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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Joe Scarborough Delivers Blistering Takedown Of Mike Johnson's Gun Logic  —  “We have more mass shootings in America every year than we have days in the year,” the MSNBC host said.  —  LOADING  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) “preposterous” …

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 …

DeSantis points to ‘liberal, soft on crime policies’ in wake of Maine mass shooting  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) pointed to “liberal, soft on crime” policies in the wake of a mass shooting in Maine that left 18 people dead earlier this week.  —  “[Y]ou look, a lot of the guys who commit violent crime …

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 …

‘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 …

Despite Biden's doubts, humanitarian agencies consider Gaza toll reliable  —  U.S. President Joe Biden has cast doubt on casualty figures provided by Palestinian officials in Gaza, but international humanitarian agencies consider them broadly accurate and historically reliable.

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 …

White House launches new virtual tour  —  The White House is opening its virtual doors, with a new tour that allows visitors to step into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. without making the trek to the nation's capital.  —  Jill Biden announced Friday the launch of a new virtual White House tour that utilizes Google Street View technology.

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 …