Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam  —  POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.

Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’  —  Republicans left negotiations on Friday, saying the White House was refusing to move its way on spending cuts.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Negotiations between top White House and Republican congressional officials over a deal …

FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others  —  Crime victims, political donors, and potential sources were targeted in digital searches that the FBI says have now been scaled back  —  The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times …

The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’  —  Ron DeSantis' wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign.  Some of his supporters wonder if that's an entirely good thing.  —  Casey DeSantis plays an uncommonly pivotal role …

D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest  —  After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged.  —  WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …

The short life of Baby Milo  —  Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long.  —  He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.  —  He lived for 99 minutes.  —  Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.

Trump Ally Could Face Perjury Charge if He Doesn't Cooperate With D.A.  —  After bringing charges against former President Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's office is once again investigating Allen H. Weisselberg, 75.  —  One of Donald J. Trump's longtime lieutenants …

Jim Jordan is inadvertently discrediting his own case against the FBI  —  Jim Jordan keeps taking aim at the FBI.  He keeps missing.  The more the Republican fails, the more he inadvertently makes the bureau look better, not worse.  —  It was roughly nine months ago when Rep. Jim Jordan began …

U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. to provide F-16 jets, but U.S. President Joe Biden had so far refused the requests.  —  HIROSHIMA, Japan …

White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled  —  Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours  —  Every traveler dreads a sudden flight cancellation.  But few travelers have been stuck …

Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero.  She just wants to protect her trans son.  —  The Subject  —  “I don't like you.”  Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.

Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry  —  The Fulton County district attorney said most of her staff would work remotely at times, and asked judges not to schedule trials, in the first half of August.  —  The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation …

Russia bans Obama, Maddow, Colbert over sanctions  —  Russia has banned hundreds of U.S. citizens, including former President Obama, political commentator Rachel Maddow and late-night host Stephen Colbert, from entering its territory in response to the U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine war.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth  —  In the run-up to the expiration of covid-19 restrictions on those seeking asylum, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly predicted that our country would be overrun by migrant hordes from the south.

Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas  —  Mark L. Wolf has spent his career fighting against corruption and for the rule of law — as a public corruption prosecutor, as a federal judge, as a crusader against international kleptocracy.  For that, at a hearing on judicial ethics …

Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn't Bothered to Prepare  —  After 2020, reformers vowed to erect guardrails against a rogue chief executive.  They ran into a wall of complacency, partisanship and distraction.  —  Two months before the 2020 elections, Jack Goldsmith …

I-Team: Parents concerned about man with assault rifle at school bus stop  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  Parents are concerned about a man who is regularly spotted carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a school bus stop in Severn.  —  Jamie Sparrow, a Severn Elementary School parent …

Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric  —  “My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” says Christian scholar.  —  Roger Stone has been in and out of Donald Trump's orbit for more than four decades.

Greece Says It Doesn't Ditch Migrants at Sea.  It Was Caught in the Act.  —  Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard.  —  The asylum seekers had already hopscotched countries for years to escape war in the Horn of Africa.

‘No Labels’ Eyes a Third-Party Run in 2024.  Democrats Are Alarmed  —  The centrist group is gaining steam — and raising money — in its effort to get a candidate on the 2024 ballot, with Joe Manchin at the top of their list.  —  The bipartisan political group No Labels is stepping …

The Return of the Emerging Democratic Majority?  —  After all, last November, Joe Biden was a historically unpopular president presiding over exceptionally high inflation.  Polls showed widespread disapproval of the Democratic administration in general and its economic management in particular.

He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020.  Then came the criminal charges  —  John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020.  Now he's been found guilty of voter fraud  —  The fight for democracy is supported by