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 simple statistical error Republican Supreme Court justices used to gut the VRA  —  The Court says vote dilution can be proven only after “controlling” racial polarization for partisan polarization.  This is a nonsensical and impossible test … The six Republican-appointed justices …

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 unusual methodology, a Guardian analysis has found  —  The claims Samuel Alito, a supreme court justice …

Pentagon Releases Files on U.F.O.s  —  The initial files are murky images that show what could be anything.  The government said more would be released on a rolling basis.  —  The Pentagon released what it called “new, never-before-seen” files on U.F.O.s on Friday, hailing the step …

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.

Is Trump About to Invite In the Biggest Predator in the World?  —  “If you look at my old speeches when I was young, very handsome,” President Trump said while announcing his “Liberation Day” tariffs last year, “I'd be on a television show.  I'd be talking about how we were being ripped off.”

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.

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.

MAGA Rep Accused of Brutally Beating GOP Senator's Daughter  —  FAMILY TRAUMA  —  Rep. Max Miller was elected in 2022 and previously served in the Trump administration.  —  A MAGA congressman has been accused of years of physical abuse against his ex-wife, the daughter of a prominent Republican senator.

Secret document reveals Russia's plans to aid Iran  —  Unjammable drones would be used against American forces, according to proposals seen by The Economist  —  There are many reasons why America's war on Iran has been failing.  One of them is the effectiveness of Iranian drones.

Stephen Miller's closed system of white supremacy  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🔁 Subscribe to PN 🔁  —  Working in the Trump administration these days is no doubt a dream come true for Stephen Miller.

Thousands of asylum-seekers abandon their cases as ICE seeks to deport them to nations they aren't from  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Willian Yacelga Benalcazar's asylum case followed what had become a similar pattern in immigration courts across the country: After telling a judge …

Anti-woke Vivek Ramaswamy confronts racism in his run for Ohio governor  —  Vivek Ramaswamy built a political brand casting racism as an obsession of Democrats.  As a Republican running for Ohio governor, he's facing racism on the right.  —  Summary  —  CINCINNATI — Vivek Ramaswamy …

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.

Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a 3-day ceasefire and a prisoner swap  —  President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners.  Trump said Friday that such a halt …

Humans still matter more than AI in finance  —  Recruiting digital natives with critical thinking skills is going to be crucial  —  A few months ago a New York financier told me he had just experienced a “first”: his 2025 summer interns “were the first true AI natives I have seen”.

Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rob Sand Is Worrying Iowa Republicans … At a recent stop at a brewery in Des Moines, Rob Sand, a Democrat running for governor, didn't hold back about what the matter with Iowa is.  —  The state has among the worst economies of all 50 states in the country, he said.

Did Amazon just deliver a blow to Josh Shapiro's White House dreams?  —  There are many hurdles facing Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro if he truly hopes to make the transition from a popular governor, seemingly cruising toward reelection this November, to a Democratic presidential contender in 2028.

Ted Cruz: Trump accounts are personal Social Security accounts  —  At a conference earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that the new Trump accounts, the “401(k)s for babies” that launched this year, could be a way to push forward the Social Security privatization effort that failed during the Bush administration.

Thomas Massie Is Really In Danger of Losing His Seat  —  Allies of the occasional Trump adversary acknowledge his race is tightening, just as Trump's intraparty dominance reemerges.  — Copy  —  Republican Rep. Thomas Massie's lead in his primary later this month is slipping …

AOC mocked after she claims no one can ‘earn a billion dollars’: ‘Her entire salary is stolen from people’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been roundly scorned after she claimed on a podcast this week that the idea anyone can earn their way to billionaire status is a “myth.”

We're at the Dawn of the Ozempic Era — and It's Really Weird  —  This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.  —  Here's a number from a KFF poll that actually shocked me when I learned it: One out of eight American adults is taking a GLP-1.

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation's Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules.  All It Took Was an Email.  —  In March 2025, President Donald Trump's administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories …