White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official  —  Lines may have been snorted and crossed.  But it's possible we won't know by whom.  —  Law enforcement officials confirmed on Wednesday that cocaine was found at the White House over the weekend.

Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray Are Separating  —  Mr. de Blasio's marriage helped fuel his campaign for mayor of New York, and his intense personal and political bond with his wife drew admiration and scrutiny.  —  About two months ago, after another stale Saturday night …

Why Josh Hawley's fake historical quote matters  —  Josh Hawley pushing a fake historical quote was cringeworthy, but more important was the theocratic point he was eager to make — on the Fourth of July.  —  While a number of prominent Republicans have been caught peddling fake historical quotes …

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred raises $6.2 million in first 2 months of Senate race  —  Allred also transferred $2.4 million from his House campaign account, giving him $8.6 million in total receipts through the end of June.  —  U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, raised nearly $6.2 million in roughly …

Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized  —  Once he and his wife, Jennifer, moved to a Boise suburb last year, Tim Kohl could finally express himself.  Kohl did what the couple never dared at their previous house outside Los Angeles …

Arizona Secretary of State's Office subpoenaed by Special Counsel Jack Smith in Jan. 6 inquiry  —  U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the Arizona Secretary of State's Office as recently as May as part of his investigation into the events leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People  —  There's no evidence the suspect was trans, and he posted repeatedly about his pro-gun stance and his support for former president Donald Trump.  —  A 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder …

Trump pulled in more than $35 million in the second quarter  —  The figure nearly doubled what he raised in Q1 and suggests the indictments are helping with fundraising.  —  Donald Trump nearly doubled his fundraising during the second quarter of 2023 — an indication that his legal troubles are propelling his campaign financially.

Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets  —  Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.  This means you can open Twitter links in a browser without an account.  —  We at TechCrunch noticed that tweet previews are unfurling in Slack and WhatsApp.

Kidnapped Scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov Deserves America's Every Effort To Bring Her to Safety  —  Whereabouts of Princeton University graduate student kidnapped in Iraq remains unknown  —  Our last contact with Elizabeth Tsurkov was on March 19.  She told us she'd had enough of doing field research …

Biden's DOJ Is Pressuring Journalists to Help Build Its Case Against Assange  —  The prosecution of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is already a threat to a free media — the justice department's campaign to get me and other journalists to testify only makes matters worse

Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ wins primary, nearly assuring seat on NYC Council  —  Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has won a Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council, all but assuring him of eventual victory.

Xi Jinping warned Vladimir Putin against nuclear attack in Ukraine  —  Chinese officials privately take credit for convincing Russian leader to back down from veiled atomic threats  —  Xi Jinping personally warned Vladimir Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine …

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth.  Wednesday may break it.  —  The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high …

GQ pulls article slamming Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Zaslav after complaint  —  The writer said he asked to have his byline removed after GQ made extensive changes after publication.  The magazine removed the story instead.  —  In an unusual step, GQ magazine removed an article critical …

A Georgia teacher's plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury  —  At first glance, the plight of Katherine Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher in Georgia, might seem confusing.  Rinderle faces likely termination by the Cobb County School District for reading aloud a children's book that touches on gender identity.

‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis  —  Exclusive: new database shows 1,500 US lobbyists working for fossil-fuel firms while representing universities and green groups  —  More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf …

Why Biden Probably Won't Get A Serious Primary Challenger  —  It's July in the year before a presidential election, and a first-term president is running for reelection.  Most of the time, nothing about this situation would merit more than a passing acknowledgment: The incumbent …

Tony Evers uses veto powers to extend annual increases for public schools for the next four centuries  —  Molly Beck Jessie OpoienMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers, a former public school educator, used his broad partial veto authority this week to sign into law …

Inside the House GOP's plan to go after FBI and DOJ  —  Republicans are escalating a multi-pronged fight against their two biggest political boogeymen.  It goes far beyond just trying to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland.  —  House Republicans are taking their fight with the FBI …

Judge orders release of more Mar-a-Lago search warrant information in Trump classified docs case  —  Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered more of the affidavit used to justify the search of former President Donald Trump's Florida property that uncovered classified documents to be unsealed.

Ruins found of Munich synagogue destroyed by Hitler  —  Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a nearby river.  —  They uncovered columns from the synagogue and a stone tablet showing some of the Ten Commandments.

Man sentenced to life in prison for rape of 10-year-old who sought abortion in Indiana  —  Gerson Fuentes, 28, pleaded guilty Wednesday for the rape of a child who had to travel from Ohio to Indiana to terminate a pregnancy.  —  The man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled …

Biden's hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust  —  The EU is investing billions into becoming a green energy superpower.  But Washington's Inflation Reduction Act means it's the U.S. reaping the rewards.  —  European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production …

Former GOP congressman and Jan. 6 select committee adviser Denver Riggleman now working with Hunter Biden  —  Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia — who served as a senior technical adviser to the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol …