‘You gotta be kidding me’: Hegseth used these 4 things to decide on senior officer promotions  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth short-circuited a merit-based process for promoting senior officers and instead relied on newly invented criteria that disproportionately removed from advancement women …

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert will lose reelection to Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado, CNN projects  —  House election US elections Donald Trump Congressional news  —  Retired Rear Adm. Eileen Laubacher, a Democrat, will flip Colorado's 4th District, CNN's Decision Desk projects …

Rep. Massie Forcing House of Representatives to Vote on Impeaching Secretary Hegseth  —  Washington, D.C.- Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, announces he is forcing a vote in the House of Representatives to impeach Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth.

Trump Tells Nvidia's CEO He Shouldn't Worry About the FBI Investigation Into His Affair  —  “I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he'll be in good shape,” the president said of his conversation with Jensen Huang.  — Copy

Pete Hegseth Lashes Out  —  The defense secretary wants military educators to pursue politics, not war.  —  Pete Hegseth was in my neighborhood today.  I live just up the road from the Naval War College, where I taught for 25 years, and where Hegseth gave a speech this morning about the future of military education.

An Electoral Mess in Mississippi  —  Last summer, Mississippi began an effort to “continue to build on the accuracy of Mississippi's voter rolls and strengthen the integrity of elections,” as Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson put it.  Using data from the credit-reporting agency Experian …

John Fetterman Gets His First 2028 Challenger  —  Ahmed Moor, a writer born in the war-torn Gaza Strip, said he wants to “chart a new path for America.”  — Copy  —  Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American writer who grew up in Philadelphia, launched a campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday …

Supreme Court Allows Construction of Trump's Border Wall in Big Bend  —  The administration had asked the court to permit construction of a border wall in southwestern Texas, including areas within a national park.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration …

Read the full transcript of Ross Douthat's interview with President Trump  —  President Trump sat down with Ross Douthat to discuss Republican losses in the midterm elections, the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the economy and more.  Below is a transcript of their conversation.

Centrist Democrats warn party leaders not to ‘go too far’ after midterm wins  —  House leadership Donald Trump Congressional news  —  Democrats just won what could be their largest House majority in decades but some battle-tested centrists are already warning their party not to lose it in 2028.

Another Senior Official Resigns From the Justice Department  —  Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, who led the Civil Division, is the fourth Senate-confirmed leader to leave after the midterms.  — Copy  —  Another senior official resigned from the Justice Department after the midterm elections …

Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention  —  An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department after a top Nvidia executive reached out to Commerce Department officials.

Haley Stevens' Washington office is deserted  —  Rep. Haley Stevens' Washington office was locked Monday on the House's first day back in session since September amid questions about whether the Michigan Democrat will return for the remainder of the Congress.

Trump Now Talking Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform?  —  Well, this is quite the development.  And no one would have expected it, given Trump's campaign rhetoric, his policies over the past two years, and especially his elevation of Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff.

Katie Zacharia auditioning again for White House press secretary — despite being fired after 5 days: sources  —  WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, who held the job for just five days last month before being fired, is again the talk of Washington …

Senate weighs sweeping energy legislation in first major action since midterm elections  —  The Senate on Monday is set to take up bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for data centers and other infrastructure projects, in the first major action since last week's election …

‘Old ideas are for old people’: A new MAGA group looks to push GOP further right  —  A new Republican group thinks their party is too old, too moderate and too weak.  So they're launching an effort to replace the outgoing generation of politicians with a younger crop of America First-aligned lawmakers.

USDA policy shift would cut millions of people off food aid program  —  The Agriculture Department is set to tighten eligibility requirements for the nation's largest anti-hunger initiative in a change that is expected to render millions of additional Americans ineligible for the program.

Exxon Strikes Preliminary Deal to Return to Venezuela  —  The agreement brings the biggest U.S. oil company a step closer to pumping oil again in Venezuela, nearly two decades after it left the country.  —  Exxon Mobil, the biggest U.S. oil company, said on Monday that it reached …

Major media outlets sanitize Stephen Miller's white nationalist ideas  —  After a historic defeat in the 2026 midterm elections, President Trump named Stephen Miller as his new White House chief of staff, elevating his longtime aide to one of the most powerful positions on earth.  —  Who is Stephen Miller?

The End of Stephen Miller's Recusals  —  Stephen Miller spent his first weekend as White House chief of staff on the patio at Mar-a-Lago, huddling with President Trump and Natalie Harp, his executive assistant, about how to approach the next two years with the House and Senate under Democratic control.

Top Senate Democrat Takes Aim at Big Banks Over Epstein Ties  —  The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee signaled three major banks with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein would be top investigative targets for the panel when his party takes control next year.