Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge  —  In the minutes and hours after the F.B.I.'s search of former President Donald J. Trump's residence in Florida this month, his supporters did not hesitate to denounce what they saw as a blatant abuse of power …

Trump Inquiry Fueled in Part by Concern Over Intelligence Sources  —  Documents related to the work of clandestine sources are some of the most sensitive and protected in the government.  F.B.I. agents found some in boxes retrieved from Donald J. Trump's home.

Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump's future grows  —  Payment disputes and a dwindling audience have fueled doubts about the former president's Twitter clone  —  Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny …

Roland Mesnier, White House pastry chef for a sweet quarter-century, dies at 78  —  He was a confident and methodical patissier who took as his motto ‘perfection is no accident’  —  Roland Mesnier, the French-born pastry chef who whipped up desserts for five presidents and dignitaries …

The Real Student Debt Debate  —  It's about the social order.  —  I have a new piece up for Slate on the history of debt relief as an essential safety valve for a functioning credit-based economy.  Hillary Frey is running a great shop over there, and I encourage you to read Mark Joseph Stern's piece …

Exclusive: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College  —  Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College …

Of all the legal threats Trump is facing, is this the one that could take him down?  —  The quiet workings of a Georgia grand jury hearing evidence of election fraud could represent the ex-president's greatest danger  —  Donald Trump's lawyers are earning their keep.

Promoting His Memoir, Kushner Offers Tortured Defenses of Trump  —  Jared Kushner, who spent his years in the White House evading responsibility for his father-in-law's most extreme moves, has had to answer for some of them on his book tour.  —  WASHINGTON — Making the rounds promoting his new memoir …

The reckless rage of the lawless  —  William S. Cohen is a former secretary of defense and former Republican senator from Maine.  William H. Webster is a former director of the FBI and the CIA and a retired judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

In DeSantis's Florida, Teachers Navigate Curriculum Restrictions  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis is battling what he calls “indoctrination” in schools.  New laws have left many teachers questioning everything from pride flags to “The Great Gatsby.”  —  Erin Brown, a teacher in St. Johns County …

Woman carrying fetus without a skull to seek abortion in another state following Louisiana ban  —  Louisiana woman denied an abortion despite baby's fatal birth defect  —  A Louisiana mother said she was denied an abortion even though doctors told her that her baby had a rare birth defect and would not survive.