Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden  —  A new set of Times/Siena polls, including one with The Philadelphia Inquirer, reveal an erosion of support for the president among young and nonwhite voters upset about the economy and Gaza.

State Republican parties are going rogue  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Staring at the sky to watch the eclipse is out.  Staring at the sky to watch the aurora borealis is in.  (At least it can't damage your eyes.)  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Was this forwarded to you?  Sign up here.

Justice Thomas has used this “hideous place” to amass the power he now exploits  —  Thomas's attack on Washington comes as he will, yet again, issue rulings that set the national rules for the legal questions before the justices.  —  Anyone who lives in Washington, D.C. …

Tim O'Brien on 35 years of covering Trump  —  “His id and animal impulses weren't fully unleashed in the way they are now.”  —  ∙ Paid … Ten years before Donald Trump came down that golden escalator to change the course of American history, Tim O'Brien had already exposed him as a fraud.

Three people charged with offences under the National Security Act  —  Three people have been charged with offences under the National Security Act as part of an investigation led by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command with support from colleagues in Counter Terrorism Policing in the North East and South East.

The Most Endangered Democrat in America  —  Jamaal Bowman might lose his job over Israel.  —  Jamaal Bowman, the two-term congressman from Westchester County and the would-be future of the progressive left, is tired of the questions about George Latimer.  “Yeah, I mean, I think it says something …

Kristi Noem Banned From Tribal Lands By a SIXTH Sioux Tribe  —  SEE YA!  —  Days after the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate banned South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem from setting foot on tribal land, a sixth Sioux tribe joined in the banishment of the Trump-loving, puppy-killing Republican.

How 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Changed America  —  After ‘dire predictions,’ the effects have been largely positive, a new study finds  —  Twenty years ago this week, David Wilson and Rob Compton entered into a marriage that some believed would bring on the apocalypse.

Alvin Bragg's Office Deleted Phone Call Records of Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels' Lawyer  —  Trump attorney asked about roughly three pages worth of records that the attorney claimed Mr. Bragg's office had deleted.  —  A paralegal from Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg's office testified …

Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis  —  Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives.  —  While the border crisis has become a major liability for President Biden, threatening his reelection chances …

Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech  —  Ex-president calls Hopkins' cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’  —  Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter …

Another Maggie Haberman NYT Story Covers Up Oleg Deripaska's Role  —  The reason it matters that Trump brought in Paul Manafort to work on his campaign again for “free” this year is that in 2016, Manafort shared the campaign's strategy with his long-time business associate Konstantin Kilimnik …