GOP heavyweights join bipartisan bashing of Trump Qatar jet deal  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune and GOP firebrand senators are among those voicing discomfort with the deal.  —  A number of Republican lawmakers are souring on President Donald Trump's plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 aircraft …

Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in ICE case  —  A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month.

Republicans Slip Nonprofit Killer Bill Into Budget Plan  —  House Republicans' draft budget bill includes a clause to give Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a supporter of terrorism.  —  The move appears to be a revival …

America Is the Land of Opportunity—For White South Africans  —  Sign up for Trump's Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency.  —  When the welcome ceremony was over, and the Trump officials drove off in their black SUVs, a dozen or so newly arrived South African …

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump  —  At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden's weakness and confusion.  Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?

Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson among players reinstated by MLB  —  In a historic, sweeping decision, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list.

Exclusive: Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were re-elected, new book says  —  This story is adapted from the forthcoming book “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson.

First judge approves Trump invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove Tren de Aragua members but determined the administration has provided insufficient notice before carrying out the deportations.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport  —  Would you let your family fly out of Newark? … Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it's safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey …

12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts  —  A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.  —  United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself …

Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses?  —  Taking most of a week off, as I've just done, is impossible in the Trump 47 era.  Since I last attacked the keyboard, we got our first American pope, the mayor of Newark was arrested by federal agents, and Qatar is bribing the president with a $400 million plane, along with 57 other things.

2 more Fetterman aides leave embattled senator's office  —  The departures are the latest in a string of staff exits over the past year and a half.  —  Two more aides left John Fetterman's office in recent weeks, the latest in a stream of staff exits amid the Pennsylvania senator's shifting political persona …

Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired … What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge has now backfired …

Mild April Inflation Captures Early Stages of Tariff Effects  —  CPI was up 0.2% over the month, while annual inflation was 2.3%  —  Inflation was relatively mild in April, but economists said tariffs will end a recent lull and push up more prices in the coming months.

GOP proposal would boot three N.J. Democrats from House committees  —  Rep. Buddy Carter is proposing to strip three New Jersey lawmakers of their House committee assignments after they participated last week in a protest at a Newark migrant detention facility.

Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill.  But Not as Many as Democrats Say.  —  A widely circulated talking point about cuts to Medicaid inflates the legislation's effects by about five million people.  —  On Sunday, Republicans released their package of proposals to cut federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare.

Gabbard fires top National Intelligence Council officials  —  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two top officials at the National Intelligence Council, purging leaders amid what the office called an effort to address “weaponization” of intelligence.

Trump's ICE Used a Woman's Kids and Grandchild as ‘Bait’ To Arrest Her  —  The president's crackdown on immigrants has roiled the town of Worcester, Massachusetts, following a chaotic arrest last week  —  When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Rosane Ferreira de Oliveira …

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Thinks Trump's Hilarious ‘Fat’ Businessman Story Was All About Him  —  PLOT THICKENS  —  The Tesla CEO has previously admitted taking weight-loss drugs.  —  Elon Musk is President Trump's “seriously overweight” friend who takes “the fat shot,” according to the Tesla CEO's own artificial intelligence bot.

DOGE Removes Dozens of Resurrected Contracts From Its List of Savings  —  Elon Musk's group is no longer claiming credit for canceling those contracts after The New York Times reported that they were revived.  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is no longer claiming credit …

A Free People Need a Free Press  —  This essay was originally delivered as a talk at the Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies on Tuesday.  —  The role of a free and independent press in a healthy democracy is under direct attack, with increasingly aggressive efforts to curtail and punish independent journalism.

Trump's Habeas Corpus Threat  —  No president, even Lincoln, has ever suspended the writ without Congress.  —  Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller last Friday told reporters that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus …

Anti-hunger advocates slam House Republicans' proposed budget cut to SNAP as ‘unconscionable’  —  Experts fear slashing over $290 billion could result in many households in need losing a critical nutrition lifeline.  —  A House Republican proposal to dramatically reduce federal funding …

Why does Alabama's GOP chairman have a Tennessee driver's license?  —  This is an opinion column.  —  Stories involving Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl tend to wind up in strange places.  —  Like, how did a butterfly farmer — real thing — become one of Alabama's most powerful political figures?

The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren't in ICE Detention  —  When I moved to America from Russia to join a biology lab at Harvard Medical School in 2023, it felt as if I found my dream job.  America was a paradise for science.  Everything was flourishing.  There was freedom of discourse; conferences, seminars.

DOJ ‘weaponization’ group will shame individuals it can't charge with crimes, new head says  —  As Jeanine Pirro prepares to become U.S. attorney in D.C., Trump loyalist Ed Martin is taking over the Justice Department's effort to investigate Trump's investigators.

The Wild West of Presidential Pardons in Trump's Second Term  —  Trump has upended a sober legal process, setting off a scramble among those seeking clemency to use lobbyists and personal connections to the president  —  Bitcoin Jesus was on the hunt for a pardon, and he was willing to pay.