G.O.P. Pulls Measure to End Iran War, Lacking Votes to Defeat It  —  House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.  —  House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled …

All charges dismissed against “Broadview Six,” defense says grand jury transcript revealed “gross misconduct”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  All remaining charges against the “Broadview Six” defendants have been dismissed with prejudice, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced in court Thursday afternoon.

A Message from DNC Chair Ken Martin on the DNC's 2024 After Action Report  —  I was elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee three months after one of the most painful and consequential election losses for Democrats in modern history.  It was a punch to the gut, and people were pissed off.

Homeland Security's Plan to Squeeze International Flights  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox News …

Trump Says He Will ‘Try and Make’ Son's Wedding, but Timing ‘Not Good’  —  President Trump said the war with Iran and “other things” would make it difficult for him to make the wedding this weekend.  —  It's your classic dilemma.  —  You are president of the United States, and you've started a war in Iran that's not going your way.

Trump says he's postponing signing an executive order on AI out of concern it would hurt AI industry  —  President Donald Trump called off a Thursday signing ceremony for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America's edge on AI technology.

Bipartisan House effort aims to kill ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  —  A bipartisan House effort is afoot to kill the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund created by the Justice Department that could pay allies of President Donald Trump, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the effort ahead of a formal announcement.

Trump, facing GOP blowback, sends 5,000 troops to Poland  —  President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. is sending 5,000 additional troops to Poland, a week after the Pentagon cancelled the long-planned deployment of 4,000 service members to the Central European country.

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence  —  Colorado law enforcement officials warned their counterparts across the country that social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes …

RFK Jr. announces ‘the largest autism fraud bust in American history’ and it's in Minnesota … Minnesota was also at the center of Democratic resistance to President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.  Federal agents killed two protesters in the state earlier this year …

8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students  —  The bill requires educators to get parental consent for changing a student's pronouns or preferred names on any school forms.  It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.

Design plan for 250-foot “Arc de Trump” is approved, but 4 lions on the base are now gone  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved the design for the triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built at an entrance to the nation's capital, a key step in the project's process.

The New Blood Libel  —  This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.  —  the synagogue where I was bar mitzvahed was built in 1963.  The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews of Europe had ended only 18 years before.  But those nightmares seemed remote from the verdant and prosperous cul-de-sac …

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real  —  Angelo Carusone and Aaron Rupar share a distinction that we imagine many Americans would happily cede to them: They have likely watched more Donald Trump rallies, speeches, and press briefings than any other living Americans.

Civil Rights Lawyers Secure $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired Over Charlie Kirk Social Media Post  —  Brittney Brown Vindicated After State Terminated Her Employment for Constitutionally Protected Speech on Private Instagram Account … Florida officials have agreed to resolve Brown's claims …

Americans oppose spending $1 billion on White House ballroom 68% to 21%  —  A preview from our May Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll  —  I don't usually release results for individual poll questions early, but these days, the best course of action in journalism is to publish anything interesting before the news cycle kills it.

The $5.02 ghost: Trump's team faces a symbolic blow to one of its favorite economic talking points  —  Trump officials are “absolutely, totally freaked” about the political symbolism of breaking Biden's high gas price record … “The White House staff is absolutely, totally freaked …

House rejects Smithsonian women's history museum bill after partisan split  —  The House rejected legislation Thursday to advance construction of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum after a partisan battle broke out in recent days over the long-sought building.

Acting Navy secretary: Taiwan weapons sales paused to ensure munitions for Iran war  —  Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said Thursday the U.S. is pausing a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan because of the Trump administration's war with Iran.  —  Speaking during a Senate Appropriations Defense …