Major TV networks decline White House pool duties  —  The nation's major television networks are declining to participate in White House pool duties moving forward in response to the Trump administration's decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House, Fox News Washington …

Iowa Republican Senate Seat at Risk, GOP Super PAC Warns Donors  —  The top Senate Republican political action committee is warning donors that the party faces a high risk of losing a US Senate seat in Iowa, previously a GOP stronghold.  —  It's the latest sign of the headwinds the party …

ICE agent shoots DoorDash driver during delivery in Austin sparking new protests  —  A dark blue Toyota Corolla photographed at the scene had damage along its passenger side and what appeared to be two bullet holes in the rear window  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …

Jared Golden crosses party lines again, endorsing Mike Lawler for reelection  —  Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) endorsed GOP Rep. Mike Lawler in his reelection campaign in suburban New York, Golden wrote in an opinion article published Monday.  Lawler is facing a tough reelection campaign …

White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives  —  Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.  —  Republicans are sharply divided …

Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help  —  The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.  But he also needs the kingdom's cooperation in his war against Iran.

JB Pritzker Says He Used GLP-1s to Lose 80 Pounds  —  Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, revealed in an interview on “CBS Mornings” that he had been on a GLP-1 regimen since 2024.  —  Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois has traveled to early primary states.

Senior GOP appropriator pours cold water on funding Trump's arch  —  Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, a senior Appropriations Committee Republican, questioned whether federal funds should be spent on construction of President Donald Trump's triumphal arch, which the president claimed over the weekend could be used for military purposes.

Donald Trump presses Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop hitting Russian refineries  —  US president tells Ukrainian leader in phone call it is all about ‘diesel, diesel, diesel’, according to officials  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv and Max Seddon in Berlin  —  Donald Trump pressed …

The Crypto Industry Aims to Crush One of Democrats' Top Senate Candidates  —  Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.  —  The cryptocurrency industry, furious at Democrats for blocking the passage …

Max Miller threatens legal action over Democratic challenger's ‘defamatory’ ad  —  Rep. Max Miller is threatening legal action to block a television ad created by his Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter that includes allegations of domestic abuse.  A lawyer for Miller is demanding Cleveland …

Furious Rep. Lauren Boebert blasts claim she had sex with 3 staffers, including 2 women  —  WASHINGTON — Firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert is lashing out at the people who repeated the details from an ethics “complaint” against her alleging she had sex with three staffers, including two women.

DOJ pushes back against state antitrust enforcement  —  State attorneys general have become America's top antitrust cops, believing that federal regulators have become too quick to approve or settle the thorniest of deals.  — Not surprisingly, the Trump administration doesn't like that too much.

Democrats have stumbled onto a new impeachment strategy  —  If Democrats win control of Congress next year, they'll be faced with a familiar question: Should they impeach President Donald Trump?  —  But one of the president's most outspoken critics from within his own party has some advice for Democrats …

Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning  — Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  Federal agents briefly detained and released a U.S. citizen on Sunday morning in Evanston on Howard Street east of Dodge Avenue, Evanston police chief Schenita Stewart confirmed Sunday.

Trump's Taiwan retreat tests his chief China hawk's influence  —  It's a tough time to be a China hawk inside the White House.  Ivan Kanapathy probably knows that better than most.  —  Kanapathy, the senior director for Asia at the National Security Council, has devoted his career in Washington …

Trump thumbs his nose at the American voter  —  When President Trump told AI moguls pleading for government regulation to take a hike, it was just the latest instance of him positioning himself directly at odds with voter sentiment. … But his defiance on many of the things Americans care …

Trump's Monumental Obsession  —  The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.  —  Donald Trump is facing multiple challenges.  The United States is losing to one of its worst enemies in a war that has left the American economy mired in the sludge of growing inflation and rising energy prices.

Huckabee's ‘walking counterintel red flag’  —  BREAKING: Earlier this morning, POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW notified the Department of Justice that they are bringing a federal lawsuit to immediately restore access for their journalists who were banned from the White House last week.

60 Minutes Transcript: Patrick Clancy  —  Over the last few months, a murder trial in Massachusetts has become a national obsession and a cultural Rorschach test.  The story of Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse who killed her three children and then attempted suicide …