There's Still No House Speaker.  What Happens Now?  —  The House is entering its second week without a speaker.  Here is how a new one could be elected, or how the process could go off the rails yet again.  —  The House is set to return to Washington on Monday with no speaker …

Playbook: How the attack on Israel has scrambled U.S. politics  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Q3 CASH-ON-HAND LEADERBOARD — JOE BIDEN $24,785,201 ... DONALD TRUMP $24,535,602 ... RON DeSANTIS $11,160,604 ... ROBERT KENNEDY JR. $8,713,134 …

Trump faces reckoning as D.C. judge mulls gag order  —  At a court hearing Monday, a judge will consider special counsel Jack Smith's demand that Trump be formally ordered to stop attacking potential witnesses against him.  —  Can Donald Trump be gagged?  —  That's the question at the heart …

Statement from President Joe Biden  —  Jill and I were shocked and sickened to learn of the brutal murder of a six-year-old child and the attempted murder of the child's mother in their home yesterday in Illinois.  —  The child's Palestinian Muslim family came to America seeking what we all seek …

Scholastic's “bigot button”  —  Scholastic, the popular publisher of children's books, is a big business.  It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion.  Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million.

Blinken meets resistance in courtship of Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Gaza war  —  The secretary of state appealed to the leaders of the two key countries to tamp down anger over Israel's retaliation and to assist in humanitarian aid  —  CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced stiff resistance …

Scoop: Oprah pitched a White House run with Mitt Romney, book reveals … - Romney tells Coppins he dismissed the idea, believing that such a campaign would inadvertently help Trump.

Man targeted 6-year-old boy, mom in deadly Plainfield stabbing because they are Muslim: detectives  —  ‘You Muslims must die’: 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba facing hate crime charges in death of Palestinian boy Wadea Al-Fayoume  —  PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — A man stabbed a child to death …

Opposition wins Polish election, according to exit poll  —  WARSAW — Poland's opposition parties look like they've won a solid victory in the country's general election — and if the result holds it signals a radical change both in Poland and in the EU, where the current Law and Justice …