Feds alert judge to Trump's 'If you go after me, I'm coming after you!' post  —  Prosecutors say the former president's message on Truth Social raises specter he might use evidence to target witnesses.  —  Prosecutors on Friday night called a judge's attention to a social media post from Donald Trump …

Clarence Thomas's $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It  —  The vehicle is a key part of the justice's just-folks persona.  It's also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else's money.  —  Justice Clarence Thomas met the recreational vehicle of his dreams in Phoenix, on a November Friday in 1999.

I regret to report the economic anxiety theory of Trumpism is back  —  In David Brooks's new column, he asks the American elite if they're the baddies.  But he's actually telling them a comforting fiction.  —  The question of why Donald Trump manages to maintain such a grip on the Republican base …

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul  —  The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.  —  Mara Hvistendahl is an investigative reporter focused on China.

Here's the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can't Write  —  Homeland Security officials can't use politicians' names in their assessments.  But I can.  —  Federal intelligence and national security agencies — from the FBI to DHS — are in universal agreement …

John Eastman Comes Clean: Hell Yes We Were Trying to Overthrow the Government  —  THE BACKCHANNEL  —  I want to return to this revelatory interview with coconspirator John Eastman, the last portion of which was published Thursday by Tom Klingenstein, the Chairman of the Trumpite Claremont Institute …

Democrats are drastically overperforming in 2023's special elections.  Is it a clue for Biden vs. Trump?  —  Some Republicans, however, caution against “reading too much into specials.”  —  Looking ahead to 2024, Democrats concede some cause for concern — including President Joe Biden's …

Another 2024 Republican Candidate Is Now Profiting Off Saudi-Backed LIV Golf  —  The upstart league is hosting a major tournament at The Greenbrier, owned by Senate hopeful Jim Justice — mirroring LIV's relationship with former President Donald Trump.  —  West Virginia governor …

Moscow says JPMorgan stops processing Russia grain payments  —  Payments channel via the American bank was an alternative to SWIFT system for the Russian Agricultural Bank.  —  U.S. bank JPMorgan has stopped processing payments for the Russian Agricultural Bank, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

What Boiling Oceans Will Do to Life on Land … It's difficult to describe the insanity of what's happening off the coast of Florida right now.  A sensor in the Keys last week recorded water temperatures of more than 101 degrees—about the same as a hot tub—in what could be one of the highest …