Auto Scrap Billionaire Who Paid To Send National Guard To Southern Border Sounds Off On Why He Did It  —  The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota's deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because …

Eric Adams Says He's the ‘Face of the New Democratic Party.’ Is He Right?  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  On the Democratic side of the New York mayoral contest, Eric Adams, the African-American former police captain …

Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson  —  In January 2013, the New York Times disclosed that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers.  Before issuing its report, the Times worked with AT&T, hired a computer security firm and took other precautions.  That process took several months.

Josh Mandel's staff quit campaign because of toxic work environment created by staffer in relationship with Mandel, sources say  —  Laura A. Bischoff Haley BeMillerThe Columbus Dispatch  —  At least two of the three fundraisers who quit Josh Mandel's U.S. Senate campaign in recent months …

Supreme Court allows eviction ban to remain in place  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled to keep the federal eviction moratorium to in place, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberals.  —  The decision is a blow …

Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory  —  Proponents of Critical Race Theory are resorting to semantic gaslighting to defend a dogma that most Americans instinctively abhor.  —  Some pundits claim that CRT is exclusively a school of thought taught in legal academia.

Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics  —  Mitch McConnell is more afraid of a big, party line bill than a smaller, bipartisan one, Democrats should take heed  —  Mitch McConnell is the physical embodiment of everything people hate about politics — self-interested, cynical, corrupt, and dishonest.

Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe  —  The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a select committee on the Capitol attack, but Republicans might choose firebrand conservatives to undercut the effort.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seen …

No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte  —  The decision by Representative James Clyburn to oppose an outspoken ally of Senator Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland highlights the generational and ideological gulf in the Democratic Party.

Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse  —  Your browser does not support the video element.  —  A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …

Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea UK incident  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week's Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation” to test Moscow's response.

Murkowski has the moxie to take on Trump.  Will she?  —  The Alaska Republican swatted her GOP challenger, boosted by the ex-president, as “somebody with a pulse.”  But she's also mum about reelection.  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “The Republican Party that I am proud to call myself a member of ... still is out there.”

Trump rally in Mobile's Battleship Park cancelled amid concerns of ‘partisan political event’: Report  —  Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly …

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