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.

Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer  —  Donald Trump's “naked sexism,” including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name “Anonymous.”

Conservative Court, Moderate Decision  —  A bipartisan Supreme Court majority preserved democratic checks and balances.  —  Yesterday, the Supreme Court took a step in a high-profile case to preserve democratic checks and balances.  —  The details of the case, Moore v. Harper, can sound technical.

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 …

Biden vs. Trump: Toss Up In Pennsylvania, Trump Leads GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Voters Give Gov. Shapiro High Marks, Especially On I-95 Handling  —  mail_outline  —  In a state considered key to presidential elections, former President Donald Trump is leading …

How Migrants Flown to Martha's Vineyard Came to Call It Home  —  Florida flew 49 migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave last year.  Since then, a few of them have found work, friends and a new life on the wealthy island.  —  Reporting from Edgartown, Mass.

Lowell Weicker, Connecticut governor and U.S. senator, dies at 92  —  Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who swaggered through three terms as Connecticut's last Republican senator, challenging Richard Nixon over Watergate and the GOP's rightward shift under Ronald Reagan, then willed the state's income tax …

Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation  —  Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after a jury found he sexually abused the former magazine columnist and defamed her.  —  In a counter claim filed Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared …

Death Toll Climbs in Kramatorsk Restaurant Hit by Russian Missile  —  The Ria Lounge eatery, known to many as Ria Pizza, was a long-running haunt popular with Ukrainian soldiers, foreign journalists and aid workers.  —  KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Rescuers were combing through the rubble …

IRS whistleblower defends claims Hunter Biden got special treatment from the Justice Department  —  IRS agent Gary Shapley has come forward with claims the Justice Department stalled its Hunter Biden investigation  —  Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley defended his claims …

Giuliani Sat for Voluntary Interview in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  The one-time personal lawyer for Donald Trump answered questions from federal prosecutors about the former president's efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss.  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served …

Arizona county elections director resigns, citing politicization and ‘intimidation’  —  Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote that “you idly stood by when I was attacked” in an email to the county's manager.  —  An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday …

Gun Violence Widely Viewed as a Major - and Growing - National Problem  —  U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety  —  U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety  —  How we did this

The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People  —  It's the final week of the Supreme Court session and, incredibly, we have yet to see opinions in at least five major cases—including one meant to hack away at what legal protections LGBTQ people have in equal access to public accommodations.

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.

Your Boss Wants to Dope You  —  Before the Nazi invasion of France in the spring of 1940, the Wehrmacht distributed to German troops the drug Pervitin, a pill form of methamphetamine that could keep soldiers awake for days.  As Norman Ohler explains in his 2017 book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich …

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.

Ron DeSantis pushes for the federal Disney trial to start after the presidential election  —  Lawyers representing the Florida governor want a federal trial delayed until August 2025 and are also pushing to have the case dismissed.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis …

Democrats Reach Milestone: 100 New District Court Judges  —  Democrats have filled more seats on that level than the Senate had by this point in Donald J. Trump's presidency, but some progressives want leaders to pick up the pace.  —  Carl Hulse has tracked federal judicial appointments …

DOJ targets nationwide health care fraud scheme involving over $2.5 billion  —  The Justice Department announced a sweeping enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at health care, telemedicine and illegal prescription schemes totaling of $2.5 billion in alleged fraud.