Rep. Dean Phillips will challenge Biden in Democratic presidential race: “This is an election about the future”  —  Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has decided to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and will launch his 2024 campaign on Friday in New Hampshire …

Judge orders Ivanka Trump to testify in $250 million fraud case  —  Judge Arthur Engoron agreed with the AG's office that her testimony is necessary, even though she's no longer a defendant in the case.  —  The judge overseeing the $250 million civil trial against Donald Trump and his company ordered …

Trump Jr. Hits RFK Jr. in Iowa: ‘A Democrat Plant’  —  Trump Jr. said that Kennedy should be ‘much more of a threat’ than President Joe Biden  —  Donald Trump Jr., the son of former President Donald Trump, told Iowans while volunteering for his father's 2024 presidential campaign …

Hearings begin as Trump critics attempt to kick him off ballots  —  Lawsuits in Colorado and Minnesota center on the 14th Amendment, which bars those who engage in an insurrection from running for office  —  In two courtrooms 900 miles apart, judges next week will begin to weigh an unprecedented …

Tlaib is the very threat to democracy Democrats warned about  —  For about six years, Democratic politicians and pundits have promoted the phrase “threat to our democracy.”  It was entirely based on constructing a political narrative through fearmongering propaganda meant to brainwash …

Trump's Vanishing Act: Why Trump Rallies Are Going Extinct  —  Trump has been holding about two rallies per month.  That's way down from his previous campaigns, like in 2016 when he held 323 rallies, or 70 rallies during COVID. … Vanishing Act  —  DERRY, New Hampshire …

Some of Trump's closest allies have yet to be offered plea deals in Georgia case  —  Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman among those who may have to go to trial, people close to the matter say  —  Donald Trump's top co-defendants charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results …

Jenna Ellis's long, strange trip to disgrace  —  In court, she's contrite.  On social media?  Not so much. … On November 19, 2020, Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis stood on the stage at the RNC flanked by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and vowed that “an elite strikeforce team” …

Make Mike Johnson Famous  —  If Republicans vote for a medieval insurrectionist, and nobody knows, does it count?  —  I had hoped, without really expecting, that the 20-plus member GOP rebellion against Jim Jordan's efforts to shove himself down their throats would bloom into a greater struggle …

‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’  —  A Q&A with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on the Christian nationalist ideas that shaped House Speaker Mike Johnson.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson, a Shreveport, Louisiana, native, entered politics after spending …

NRCC chair dishes on Johnson  —  THE TOP … He's bringing his longtime chief of staff Hayden Haynes to work in the speaker's office.  And the new speaker is busy searching for a top foreign policy aide, a member services director and a policy director.  —  Yet maybe no organ …

Former Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters is running for Congress  —  Masters, a venture capitalist, lost a race last year against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.  —  PHOENIX — Republican Blake Masters, who lost to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in last year's midterm election …

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Statement on U.S. Military Strikes in Eastern Syria  —  Today, at President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces conducted self-defense strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups.

Congress' Job Approval Drops to 13%, Lowest Since 2017  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid a prolonged search for a new House speaker that paralyzed the House of Representatives for three weeks while two U.S. allies are engaged in wars, Americans' approval of Congress' job performance fell from 17% to 13%.

Is the Republican Speakership Cursed?  Johnson Is About to Find Out.  —  Kevin McCarthy was just the latest in a series of Republican speakers and speaker wannabes who faced revolts.  Speaker Mike Johnson should take note.  —  Republicans didn't have a speaker for 40 years until Newt …

New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is ‘Pointing People To The Truth’  —  An ark replica with dinosaurs “is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.  —  Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago …

One-way plane tickets: NYC offers migrants free travel anywhere to move  —  New York City is moving migrants out of shelters and offering them plane tickets to anywhere in the world.  —  NEW YORK — Here's one approach to discourage migrants from settling in New York City: Give them a free, one-way plane ticket out of town.

A barrage and a midair explosion: What visual evidence shows about the Gaza hospital blast  —  Videos analyzed by The Post reveal that rockets were launched from Gaza in the direction of the hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there  —  Fighters in Gaza launched a barrage of rockets toward Israel …

Intruder Arrested Twice Wednesday at RFK, Jr.'s Home  —  On Wednesday an intruder was arrested after climbing a fence at the residence of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  —  Protectors from Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA) detected and detained the intruder, who asked to see the candidate.

Treasury Targets Additional Sources of Support and Financing to Hamas  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a second round of sanctions on key Hamas-linked officials and financial networks following the October 7 barbaric attacks …

Israel War: John Kirby blasts reporter over criticism of US response to Gaza death figures  —  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby blasted a reporter for asking a question critical of President Joe Biden's response to the war in Gaza.  —  Referencing remarks where Biden said he had …