12+ hour, 6+ min ago   (125+ words) “Californian billionaires have poured nearly $40 million in fresh money into the campaign against a proposed wealth tax that will be on the state’s ballot this November,” the Financial Times reports. New York Post: Billionaire civil war brews between ex-Google bosses…...

12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (120+ words) “The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has flared up in the thick of the justices’ summer recess,” NewsNation reports. “President Trump is urging the justices to revive his mail ballot restrictions and allow White House ballroom construction to resume. It again…...

13+ hour, 55+ min ago   (180+ words) “Todd Blanche, the newly confirmed attorney general, refused to say on Sunday that he would always act independently of White House control but claimed during an interview that President Trump has ‘never’ demanded he prosecute specific people,” the New York…...

14+ hour, 2+ min ago   (139+ words) “President Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday to press them to carry out their commitment to disarm, according to two sources familiar with the meeting,” Axios reports. “This was Kushner’s first meeting with Hamas leaders…...

15+ hour, 34+ min ago   (158+ words) “President Trump’s vision for a White House ballroom stretches back more than a decade. His argument that it is ‘vital to our national security,’ which culminated Friday in an appeal to the Supreme Court, is far more recent,” the Wall…...

15+ hour, 31+ min ago   (162+ words) “Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump’s executive order last week targeting the childhood vaccine schedule, calling the action ‘a stupid thing to do,'” ABC News reports. Said Cassidy: “Let’s just take it from the perspective of the…...

15+ hour, 33+ min ago   (302+ words) “Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday that he hasn’t heard back from Sen. Mitch McConnell following formal requests for updates on his health last month amid a weekslong hospitalization that prompted widespread speculation and concern,” CBS News reports. Goddard spent…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (178+ words) “One bill proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13. Another would cut their lifetime terms to 18 years. Others would create an enforceable ethics code and place standards on how the court rules from its relatively opaque…...

20+ hour, 5+ min ago   (169+ words) Ron Brownstein: “Democrats this year are seriously contesting more races for governor and senator across the industrial Midwest and Farm Belt than at any point since the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency.” “The party still faces substantial skepticism from…...

20+ hour ago   (178+ words) David Smith: “He was always one step ahead. Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency as a wildly unlikely outsider in 2016 and staged an astonishing comeback to win it again in 2024. Even his foes grudgingly called him a political savant with…...