Congress Pokes Trump, Putin in Eye  —  The foreign aid bill—$95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, plus other sundries like a possible ban on TikTok—is headed to Joe Biden's desk after the Senate approved it 79-18 last night.  —  A quick reminder: It was only months ago …

GOP senator: Greene ‘dragging our brand down’  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took a shot at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Tuesday, saying she is “dragging our brand down.”  —  “She is a horrible leader,” Tillis said of Greene, according to audio played on CNN's “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

How Donald Trump Gets His News  —  The former president is a voracious press consumer.  Here's how his media diet has changed since his last presidential campaign.  —  Donald Trump has always had a symbiotic relationship with the media.  Back when he was a Manhattan bachelor and real estate mogul …

Airlines Required To Give Automatic Cash Refunds For Canceled And Delayed Flights  —  The Biden administration is defining a significant delay as lasting at least three hours for domestic flights and six hours for international ones.  —  LOADING  —  The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday …

How the House GOP's Biden impeachment effort fell apart  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda - a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile.

Biden campaign plans to keep using TikTok through the election  —  The possible ban that the president signed into law Wednesday won't go into effect until January, at the earliest, and his campaign told NBC News that it will keep using TikTok for now.  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's re …

New ban on noncompetes could have big impact on health care … - Between 37% and 45% of physicians are affected by noncompetes, according to the American Medical Association.  — The FTC projected the rule could reduce health care costs by up to $194 billion in the next decade.

Live updates Supreme Court hears arguments in case over emergency abortion care  —  The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments Wednesday over whether the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans on the procedure.

UN Calls For Independent Investigation Into Gaza Mass Graves  —  The Palestinian Civil Defense alleges that bodies with their hands tied and buried under heaps of trash were discovered in mass graves near Gaza hospitals raided by the IDF  —  The United Nations is calling for an “independent …

The Man Who Killed Google Search  —  This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google's head of search, had a problem. … For those unfamiliar with Google's internal scientology-esque jargon, let me explain.

George W. Bush was a terrible president  —  Looking back at the last — disastrous — era of efficacious conservative policymaking  —  If you're in the DC area, I'm hosting a book talk for Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.”

Biden's Gains Against Trump Vanish on Deep Economic Pessimism, Poll Shows  —  The president is trailing Donald Trump in six of seven swing states as a majority of poll respondents see the economy worsening by the end of the year.  —  President Joe Biden's recent polling bump in key battleground states …

Trump's New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery  —  CONCEALED CARRY  —  Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he's actually paying.  Experts have real questions whether he can do that.

Exclusive: Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. emerge as loyalty czars … - Don Jr.'s goal “is to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration,” a person close to him told Axios, referring to Donald Trump's hawkish former national security adviser who wrote a bestselling book lambasting the former president.

Romney: 'You don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you'  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says no one is buying the story that former President Trump didn't have a sexual relationship with adult film actor Stormy Daniels, quipping to CNN: “you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”

Columbia extends negotiations to clear pro-Palestinian encampment  —  Columbia University announced Wednesday it has extended negotiations with pro-Palestinian protesters to clear their encampments on the school's lawn before further action against them is taken.