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.”

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.

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 …

Putin freezes out hardliners after Wagner mutiny  —  Russian president's security forces ‘have started shaking down sympathisers’ of exiled warlord  —  Vladimir Putin has moved to shake up Russia's security services in the wake of the Wagner group's failed insurrection …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Poll: Clear majority of women voters disapprove of Ron DeSantis … A.G. Gancarski  —  A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014.  He is based in Northeast Florida.  He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski

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 …

DeSantis pushes for Disney lawsuit trial to be delayed until after 2024 election  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' legal team has asked a federal judge to delay a trial related to the state's fight with Disney for more than two years - well after the 2024 election, NBC News reported.

Biden Has Begun Using CPAP Machine to Aid With Sleep Apnea  —  President Joe Biden has begun using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine to treat longstanding sleep apnea, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  As Biden departed the White House on Wednesday …

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

Delta flight makes emergency landing without nose gear after malfunction  —  Flight 1092 landed safely at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, and no injuries were reported.  —  Delta jet makes emergency landing without nose gear  —  A Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Charlotte …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Putin Moves to Seize Control of Wagner's Global Empire  —  The Kremlin assured nations in Africa and the Middle East that it would manage Wagner forces, which have spread Russian power at little cost to Putin  —  In the hours after Yevgeny Prigozhin's army of ex-convicts and mercenaries halted …

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 …

Exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam poised to win New York City Council seat  —  An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, is poised to win a Democratic primary race for a New York City Council seat in Harlem.  —  Salaam declared victory at a campaign event …

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.

Hunter Biden Isn't Hiding.  Even Some Democrats Are Uncomfortable.  —  Hunter Biden's public appearances came across as a message of defiance by the president, who is determined to show that he stands by his son.  —  Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, covered the recent state visit and reported from Washington.

New Survey: More Extremist Electorate Is Raising The Threat Of Election Violence  —  A new survey from The Lincoln Democracy Institute shows the threat of election violence is growing as political extremism has become normalized.  The findings were part of the Democracy Index …