Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes  —  Schiff, D-Calif., will be required to stand on the House floor and receive a formal reprimand.  The resolution also directs the Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Schiff.

Republican Will Hurd announces he's running for president  —  Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced he's running for president on “CBS Mornings” Thursday.  —  “This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” Hurd told “CBS Mornings.”

Trump receives first batch of evidence against him in classified documents case, including audio tapes  —  Special counsel Jack Smith has begun producing evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to Donald Trump, according to a Wednesday court filing that hints that investigators collected …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor  —  A feud has been boiling between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert for months.  It finally reached a new level on Wednesday. … The messy feud between two of MAGA world's biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday …

Ex-FBI analyst who kept classified info in bathroom like Trump going to prison in KC case  —  A former FBI intelligence analyst from Dodge City, Kansas, who kept hundreds of classified documents at her home, including in her bathroom, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge …

KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat  —  KCCI's chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger is departing the station due in part to past threats he said stemmed from his coverage of climate change.  —  Gloninger announced the news on Twitter …

Alito's Reply in a Rival Publication Surprises ProPublica  —  The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica's article about him in its opinion pages.  —  The Wall Street Journal faced criticism on Wednesday after its highly unusual decision …

Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match … Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk's tweet with the caption “send me location.”

Russian Court Rejects Appeal to Release Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich  —  Wall Street Journal reporter had been ordered to remain in a Moscow prison until at least Aug. 30  —  A Russian court upheld the extended detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …

John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress  —  The former special counsel denied two essential facts of the Trump-Russia scandal.  —  John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI's investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal …

Court: Professor who went to strip club with students not ‘anti-male bias’ victim  —  George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting the public Virginia university where he works.  —  For the past four years, George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting …

September date set for Texas attorney general impeachment trial  —  The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to begin the historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sept. 5, and it approved rules that bar Paxton's wife from voting due to a conflict of interest.

Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away  —  Glaciers across the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere.  —  A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier …

U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid's Origins, Officials Say  —  The agencies are expected to release declassified material on what they have learned about Covid's origins.  People briefed on the material say there is no smoking gun.  —  Julian Barnes, a Washington-based intelligence reporter …

Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show ‘The Five’  —  Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him.

OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates … Public campaign finance records indicate that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate currently stuck on the missing Titan submersible that was running a tourist expedition of the Titanic wreck, has been a consistent Republican donor over the years.

The U.S. Population Is Older Than It Has Ever Been  —  New census data shows that the country's median age is now over 38.  In 1980, it was 30.  —  What's New  —  The median age in the United States reached a record high of 38.9 in 2022, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

Snctm sex club founder banned after naming Hunter Biden as former member  —  Damon Lawner, the founder of Snctm, has been banned from the high-end sex club after he publicly identified Hunter Biden as a former member.  The claim about President Biden's son was included in a Times profile of Lawner published Tuesday.

Money, it's a drag  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Nobody in JOE BIDEN's world of big money donors is sweating it — and least not yet.  —  But as the president sets …

Did Hunter Biden get a “sweetheart deal”?  —  In a May interview, President Joe Biden said that his son, Hunter, “has done nothing wrong.”  That turned out not to be true.  On Tuesday, Hunter Biden was charged with two misdemeanor counts of failure to pay income tax and one felony charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.

What the New, Low Test Scores for 13-Year-Olds Say About U.S. Education Now  —  What's New  —  The math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold-standard federal exam.

Jill Stein, 2016 Green Candidate, Now Running Cornel West's Bid  —  Cornel West, the Ivy League academic and progressive activist mounting a third-party campaign for president, has chosen former Green Party candidate Jill Stein to help him challenge to President Joe Biden from the left.

DOJ fires Black immigration judge in the ongoing purge of Trump hires  —  Pieters says Trump ties irked ‘sick’ liberals, made him a target  —  FRONT PAGE PODCAST  —  QUESTION OF THE DAY  —  Do you support using the U.S. military to help fight Mexican cartels?  —  Question of the Day