Trump's Election Claims and SAVE Act Push Find Muted Response From G.O.P. Lawmakers  —  Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president's claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.

They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents.  The Cases Are Crumbling.  —  The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.  —  In its nationwide immigration crackdown, the Trump administration …

Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital.  And He Intends to Spend It.  —  Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times  —  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is riding high.  In an era when the public is sour on politics, recent polls show him actually becoming more popular among New Yorkers.

‘Insane’: Republicans Push To Punish Canada For Wildfires  —  “We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and other Republicans on Friday threatened to punish Canada as smoke …

Could the ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite affect grocery prices?  —  (NewsNation) — A cyclospora outbreak that health officials have linked to lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in five states is raising a new question for grocery shoppers: Could it affect produce prices?

Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report  —  Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.  —  Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after warning …

Trump administration activates never-before-used ‘alien terrorist’ deportation court  —  The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members.

'It's scary': Scandal sends Wisconsin Dems into freakout mode over governor's race  —  LAKE TOMAHAWK, Wisconsin — Sara Rodriguez had a prime opportunity this past Saturday to show voters gathered for a gubernatorial candidate forum in Wisconsin's rural Northwoods that she was the person …

‘Mr. Carr, please say even crazier autocratic stuff’: Inside the GOP backlash to the FCC chair … Brendan Carr's use of the Federal Communications Commission to punish President Donald Trump's critics is lighting a fire among old-school conservatives who dream of abolishing the agency — or at least clipping its wings.

The New Washington Temptation: Inside Information and a Prediction Market Account  —  White House officials are grappling with how deeply political betting has worked itself into fabric of government  —  WASHINGTON—Alarm bells went off inside the White House Counsel's Office earlier this year …

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir  —  After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.

Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies  —  The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who allegedly fatally shot a Colombian man in Maine on Monday was prone to violence and held racist beliefs, according to some of the people who were close to him.

AIPAC drops online donations to Dems who backed Israel aid cut  —  The campaign finance arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is curtailing online contributions to House Democrats who voted to cut Israel aid this week, in the latest rift between the party and the influential advocacy group.

Yesterday President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller all threw the weight of the U.S. government behind a far-right conspiracy theory that says Trump and his loyalists are defending the United States of America against a communist takeover.

Trump's War on Journalists  —  The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press.  Few protections are in place to stop him.  —  For years now, in office and out, Donald Trump has been unabashed about his desire to see reporters behind bars.

How the Michigan Senate primary became a battle for Democrats' soul  —  The Democratic Party is at war with itself, and nowhere is the fight clearer than the Michigan Senate primary.  On one side: Rep. Haley Stevens, backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the establishment …

GLP-1 insurance change impacts millions of Americans: What to know, how to tell if you're covered  —  (NEXSTAR) - Insurance coverage just changed for as many as 56 million Americans when it comes to the popular GLP-1 medications used to promote weight loss.  —  Medicare announced …

The most important thing about the big new federal housing law  —  Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the universe.  After the better part of a century, they're still looking.  But social science, improbably, may have beaten them to it.

Employee of Aurora ICE Processing Center arrested, accused of shooting Colorado protester  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  An employee of a group that operates a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment center in Aurora, Colorado, was arrested after police said he shot and wounded a woman Thursday night.