In major win for voters, judge blocks Trump's mail voting restrictions for midterms  —  A federal judge in Massachusetts barred the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Friday from advancing new mail voting restrictions that, if carried out, could leave vast numbers of people unable to cast a ballot by mail this fall.

Former Staff Members Threaten to Expose Fetterman's Internal Messages  —  The former aides started a social media account they said would publicize Senator John Fetterman's communications, following a report detailing the Democrat's disdain for doing his job.

Fox News abruptly parts ways with scandal-tarred star Maria Bartiromo  —  Fox News abruptly announced Thursday that it is parting ways with longtime host Maria Bartiromo, whose close ties to President Trump helped propel her ratings but also ultimately unraveled her Fox career.

Ballroom Blitz  —  Trump's obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion.  —  These are Corinthian columns," President Donald Trump tells me as he sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in late August, a stack of printed renderings spread before him.

Democrats just got one seat closer to retaking the House  —  Yesterday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the state's new congressional map — which likely would have flipped Kansas City's Democratic 5th District red — could not be used in November.  Instead, voters will now get to decide …

I Am Going To Lose My F****** Mind  —  Elon Musk, the world's richest man and the Republican Party's most prolific donor, took a beat Wednesday to engage with Wilfred Reilly, a black, conservative professor, who idly asked,"Are Jews white?"  You know...just wondering.  —  Musk responded at length:

Arab diplomats fear Iran is widening the war — and there's no way out … Iran's renewed attacks against Arab countries are raising the stakes for regional powers, with some saying they are losing hope that there's any way out of the war — and that things will get worse before the November elections.

Federal ‘Bureal’ of Investigation: Kash Patel Posts Embarrassing Slop Video About How Much the FBI Loves AI  —  Is anybody checking this stuff for accuracy over there?  —  FBI Director Kash Patel is not known as the most competent guy around.  And a video he posted to X on Thursday isn't going to help that reputation.

Judge weighs how to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against Olympian … A Washington judge on Friday said he will rule quickly on whether to dismiss a now-discredited indictment charging former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with prejudice …

Trump doubles down on threat to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates … President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on his threat to cut off trade with countries that have surpluses with the U.S. unless the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates.

Trump reveals Brazil, Argentina involved in controversial beef deal  —  President Trump said Friday that tariff-free imported beef will be coming from Brazil and Argentina, among other places, as his administration works to alleviate stubbornly high prices.  —  “It's coming from Argentina.

Trump says he's followed the Lindsay Clancy case in first comments on trial: “She did a horrible, horrible thing”  —  Shortly after the judge overseeing Lindsay Clancy's murder case declared a mistrial Friday due to a hung jury, President Trump called it a “terrible situation” and a …

US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average as the Iran war disrupts the flow of fuel  —  Diesel hit a new record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time ever as the 6-month-long war with Iran continues to disrupt the world's flow of fuel.

Fake Version of Republican Midterm Convention Website Redirects to Epstein Files  —  A spoof of the G.O.P. convention site tricked people for weeks, before redirecting them to the Justice Department's library of Epstein files.  —  Someone seems very intent on making sure voters don't forget about the Epstein files.

Ken Paxton's Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings …

Judge Orders Trump Officials to Divulge Names of Those Who Set Up $1.8 Billion Fund  —  The plan to create a fund that could have funneled taxpayer money to the president's allies drew repeated scrutiny, including a rare rebuke from Senate Republicans.  —  A federal magistrate judge ordered …

Inside Mamdani's Private Army of Public Influencers … On the morning of March 25, a flood of posts began popping up on scattered social media sites that struck a remarkably similar tone.  —  Mayor Zohran Mamdani had just decided to cancel a $9 million contract that New York City …

The “priorities gap” and the midterms  —  Voters want a president who works on their problems.  They say Trump isn't — and he and Republicans are losing support because of it  —  In the past two weeks, several high-profile events have shown voters that President Donald Trump is not focused …

‘F**k you...hurry up and die’: Swing-seat Democratic House candidate's deleted tweets show far-left record  —  William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition …

Trump brushes off accusations of Russian sabotage against NATO allies  —  President Donald Trump dodged a chance Friday to condemn President Vladimir Putin over allegations that Russia has conducted espionage attacks on NATO nations.  —  Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House …

How Talarico is countering Trump's midterms convention  —  James Talarico is planning to counterprogram President Donald Trump's GOP midterms convention in Dallas with a focus on affordability.  The idea from the Texas Democratic Senate candidate and seminarian: host a statewide “Love Thy Neighbor” …

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy puts hold on four Trump nominees after shocking report on Lori Chavez-DeRemer's behavior  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican leader of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee placed a hold Friday on four of President Trump's nominees to federal labor …

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years  —  Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested, booked in Louisville jail  —  The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office arrested former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Thursday at a film set in Paris, Kentucky.  —  Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested Thursday in Paris by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office due …

RFK Jr. Hires Army Doctor Who Opposed Covid Shots to Investigate if They Killed 2,500 Troops  —  In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.