Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait  —  The printing director who resisted the effort said she was reassigned last month.  “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.  —  Summary  —  Trump administration officials have pressed the office responsible for printing …

Milli Vanilli and Morris Day say they won't perform at Trump-linked Freedom 250's DC shows  —  A day after the President Donald Trump -affiliated Freedom 250 announced the “first wave” of performers for “The Great American State Fair” shows on Washington's National Mall in June and July …

CBS News Names Outsider to Lead ‘60 Minutes’ as Part of Major Shake-Up  —  Bari Weiss, CBS's editor in chief, named Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, as the show's executive producer.  The network also fired two on-air correspondents.  —  In a bid to remake the country's top …

The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.  —  When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

Scoop: U.S. and Iran reach deal but need Trump's final approval, officials say  —  U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and launch negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, but President Trump has yet to give his final approval …

Jill Biden Worried Her Husband Was Drugged on Debate Night  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  As she watched President Biden stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate …

Supreme Court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case  —  In a 5-4 vote, the court found Terry Pitchford should have had the opportunity to challenge the dismissal of four Black potential jurors.  —  Summary  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Mississippi man …

Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data  —  U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.

Students For Trump Co-Founder Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges, Allegedly Yelled “Do You Want To Die Today?”  —  Ryan Fournier, the co-founder and chairman of the group Students for Trump, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., after he allegedly assaulted and threatened a woman …

The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold  —  The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.  — Copy  —  Four massive bronze horses positioned along the roads surrounding the Lincoln Memorial still shine …

Samuel Alito's Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump's Treasury Department  —  Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury's office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.  — Copy

Eleanor Ross Is US Judge Reprimanded for Sex in Chambers  —  Eleanor Ross is the federal district court judge who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex with a police officer in chambers in earshot of law clerks, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Why Was the Chief of Staff for a Leading Republican Senate Candidate on a Group Chat With Famous White Nationalists?  —  The chief of staff for Rep. Mike Collins, the front-runner to be Republicans' Senate nominee in Georgia, said he used his congressional position to attempt to free a Holocaust denier from prison.

Iran War Lifts a Second Inflation Reading to Highest Level Since 2023  —  Officials at the central bank have embraced the possibility of higher interest rates to get resurgent inflation under control.  —  A measure of inflation closely watched by the Federal Reserve accelerated in April …

Poll shows Bass, Raman and Pratt locked in tight race ahead of Tuesday's mayoral primary  — 6 min Click here to listen to this article  — The latest UC Berkeley-L.A. Times poll in the L.A. mayor's race has Mayor Bass at 26%, Nithya Raman at 25% and Spencer Pratt at 22% among likely voters.

The real lesson of the E. Jean Carroll investigation is Trump's weakness  —  Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump's Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman who had accused him of rape, most would likely have dismissed it as a paranoid #resistance fantasy.

Man arrested for threats to kill Erika Kirk ahead of Turning Point USA event in San Antonio, affidavit says  —  Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of a making a terroristic threat  —  SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening …

DOJ sues Massachusetts for refusing to issue ICE confidential license plates  —  The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Massachusetts over the state's refusal to issue confidential license plates and registrations to many federal immigration agents.  —  The plates are typically issued …

Dell Gets a $9.7 Billion Defense Contract.  Trump's Portfolio Stands to Benefit.  —  The president's family says his stock purchases are automatically timed, but recent acquisitions of the computer company's shares raise questions.  —  President Trump earlier this year purchased …

Bruce Springsteen calls out the White House and announces a protest festival  —  Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., area a month before the midterm elections.

Iran, Gas Prices, the Ballroom: Trump Professes Indifference Over Fallout  —  President Trump has increasingly adopted a posture of nonchalance when pushed on the political consequences of his actions.  —  Wednesday's cabinet meeting at the White House began, as it always does …

May 2026 National Poll: Rubio Rises as 2028 Contender, Buttigieg, Newsom Top Democratic List  —  Majority Oppose US Intervention in Cuba  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey finds President Donald Trump with a 39% job approval rating, while 55% disapprove of the job he is doing in the Oval Office.

Judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday declined to block President Donald Trump's executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

Very Low-IQ Trump Too Stoopid to Win War  —  1. Economics  —  Earlier this week Ed Luce noted the similarities between Ukraine and Iran: Both were attacked by much larger powers.  Both have stopped the much larger powers in their tracks.  —  How?  Because both Ukraine and Iran mastered …

Airlines, hotels warn against Trump admin threat to international flights to ‘sanctuary cities’ … Groups representing the largest U.S. airlines and hotel chains slammed the Trump administration's potential halt of customs and immigration processing at “sanctuary city” airports …