Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' redistricting plan, dimming party's midterm hopes  —  The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans …

ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment  —  The network's argument, made to the F.C.C., is the most aggressive posture taken yet by a television network toward the Trump administration.  —  ABC has accused the Federal Communications Commission of violating its free speech rights …

The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington's Reflecting Pool Blue … For a century, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has captured Washington's history, a vast mirror for moments great and small.  —  Then, this spring, President Trump said he decided to paint it blue …

Trump Planning to Fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary  —  The doctor, a MAHA advocate, has had a tumultuous tenure that has included clashes over vaping, abortion and vaccine policy.

How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court  —  The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age.  They should use it.  —  Virginia Democrats are looking for a way to overturn the state Supreme Court's …

Exclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants, sources say  —  U.S. health department officials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared …

Pentagon releases dozens of UFO files offering transparency on ‘alien and extraterrestrial life’  —  The War Department released more than 160 files Friday related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years, two days after President Trump predicted, “I think some of it's going to be very interesting to people.”

Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground  —  There is a moment when internet companies get the stink of death on them.  For AOL, it was 2003, when it became clear that its users were abandoning its clunky dial-up internet service for far-faster broadband.

Justice Department moves to strip 12 Americans of their citizenship  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday it is seeking to denaturalize a dozen people from various parts of the country who are accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

Trump gets his chance to upend FEMA … That would help the agency meet one of Trump's biggest complaints about FEMA — that it's too slow to deliver money.  The report says payments to states would occur within 30 days of a flood, storm, wildfire or other disaster.

US intel community agreed before war 'Iran wasn't developing a nuclear weapon': ex-counterterrorism chief  —  Joe Kent declared ‘the narrative & agenda spun by a foreign government- Israel, won the argument & forced us into this war’  —  Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent asserted …

Wiles cracks down on leaks  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.

Supreme court's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ  —  Exclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on questionable methodology, a Guardian analysis has found  —  The claims Samuel Alito, a supreme court justice …

Trump Is ‘Bored’ With the War He Started  —  He wants out, but Iran could likely keep going for months.  —  President trump really, really wants the war with Iran to end.  He has declared victory many times, including about three weeks ago, when Iran briefly reopened the Strait of Hormuz.

Mothers are America's strength … Melania Trump is the first lady of the United States.  —  A mother's devotion to her child is unmatched.  This love takes many forms: strength, compassion, wisdom, grace, joy, labor, humor and even grief, to name a few.  The love between mother and child …

Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigns amid Utah Legislature's investigation  —  Under intense pressure from Republican leaders, including Gov. Spencer Cox, Justice Diana Hagen resigned from the Utah Supreme Court on Friday.  —  Cox, along with House Speaker Mike Schultz …

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents  —  What you need to know: California is launching a first-in-the-nation program to provide 400 free diapers to every newborn, easing costs for families and supporting infant and maternal health …

4 people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti's president … “These defendants pursued power, influence, and profit through violence,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones said in a statement.

Facing Pressure, Trump Officials Reject Claims They're Softening on Immigration  —  Immigration hard-liners have grown frustrated with the level of deportations and the Department of Homeland Security's attempts, under its new secretary, to stay under the radar.