CNN Poll: Biden faces negative job ratings and concerns about his age as he gears up for 2024  —  President Joe Biden faces continued headwinds from broadly negative job ratings overall, widespread concerns about his age and decreased confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

John Eastman declines to elaborate on Trump world discussions about Grassley presiding on Jan. 6  —  He asserted attorney-client privilege when asked to discuss evidence that Trump's allies considered the Iowa senator playing a role to keep Trump in power.  —  John Eastman, testifying …

CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’:  New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack …

Michigan fake elector described planning with Trump campaign attorneys: ‘Mike Pence and Congress [to] make that decision’  —  One of the fake electors put forward by Republicans in Michigan said in December 2020 that the plan to use a slate of fake electors to help Donald Trump win …

China, North Korea pursue new targets while honing cyber capabilities  —  Clint Watts - General Manager, Digital Threat Analysis Center  —  In the past year, China has honed a new capability to automatically generate images it can use for influence operations meant to mimic U.S. voters across …

13 Presidential Libraries Issue Rare Joint Warning About U.S. Democracy  —  Their statement stopped short of slamming individuals as it called for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles.  —  LOADING  —  Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted …

Abortions Rose in Most States This Year, New Data Shows  —  Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling …

Republicans Narrow in on Bribery Charge for Biden Impeachment Probe (Exclusive)  —  ‘There was money flowing to the son of the vice president turned president,’ Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, tells The Messenger on why he wants to impeach Biden  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link …

Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda  —  Last Monday, the Pennridge School Board, located outside of Philadelphia, imposed a new social studies curriculum that will require teachers to incorporate lessons from the 1776 Curriculum …

Tommy Tuberville's Hissy Fit Shows McConnell Has Lost His Hold on the GOP  —  The ex-football coach-turned-junior senator is holding up vital military promotions and brazenly thumbing his nose at the longest serving Republican Senate leader. … It should be a national embarrassment …

Trump Plans $1M ‘Family Style’ Mar-a-Lago Dinner to Raise Money for His Co-Defendants (Exclusive)  —  The exact date of the candlelight event is still being ironed out, but Trump's sons will attend  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook …

Inside Nancy Pelosi's Fight For San Francisco  —  At 83, the former House speaker just might buck another trend — the one suggesting octogenarian lawmakers should hang up their spiked heels.  —  Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi's decision whether to seek reelection in 2024 will be influenced …

Biden rejects conditions of plea deal for Sept. 11 attacks defendants  —  U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected several conditions sought by five Guantanamo Bay prisoners as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that would see them plead guilty to conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Behind the scenes: See how private ammo sales from US are fueling the war in Ukraine  —  The bullets came in plywood crates.  —  Any given box was about the size of a small microwave oven.  The printed label stuck to each one demonstrated a militaristic brevity.

Democrats Consider the Unthinkable: Missing Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell has bedeviled Democrats for decades.  Now, with his future in doubt, the Senate GOP Leader isn't looking like the worst-case scenario for his counterparts. … For decades, Democrats have hated, cursed …

Harris launching college tour to try to mobilize young voters in battleground states  —  The vice president is the face for the administration's work on abortion, more.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour, traveling to more than a dozen campuses across eight states.

Cancer among adults under 50 surged by 79%: Study  —  A study found that cancer cases in adults under 50 years old have risen sharply.  —  The study was published by BMJ Oncology and analyzed data between 1990 to 2019, finding an increase of 79% in cancer among people under 50 years old in just three decades.

Willis seeks to shield jurors in Trump trial  —  Move comes after online harassment of grand jurors who indicted former president  —  X  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the judge in the Donald Trump racketeering trial to shield the identities of prospective jurors …

UK PM Sunak faces new vote to fill seat after lawmaker accused of groping resigns  —  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces another difficult vote to fill a vacant seat in parliament after a lawmaker who was given an eight-week suspension for groping two men at a London club last year announced he plans to resign.

Newly obtained George Santos “vulnerability report” spotted red flags long before embattled Rep. was elected  —  When an outside firm hired by then-congressional hopeful George Santos in 2021 delivered a secret internal report detailing aspects of the candidate's checkered background, several of his aides found it too much to stomach.

The Giuliani aide who ‘vanished’  —  Documents reviewed by POLITICO — and also in the hands of federal prosecutors — offer new details about Rudy Giuliani's ill-fated efforts to reverse the 2020 election.  —  In December 2020, an adviser to Rudy Giuliani circulated a draft email addressed …