The Key Ways Trump's Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy  —  President Trump's business holdings, which garnered him more than $2 billion last year, create potential conflicts of interest surpassing any predecessor.  —  When President Trump's annual financial disclosure …

‘The old politics are gone’: Steve Bannon on the democratic socialist wave … To Bannon, it's proof of something he's said for months: The U.S. is in a transformational political moment, and leadership in both parties is way behind.  —  “We are facing a new politics.

The GOP's dirty little secret about the SAVE America Act … Instead, Johnson and other House leaders have stuck with an older version of the SAVE America Act that focuses on proof-of-citizenship requirements but otherwise lets states run their elections as they see fit.

Fox News Poll: An early look at the Georgia Senate race  —  Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff narrowly won his Senate seat in a January 2021 runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue by just over a percentage point.  New Fox News polling suggests a different dynamic this time …

US Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling Talks  —  US Won't Renew USMCA Trade Deal Video Player is loading.  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 37.44% Playback Rate  —  This is a modal window.  —  Unmute  —  The US won't renew its trade deal with Canada and Mexico …

Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier  —  Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, who tampered with voting machines in an attempt to show that the 2020 election had been rigged against President Trump.  —  Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado …

Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show  —  Internal National Park Service modeling for the July Fourth show predicts dangerous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions across central D.C.  —  Summary  —  Fireworks for this year's July …

Trump Pledged No Forever Wars.  Now He Risks Forever Talks With Iran.  —  Tehran has well-worn playbook for putting off concessions that cross its redlines  —  President Trump came to office promising an end to forever wars.  He now finds himself bogged down in talks with Iran with no end in sight.

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down  —  The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year's large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.  —  Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days …

Judge Blocks Postal Service From Imposing Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots  —  The ruling, based on agreements the service made in a 2021 legal settlement, was the second time a judge has blocked new curbs by President Trump on voting by mail.  —  A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked …

Paramedics responded to a ‘cardiac arrest’ at Mitch McConnell's home on day of hospitalization  —  McConnell's office has not disclosed why the former Senate majority leader was hospitalized on June 14.  —  Paramedics responded to a report of a “cardiac arrest” for an “unconscious” …

FBI directing hundreds of analysts to dig into Georgia election probe subjects, sources say  —  A personnel surge supporting Kash Patel's “priority effort” is underway, tasking intelligence experts with running tens of thousands of records checks by mid-July.

Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally  —  The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.  —  💡  —  Share this on X and Bluesky!  —  The day before President Trump announced a 90 …

MINNESOTA MADNESS: Governor Tim Walz Pardons Criminal Illegal Alien Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a 10-Year-Old Girl  —  Governor Walz's pardon removes this child rapist's qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States  —  WASHINGTON - The United States Department …

E. Jean Carroll Beat Trump.  Again.  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ☀️ Subscribe to PN ☀️  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Trump's petition for certiorari in Trump v. Carroll with no noted dissents.

Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top 2 Million, Study Finds  —  Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022.  —  More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia …

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution … The move highlights the growing challenge of meeting rising electricity demand from data centers as the grid strains to keep the region cool during a period of extreme heat.  —  Many data centers rely on backup diesel generators …

There Are Very Few Socialists in America  —  But most of us are social democrats  —  Fox News has a poll supposedly showing “socialism gaining ground with young voters.”  But I don't believe it.  Young people may be more receptive to the word socialism, but that's only because right-wingers constantly use …

Ruling on Trans Athletes Gave the G.O.P. a Win.  Most Democrats Looked the Other Way.  —  While Republicans celebrated the ruling, many Democrats stayed quiet on an issue that had proved divisive in the last election.  —  The Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to uphold restrictions …

‘All I Have Is the Power to Talk and Be Heard’  —  On a recent afternoon, I drove down a wooded Maine road, past serene ponds with no people in sight, until I reached a big white barn.  I parked, in patchy grass, near a Ford F-350 with a crane bolted onto the back, an American flag, and an idling black SUV.

Trump's Renovation Turns the Reflecting Pool Literally Toxic … The multimillion-dollar renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was done with highly toxic materials.  —  The contractor that the Trump administration hired used products by the popular truck bed coating company Rhino Linings …

The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’  —  They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.  —  Americans tell pollsters they don't think they are getting ahead financially.  But President Trump and his family are having no trouble, judging from his 2025 financial disclosure report released Tuesday.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don't Have To  —  As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship, a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) in Trump v Barbara and read the entire 194 page opinion issued yesterday, June 30.