Scoop: U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran  —  The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium …

The FBI Director Is MIA  —  On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system.  He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies …

Mike Johnson Has a FISA Fiasco on His Hands  —  The House Speaker's surprise five-year extension and bogus warrant provision backfired, but it was enough to get a gaggle of Democrats to break ranks.  — Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks  —  President Donald Trump, in his personal capacity, and his two sons sued the IRS and the Treasury Department over leaks of their tax information to news organizations.  —  Summary

Trump DOJ scrambles to salvage Minnesota voter roll case — but files wrong document and leans on shaky new claim  —  After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the Department of Justice tried to patch a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit …

Trump, the Pope and a New Holy War  —  The president's historic breakup with the pontiff threatens to upend a century of strategic partnership  —  For seven decades American presidents, including even hawkish Republican ones, have shared key priorities with Catholic popes.

Trump shocked Netanyahu with post declaring Lebanon strikes “prohibited”  —  Israel asked the White House for clarifications about President Trump's post that Israel was “prohibited” from conducting airstrikes in Lebanon, a U.S. source and another source familiar tell Axios.

Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump  —  AUSTIN, Texas — The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year.  —  Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October …

Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits  —  The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Friday that energy companies facing lawsuits …

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey  —  Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents in Somerville last March and held in a Louisiana detention center for six weeks, has returned to her home country of Turkey.

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump's Cultural War With Europe  —  Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has driven the Trump administration's push to upend America's postwar relationship with Europe.  —  When Samuel Samson, a senior adviser at the State Department …

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged  —  Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.  —  In recent weeks, as criticism of President Donald Trump …

French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days  —  Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, 85, who was arrested amid an inheritance dispute, has returned to France, its foreign affairs minister said.  She came to America last year after reconnecting with and marrying a former G.I.

U.S. Government Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Michael Flynn Suit  —  Lawfare obtained the settlement document through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this year.  —  annabower.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors  —  The United States government agreed …

With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans  —  Several moves suggest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could revive his campaign to question the safety and effectiveness of the shots after the midterm elections.  —  Over two dizzying days in Washington this week …

Maine Gov. Janet Mills is undecided on whether to sign a pause on data centers  —  The state Legislature passed a first-of-its-kind bill to impose a moratorium on data centers amid a heated national debate over the energy-hungry structures that power AI.  —  WESTBROOK, Maine …

Alito not expected to retire this term, cooling Supreme Court vacancy speculation: sources  —  President Trump said amid SCOTUS retirement speculation he is ‘prepared’ to appoint up to three Supreme Court justices  —  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is not expected to step down this term …

Who's Erica Schwartz, the Md. alum Trump nominated to run the CDC?  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated University of Maryland Law School alumni Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  —  Schwartz has a medical degree from Brown University …

Trump to release reading of scripture days after angering many Christians … Trump's roughly two-and-a-half-minute reading, which is slated to air Tuesday, comes after he angered many Christians with a social media post that appeared to depict him as Jesus and publicly quarreled with Pope Leo.

Trump came to Arizona to rally young voters.  An older crowd greeted him.  —  Despite some empty seats, Trump projected confidence in his party's ability to win the midterm elections.  Some in the crowd focused on GOP divisions.  —  Summary  —  PHOENIX — The megachurch in Phoenix …

An unabashed progressive dominates in New Jersey, another midterm warning sign for Republicans … “I think it's a clear sign that the MAGA movement is fading, diminishing and that democracy is at the forefront of voters' agendas,” New Jersey Democratic State Committee Chair LeRoy Jones said in a phone interview.

Utah leaders to probe relationship between Supreme Court justice, redistricting lawyer  —  Justice Diana Hagen speaks at the Supreme Court of Utah in Salt Lake City on Sept. 25, 2024.  Utah's governor and legislative leaders are launching an investigation into Hagen and allegations …