Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms  —  In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress.  The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.

Supreme Court nixes Missouri GOP-friendly maps for midterms  —  WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Missouri organizers on Thursday barring the use of Republican-friendly congressional maps in the November election.  —  Led by Richard von Glahn …

Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump's mail ballot order  —  Republican chief election officials from seven states said that it's too late for President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot order to be implemented before the midterm election …

Trump claims rebate checks are on the way for people overcharged by ACA  —  Democrats called the move an election-year stunt.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that his administration would issue $500 rebate checks to about 1 million Americans …

Trump's Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term  —  The president still says he expects the war will end ‘immediately’ after midterm elections this fall  —  WASHINGTON—Top White House advisers have raised privately with President Trump the prospect …

Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video  —  DALLAS — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) is preparing to make a bombshell appearance Wednesday night at the GOP convention, in a video praising President Trump and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick for helping America's steel industry, Axios has learned.

Jimmy Kimmel to Interview James Talarico ‘Under Unusual Circumstances’  —  A conversation with the Democratic Senate hopeful from Texas will move off air because of what the late night host called F.C.C. “threats” against his show and network. … Jimmy Kimmel told Wednesday night's “Live” …

Sending armed ICE agents to polling places would be a federal crime, lawsuit says  —  Latino civil rights groups and Denver sued the Trump administration on Thursday, invoking a law Congress passed in the final months of the Civil War.  —  Summary  —  Two major Latino civil rights groups …

Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected ICE's effort to detain millions of people without bond, comparing it to the “historical stain” of Japanese internment during World War II.  —  “Mass detention …

Charlie Kirk's Lieutenant Has Second Thoughts … Directly to Neff's left, toward the center of the V, sits “Charlie's chair,” the high-back green leather rolling chair favored by the show's namesake, the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  Following Kirk's death one year ago during …

What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump … Since the election of Donald Trump, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has told one podcast after another of a May 2024 lunch in the Biden White House where he claims we and our colleagues shared …

Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen.  We Should Have Listened.  —  Six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act.  The vote was 357-66 in the House, and 98-1 in the Senate.  Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), the chamber's lone dissenter …

MAGA Influencer's Defense: Antifa Got Me High  —  When a pro-Trump streamer was caught on camera coercing and harassing a woman, he blamed a suspicious joint.  —  PRO-TRUMP INTERNET PERSONALITY Matt Tardio has made a career out of slamming the left.  He was front and center last October …

Philippines defense minister reads private note from China to live audience  —  In a viral video recorded at a conference in Seoul, Philippines Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., said: “Perhaps basic decency and behavior is what China needs to do.”  —  Summary

Why Trump Has It Out for Canada  —  The superficial similarities between the U.S. and its closest friend are likely driving much of the president's vitriol.  —  When Donald Trump looks at a map, he doesn't see nations.  He sees property.  All of those pretty colors do not represent actual places filled …

Bond Selloff Extends, Putting 5% 10-Year Yield In Sight  —  Rising oil prices are putting further pressure on bonds, pushing the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note above 4.9% and within striking distance of the symbolically important 5% level.  —  Yields, which rise when bond prices fall …

Viral AI researcher's warning ‘scary as hell,’ Cruz says  —  The Senate Commerce Committee could take up artificial intelligence regulation after the chamber returns to Washington next week, Sen. Ted Cruz said.  “We need substantially more regulation when it comes to AI,” the Texas Republican …