Republicans have a mess on their hands over health care subsidies  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are both considering votes on GOP health care priorities next week — if they can figure out what those priorities are. … Republicans are still divided and debating their counter offers.

Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump's ‘No Scalps’ Rule  —  Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.  —  The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes.

The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In  —  The court's conservative majority said that Texas' asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.  —  Only two decades ago …

Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair Will Part Ways  —  Condé Nast, the magazine's parent company, said her contract would expire at the end of the year.  —  Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine's short-lived West Coast editor, in an effort to extricate itself …