Inside Trump world's fury at McCarthy  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MY, KEVIN — Former President DONALD TRUMP has catapulted the career of many a Republican over the past eight years, elevating backbenchers into stars and breathing new relevance into more than a few GOP has-beens.

‘It was bravado’: Trump says he wasn't holding up classified documents in 2021 meeting  —  The News  —  Former President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was not showing off classified documents in an audio clip first published by CNN in which he referred to “highly confidential” …

Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka  —  Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book.  —  The comments are used by Taylor …

Russian General Knew About Mercenary Chief's Rebellion Plans, U.S. Officials Say  —  Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, may have believed he had support in Russia's military.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  A senior Russian general had advance knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin's plans …

Exclusive — Rising Conservative Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Regularly Espoused Racist and Anti-Semitic Sentiments in Private Messages  —  Pedro Gonzalez, a rising conservative influencer and politics editor of Chronicles magazine, regularly in 2019 and 2020 sent racist and antisemitic messages …

Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll with his own claims of defamation  —  The former magazine writer was awarded millions in a lawsuit against Trump.  —  Former President Donald Trump is now suing the writer who sued him for defamation.  —  Trump is accusing E. Jean Carroll of defaming him when …

The Supreme Court Rejected a Dangerous Elections Theory.  But It's Not All Good News.  —  Mr. Pildes is a legal scholar who analyzes the intersection of politics and law and how they affect our democracy.  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper rejected the most extreme version …

Most Americans support US arming Ukraine -Reuters/Ipsos  —  Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.

Introducing Our Brand-New Polling Averages  —  As you may have heard, there have been some changes at FiveThirtyEight recently.  While it will be strange around here without our founder Nate Silver, his models and his oddly strong opinions about states, there are also some things that aren't going away …

Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.'s Handling of Hunter Biden Case  —  An I.R.S. investigator's testimony describing strains over the inquiry into President Biden's son is at odds with the version laid out by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  —  At a Senate hearing in March …

N.J. AG investigating ‘shakedown’ claims tied to power broker George Norcross' Camden waterfront developments, sources say  —  South Jersey Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III has found himself under scrutiny from state and federal authorities repeatedly over the last two decades.They've tapped …

The Arraignment That Wasn't  —  It is a Tuesday morning in Miami, and once again, I find myself arriving at the federal courthouse at an ungodly hour.  I should acknowledge an improvement; this time, I have at least arrived on the right day, rather than a full rotation of the Earth before the hearing is scheduled to begin.

Ron DeSantis voted for the First Step Act and hailed its ‘successes.’ He now calls it ‘the jailbreak bill’  —  On the campaign trail, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has attacked Donald Trump's signature prison reform bill, calling it a “jailbreak bill” and claiming it “allowed dangerous people …

'We're Coming For Your Children' chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it's taken out of context  —  Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.  —  Over the weekend, a short video circulated widely on social media …

RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu  —  The 2024 presidential hopeful hosted a panel with some of the loudest vaccine skeptics in the nation … During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza …

Have you heard the one about the old president?  Well, Biden has a joke for you  —  In the past two weeks, Biden has increasingly made his age the punchline, an NBC News analysis of his remarks found.  —  'I know I'm 198 years old': Biden cracks jokes about his age in speeches  —  WASHINGTON — He's been 198.

Judge signals he'll let Trump hush money case stay in state court  —  A federal judge did not appear inclined to move a New York state case against Donald Trump to federal court, suggesting on Tuesday that the prosecution stemming from hush money payments had little to do with his conduct while president.

After 27 tries, Chinese millionaire considers giving up on college entrance exam  —  “Universities are sacred in my heart,” said Liang Shi, 56, who has been trying for 40 years to get a satisfactory score on the grueling test, known as the gaokao.  —  HONG KONG — The 27th time was not the charm …

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