‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump's Closed-Door Rant to House Republicans … Donald Trump came to the Capitol Hill Club Thursday morning supposedly to discuss his agenda for a second term with House Republicans.  Instead, Trump treated his meeting as an opportunity to deliver a behind-closed-doors …

Supreme Court upholds broad access to key abortion pill mifepristone  —  Ever since the high court eliminated the right to abortion in 2022, medications to terminate pregnancy have grown in importance and been challenged in court.  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to limit access …

Supreme Court rejects attempt to trademark ‘Trump Too Small’  —  The Biden administration asked the justices to uphold the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision to deny the patent application from attorney Steve Elster  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer's free-speech claim …

Record Share of U.S. Electorate Is Pro-Choice and Voting on It  —  Democrats continue to rally around abortion rights since Dobbs verdict  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion.

Schiff repeats ‘guilty’ 34 times at hearing on Trump prosecution  —  Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sought to make a statement about former President Trump's criminal conviction Thursday, repeating the word “guilty” 34 times in a row, once for each of the former president's guilty counts in the Manhattan hush money case.

Republican National Committee prepares for a convention Trump may not attend  —  Republican officials are working to ensure that Trump will be able to address convention attendees from afar if he chooses to do so — or if he is forced to because of his legal troubles.

In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission  —  No one is better equipped to take down felon Donald Trump than the vice president.  —  Just a couple of weeks ago, Democrats were wringing their hands, worried that the Biden-Harris campaign would not do enough to highlight former president …

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says  —  Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation's most sensitive computer networks.  In 2016, Harris was hard at work on a mystifying incident …

Let's Talk About Trump's Gibberish  —  Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.  —  Perhaps the greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled was convincing millions of people—and the American media—to treat his lapses into fantasies and gibberish as a normal, meaningful form of oratory.

Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against him  —  The Gaza war, lack of progress on climate change and a potential TikTok ban are spawning anti-Biden content — even among former supporters.  —  In 2020, hundreds of top TikTok content creators banded together in service of a single goal: get Joe Biden elected.

The Christian right is coming for divorce next  —  Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America.  —  Typically, the only way to do it was to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some form of wrongdoing, like adultery, abandonment, or “cruelty” (that is, abuse).

Electoral College Rating Changes: Half-Dozen Moves Toward Republicans in What Remains a Toss-up Race  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — We are making six Electoral College rating changes this week, all in favor of Republicans.  — However, we don't really see a clear favorite …

Trump offers an olive branch to the House Republicans who voted to impeach him  —  Donald Trump made a small peace offering Thursday to the remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach him after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, according to three members in the room.

Supreme Court Backs Starbucks Over ‘Memphis 7’ Union Case  —  In a blow to the National Labor Relations Board, the justices made it more difficult to order employers to reinstate fired workers.  —  The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Starbucks on Thursday in a challenge against a labor ruling …

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV.  It's Changing Everything. … Political aide turned data guru Jesse Contario works in the shadows.  His employer, MiQ, will never be mentioned at the end of a campaign ad, and it won't show up on the disclosures campaigns must post to keep the public abreast of their work.

Audit finds Minnesota agency's lax oversight fostered theft of $250M from federal food aid program  —  A Minnesota agency's inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids, and its failure to act on red flags, created the opportunities that led to the theft …

President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hold joint news conference in Italy  —  The leaders of the Group of Seven nations have agreed to give Ukraine a $50 billion loan to address the fallout from President Vladimir Putin's continued war on Ukraine, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Senate conservatives expand their blockade of Biden nominees … This represents a significant expansion of an existing pledge by Trump allies to stall Democratic-led initiatives — both legislation and nominations — on the Senate floor.  —  The new blockade will require Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

Public Notice's Sinclair report makes national headlines  —  From Morning Joe to the HuffPost, it's been a big week for the newsletter.  —  As part of a collaboration with Judd Legum of Popular Information, earlier this week I published a report on Sinclair's right-wing media empire …