Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business  —  Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court's now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.  —  Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic …

U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say  —  American military will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Iran, as it steps up ‘Economic Fury’  —  The U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships …

Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled …

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump  —  Zelensky has written off the United States.  —  For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope—at least publicly—of winning him over.  Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia's Vladimir Putin again and again …

Poll: Trump's immigration message changed.  Voters' opinions have not. … Yet three months later, Americans' views of President Donald Trump's deportations campaign remain broadly negative.  —  New results from The POLITICO Poll show that even as the spotlight has moved away …

Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary  —  More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy.  Now, suddenly, a much happier occasion.  I found her account of how this happened startling …

How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies?  —  Trump is wishing away the Iran War the way he did Covid.  What happens when the market finally has to tell the truth?  —  ·  —  Just now  —  Everyone has finally picked up the pattern.

Pete Hegseth Nailed It.  No Really.  —  You've probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted what he apparently thought was a bible verse but was in fact the faux biblicalism delivered by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Pulp Fiction.

Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now  —  The stock market has been trying to ignore the war in Iran.  That's been true over weeks of escalation and de-escalation, cease-fires, a blockade, and a blockade of a blockade (now just a U.S. blockade).  Markets have barely flinched …

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 …

Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wreaking havoc on Israel's standing with Americans as the Iran war supercharges a deterioration in relations with the U.S. … Lawmakers who started out staunchly pro-Israel are becoming increasingly vocal critics.

Trump Will Participate in a Marathon Bible Reading  —  He will read a passage from the Old Testament that his Christian supporters cite as a call to national repentance and divine blessing.  —  President Trump has a complicated relationship with the Bible.

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

Western men are going abroad to find traditional wives  —  Frustration with modern dating has fuelled the rise of “passport bros”  —  A few years ago Mike got fed up with dating in America.  “So many women there have been brainwashed to think it's ok to treat men like crap,” he says.

Appeals Court Again Allows Ballroom Construction to Go On, for Now  —  In the latest ruling, an appeals court in Washington allowed construction to continue until at least June while it considered the case.  —  A federal appeals court on Friday allowed construction on President Trump's ballroom project …