Chuck Todd to leave NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Welker will become host  —  The transition will happen in September, a major change at one of broadcast television oldest institutions  —  Chuck Todd, who has served as moderator of NBC's Sunday-morning talk show “Meet the Press” since 2014 …

Biden has a theory of MAGA that just might be working  —  Now that Congress has passed the debt limit deal, explanations for President Biden's success in negotiating the outcome are abounding.  Among them: Biden drew on his long experience in Washington to achieve bipartisan compromise …

California is investigating after a private jet carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento, officials say  —  An investigation is underway after over a dozen migrants arrived in Sacramento, California, by private jet “with no prior arrangement or care in place,” Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta said Saturday.

Grand jury in Trump classified documents case expected to meet this coming week after hiatus  —  A grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case against former President Donald Trump is expected to meet this coming week in Washington after a lull.  —  The federal grand jury …

Pence readies for Trump showdown as 2024 launch approaches  —  When then-Vice President Mike Pence spoke outside Baltimore at the 2020 Republican National Convention, he declared: “America needs four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House.”  —  This week, when Pence officially …

Le Pen's far right served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report  —  Dogged by accusations of proximity to the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party had hoped to clear its name by setting up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate foreign interference in French politics.

What Republicans and Democrats are missing about threats to democracy  —  Political scientists are finally getting a better handle on how modern democratic systems can break down.  But the best research doesn't support the self-serving account the Western establishment has been offering since the Brexit and Donald Trump shocks of 2016.

NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine's counteroffensive  —  When Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by brigades armed not only with Western weapons but also Western know-how, gleaned from months of training aimed …

Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad, too vague  —  Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says.  The law is both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” and encouraged …

Target gets caught in cultural crossfire over Pride Month items  —  Some shoppers have become more emboldened to engage in confrontational, even threatening, behavior over polarizing social issues.  —  Brandishing her own scissors in front of guest services in a Target store in south Florida …

'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht  — Holy moly did CNN boss Chris Licht get smoked by The Atlantic.  — I was at a conference with other media bosses when the story dropped.  I asked them what they thought. - “He needs a handler — fast.”

Ramaswamy: ‘America First’ agenda doesn't ‘belong to Trump’  —  Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday that the “America First” agenda does not “belong” to former President Donald Trump, and pledged to “take that agenda even further.”  —  “'America First' does not belong to Trump.

DNA Test Proves Ex-Wrestler Not Lauren Boebert's Father  —  Stan Lane has been dogged by accusations that he got the congresswoman's mother pregnant during a brief affair. … For years, Rep. Lauren Boebert's mother has maintained that a retired professional wrestler named Stan Lane …

New Hampshire Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Kill U.S. Senator  —  In a voice mail message, the man told the senator was that he was “a dead man walking,” according to federal court documents.  He was angry about the blocking of military promotions, prosecutors said.