Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds  —  Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered …

Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war  —  The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president's allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.  —  WASHINGTON — Each day since the start of the war in Iran …

Iranian military mocks Trump's claim of US-Iran negotiations  —  An Iranian military spokesperson mocked U.S. attempts at a ceasefire deal Wednesday, insisting that the Americans were only negotiating with themselves.  Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military's …

Weiss' Ratings Wipeout … When Bari Weiss took the reins of CBS News in October, her message was clear: that the public had lost trust in the network and that major change was needed to win viewers back and return it to its glory days.  But through a series of actions over her turbulent six-month tenure …

Democrat flips Republican-held Florida state House district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago  —  Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly won the special election for the district Tuesday night, The Associated Press projects.  Trump carried the area in 2024.  —  Democrat Emily Gregory won …

Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music  —  Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.  —  The Supreme Court unanimously said on Wednesday …

GOP's reconciliation hopes are easier dreamt than done … Underscoring the massive challenge, some Republicans are stressing they aren't committing to pass another bill under the reconciliation process — which could allow them to avoid a Democratic filibuster in the Senate — they are just promising to give it a try.

In Trump's war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing … When the retired U.S. Army colonel Joe Buccino first saw White House posts mixing Iran war footage with clips from cartoons and video games, he felt something he had rarely experienced from American military messaging: disgust.

Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg among tech leaders appointed to White House tech council … Huang, meanwhile, has met regularly with Trump in a largely successful effort to convince the White House to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia's AI chips to China.

This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.”  Another word for that, he said, is “treason.”  The evidence for such a claim is the sudden and isolated jump in trading volume in S&P 500 and oil futures about 15 minutes …

Most Americans say US military action against Iran has gone too far, a new AP-NORC poll finds  —  Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Conservative activist convicted in voter-fraud case  —  In Wsiconsin, Harry Wait said he set out to expose the potential for voter fraud.  He ordered mail ballots in the names of others — and got charged with felonies.  —  MADISON, Wis. — Conservative activist Harry Wait said he ordered ballots …

Epstein's accountant and lawyer told House panel government investigators never interviewed them  —  Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke were co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein's will.  The Justice Department said last year that it conducted an “exhaustive” review into Epstein.

Key Adviser Quits Federal Vaccine Panel  —  Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the committee, was appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a purge of the previous advisers.  —  Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the federal committee that recommends vaccines to Americans, angrily resigned his position on Tuesday.

A Critical Political Season Could Decide if Alaska Is a Failed ‘Petrostate’  —  A governor who spent two terms cutting services to preserve Alaskans' oil-funded annual checks is leaving office.  Voters must now decide what comes next for the state's faltering fiscal model.

Exclusive: ICE's Bounty Hunters  —  Leaked database shows how ICE pays off local cops to do their bidding … While ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war.

ICE agents have been deployed to airports.  Are the polls next?  —  Immigration Federal agencies Donald Trump Aviation news  —  The high-profile deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports has renewed support on the right and fear on the left about the possibility of ICE going to the polls in November.

Trump cuts exacerbate budget fights in red states … Trump has already struggled to sell Americans on many provisions of his “big, beautiful bill,” from Medicaid and SNAP cuts to tax changes that provide the most benefit to the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans.

T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport  —  Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother and daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show.  —  The woman and her 9-year-old daughter …

In defense of being wildly out of touch  —  At least I know I'm a huge weirdo.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Zaid Jilani had a funny take on me recently, which was that even though I'm basically right about things, nobody should listen to me because I've lived a comically out-of-touch life.  —  And it's true.

Republicans Are Mad Brian Kemp Is Standing by His Georgia Senate Endorsement  —  The Georgia governor's pick to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff, Derek Dooley, is polling in a distant third and could likely force an expensive runoff in the must-win state.  — Copy

Partisan brawl in Virginia muddles Spanberger's message of moderation  —  The congressional redistricting fight is tainting the governor's image, one Democrat said: “This should be a flashing red light for Democrats everywhere.”  —  RICHMOND — Abigail Spanberger was elected governor …