Donald Trump says he's a target of special counsel's criminal probe into 2020 election aftermath  —  Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he's been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

US soldier who fled to North Korea was facing disciplinary action after time in South Korean prison  —  An American soldier facing military disciplinary actions fled across the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years.

Legal bills mount for Georgia Republican Party in Trump investigation  —  X  —  The Georgia GOP spent more in the first six months of 2023 than it paid out in all of 2022 to represent “alternate” Republican electors targeted amid Fulton County's probe into whether Donald Trump …

Trump, 5 rivals on cusp of qualifying for first GOP debate  —  The leading candidates still need one more poll to officially stamp their tickets, the RNC confirmed Tuesday.  —  The Republican National Committee on Tuesday clarified the criteria for presidential candidates to qualify for the debate stage …

House GOP seeks billions in cuts to rail, water infrastructure spending  —  Two years after approving a bipartisan $1.2 trillion law, Republicans are looking to scale back spending that some in their own party previously supported  —  It took decades for Congress to deliver on its promise …

Israeli Antiquities Are Stranded at Trump's Florida Estate as Authorities Fail to Retrieve Them  —  Israeli clay lamps, intended for a brief exhibition in Washington D.C. in 2019, got stranded in the U.S. due to the pandemic.  Recently, they were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say  —  WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande …

Brian Kemp is meeting with GOP Senate leaders on the Hill this week.  And the trip has Republicans in Washington and Atlanta thinking about 2026.  —  News and analysis from Capitol Hill for when you only have a few minutes, from POLITICO.

‘Bullhorn Lady’ who helped break into Capitol found guilty in Jan. 6 case  —  Rachel Powell, a mother, was found guilty on nine felony charges.  —  WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania mother who was known as “Bullhorn Lady” because she used the sound amplifier to instruct rioters at the Capitol was convicted Tuesday of nine federal counts.

Is Tennessee a Democracy?  —  What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn't satisfied  —  Drive along the outer rim of the exurbs north of Nashville, past structures that might be barns or might be wedding venues, around developments called Vineyard Grove or New Hope Village …

House GOP support for Santos censure builds  —  Democrats may have enough GOP support to adopt a formal rebuke of the New York Republican's campaign fabrications.  —  A group of New York Republicans passed on punishing George Santos once.  Some of them say they won't do it again.

Charlottesville tiki torch carrier arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6  —  Tyler Bradley Dykes, who served time in connection with the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, stole a police shield and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI said.  —  WASHINGTON — A man who carried a tiki torch during …

He was making a documentary about police brutality.  Then the LAPD tased him in his home  —  Damien Smith was making a documentary about police brutality.  But when a burglar broke into his Hollywood apartment, he didn't hesitate to call the cops.  —  Smith, a filmmaker and actor …

House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial  —  As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans' plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month …