Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.

Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship  —  The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.  —  On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist …

States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.

White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing  —  Top officials will brief lawmakers on Thursday amid a political battle over what intelligence reveals about the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  The White House plans to limit classified intelligence sharing …

Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.

Iran's Khamenei Makes First Public Comments Since Cease-Fire With Israel  —  Supreme leader strikes defiant tone in a video statement, after not being heard of or seen publicly in days.  —  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranians for what he described as a victory …

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed …

The US economy shrank much faster in the first quarter than previously reported  —  The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending.  —  Gross domestic product …

Scholars Continue Lambasting Higher Ed While Trump Upends It  —  This year's Heterodox Academy conference—the first since Republicans retook the White House—featured similar complaints about academe as in years past.  But the federal government's sweeping interventions raised questions about what's really warranted.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court.  His family is suing.  —  A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.

What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible, but it often seems like the art of the impossible: putting together winning coalitions that “objectively” seem to defy logic—or at least, the logic of the pundits.)  My favorite example of this is Trump managing …

Crockett questions Melania Trump's reported ‘Einstein visa’: 'The math ain't mathin"  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) questioned first lady Melania Trump's reported “Einstein visa” inata House hearing Wednesday.  —  “Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model …

Parliamentarian rejects GOP attempt to prohibit federal subsidies for health plans that cover abortion services  —  The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Wednesday to reject Republican language in the Senate megabill that would prohibit federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …

A C.D.C. Committee Just Voted Against Flu Shots With This Preservative.  Is It Safe?  —  Here's what the science shows about the preservative, thimerosal.  —  An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines voted Thursday to no longer recommend annual flu shots …

The Paramount Risk in Settling Trump's Lawsuit: ‘Bribery’?  —  Any settlement during merger review will be a Democratic target.  —  An error occurred.  Please try again later.  —  Months after Paramount reportedly began talks to settle President Trump's false-advertising claim against CBS, the company is still holding fast.

State Dept. layoffs could start as soon as Friday, as Supreme Court decision looms  —  The State Department may begin laying off hundreds of Washington, D.C.,-based employees as soon as this Friday, according to internal correspondence among staff that was shared with CBS News …

‘Pure Shamelessness’: Critics Rip Karoline Leavitt's ‘Dangerous’ New Lie For Trump  —  Some compared the White House press secretary to North Korean state media.  —  Critics are urging White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to brush up on history after she went a little too far …

US state department told to terminate nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs  —  Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants  —  The US state department has been advised …

ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn't El Salvador  —  A government lawyer laid out a plan in court Thursday, but without a clear timeline.  — Copy  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back in the United States after the Trump administration mistakenly deported …