“President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports,” Semafor reports. “The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama football coach Nick Saban to dial up undecided lawmakers.” “Trump has become […]

Philadelphia Inquirer: “It was with this same spirit last summer that Shapiro announced the largest single private sector investment in Pennsylvania history: Amazon committed $20 billion in Pennsylvania that included two data center campuses in Luzerne and Bucks Counties. Pennsylvania scored the project because of its promise to fast-track permitting and use tax breaks for […]

“Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, the most vulnerable Democratic governor in the country, announced a former Republican as her running mate for reelection Tuesday, assembling a politically rare ticket in an era when partisanship reigns supreme,” the Washington Post reports. “Hobbs chose John Giles, the former mayor of Mesa who was a lifelong Republican until he […]

Bloomberg: “The loss of a paycheck often coincides with new legal fees, detention-related expenses and childcare costs, sometimes pushing an already-vulnerable family deeper into poverty.”

“House Democrats are pushing the Trump administration to release records related to the felony prosecution of a former Olympian who had been accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, questioning whether prosecutors were misled in an attempt to conceal a ‘botched’ renovation,” the Washington Post reports.

New York Times: “The strikes reveal a deadly confluence of two important trends: First, Iran has become a more skilled adversary as the war has progressed, learning how to evade U.S. air defenses as it widened the battlefield to include most of the Middle East and enlisted allies like the Houthis in Yemen and militias […]

President Trump was interviewed by Wayne Allyn Root on America’s Voice: ROOT: You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. If you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail ballots. TRUMP: Let me just say stranger things have happened. […]

“Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that the Trump administration appears to be on its ‘back foot’ strategically in the nearly six-month war with Iran, despite heavy damage inflicted on the nation by U.S. military strikes,” NewsNation reports. Said Esper: “Tactically, we have imposed a lot of pain on them through our U.S. military […]

Nate Silver just released his new midterm election forecast. Democrats currently have a 57.3% chance at winning control of the U.S. Senate and a 86.6% chance of winning the U.S. House.

Peter Wehner: “So what explains the rage directed at one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation? Some of it is the result of an era in which a major political party—in this case, the Republican Party—has become deranged and captive to conspiratorial thinking. It draws energy from the dark passions.” “Many people within […]

“The U.S. is running ‘dangerously low’ on the key munitions used during the war against Iran, according to a Bloomberg Economics report published Tuesday,” Bloomberg reports. “The Pentagon’s stocks of hard-to-replace air defense interceptors are ‘critically low,’ while long-range missile supplies are ‘under pressure.'” “The report found the U.S. has likely fired more than half […]

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“President Donald Trump said he would examine whether the federal government can stop New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax, which was temporarily blocked by a state court,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump in a social media post on Tuesday argued that the policy was costing the city by driving away wealthy people who would […]

New York Times: “In the days since Dr. El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Republican leaders have embraced Islamophobic attacks and falsehoods…” “The onslaught is being fueled in part by Republican Party officials and has quickly become a central aspect of the strategy to beat Dr. El-Sayed in the fall. Few officials in the […]

“Bill Clinton’s White House used a similar plane-change maneuver in 2000. But unlike July’s flight, the press corps was briefed on the operation and its dangers,” the Washington Post reports.

“Food companies largely dodged a regulatory hammer Monday after the Trump administration proposed overhauling how ingredients are introduced into the food supply,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“President Donald Trump compared the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine to a nuclear bomb being set off inside a kid’s body during a Tuesday interview,” Mediaite reports. Said Trump: “If you give them separately — the M, the M, and the R, it’s fine. When you put them together, they’re sort of like a nuclear […]

“Russia has released an American military veteran who spent more than four years in prison on disputed charges under abusive conditions and was said to be gravely ill and at risk of dying,” the Associated Press reports. South China Morning Post: Russia frees ailing ex-U.S. marine after Putin’s “goodwill” pardon.

“A congressional primary in Connecticut on Tuesday provides one of the clearest tests yet of Democratic voters’ desire for generational change in the party,” the Washington Post reports. “Former Hartford mayor Luke Bronin, 47, is waging the latest rebellion against an entrenched incumbent, John B. Larson, who is 78 and running for his 15th term. […]

“President Donald Trump has long argued that who is counting the votes can matter nearly as much as who is on the ballot — a view that has helped turn the mechanics of elections into their own political battleground,” Fox News reports. “That fight is becoming more organized, more expensive and more sophisticated ahead of […]

“The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, after finding that the popular social media app no longer poses a national security threat following the shift of its U.S. operations to American investors,” Bloomberg reports.

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“Hungarian lawmakers elected former Supreme Court Justice Andras Baka as the country’s new president, in a key step toward dismantling the political legacy of former Premier Viktor Orban,” Bloomberg reports. “Parliament approved Baka’s election by 140 votes with 6 against, based on the ruling party’s more than two-thirds majority controlled by Prime Minister Peter Magyar.”

“President Trump has chosen Dennis Kirk, a co-author of the right-wing road map known as Project 2025, as inspector general for the Interior Department, a role that would oversee any review of the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” the New York Times reports. “The White House announced the nomination of Mr. Kirk, a […]

David Graham: “When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he was nursing grudges and claiming a mandate. The institutions he saw as his enemies—in politics, business, and education—faced a dilemma about how to respond.” “A few concluded that they should resist the president’s demands of fealty and collaboration. Another group tried appeasement, […]

“U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged ship that attempted to run the American blockade of Iranian ports early Tuesday, a U.S. official said, stepping up enforcement as the Trump administration attempts to squeeze the regime economically,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Bloomberg: Trump ready to let economic pressure build on Iran.

“President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “I have not spoken to them about that, no.”

Wall Street Journal: “Hunter Biden is suddenly the one with the megaphone. He’s everywhere: tweeting, appearing on podcasts, talking about America and, often, Trump. He is in front of audiences that in the past might have viewed Hunter Biden as an archetypal villain. Maybe they still do.” “For much of Biden’s presidency, Hunter Biden’s life, […]

“Former Biden administration officials are contending with a new reality: Future administrations won’t have a choice but to confront the way the Trump administration has disrupted how the government works,” NOTUS reports. “That’s the premise of a new set of proposals published Tuesday in the law and policy journal Just Security, authored by several former […]

“Republicans aiming to flip Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District after redrawing the heavily Black district in their favor will pick their nominee Tuesday to challenge U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures, the Democratic incumbent who is seeking a second term despite the political headwinds,” the Associated Press reports. “The district is one of several Democratic-leaning districts across the […]