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

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 …

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 …

The regime's attacks on Pope Leo backfire spectacularly  —  This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one👇  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have picked a fight with the pope, and things are getting really weird.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani points at Ken Griffin's $238 million penthouse on tax day: 'Today we're taxing the rich'  —  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked tax day by making good on one of his most prominent campaign promises, and he did it while outside hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin's front door.

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 …

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.

GOP senators urge Trump to find Iran exit plan as energy prices rise: ‘The clock is ticking’ … “I hope that we are arriving at an exit strategy here to bring this to a close to preserve our security interests and bring down the cost of gasoline,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters this week …

Trump's lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president's $10B lawsuit  —  Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency over the leak of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.

Transcript: George Conway on Why Trump Will Be Removed from Office … Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.  I'm your host, Greg Sargent.  —  Donald Trump's own allies and many other Republicans have quietly started to fear the worst about the midterms.

Obama Urges Virginians to Vote ‘Yes’ on Redistricting Referendum  —  Democrats may win a vote to give their party more House seats, but they are growing anxious — in part because of dueling TV ads that might confuse voters about where the former president stands.

They've been detained by ICE and ordered deported.  Judges are releasing them from custody. … A POLITICO analysis of immigration detention cases has found that federal judges have ordered bond hearings and, more often, outright release for more than 400 people detained under these circumstances.

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 …