How the Special Counsel's Portrayal of Biden's Memory Compares With the Transcript  —  The special counsel, Robert K. Hur, accused the president last month of “significant” memory problems.  The interview transcript offers context to his report.  —  A transcript of a special counsel's hourslong interview …

Trump's Corruption-Policy Nexus Comes Into Focus  —  Did the disgraced former one-term president sell Social Security and Medicare the same way he sold his position on TikTok and Bud Light?  —  ∙ Paid  —  It didn't escape the Biden campaign's notice that Donald Trump abruptly changed …

Ken Buck announces he will leave Congress on March 22, scrambling race to replace him that includes Lauren Boebert  —  U.S. Rep. Ken Buck will leave Congress on March 22, the Windsor Republican announced Tuesday in a surprise decision that's sure to scramble the already highly contentious …

Aileen Cannon Continues To Make A Mess Of The MAL Case  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  —  What Cannon Hath Wrought  —  Two developments yesterday that show what an absolute mess U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is making of the Mar-a-Lago case.

Former Texas GOP official sentenced to 4 centuries in prison for child sex abuse  —  Bo Michael Dresner, a former precinct chairman for the Hays County, Texas Republican Party, was sentenced to more than four centuries in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of child sexual abuse …

Bloodbath at the RNC as Team Trump Takes Over  —  There's a new team in town and the RNC is experiencing an overhaul.  Trump has installed his leadership team.  Monday the process of letting about 60 staffers go began.  —  The RNC staffers being let go are from the political, communications, and data departments.

It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths  —  “Religious freedom” is having a moment in federal courts.  One of the big successful goals of the conservative legal movement was that religious freedom would be advanced in a way that it supposedly had not been before.

Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social  —  The idea went nowhere, but the former president and the billionaire X owner have continued to communicate more than was previously known  —  Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk last summer whether the billionaire industrialist …

Donald Trump Stung as New Poll Shows How Unpopular He Is  —  Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion's share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.

Uvalde police chief abruptly announces resignation days after report cleared officers in massacre at Robb Elementary School  —  Hours before the Uvalde City Council was expected to reject a report clearing local police officers of wrongdoing in the Robb Elementary School massacre, the city's police chief told CNN he is resigning.

Republican women don't care about rape victims  —  Forget the theatrics of Katie Britt, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene — supporting Trump means backing abusers  —  It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump …

Kristi Noem Hypes Texas Dentist in Very Weird ‘Infomercial’  —  The South Dakota governor promoted an out-of-state dental practice in a lengthy video on Twitter, saying she started to cry when she first saw her new veneers.  —  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and potential Donald Trump running …

US sending Ukraine first weapons package since December  —  The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it will send Ukraine a new emergency military aid package worth $300 million, the first such weapons tranche Washington has sent an increasingly desperate Kyiv since late December.

Judiciary takes action on ‘judge shopping’ following pressure  —  The federal judiciary's policymaking arm announced a new policy aimed at combating so-called “judge shopping,” which has allowed state attorneys general and advocates to effectively choose their judges in some cases.

New data explodes myth of crime wave fueled by migrants  —  Republican politicians and sympathetic media outlets are claiming that America is in the midst of a violent “crime wave,” driven in part by undocumented immigrants.  New data, however, demonstrates that there was not a spike in violent crime in 2023.