“British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating White House chief of staff Susie Wiles,” CBS News reports.
Iran’s Secret Plan to Escalate the War
“After President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement they hoped would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and start winding down the war,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Iran’s hard-line leaders huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according to Iranian and Arab officials. In their view the pact was likely just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the global economy and buy time for a bigger attack down the road. Instead of putting faith in talks, they took the past two months to prepare for a bigger fight.”
“Their efforts include giving the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps more control of the country’s regular army, appointing hardened veterans of the war with Iraq and past internal crackdowns to key posts, expanding domestic counterintelligence operations and ramping up production of missiles and drones. The leadership quickly seized the initiative, attacking ships to tighten Iran’s grip on Hormuz and expanding the battlefield to the Red Sea, which Saudi Arabia has used to get around Iran’s chokehold on the Persian Gulf.”
Nancy Pelosi’s Team Is Still Calling Shots
“Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be leaving Congress, but dozens of her longtime staffers are sticking around in the House’s top jobs,” Politico reports.
”The aides who worked for the California Democrat throughout her 39-year congressional career are now running leadership offices, directing committees and helming new teams as chiefs of staff.”
“Their continued presence of about 50 former staffers on Capitol Hill is a sign that Pelosi’s signature brand of hard-nosed, strategic leadership will outlive her tenure.”
Behind the Massive Blowback Against Flock Cameras
“Activists and citizens across the political spectrum are pushing back against license plate readers made by Flock and similar companies, fueled by privacy concerns and suspected police misuse,” Axios reports.
“Flock cameras are suddenly emerging as the next big target of populist anti-tech, pro-privacy sentiment, alongside the data centers fueling the AI boom.”
Talarico Is Refunding Over $1 Million to Donors
NOTUS: “James Talarico keeps raising too much money.”
“The Texas Democrat has already raised more than $70 million in his bid to defeat state Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate — more than any other non-incumbent candidate has raised this cycle nationwide and millions more than his Republican rival has amassed.”
“But scores of Talarico donors are exceeding federal donation limits, with regulators at the Federal Election Commission identifying 143 such donors who exceeded the legal limit, according to a 24-page letter they sent to the Talarico campaign this month.”
Why Prescription Drug Prices Are Plunging
“America is experiencing its biggest prescription drug price deflation in generations,” Axios reports.
“Why it matters: By one important measure, there is a striking reversal underway for one of health care’s most stubbornly expensive necessities amid a major Washington push to lower drug costs.”
Even Some Republican Voters Sour On Trump
“High prices, a persistent war and anxiety about corruption are quickly eroding President Trump’s support among Republicans, a warning sign for the White House with less than 80 days to the midterms,” Axios reports.
Trump Blurs Lines Between Capitalism and Socialism
“While warning of the rise of socialism on the left, President Donald Trump is simultaneously conducting his own experiments in economic theory, putting his nationalist spin on American capitalism,” CNN reports.
“The fear of socialism is built on the idea that government intervention stifles free private enterprise, which capitalists view as the bedrock of American greatness.”
“Trump, however, is using his view of the national interest — which frequently appears to coincide with his own personal interest — as an excuse to get the government involved in all sorts of markets.”
Mark Kelly Starts the Countdown
“Mark Kelly is no stranger to launches, and now the former astronaut is all but plotting one for a 2028 presidential bid,” Politico reports.
“Kelly is showering the Democratic Party apparatus with money to the tune of $1 million raised or contributed, leveraging his status as an enemy of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with $25 million in the bank to build a wealth of political capital.”
“Now, he’s touching down on campaign ground today in Georgia alongside his wife and former Rep. Gabby Giffords for a three-day swing to stump for Sen. Jon Ossoff, to whom he’s already contributed over $400,000. The duo will head to the Columbus area for a meet-and-greet and discussion with voters about affordability, and a canvass kickoff with volunteers.”
“Does that foreshadow an Ossoff-Kelly 2028 Democratic ticket?”
Rural Economic Pain Tests the GOP’s Grip
“The arrival of late-summer state fairs, like the one here that features a prizewinning boar weighing 1,246 pounds, signals to the political world that the midterm campaign’s final chapter is just ahead,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“As Iowa’s 11-day extravaganza started late last week, the state’s Republicans found themselves in an unfamiliar position: trailing Democrats in a top race and facing serious challenges in several others.”
“Some GOP candidates didn’t mention President Trump—viewed more unfavorably than favorably in a recent Fox News poll of Iowa voters—during their highest-profile fair appearances. Democrats, meanwhile, are pouring millions into the state’s races, as rural economic pain from Trump’s tariffs and the war in Iran erodes GOP support amid stagnant grain prices and higher fuel and fertilizer costs.”
Democratic Socialists Look for Upsets in Hostile Territory
“Florida does not jump off the electoral map as fertile territory for democratic socialists. President Trump won the state, which has shifted right in recent years, by 13 percentage points in 2024. And in many Latin American communities in South Florida, socialism is a dirty word,” the New York Times reports.
“Yet three underdog democratic socialist candidates are trying to prove that the way for the Democratic Party to regain relevance in a state that not long ago was the nation’s premier political battleground is by embracing the left, not recoiling from it.”
Iran Signals Intention to Keep Country On a War Footing
“After almost six months in hiding, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has offered the clearest window yet into his vision for ruling the country, appointing a string of hard-line, veteran military commanders to top security roles,” the New York Times reports.
“The overhaul, which took place this month, signals that he plans to keep the nation on a war footing, analysts say — ready for open-ended confrontation with the United States and for keeping a lid on dissent at home among Iranians suffering the economic brunt of the conflict.”
The Democratic Establishment’s Ideas Deficit
“The centrist Democratic group Third Way recently declared ‘war’ on democratic socialists to head off what they fear could be a far-left hijacking of the party ahead of 2028,” Axios reports.
“But establishment Democrats have made clear what they’re against without making much of a case for what they’re for.”
”Democratic socialism, whatever you think of it, is easy to grasp: Tax billionaires and redistribute wealth. Provide government-funded health care and child care for everyone. Rely less on markets for housing and education. Empower workers with stronger unions.”
”The establishment vision is murky. Raise taxes, but not too high; use government to make health care and child care more affordable, rather than taking them over; rein in the excesses of capitalism without upending capitalism itself.”
Trump Aims to Rebuild Defenses Against Bioweapons
“The White House is working to strengthen safeguards against biological attacks after staffing cuts early in the second Trump administration depleted expertise in a field where officials increasingly fear artificial intelligence could make it easier to create deadly pathogens,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Accuses Democrats of ‘Trickery’ in Alaska
“President Donald Trump is weighing in on the unusual Republican primary in Alaska, where a challenger with the same name as sitting senator Dan Sullivan is on the ballot, sparking confusion and accusations of ‘trickery’ by Democrats in the race for the crucial seat,” ABC News reports.
Said Trump: “Because of the trickery in the Voting, the Crooked, Radical Left Dumocrats have put up another man named ‘Dan Sullivan,’ and they did this to take Votes away from our Great Senator of the same name. Democrats are trying to ‘trick’ Alaskans, and treat Alaskan Voters with contempt.”
How AOC Is Rewriting Her Own ‘Woke 1’ History
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is laughing off ‘Woke 1,'” Axios reports.
“But she’s carrying baggage from the 2020 era of cultural progressivism that some Democrats say is an obstacle to a future presidential run.”
“Why it matters: AOC’s pivot to the cultural center — which she began to roll out last week in a high-profile ABC interview by saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy’ — is potential damage control for her past remarks about law enforcement, immigration and a range of social issues.”
Trump Keeps His Distance from Cory Mills
“President Donald Trump spent last week handing out coveted endorsements ahead of Florida’s Tuesday primaries. But amid the parade of thumbs-ups on Truth Social, one House Republican incumbent was conspicuously absent: Rep. Cory Mills,” Puck reports.
“Trump endorsed Mills earlier in the cycle, but his recent omission offers the clearest evidence yet of the campaign that House Republicans have been waging behind the scenes to ensure that the scandal-plagued congressman loses his primary.”
Trump Reduces Military Exercises with South Korea
“President Donald Trump said Sunday he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his ‘very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,'” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.”
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- …
- 8974
- Next Page »
