Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C.  —  In disavowing race as a factor in achieving educational diversity, the court all but ensured that the student population at the campuses of elite institutions will become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.

Top Trump campaign aide identified as key individual in classified docs indictment: Sources  —  Susie Wiles, a trusted adviser, is helping lead Trump's reelection effort.  —  One of the top advisers on Donald Trump's 2024 campaign is among the individuals identified but not named …

The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court  —  Long before the Supreme Court took up one of the last remaining cases it will decide this session—the 303 Creative v. Elenis case, concerning a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith …

Electoral College Ratings: Expect Another Highly Competitive Election  —  Small edge to Democrats but neither side over 270 to start  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — Our initial 2024 Electoral College ratings start with just four Toss-up states.  — Democrats start …

Russia detains ‘General Armageddon’ in crackdown on pro-Wagner elites  —  Sergei Surovikin was known to have had good relations with warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin  —  Top Russian army general Sergei Surovikin has been detained as the Kremlin cracks down on Wagner sympathisers following the militia's failed mutiny last week.

Supreme Court rules for Christian postal worker who refused to work on Sundays  —  The case concerns an evangelical Christian who claimed the U.S. Postal Service did not do enough to accommodate his request not to work on Sundays.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier …

Mike Pence meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in surprise trip to Ukraine  —  The former vice president made an unannounced trip to the country, becoming the first GOP presidential candidate to meet with the Ukrainian leader during the campaign.  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Former Vice President Mike Pence …

Twitter's New Chief Eases Into the Hot Seat  —  Linda Yaccarino, who initially could not take ad sales meetings because of a noncompete clause, is adjusting to her new role reporting to Elon Musk.  —  Ryan Mac reports on Twitter, Tiffany Hsu on advertising and misinformation, and Ben Mullin on media.

Chinese spy balloon used American-made parts, did not transmit data: Officials  —  Determining if the parts came from illegal trade is a very serious concern.  —  The Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean in early February was built — at least partly …

Aspartame sweetener used in Diet Coke a possible carcinogen, WHO's cancer research agency to say - sources  —  One of the world's most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process …

Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump  —  Americans for Prosperity Action is wading into a Republican presidential primary for the first time, and waiting to see which candidate it will get behind for 2024.  —  The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles …

Glamorous vice president of Russian bank, 28, ‘plunges to her death from 11th floor apartment window’ in Moscow in latest mysterious fatality involving country's top execs  — Kristina Baikova allegedly fell from her 11th floor apartment on Friday morning  —  The glamorous vice-president …

Madonna rushed to hospital, intubated in ICU after being found unresponsive  —  Madonna was found unresponsive and rushed to a New York City hospital Saturday, Page Six can exclusively reveal.  —  We hear the “Material Girl” singer, 64, was intubated for at least one night before having the tube removed …

Is Josh Hawley All Right?  Is Josh Hawley All Right?  —  His new book Manhood advocates for a return to ancient values of family and masculinity.  In reality, it reveals the Missouri senator's weird fixations.  —  Josh Hawley, best known for fleeing a mob he helped incite, has written a book on manhood.

Nonreligious Americans Are The New Abortion Voters  —  When Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, many white evangelical Protestants didn't just see the Supreme Court's ruling as a political win — it was a spiritual victory.  For decades, religious conservatives have been singularly focused …

Roberts' Majority Opinion Preserving the Status Quo in Alabama Voting Rights Act Case Must Be Seen in Light of His Killing of Affirmative Action in Education in Today's Students for Fair Admissions Case  —  A few weeks ago, after the Supreme Court preserved the (weak) status quo for Section 2 …

National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers  —  The magazine, which remains among the most read in the U.S., has struggled in the digital era to command the kind of resources that fueled the deep reporting it became known for  —  Like one of the endangered species whose impending extinction …

Ask Amy: We told him not to come to the wedding, but we still wanted his money  —  Dear Amy: Four months before my daughter's wedding, she told me that her uncle (my brother, “Dave") would make her feel unsafe if he was a guest.  She asked me not to invite him.

Mayor Adams goes off on woman complaining about rent, compares her to plantation owner  —  Mayor Eric Adams did not take kindly to one of his constituents wagging her finger at him and criticizing him for the city's new rent increase rules Wednesday, likening her behavior to that of a plantation owner.

Wave of gun arrests on Capitol Hill, including for a gun in baby stroller, as tourists return  —  Nearly two dozen people have been charged with illegally carrying guns on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., so far this year, including four in the past month, according to a CBS News review of court records and U.S. Capitol Police reports.

Biden warns top aides against offering him political advice about Hunter  —  The president's message, as one source described it, was: “Hands off my family.”  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has made it clear to his closest aides in no uncertain terms that he not only will reject …

Overseas payments to Biden family could exceed $40M, Comer says: ‘This was organized crime’  —  Members of President Biden's family may have accepted in excess of $40 million from foreign nationals in exchange for favorable policy decisions, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggested Wednesday.

Huge Nebraska Solar Park Completely Smashed To Pieces By One Single Hail Storm!  —  Multimillion dollar solar project gets reduced to a heap of toxic rubble by one single hail storm.  —  The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 MW Community Solar project was part of the NPPD's Sunwise program …

Two Charged With Illegally Trading Ahead of Trump Media Merger  —  The arrests come after an investigation by federal prosecutors into trading in the securities of Digital World Acquisition Group, which merged with former President Trump's social media platform.

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges In Four Separate Insider Trading Cases Against 10 Individuals, Including Drug Company Employees, Investment Firm Executive Director, And SPAC Investors  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York

U.S. Attorney Gave to Kentucky Republicans While Investigating State  —  He's overseeing a federal probe into Kentucky.  He's also given money to the Republicans involved with that investigation. … A U.S. attorney overseeing a federal probe into the commonwealth of Kentucky has made thousands …

Maximum Canada is happening  —  A lot of people — at least, a lot of people who read this blog — know of Matt Yglesias' book One Billion Americans.  It's good, you should read it.  But not as many seem to know that it's actually a riff on a book that came out three years earlier called Maximum Canada …

Accused J train stabber acted in self-defense, won't face charges in fatal NYC subway brawl: sources  —  The Big Apple straphanger charged with stabbing a rowdy ex-con to death on a Brooklyn J train was found to have acted in self-defense — leading to his manslaughter case being dismissed Wednesday, The Post has learned.

Tucker's New Mediaco  —  Life inside the Fox News bunker, the Watters-Hannity-Gutfeld Cerberus, and news on Tucker Carlson's new media ambitions.  —  On Monday morning, while Fox News C.E.O. Suzanne Scott was announcing the network's new evening lineup—confirming Jesse Watters' long-anticipated ascension …

“It Will Be a Revenge Machine”: Why a Second Trump Administration Would Be Much Worse  —  Expect career officials purged and MAGA loyalists in charge if Trump returns to the White House, warns Miles Taylor.  The ex-DHS chief of staff spoke out as “Anonymous” during the first term and …

The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action.  Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier.  —  The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn't seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.  —  It has been a long goodbye.

DeSantis agency sent $92 million in covid relief funds to donor-backed project  —  Mori Hosseini, who lent a golf simulator for the governor's mansion, championed a new exchange on Interstate 95 that feeds into his housing and shopping center project  —  The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …

Haze shrouds patches of U.S. as smoke from Canada fires drifts east  —  Another rare Code Red is forecast for D.C. today  —  Smoke continued to spill into Midwestern and Eastern swaths of the United States on Thursday — a result of a historically bad wildfire season in Canada that continues unabated.