U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz blockade for months  —  A confidential intelligence community assessment delivered to the White House also finds that Iran retains a substantial missile and drone arsenal.  —  Summary  —  A confidential CIA analysis delivered …

Jet-Fuel Prices Are Spiking and Trump's Advisers Are Worried  —  Administration officials have spoken to the airline industry, which has voiced concerns about the rising costs  —  Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu delivered a warning to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a recent visit …

Exclusive: How Trump's Minneapolis immigration blitz hobbled federal crime fighting  —  The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents also dramatically slowed other federal investigations and prosecutions into an array of serious crimes, a Reuters review of federal court records found.

UN health agency chief says hantavirus outbreak shows why US should rejoin … Argentina had withdrawn from the WHO two weeks before, following the U.S. withdrawal in January.  President Donald Trump said he was pulling out because he believed the agency had mishandled the Covid pandemic, among other issues.

The Congresswomen's Pact  —  For the first time, twelve congresswomen reveal how they're banding together after the Trump administration came for one of their own: Rep. LaMonica McIver. … The first call came just before eight o'clock.  Then the second, then the third.

Federal and State Officials Consider Closing Florida's ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  —  The immigrant detention center in the Everglades, which Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, opened last July, may be too expensive to keep operating.  —  Florida is in talks with the Trump administration to shut …

Gulf States Lift Restrictions That Blocked ‘Project Freedom’ in Strait of Hormuz  —  Decision to restore access to bases and airspace paves way for U.S. to resume operation to guide ships through waterway  —  Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have lifted restrictions on the U.S. military's use …

ICE Keeps Detaining the Same US Citizen Again, and Again, and Again.  He's Fighting Back.  —  “I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.  —  On the morning of May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas was driving home from a convenience store run in Silverhill …

The GOP's New Solution to Fund Trump's Ballroom: Your Money  —  Plus: Tennessee just approved a new map of congressional districts.  This lawmaker's career might end because of it.  —  ∙ Paid  —  The Grassley is always greener  —  When President Donald Trump first floated his plan …

Kelly's profile rises as he heads toward another likely victory over Hegseth … And he's leveraged the media attention into a megaphone while growing his online following.  Regardless of how the appeals court rules, the case is likely to end up before the Supreme Court either …

Platner and Collins Begin Their Duel in the Maine Senate Race  —  In strikingly different ads, Graham Platner argued that “Susan Collins's charade is over” while Senator Collins highlighted the economic benefits she has brought to Maine.  —  One of the country's most fiercely contested midterm races is fully underway.

The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson  —  In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court's darkest and most racist days.  —  Nothing is new and history repeats.  When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month …

Bill eliminates requirement to notify voters with new polling places in new congressional districts  —  11:55 a.m. May 7 update: After this blogpost was made, Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins contacted me to say that it was not his intention of SB7001 /HB 7001, which he helped write …

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Earliest Opportunity’ — Gov Opens Door To Redrawing Maps After SCOTUS Nukes Race-Based Districting  —  Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is opening the door to redrawing several of his state's electoral maps after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a major win against race-based redistricting.

Campaign staffers tell NPR they make ‘thousands’ betting on their own candidates  —  It was a tight race, so a campaign staffer doubted the results of an unreleased poll showing their candidate up — by a lot.  —  The tip about the outside poll didn't match up with the campaign's internal numbers.

Whose House?  Trump's House.  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was back in the hot seat yesterday, giving closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee over his contradictory statements about his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.  —  Ahead of Lutnick's appearance …

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles announces surprise resignation 6 months after reelection  —  Longtime Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles plans to step down less than halfway through her latest term leading the nation's 14th-largest city.  —  The five-term Democrat will resign June 30, spokesperson LaToya Evans said in a statement.

New York Bars ICE Agents From Wearing Masks in Broad Immigration Deal  —  State and local officials will also be prohibited from formally cooperating with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement under the agreement.  —  Four months after masked federal agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti …

Which Democrat could repair the damage Trump did?  — 7 min Click here to listen to this article  —  Democrats have a huge opportunity to make a huge difference.  But whether they'll grab it is a huge question.  —  In 2020, I wrote that voters were “weary, anxious and looking for salve” after President Trump's first term.

Eleven things about the second-longest-serving justice of all time … Justice Clarence Thomas, now the second-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history, has occupied a singular place on the court for more than three decades.  In this column, I describe some of the most notable facts …

Trump's Immigration Agenda Has Forced Hundreds of Kids Into Foster Care  —  Immigration agents detained their parents and left more than 200 kids to the foster system.  — Copy  —  The number of kids who were placed in foster care because immigration agents detained or deported …

Iran still reviewing new U.S. peace proposal as Trump predicts war will ‘be over quickly’: Reports … Iran is “currently reviewing” messages from the U.S. that it received via Pakistani mediators, but it has yet to reach a conclusion or deliver a reply, an Iranian official said Thursday, state media outlets reported.

Grand Theft Oil Futures  —  Source: CNBC, Financial Times, BBC, Reuters  —  At this point it's almost routine: Almost every time Donald Trump makes a major announcement about the Iran War, that announcement is preceded — sometimes by only a few minutes — by huge and hugely profitable bets in the oil market.

Trump's Corruption Is Going to Sink Him  —  DID YOU CATCH THE STORY ABOUT Trump trying to raid the Treasury to the tune of $10 billion?  Last week, a judge paused it, but Trump, in his personal capacity, is suing the IRS for that staggering sum.  It's the latest in a string of grasping …

At Least 79 Kids Have Been Harmed by Tear Gas or Pepper Spray During Trump's Immigration Crackdown  —  The children were walking to school in Broadview, Illinois, or leaving a shopping center in Columbus, Ohio.  They were at home in Minneapolis, or sitting in a stroller in Chicago …

Silent no more, Jack Smith calls out Trump's ‘corrupted’ Justice Department  —  The prosecutor wasn't able to make his case in court, but months later, he's bringing his arguments to the public in forceful and unrestrained ways.  —  Donald Trump's 2024 election victory marked the beginning …

Platner 2028?  —  Call me crazy, but Graham Platner has a chance to be the Democratic nominee.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tomorrow we'll have a Secret show for you and a Jasmine + JVL video mailbag.  (With transcript!)  —  1. Golden Grahams  —  Right now, today, I give Graham Platner a 1-in-3 chance to be the next Democratic nominee.

MAGA Influencers Find a Medicare Fraudster They Love  —  WITH DONALD TRUMP INCREASINGLY UNPOPULAR, and with fewer woke Democratic initiatives to bemoan, right-wing media figures have united around a cause seemingly every faction of their audiences can get behind: targeting minority communities for alleged fraud.

USPS considers allowing people to ship handguns through the mail  —  Handguns could be mailed through the United States Postal Service for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed rule under the Trump administration takes effect.  Democratic attorneys general in two dozen states sent a letter this week in opposition.

Why Congress Is Struggling to Do the Bare Minimum  —  Current session is marked by record-long government shutdowns, lawmakers sidelined on the Iran war and a wave of pending departures  —  WASHINGTON—Congress is struggling to do the bare minimum.  —  The House recently passed …

Trump pardon recipients face congressional investigation over “pay-to-play” questions  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Senate and House Democrats have launched an investigation into whether pardons and commutations issued by President Trump were driven by “pay-to-play dynamics,” according to letters obtained by CBS News.

Videos Show Upstate Cops Calling Border Patrol on Drivers … Video  —  A sheriff's deputy in Oswego County, in north-central New York, pulled over a driver one afternoon in January 2025.  The driver and his passenger only spoke Spanish.  So the deputy took the driver's phone …

Transcript: Angry Trump Spirals as Poll Shows Him Losing to Pope Badly  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 7 episode of The Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

The Confederacy rises again  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  When the Supreme Court smashed the last meaningful vestiges of the Voting Rights Act last week, it took literally a matter of hours …