‘Kind of Wild/Creative’: Emails Shed Light on Trump Fake Electors Plan  —  Previously undisclosed communications among Trump campaign aides and outside advisers provide new insight into their efforts to overturn the election in the weeks leading to Jan. 6.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights  —  (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end, but May's unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the effort …

Biden Considers New Pause on Paying Back Student Loans, $10,000 Relief  —  President Joe Biden is considering extending a pause on student loan repayments for several more months, as well as forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower, according to people familiar with the matter …

Ex-VP Chief Marc Short: ‘There Would Have Been A Massacre In The Capitol That Day’ If Rioters Had Gotten Closer to Pence  —  Former VP Chief of Staff Marc Short said if rioters had gotten any closer to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 “there would have been a massacre that day in the Capitol.”

Trump Says LIV Golf Has Been Worth ‘Billions of Dollars’ in Publicity for Saudi Arabia  —  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal before his Bedminster course hosts the Saudi-backed circuit, the former president said LIV Golf has been a ‘great thing’ for the kingdom's image

China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Access Data, a Probe Says  —  The investigation by Senate Republicans found that the decadelong effort included detaining a Fed economist in China  —  China tried to build a network of informants inside the Federal Reserve system …

Former Missouri governor's bid for Senate sinking amid domestic abuse ads  —  National and state Republicans have spent a year hoping someone — anyone — would prevent disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens from becoming the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri.

Trump Returns to D.C. and His Minions Can't Wait to Knife Each Other  —  THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...  “It's a mile wide and an inch deep,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast of the nonprofit where Trump will speak on Tuesday.  —  Former President Donald Trump's first return to Washington …

Russia to withdraw from International Space Station  —  Russia on Tuesday announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024, signaling an end of an era in one of the last remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States.

Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare  —  New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.

A repulsive new breed of Trumpist candidates poses a fresh threat  —  Donald Trump is delivering a speech Tuesday in which he proclaims to be for law and order.  He is doing this half a mile from the Capitol, where he incited numerous crimes on his behalf amid an extraordinarily corrupt …

Democrats boost right-wing challenger to GOP Trump foe … National Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost a far-right, Trump-endorsed conspiracy theorist in one of the most closely watched House races in the country — further endangering one of the 10 House Republicans …

Listen To The Speech A Republican Lawmaker Gave At His Gay Son's Wedding Days After Voting Against Marriage Equality  —  “We're just blessed, and we just want to say thank you to everyone here as part of the celebration,” said Rep. Glenn Thompson, three days after voting against codifying marriage equality in federal law.

Someone gave our daughter a White doll.  How do we, um, ‘disappear’ it?  —  We still don't know how it got into our house.  Maybe it was a present from my mother-in-law.  (She regularly sneaks toys and snacks to our kids like they're prisoners and Cheetos gets them phone card minutes.)

EXCLUSIVE: It's Alyssa!  ABC is set to name Trump's WH comms director Alyssa Farah Griffin as Meghan McCain's replacement on The View and will join the panel full time in September for show's 26th season  — Alyssa Farah Griffin, 33, will be the new permanent conservative co-host on The View, DailyMail.com can reveal

Will Republicans Shut Out the Press in 2024?  —  GOP politicians are increasingly shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 events, and skipping debates—an aversion to media scrutiny that could upend how the next presidential election cycle is covered.

Red states are building a nation within a nation  —  (CNN)It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden's administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy.

District attorney behind charges in Zeldin incident scrutinized for campaign ties  —  Also: State data shows charged offense in case of candidate's would-be attacker was rare, only filed once in Monroe County in 2021  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate

What in the World Happened to Elise Stefanik?  —  There was a time in 2016 when Elise Stefanik, now the third-ranking Republican in the House, was so disgusted by Donald Trump, she would barely mention his name.  Today he proudly refers to her as “one of my killers.”  —  She proved that again last month.

First on CNN: Jill Biden's press secretary leaving White House  —  (CNN)Michael LaRosa, the press secretary for first lady Dr. Jill Biden, is departing the White House, a White House official told CNN.  —  LaRosa began serving as Biden's spokesperson in 2019 during the presidential campaign …

Why Jessica Ramos Went After AOC  —  To the various moderate Democrats and outright conservatives in politics and media, the spectacle was too delicious to pass up — a self-identified progressive was going to war with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  —  Jessica Ramos, a state senator who represents …

Voter vs. voter: Georgia conservatives target thousands for cancellation  —  Georgia election law empowers residents to challenge voter eligibility  —  Bearing long lists of voters' names, a determined group of Republicans is asking local election boards to cancel thousands of Georgia voter registrations …

Support for Biden Re-Election Bid Plummets Among NH Dems; Biden & Buttigieg Tied in NH 2024 Democratic Primary 7/26/2022  —  Only one-fifth of Granite Staters want President Biden to seek another term in 2024 and support among Democrats has fallen dramatically since last summer.

My Amy Wax Problem  —  Jonathan Zimmerman writes that academic freedom protects Amy Wax's right to speak her mind—but not her reported discriminatory behavior toward students and colleagues.  —  (University of Pennsylvania)  —  “Jonathan, you may know by now that Penn has begun …

Saying Goodbye to My Father from Half a World Away  —  Remembering a failed politician, political prisoner, lifelong Communist—and the best man I have ever known.  —  When my father passed away last week in Gorgan, Iran, I had not seen him for eight years.

On ECA: Don't Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good  —  Why Marc Elias is wrong.  Again.  —  Happy Tuesday.  Some potential BFDs to keep on eye on today:  —  “Top Pence Aides Testify to Grand Jury in Jan. 6 Investigation.” … Former DOJ/Mueller probe prosecutor Andrew Weissman tweeted:

Abolish State Senates  —  What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures. … At first glance, California state Sen. Richard Richards might have seemed an exceptionally powerful lawmaker in 1960.  The just-completed census revealed that Los Angeles County …

Blake Masters Wants to Be Trump 2.0  —  Peter Thiel's protege is clobbering a former Top Gun pilot in the Arizona Senate race.  How did this happen?  —  PHOENIX—Blake Masters was about to duck into this GOP candidates forum thing—this was in Mesa, late morning, early summer …

Portrait of Bravery: Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska  —  There is no script for first ladies in wartime, and so Olena Zelenska is writing her own.  The wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a longtime comedy writer, always preferred to stay behind the scenes, while her husband …