Rick Scott says he's just trying to help … “There won't be a vote,” he said, adding that he's “fine” with Thune continuing in the position.  —  “Here's what I don't get,” Scott continued, expressing exasperation with the palace intrigue.  “Other people get to put out their position.

Supreme Court rejects Trump's push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case  —  The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury's finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

Supreme Court allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive late, rejecting RNC challenge  —  The justices ruled that a Mississippi law that allows ballots to be counted as long as they were sent by Election Day is not prohibited under federal law.  —  WASHINGTON — Rejecting …

Supreme Court rules Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook; grants him more power over other independent agencies  —  The justices allowed Cook to keep her job while green-lighting the president's firing of another Democratic appointee to an independent body, FTC Commissioner Rebeca Slaughter.

America's most (and least) popular politicians in 2026  —  Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Zohran Mamdani top the list, while Tucker Carlson and Chuck Schumer bring up the rear … Our June Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll asked Americans to rate a dozen political figures on a scale from 0 to 100 …

Yoo to advise diGenova on probe into inquiries of Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia … “As far as I know, I'm just signing on as a consultant on any kind of constitutional law issues they may encounter,” Yoo said Sunday.  “I've known Joe and [his wife] Vicky [Toensing] for more than three decades …

Trump says U.S. and Iran to hold fresh talks in Qatar on Tuesday following weekend clashes  —  “IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING.  IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.  —  There was no immediate reaction from Iran, although a senior Iranian official …

Platner Has Slight Edge Over Collins in Tight Maine Senate Race, Poll Finds  —  The Maine race, which both parties see as key to winning control of the Senate, is extremely close as the sprint to fall begins, a Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll found.  —  Senator Susan Collins …

Fine, Don't Prosecute President Trump.  But Release Jack Smith's Report.  —  Three years ago this month, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump under the Espionage Act for concealing and refusing to return classified documents after his departure from the White House.

Trump Reflecting Pool Arrests Take Unnerving Turn—and Officials Go Mum  —  Donald Trump has insisted six people have been arrested and many more have been given citations for vandalizing the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.  This allegedly includes carving a 350-foot gash …

Fox News' Not-So-Wonderful Apology … On Friday and Saturday, Fox News hosts awkwardly did something that the network had long resisted—even after paying $787 million to settle Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit over the 2020 election: They apologized.

Dems' Tea Party-like rebellion built by a decade of frustration  —  Democratic leaders are increasingly alarmed that they're facing their own version of the GOP's Tea Party rebellion 17 years ago — and that they can't stop it. … But the rage in the party has been building for a decade.

Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate company  —  The move announced Monday will separate Comcast's media and entertainment assets from its broadband and wireless business. … Comcast said Monday that it plans to spin off NBCUniversal into a separate publicly traded company …

Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal … President Donald Trump bought as much as $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprise — maker of Tasers, body cameras and policing software — two weeks before Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought a five-year …

How Warsh Has Begun to Change the Fed … Kevin M. Warsh, chairman of the Federal Reserve, campaigned for the job on the basis of “regime change.”  Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times  —  Shortly after taking over as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin M. Warsh wrote to the central bank's …

I'm a Democratic strategist.  I won't stay silent about Graham Platner.  —  I am not a voter in Maine.  Which is fortunate, because if I were, I don't know what I would do.  —  Last week, Planned Parenthood, an organization whose entire mission is protecting women, endorsed Graham Platner for the U.S. Senate.

Putin's fuel shortage admission signals growing strain on Russia's energy infrastructure … Russian President Vladimir Putin has conceded that the country is facing fuel shortages following a barrage of long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on key energy infrastructure, although he insisted the Kremlin was dealing with them.

Inside Republicans' Plan to Win the Midterms  —  Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 by turning out multitudes of people who usually don't vote, in no small part because his campaign built an entire strategy around aggressively courting their support.  —  Republicans, including some involved …

Pro-Trump groups to tell Brendan Carr to yank Disney's TV licenses … Carr this spring took the highly unusual step of calling in the licenses for all eight Disney-owned ABC TV stations for renewal years ahead of schedule, citing allegations that the entertainment and media giant had failed …

Party Time at the ODNI?  —  Christina A. Norton, the new chief of staff of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), is a party-loving MAGA activist with no background in national security issues but who last year boasted of running “the largest election integrity operation …

Cross-Tabs: June 2026 Times/Press Herald/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Maine  —  Results of a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll of 608 likely voters conducted from June 19 to 26, 2026.  —  ‹ ›  —  Do you think the United States is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction?

Americans Want to Impeach Donald Trump  —  So why aren't Democrats doing something about it?  —  Pocket  —  From the fog of complacency that enshrouds Democratic congressional leaders, one refrain billows above even the antiregulatory mantra of abundance—the siren song of popularism (not to be confused with “populism").

The US is better off than it was in 1976.  So why does it feel worse?  —  America's 250th birthday feels bleak.  The numbers tell a different story. … America in the summer of 1976 was not in a good place.  —  The president who presided over the country's Bicentennial …

Work on East Potomac Golf Links overhaul will begin Sept. 1, Trump says  —  Officials haven't said how the speedy timeline will mesh with regulatory reviews they've pledged to follow.  —  Summary  —  A sweeping overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links will begin Sept. 1, President Donald Trump …