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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir  —  In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein's plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York.

White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’  —  Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel's alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit  —  Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit …

Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump's campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election …

Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame  —  “I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration has urged professional football's leaders …

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.  What is going on?  —  Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers  —  Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February.

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 …

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 …

The End Times Customer Service Desk  —  False prophets, sticky problems, and decent advice on everything from the dire Strait of Hormuz, to fleeing from the world, to aging gracefully when your body has other ideas … Dear Matt,  —  You've bitched a lot about Trump and the Iran War.

D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show  —  The Florida Republican is the focus of a House ethics probe stemming, in part, from the alleged assault.  —  Summary  —  D.C. police were about to arrest Rep. Cory Mills (R-Florida) after a woman accused …