The testimony from Trump's White House chief of staff could change everything  —  Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled the dice on Monday with his opening move in the sprawling Fulton County election subversion trial: he took the stand himself.

Jack Smith's Team Grilled Witnesses About Rudy Giuliani's Drinking  —  The special counsel's interest in Rudy's drinking could play a role in undermining one of Trump's key legal defenses … In their questioning of multiple witnesses, Smith's team of federal investigators have asked questions …

These are the first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations  —  The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday the names of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations in Medicare.  —  They are: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica, Stelara …

How Trump's Election Lies Left the Michigan G.O.P. Broken and Battered  —  Infighting between Trump acolytes and traditionalists has driven away donors and voters.  Can the Michigan Republican Party rebuild in time for the presidential election?  —  The Michigan Republican Party is starving for cash.

Steve Scalise diagnosed with ‘very treatable’ blood cancer  —  House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, he announced Tuesday.  —  Scalise, 57, has begun treatment and plans to return to Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Says She Welcomes Public Scrutiny Of Court  —  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not offer any opinion, or speak directly about, recent calls for the justices to institute an official code of conduct.  —  LOADING

GOP salivates at the biggest campaign finance win since Citizens United  —  It could be a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent.  —  Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending.

Francis Suarez ends campaign for Republican presidential nomination  —  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced Tuesday that he is ending his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  —  “While I have decided to suspend my campaign for President, my commitment to making …

Texas Guardsmen spied on migrants via WhatsApp, mishandled secret docs  —  Senior leaders allegedly ignored oversight officials' concerns.  —  This article is co-published and co-reported with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom that informs Texans about state policy and politics.

FBI announces it has dismantled global network of hacked computers used in major fraud scheme  —  The FBI and European law enforcement agencies dismantled a massive network of hacked computers that had been used to defraud victims of hundreds of millions of dollars, agencies announced Tuesday.

The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry  —  On a private call with Christian millionaires, home-schooling pioneer Michael Farris pushed for a strategy aimed at siphoning billions of tax dollars from public schools  —  The message Michael Farris had come …

Gadsden flag now a symbol of hate?  —  A schoolboy has become an instant internet legend for defying a school district.  —  The 12-year-old has, as is so often the case, a bunch of patches on his backpack as an expression of his individuality.  His school didn't like one of the patches and demanded that he quit displaying it.

The Final Days  —  Joe Biden was determined to get out of Afghanistan—no matter the cost.  —  august is the month when oppressive humidity causes the mass evacuation of official Washington.  In 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki piled her family into the car for a week at the beach.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces Black leaders' anger after racist killings in Jacksonville  —  Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida.  The leading civil rights group argued …

Christie Super PAC Airing Trump Mugshot On TV In New Hampshire  —  The pro-Christie super PAC is spending six figures to air the former president's mugshot on television  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook.A Twitter icon representing an external link …

The Fourteenth Amendment Fantasy  —  The Constitution won't disqualify Trump from running.  The only real-world way of stopping him is through the ballot box.  —  The fourteenth amendment won't save us from Donald Trump.  —  Eminent jurists are promising that it will.

Conservative Coalition Recruiting for Plan to Dismantle Federal Government  —  NOW HIRING  —  A coalition of right-wing organizations has started recruiting thousands of people as part of a project aimed at gutting the federal government in anticipation of a Republican victory in the 2024 election, according to a report.

A shutdown wouldn't halt Trump's trials, so Republicans seek to rein in his prosecutors  —  Federal criminal proceedings are exempted from shutdowns.  But GOP House members want to use a must-pass funding bill to defund or limit law enforcement investigating Trump.

GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts  —  Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House floor session after determining …

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks college applications should include a 1-mile run and other parts of the Presidential Fitness Test  — GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested an additional criteria for college applicants.  — He said colleges should screen applicants on their physical fitness, such as their 1-mile run time.

EPA slashes federally protected waters by more than half after Supreme Court ruling  —  The Environmental Protection Agency and US Army on Tuesday released a new rule that slashes federally protected water by more than half, following a Supreme Court decision in May that rolled back protections for US wetlands.

Republicans demand answers from Garland on Covid relief fraud  —  The Labor Department's latest estimate of unsupported payments in the unemployment program from March 2020 to September 2021 is nearly 40%, or $47 billion.  —  A congressional committee investigating pandemic relief fraud …