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.

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.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91  —  Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor's ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN  —  Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN.

Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting  —  The president has criticized media coverage of a preliminary classified report that ran counter to his assertion that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran's nuclear program.  —  President Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue …

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.

Gabbard Dropped From Intelligence Briefing as Trump Rages Over Leak  —  SIDELINED  —  The director of national intelligence is being left out after a leaked assessment said the president's strikes on Iran had set the country's nuclear program back just a few months.

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 …

Support Rises For Giving Most Undocumented Immigrants A Pathway To Legal Status vs. Deportations, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; More Than 9 In 10 Voters Say Politically Motivated Violence In The U.S. Is A Serious Problem  — mail_outline

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine …

Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines  —  Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.  —  An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk …

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.

Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk  —  Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran.  —  Eliot Cohen, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, is a military historian and the founder of the strategic-studies program at the Johns Hopkins School …

Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …

Supreme Court set to issue final rulings, as birthright citizenship and other cases remain  —  The last six cases of the term include birthright citizenship injunctions and a parental bid to keep kids from LGBTQ-themed instruction in public school.  —  The Supreme Court is needlessly shrouded in mystery.

University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump's D.O.J. to Resign  —  The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down in order to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, 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 Wednesday when NOAA distributed …

Vogue's Anna Wintour to tap new editorial leader  —  Anna Wintour, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue and a prominent Democratic fundraiser, is seeking a new day-to-day editorial leader at the famed fashion magazine.  —  While multiple outlets reported Thursday that Wintour announced …

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 …