Keir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM  —  Summary  — Keir Starmer resigns, with Andy Burnham confirming he will stand to replace him  — Minutes later, former Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he'll back Burnham's bid to become Labour leader and prime minister

Alan Greenspan, economist and longtime head of the Federal Reserve, dies at 100  —  The influential economist died Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.  —  Alan Greenspan, the influential economist …

Iran Cites ‘Major Progress’ After All-Night Talks With US  —  Iran said there had been “major progress” in all-night discussions with the US, as the warring sides try to reach a peace deal within two months.  —  The countries began technical talks in the Swiss resort of Bürgenstock over the weekend …

Exclusive / ‘The president seems to revel in chaos’: Cornyn goes his own way  —  A few days after losing his Senate runoff, John Cornyn did something unusual for him: He used his leverage against his own party.  —  The Texas Republican was frustrated by a nearly year-long delay in getting …

Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show  —  Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 …

The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs  —  A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).

The MAGA stars freaked out by their own movement  —  In 2017, US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) offered what remains one of the most insightful explanations of Donald Trump's rise from any elected official.  Massie, a Tea Party libertarian in the Rand and Ron Paul mode, was wondering …

How MAGA Undermined the Military  —  Ideology, bigotry and cronyism have endangered national security  —  When Donald Trump promised to make America great again, he clearly wanted among other things to start throwing our military weight around.  As Timothy Snyder says,

DOJ now 0-9 in voter roll cases after Trump-appointed judge tosses its Maryland demand  —  A federal judge threw out the Department of Justice's (DOJ) lawsuit seeking Maryland's statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump and the department's sweeping campaign …

Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states  —  By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act.  —  The court announced Monday that it will not review an Arkansas-based lawsuit …

Exclusive: Trump administration plans to use homeland security funds to force states into election changes  —  Donald Trump National security Federal agencies  —  The Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless …

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s  —  For decades, American roads were steadily getting safer for pedestrians.  But around 2009, the trend reversed.  Since then, the number of pedestrians killed each year has risen by about 75 percent.  —  Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety The New York Times

Trump Vents Growing Frustrations With Reflecting-Pool Problems  —  President says multiple people have been arrested for vandalism and the pool will likely need to be drained for repairs  —  President Trump poured out his frustrations with the problems plaguing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool …

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigns amid FBI investigation  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Nearly four months after federal agents raided his home and district headquarters, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced his resignation as the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District on Sunday.

“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid  —  After the Trump administration upended the world's largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.

Trump Is Melting Down and Threatening Jail Time Over Reflecting Pool Disaster  —  The president is blaming supposed “vandals” for the peeling paint job and abundance of algae plaguing his latest vanity project  —  Donald Trump has once again threatened to prosecute the supposed “vandals” …

Turek leads Hinson in Iowa Senate poll of likely general election voters  —  Iowa Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek has a narrow lead over GOP rival Ashley Hinson in a new internal poll of likely general-election voters.  Turek leads Hinson 47 percent to 45 percent in the poll …

Senate to vote on private equity housing ban  —  The Senate is expected to vote Monday on a bipartisan bill that includes limits on private equity ownership of single-family homes. … - The PE housing “ban” applies to institutions that own at least 350 such homes — and does not require divestitures …

Supreme Court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz, missing New York City boy  —  The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.  The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged …

U.S. Oil Is Skipping the Chance to Grab Market Share From the Gulf  —  U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.  —  The war with Iran has pulled the American oil industry out of a slump …

Why Trump has been attacking the Supreme Court, with 3 key rulings ahead  —  As the court prepares to rule on several of the president's priorities, tensions are running high — even with his own appointees.  —  Summary  —  When Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch hosted a gathering …

What if we covered Trump's age the way we covered Biden's?  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Anyone with an elderly parent or grandparent has seen how it goes: With the passage of years …