“The US successfully tested a hypersonic missile in mid-March but kept it quiet for two weeks to avoid escalating tensions with Russia as President Joe Biden was about to travel to Europe,” CNN reports.
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Biden Has No Plan to Touch the Alito Controversy
“Top Democrats have no plans to investigate reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his home after the 2020 election. And Joe Biden has…
Trump Urged to Pick Establishment Running Mate
“Donald Trump is getting clear advice from a sizable number of Hill Republicans, even some MAGA loyalists: Pick a running mate who can attract more wary GOP voters on the…
Justice Dept Keeps Airing Biden Family’s Dirty Laundry
“Details of the turmoil in Joe Biden’s famously-insular family keep being made public by the president’s own Justice Department,” Axios reports. “Some legal experts argue that the level of personal…
Biden Indirectly Rebukes Trump at West Point
“President Biden reminded the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that their oath is to the Constitution, not any political party or president, delivering an implicit rebuke…
Trump Ally Urges Senate GOP to Punt Funding Fight
“Close Trump ally Russell Vought urged Senate Republicans in a closed-door lunch to delay this year’s government funding fight to 2025 — to maximize options in a potential second Trump…
John Fetterman Keeps Picking Fights With the Left
New York Times: “Since last fall, the first-term Democratic senator from Pennsylvania has undergone a significant change in political persona. He routinely takes aim at the left wing of his…
Trump’s New Policy Wonks
“Donald Trump now has the most detailed policy platform of his political career, and it’s largely the work of two people you’ve never heard of,” Axios reports. “Trump campaign speechwriters…
Verdict to Shape a Summer of Presidential Politics
“A jury of five women and seven men in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is expected to begin this week the historic task of deciding whether to convict a former president,…
Trump Loudly Heckled at Libertarian Convention
“Donald Trump encountered an unusually tough crowd at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night as the audience loudly booed him and used noisemakers to drown out his speech,” the…
Netanyahu’s Split with Democrats Was Years in the Making
Washington Post: “Over the past 16 years, Netanyahu has departed sharply from his predecessors’ studious bipartisanship to embrace Republicans and disdain Democrats, an attitude increasingly mirrored in each party’s approach…
Lawlessness Rises as an Election Issue
New York Times: “Homicide rates are tumbling from pandemic highs in most cities, funding for law enforcement is rising, and tensions between the police and communities of color, while still…
Putin Unleashes a Purge at Home
New York Times: “Now, with the battlefield crises seemingly behind him and Mr. Prigozhin dead, the Russian leader has decided to act, changing defense ministers for the first time in…
Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign
“U.S. and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase in low-level sabotage operations in Europe that they say are part of a Russian campaign to undermine support for Ukraine’s war…
Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats
“Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v….
U.S. Made Threat to Strike Russian Troops
“Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published on May 25 that the U.S. has told Russia that if it uses nuclear weapons, there will be an American…
Trump Keeps Testing the Limits of His Gag Order
“So far, Donald Trump has faced only fines for repeatedly violating a gag order in his hush money case,” Politico reports. “The consequences might not end there. If he’s convicted,…
Trump Enters Hostile Territory
Playbook: “We all know how much Trump loves an adoring crowd. Back when he was in the White House, aides would schedule rallies just to boost his mood. On the…
Alito’s Wife Called Upside Down Flag ‘Signal of Distress’
“The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was ‘an international…
The Feud That Will Define the Senate GOP
Politico: “Scott fought back by brazenly challenging McConnell for Republican leader, a suicide mission encouraged by Donald Trump. The demotion from Commerce came shortly after his defeat in the secret…
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