CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Iranian threat before Trump switched planes in Turkey  —  CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.  —  Summary  —  U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat …

Pollsters missed again in Wisconsin.  Here's why.  —  Pollsters appeared to blow another high-stakes Midwest election Tuesday, as center-left Democrat David Crowley stunned socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's primary for governor.  — But on Wednesday, the reasons for the miss seemed clear …

Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies  —  The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.  —  The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale …

Republicans fear Hegseth's Democrat brushoff could backfire  —  The Pentagon is shutting congressional Democrats out of classified briefings — and even Republicans are shocked by the brazen partisanship.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth trekked to Capitol Hill at least twice in recent weeks …

Trump Says Hormuz Is Under U.S. Control.  Few Ships Are Listening.  —  With limited bursts of firepower, Iran is able to make the waterway too risky to cross  —  President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has total control of the Strait of Hormuz.  The reality on the water tells a different story.

Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  💥 Subscribe to PN 💥  —  Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids.

Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission  —  Introduction  —  On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new attorneys and staff members in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division …

ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Pleads Guilty  —  The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration's crackdown there.  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty …

Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment  —  Randall Lane, the magazine's chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.  —  The top editor of Forbes was fired …

Leavitt to depart the White House  —  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving her role at the end of August, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.  —  The president, in a post on Truth Social, said Leavitt is departing to spend more time with her family, but will remain one of his …

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment - reports  —  Aircraft carrier's crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land  —  Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying …

Youth poll: Thumbs down on everything  —  More than a quarter of younger Americans (27%) believe they or someone they know has lost a job because their employer replaced them with AI, according to a new Axios-Generation Lab poll of 18- to 34-year-olds.

I Was Dick Cheney's Cardiologist.  Trump Has Not Looked Well, and We Should Know Why.  —  Dick Cheney's heart problems were never a national secret.  —  I was Mr. Cheney's cardiologist for 27 years, including his two terms as vice president.  During his time in the White House …

Exclusive: Former employee at Southern Poverty Law Center arrested on fraud charges  —  A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was allegedly living …

Rep. John Larson, a Longtime Lawmaker, Loses a Primary in Connecticut  —  In an upset, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, won the Democratic nomination, capitalizing on calls for generational change.  —  Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, defeated Representative John Larson …

Older Democrats walloped by midterms anti-establishment revolt  —  House Democrats who have comfortably held their seats for decades are suddenly finding the ground shifting beneath their feet as primary voters revolt against the party's old guard. … - Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) …

Rep. Max Miller's ex-wife sues after sensitive image of child was publicly shared  —  The Ohio Republican had released documents through a publicly accessible Dropbox account this month, seeking to fend off allegations of domestic abuse.  —  Summary  —  Rep. Max Miller's ex-wife filed …

Why Isn't the Price of Oil Even Higher?  —  Donald Trump is not a well man.  He is, unfortunately, also President, which means that we all pay a price for his inability to accept reality.  Notably, while he insists that he has “total control over the Strait of Hormuz,” …

Trump promised a sex-trafficking crackdown.  His Justice Department hasn't delivered  —  The Trump administration has repeatedly said the fight against sex trafficking is one of its top priorities.  —  But investigations have stalled and prosecutions declined in the past six months …

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues  —  Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues' cell phones.

Buttigieg wants Dems to win more state legislative seats, starting with Indiana  —  Pete Buttigieg's efforts to help Democrats regain power are taking on a new focus: state legislatures.  —  The former Transportation secretary and South Bend, Indiana, mayor is starting by backing a crop of mostly long-shot …

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight … The amendment was one of hundreds filed this summer to an annual defense bill making its way through Congress.  Along with her proposed change, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's office had sent a summary of what it would do.

The election deniers coming to a swing state near you  —  Tom Tiffany, the new Republican nominee for governor in Wisconsin, is not just a passive supporter of President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 presidential election.  He is an active promoter of them.

Haberman: 70% of Trump's brain on monuments  —  The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects.  — “He is spending a huge amount of energy …

Why House Dems may go easy on one of GOP's most vulnerable members  —  Rep. Mike Lawler's (R-N.Y.) fight to hold on to a key battleground seat is getting a behind-the-scenes assist — for now, at least — from an unlikely group: House Democrats. … - “If you're going to have a Republican …

A Third Immigrant Detained at Delaney Hall Dies After Medical Emergency  —  A Guatemalan migrant was transferred to a hospital when he experienced what appeared to be a seizure, federal officials said.  —  A Guatemalan immigrant who had been taken to a troubled detention center in Newark …

Trump Is Personally Invested in His Push to Boost the Nuclear Industry  —  President Donald Trump could stand to profit from his administration's unprecedented investments into the nuclear energy industry.  —  Trump has invested between $6.4 million and $19.45 million in U.S. nuclear technology companies …