Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says  —  The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine's war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young …

Ron DeSantis, Down in Polls and Taking Flak From Donald Trump, Looks to Rebound  —  Florida governor and allies work to sharpen message in TV ad and early primary states  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies are sharpening their message nationally and in early GOP primary states …

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech  —  Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, Mission Local is told that San Francisco police …

Appeals court preserves partial access to abortion pill, but with tighter rules  —  A federal appeals court preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail.

Audio with Fox News shows Trump team privately admitted lacking evidence on Dominion claim  —  Alex Wagner shares exclusive audio recordings made by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while she was a producer for Maria Bartiromo that show members of Donald Trump's team being less confident …

Trump Faces Questioning in N.Y. Attorney General's Lawsuit  —  Letitia James, the attorney general, has sued Donald J. Trump and three of his children, accusing them of a “staggering” fraud.  —  Donald J. Trump was being questioned under oath on Thursday in a civil fraud lawsuit brought …

Feinstein, Under Pressure to Resign, Asks to Step Down From Judiciary Panel  —  The 89-year-old California Democrat, who has been absent from the Senate for more than a month after being diagnosed with shingles, said she would seek a temporary replacement on the powerful committee.

Special counsel focuses on Trump fundraising off false election claims  —  A new batch of subpoenas seeks to compare public claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election versus private texts and emails  —  Federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol …

Tim Scott Looks at Joe Biden and Thinks Civil War  —  SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR TIM SCOTT, one of those affable Republicans often touted as “the future” of an optimistic, inclusive GOP, carefully selected the timing and location for the announcement of his exploratory committee for his party's 2024 presidential nomination.

Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP  —  Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur's (D-Ohio) office.

Trump steps into center of youth-led “Tennessee Three” backlash  —  Former President Trump will travel this week to Nashville, the epicenter of a growing youth-led backlash over the Tennessee House's expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers for joining protests against gun violence.

The Court Is Likely to Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory  —  And that offers hope for American democracy  —  It is often difficult, if not impossible, to tell what the Supreme Court is thinking about a case from the questions the justices ask counsel.

4/13/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  There are a few behind-the-scenes developments happening on the debt limit that we want to share with you. … The legislation would lift the debt limit until May 2024.  Leadership is considering either a cap on non-defense discretionary spending …

The RNC chose Fox for first debate but rankled conservatives by entertaining CNN  —  The committee got the easy debate decision out of the way.  The ones after that are a lot harder.  —  A line of TV network executives made a pilgrimage to the Republican National Committee's headquarters …

Whitmer signs gun control bills passed in response to deadly MSU shooting  —  East Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed bills to combat gun violence Thursday, two months after a mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University left three students dead and five injured.

Jim Jordan's new stunt reveals the folly of ‘governing by Fox News’  —  Who could have predicted that structuring congressional hearings around the overriding goal of generating content for Fox News would prove to be a recipe for buffoonish failure?  —  After winning the House last November …

Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain  —  Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic's Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled.  If you've been in kids' books for more than ten minutes then you are aware of the staggering reach of Scholastic.

BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020  —  Footage has been unearthed of disgraced Tennessee state representative Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in 2020.  —  Minute Read

Scoop: Biden's pick for Labor looking doubtful  —  President Biden's nomination of Julie Su as Labor secretary is in serious danger, as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has told the Biden administration he has deep reservations about her, according to people familiar with the situation.

If at first you don't succeed, defund the public library  —  Across the country, right-wing activists and politicians are pushing to ban hundreds of books from public school libraries.  While this is often described as an effort to remove “pornography” from school libraries …

‘There is no legislation’: As TN governor calls for gun reform, no GOP lawmakers say they're working on it  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Tuesday, Gov. Bill Lee stood alone as he asked for lawmakers to pass a bill to keep guns away from dangerous people.  However, it isn't clear who is working to write that legislation.

Investigators ‘getting close’ to identifying US intelligence leaker: Biden  —  President Biden on Thursday said that investigators are “getting close” to identifying the source of a U.S. intelligence leak that revealed details about the war in Ukraine and U.S. spying efforts on some of its closest allies.

House GOP Subpoenas FTC for Twitter Investigation Documents  —  House committee says agency is making burdensome demands as part of privacy probe  —  WASHINGTON—The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Federal Trade Commission for documents related to the agency's …

Former Trump AG Bill Barr joins new business lobbying group that aims to target Biden regulations  — Bill Barr, who was attorney general in President Donald Trump's administration, is becoming the chairman of an advisory board for a project called the Center for Legal Action …

Josh Green's new book on the populist left  —  Josh Green of Bloomberg Businessweek will be out Jan. 9 with “The Rebels,” a book about the populism on the left that was galvanized by the 2007-08 financial crisis. … - “The Rebels,” he says, is “about the rise of left-wing populism …

Record Party Gap on Environment-Economic Growth Tradeoff  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though Democrats and Republicans have long come down on different sides when considering the tradeoffs between economic growth and environmental protection, the gap between the parties has never been larger.