The Texas Senate election is a tossup  —  I'm breaking my rule of not covering breaking news to write about tonight's election results in Texas, my home state.  (And hey, with a baby on the way, who knows how much longer I'll get to stay up late and write when I should be resting?)

South Carolina's redistricting effort fails in the state Senate amid GOP opposition  —  Some Republican lawmakers changed their stance on enacting a new map before the midterms when early voting for the June primary began on Tuesday.  —  The Republican-led South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted …

Join the Abraham Accords?  US allies scoff at Trump's demand. … Trump's assertion, nonetheless, injected uncertainty into an already volatile situation.  A spate of new U.S. military strikes on Iranian missile sites and boats suspected of placing mines as well as Israel's escalating offensive …

US to set up quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola, WSJ reports  —  The Trump administration is expected to deploy U.S. public health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Exclusive renderings of Penn Station overhaul show Trump's name with presidential seal  —  Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations  —  The winning plan to rebuild Penn Station features renderings of a new train hall with American flags at the entrance, gold-accented railings …

Trump administration floats requiring all federal workers to sign NDAs  —  The non-disclosure agreement is necessary because of “unauthorized disclosures” about government activities to the press, according to the draft notice.  —  The Trump administration is proposing a rule requiring federal workers …

Scoop: Trump appoints Bondi to White House AI panel  —  President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to an advisory committee focused on AI policy, Axios has learned. … - The panel is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios.

Court blocks Alabama Republicans' congressional map  —  A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked Alabama Republicans' congressional map that would've given the party a potential pickup opportunity in the midterms.  —  The judges ruled the Supreme Court's recent blockbuster decision narrowing …

FBI fires analyst who worked 2017 case of shooting at congressional baseball practice  —  FBI Director Kash Patel last week fired a senior intelligence analyst who played a role in the FBI's 2017 assessment of the motives of the gunman who attacked a House Republican baseball practice …

RFK Jr. is now handling snakes.  What does this mean?  —  Decoding the latest manly video from our secretary of health and human services.  —  Summary  —  It is time to stop whatever you are doing, take off your shoes, leave on your dress socks, and wrestle two snakes on the patio of a house owned by Mehmet Oz.

Trump Is Dying  —  This post is brought to you free by Incogni.  —  Let me say what the White House press corps cannot bring itself to say, what the Sunday shows have agreed to murmur around rather than at:  —  Donald John Trump is dying.  —  He is dying in the ordinary biological sense …

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump  —  In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party's ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election  —  Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting …

Biden Sues to Halt Release of Interview Tapes With Ghostwriter  —  The 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings were obtained during a 2023 probe into Biden's handling of classified documents.  — Copy  —  Former President Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department to block …

A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers  —  Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump's first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began?

Republican Rep. Mike Flood Jeered at Another Contentious Nebraska Town Hall  —  It was the second time in less than a year that Flood has faced angry constituents.  — Copy  —  Rep. Mike Flood, a Republican from Nebraska, was jeered and backpedaled from several of President Donald Trump's …