Young voters backing Biden over Trump by 23-point margin: Poll  —  President Biden has a comfortable lead over former President Trump among voters under the age of 30, according to a new poll.  The CBS News/YouGov poll found 61 percent of likely voters under the age of 30 surveyed support Biden while 38 percent support Trump.

Supreme Court agrees to review Tennessee ban on gender transition care  —  Twenty-three states have passed bans or restrictions on gender transition care for minors since 2021.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18.

Special counsel probed Trump Mar-a-Lago trip that aides ‘kept quiet’ weeks before FBI search: Sources  —  One witness was told Trump was “checking on the boxes,” sources said.  —  In this June 9, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump is shown at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans  —  From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump …

Kasie Hunt kicks Karoline Leavitt off interview ahead of debate  —  An interview between former President Donald Trump's campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt and CNN's Kasie Hunt got heated on Monday, just days before the network will host the first 2024 presidential debate.

How Trump and Biden compare on running up debt … - Both candidates bear a share of the responsibility, as each added trillions to that tally while in office.  — But Trump's contribution was significantly higher, according to the fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget …

Louisiana Republicans write a guide for Alito and Thomas  —  Their Ten Commandments law has a small but powerful audience. … On its own, Louisiana's new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom is bad enough, a victory for evangelicals who want to push …

Same-Sex Relations, Marriage Still Supported by Most in U.S.  —  Republican backing for legalizing same-sex unions dips back below 50%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than two in three Americans continue to believe that marriage between same-sex couples should be legal (69%) …

What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts  —  For 49 years after Roe v. Wade, Americans had the right to obtain an abortion if they became pregnant.  Then, two years ago, with Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court put an end to it.

Nineteen dead in attacks on churches and synagogue in southern Russia  —  Attacks on police posts, churches and a synagogue in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have left 19 people and five gunmen dead.  —  At least 16 people were taken to hospital with injuries after the Sunday evening attack.

Russia started Berlin factory fire as part of hybrid war on Europe, report says  —  German police believe a technical defect caused the blaze, but security officials have blamed Russia.  —  Russian saboteurs trying to disrupt shipments of critical arms and ammunition to Ukraine set fire …

Melania Trump might not return to D.C. full-time for a second term … Melania was so atypically reclusive for a first lady that a long-running whisper campaign questioned whether she lived at the White House or with her parents in the 'burbs.  — So the prospect of her rolling in for a second full-time stint in the East Wing?

How America's “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State  —  Co-published with Capital & Main  —  Unplugged: Will Taxpayers Foot the Oil Industry's Cleanup Bill?  —  Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers' wallets.

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: US likely unable to assist Israel in war with Hezbollah  —  Gen. Brown asked Israel to think of how a war would affect the region, as well as the impact it would have on US forces.  —  Joint Chiefs of Staff head Charles Q. Brown warned on Monday that the US …

Trump taunted Jewish employees with jokes about Nazi ovens: Ex-Trump Org VP  —  During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, a former executive vice president of the Trump Organization revealed that her former boss thought it was funny to make jokes about the Nazi ovens around Jewish employees.