Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes  —  Plans include proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code  —  President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks …

Pelosi privately fields battleground Dem calls as she works to address Biden crisis  —  The former speaker gave the distinct impression that she wanted the president to take himself off the ticket, according to a battleground House Democrat who spoke to Nancy Pelosi recently.

Trump on Taxes, Tariffs, Jerome Powell and More … It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.  The adoring club members may have decamped to cooler climates, but Trump is still in a good mood.

Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after receiving intel of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting  —  US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led …

Cop Fatally Shoots ‘Armed’ Suspect Just Outside RNC  —  CHILLING  —  The officer who opened fire was from Columbus, Ohio, and was attending the RNC.  —  An Ohio cop dispatched to help secure the RNC fatally shot an “armed” man just outside the convention's perimeter in Milwaukee on Tuesday afternoon …

Sen. Menendez convicted of bribery, other charges in corruption trial  —  The Democrat from New Jersey faced 16 counts, including bribery, extortion, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt.  He vowed to appeal.  —  NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez …

The extraordinary duplicity of Musk's $180 million donation to support Trump  —  Billionaire Elon Musk will reportedly spend $180 million to encourage former President Donald Trump supporters in swing states to vote absentee, a practice Musk has publicly described as “insane,” “too risky,” and a recipe for “large-scale fraud.”

Biden, in 1st major speech after Trump shooting, accuses him of ‘lying like hell’  —  He hit back his rival's claims and policies but avoided personal attacks.  —  President Joe Biden speaks at the 115th NAACP National Convention at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, on July 16, 2024, in Las Vegas.

‘They’ didn't shoot Donald Trump  —  Despite the lack of any clear motive, the actions of Thomas Crooks have been attributed to the Democratic Party at large.  —  On Saturday afternoon, Thomas Crooks, 20, climbed onto the roof of a building in Butler, Pa., carrying an AR-style rifle purchased …

The phony populism of JD Vance  —  It's a cynical branding exercise. … Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate this week, and a certain segment of the news media immediately rushed to declare the start of a new kind of working-class Republicanism.  —  “JD Vance pick unnerves GOP's business elite …

Armed man in ski mask arrested while approaching Republican National Convention perimeter in Milwaukee  —  Man had AK-47 pistol, ski mask, tactical bag and full magazine  —  A man armed with an AK-47 pistol and wearing a ski mask was arrested on Monday just blocks from Fiserv Forum …

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Ban  —  Click to skip ahead: In WTF NYT, the paper of record deceptively edited a quote.  In the States, news out of Ohio, Michigan, Montana and more.  I Told Ya So on the GOP's abortion plank.  Ballot Measure Updates has more on the financial impact statement fight in Florida.

Rupert Murdoch Shows Up at Republican Convention  —  The media titan's attendance in Milwaukee was another extraordinary turn in his contorted relationship with Donald J. Trump.  —  He confided to friends in the fall of 2020 that he thought Donald J. Trump was going “increasingly mad” …

Progressive hero seeks political comeback in California … - Tubbs made national news by defeating GOP incumbent Anthony Silva to become the community's youngest and first Black mayor. … - Tubbs immediately shot to national stardom among liberals who sought new, bold ideas to fight poverty, violence and educational inequality.

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller  —  Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network.  The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business and culture.

Trump Media Made a Deal That Could Secure a Major Financial Windfall for the GOP Candidate  —  The company behind Trump's Truth Social platform has the option to sell up to $2.5 billion worth of shares, easing the way for the former president to convert his paper stake into something more tangible.

Trump says Taiwan should pay for defence, sending TSMC stock down  —  Taiwan should pay the U.S. for its defence as it does not give the country anything, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Bloomberg Businessweek, sending shares of Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC (2330.TW) lower on Wednesday.

Georgian National Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes and a Mass Casualty Attack in New York City  —  For Immediate Release … A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a four-count indictment today charging Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, 21, also known as Mishka …

‘Whoa whoa whoa!’  CNN host stops GOP rep for suggesting Secret Service set Trump up  —  Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) stunned CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on Tuesday morning by insinuating that Democrats or the Biden administration might have gotten the Secret Service to set up former President Donald Trump …

Chinese Billionaire and Bannon Ally Is Convicted of Fraud  —  A federal jury found that Guo Wengui defrauded investors, many his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars.  He could face decades in prison.  —  Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese billionaire who transformed himself …