Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats  —  U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary

Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities' courses and hiring under bill OK'd by House  —  Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.

U.S. Justice Department pardon lawyer pledges ‘hard look’ at plot to kidnap Michigan governor … “On the pardon front, we can't leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr. said this week on “The Breanna Morello Show.”  —  “In my opinion these are victims just like January 6,” Martin said …

With $37 million and a jet, Trump's presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot  — A new nonprofit, Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., has been established to raise funds for a future presidential library for Donald Trump.  — The foundation …

Trump Administration Highlights: President Stresses New Era in Speech to West Point Graduates  —  Where Things Stand  — West Point: Speaking at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, President Trump told graduating cadets they were part of a new “golden age” in the country.

US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake  —  Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him  —  Authorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as …

Europe's Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump's Tearing It Up  —  The Trump administration sees tariff talks as a chance to pressure a rival into concessions.  E.U. officials have acted as though they were dealing with an ally.  —  The European Union has been following tried-and-true rules …

The Week That Derailed Joe Biden's Post-Presidency  —  A fight against cancer and a struggle to amass an inheritance for his family are setting up a somber final chapter  —  When Joe Biden left office in January, he sought to follow the template set by his predecessors for a post-presidency …

JD Vance's Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end  —  DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link between Donald Trump's vice-president — a self-declared Scots-Irish — and Ireland  —  JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” …

Since George Floyd's Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling  —  The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of Mr. Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020.  —  After a police officer killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street corner in 2020 …

Joe Biden winning the 2020 nomination was probably suboptimal, but it was not an elite conspiracy  —  As part of his endless promotional tour, Jake Tapper repeats the very commonly repeated fiction that Joe Biden was imposed on an unwilling party by a backdoor elite conspiracy:

A Fox host's ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking  —  Jesse Watters' list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz - and Watters' show helps shape US politics  —  The Fox News-approved guide to being a man  —  Tim Burchett, a Republican representative …

Death of a Master Manipulator  —  Michael Ledeen, the controversial national security journalist, scholar and schemer who died at age 83 on May 17 from complications following a stroke, played a significant covert role leading up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, as well as other productions of false intelligence for political ends.

Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable  —  How can Americans best defend their democracy from their president?  —  In my last column, I recounted three lessons from other countries where popular movements have made headway challenging authoritarian rulers.  Critics of President Trump have frankly …

Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling  —  The Justice Department has drastically scaled back its support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement agencies and private groups scrambling to try to replace the money.

Trump Seeks Extensive Student Data in Pressure Campaign to Control Harvard  —  Harvard and the federal government are locked in a battle that boils down to turning over records on international students.  But Harvard says it is also about the First Amendment.

Salvador-Style Emergency Powers On Track for Noboa's Ecuador  —  Fresh off his unexpectedly strong election win, Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, sworn in Saturday, is seeking to cement his authority with a crime bill that would give his government emergency powers of the kind used in El Salvador.

A Convenient Piece of Junk Science  —  RFK Jr.'s affection for junk science has struck again.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a long love affair with junk science, and as secretary of Health and Human Services, he has embraced it once more, most brazenly to justify his false claims that vaccines cause autism.

Judge Orders Trump Officials to Seek Return of Guatemalan Man to U.S.  —  Judge Brian Murphy criticized the government for errors in the case and said the man, who feared persecution if he was deported, was likely to show “his removal lacked any semblance of due process.”