night, the longtime Sunday Night Football reporter made a resounding entrance onto the political stage. Tafoya collected more than twice as many votes as her nearest opponent, a former Navy SEAL…” “But Tafoya also sent a different signal with her win: […]

Associated Press: “Democrats remain mixed over what ideological direction the party should take. But across a series of closely watched primaries, they are sending a clearer message about the party’s path forward: They want change…” “The results so far this month deliver no clear ideological mandate. Instead, they add to mounting evidence from this year’s […]

“The Trump administration is dispatching top officials to help campaign for Iowa Republican candidates over the coming days, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker,” CBS News reports.

Jonathan Last: “For all the carping about polls, they’re usually correct. Even in the big surprise elections, like 2016, the polling was mostly accurate: Trump’s results were within the margin of error in almost every state.” “But sometimes there are misses. It’s useful to look at the polling in Wisconsin to understand what happened last […]