In Epstein's ‘Birthday Book,’ a Celebration of His Lecherous Exploits  —  The book containing 50th birthday tributes to Jeffrey Epstein was released on Monday by the House Oversight Committee.  —  One friend compared him to the main character in Ernest Hemingway's “The Old Man and the Sea …

Supreme Court temporarily allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid  —  Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order that blocks a lower court ruling while the Supreme Court decides how to proceed in the case.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration …

ICE is Eating the Soul of America  —  Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law … A big part of this newsletter is trying to mark the moments when America changes — when today is different from before.  —  A big change happened yesterday …

Israeli Strike Targets Hamas Leadership in Qatar, a Gaza War Mediator  —  The Gulf nation of Qatar has been trying to negotiate a cease-fire in the conflict.  The attack threatened to destabilize those peace efforts.  —  Israel targeted senior members of Hamas's leadership in a strike on Tuesday in Qatar …

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum  —  The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating  —  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - A Texas A&M professor under fire by university, state, and federal leaders is under investigation …

Supreme Court to quickly consider if President Donald Trump has power to impose sweeping tariffs  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power to impose sweeping tariffs under federal law.

Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal  —  Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan's administration.

Missouri House Sends GOP Gerrymander to the Senate  —  The Missouri House in a 90-65 vote approved a Republican congressional gerrymander, advancing the map to the Senate as part of a national plan to try to rig the 2026 election by eliminating Democratic seats in Congress.

Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor's Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds  —  Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, is way ahead of his three rivals, but his lead would diminish considerably if the field shrank to a two-man race.  —  Zohran Mamdani has opened …

'He's a nut': Hill Republicans sour on Trump housing official Bill Pulte … “I think he's a nut,” one House Republican said of Pulte.  (Like others in this story, the lawmaker was granted anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive dynamics within the Trump administration.)

U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated, BLS says  —  The U.S. economy added 911,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March than estimated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Tuesday.  —  Why it matters: The labor market had less momentum than previously known over the past year …

Judge throws out charges against GOP would-be electors in Michigan  —  The dismissal of the charges is a victory for Trump and his allies and a blow to those who have been calling for accountability for lies about the 2020 election.  —  A Michigan judge threw out charges Tuesday against Republicans …

House Democrats fume at Schumer in closed-door meeting  —  House Democrats' weekly caucus meeting Tuesday included a vent session towards Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on government funding, Axios has learned. … - “There was anticipatory anger rooted in what went down in March …

Gabbard Retracted Intelligence Report on Venezuela  —  The report, which remains classified, described work by Richard Grenell, a former top intelligence official in the Trump administration.  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, took the unusual step of ordering …

The Judicial Learning Curve  —  District court judges watch each other struggle with the Trump administration—and adapt.  —  annabower.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors … Around 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, a supervisor at the Compass Connections children's shelter …

Is Susan Collins toast?  —  This is the second article in our series on the most interesting 2026 House and Senate races.  Make sure to check out the first entry in the series on Georgia's Senate race.  —  Before we get to the, uh, Maine event, Nate jumping in with a couple of quick announcements.

Florida's surgeon general said he didn't calculate the costs of ending vaccine mandates in the state.  But scientists have.  —  Florida's surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost - in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths - of ending vaccine mandates in his state.

Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term  —  It's unclear whether President Trump plans to run again in 2028, despite the Twenty-Second Amendment unambiguously barring a president from being elected for a third term.  —  In a Monday evening interview …

Trump wants to punt shutdown deadline to Jan. 31  —  The White House asked Congress on Tuesday to kick the upcoming government shutdown deadline to Jan. 31, a four-month punt Democrats and many Republican lawmakers oppose.  That suggested date was conveyed as part of a wishlist …

Inflation quashed household income gains in 2024, census finds  —  The richest Americans' income rose, and women and Black people lost ground, the data found.  —  Just now  —  Most Americans' household income remained steady last year, in part because inflation counteracted gains in income, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.

Trump Admin Returns Russian Dissident Asylum Seekers to Putin  —  Activists warn Russian political refugees against seeking asylum in the US  —  In late August, a group of Russians who had asked and not received political asylum from the U.S. government found themselves back home.