Biden’s advance team is rife with turmoil and toxicity, staff allege. The situation is so bad that the White House Counsel’s Office opened an investigation. (www.politico.com)
Intel agencies eye brief for Trump, amid fears he could spill secrets (www.politico.com)
CA Senate: Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey advance as Katie Porter fades (www.politico.com)
Porter’s message of promising to shake up the Senate and crusade against corporations was drowned out
States can’t remove Trump from ballot, Supreme Court says (www.politico.com)
Have not read the separate opinion, which argues that the per curiam went too far in barring Federal courts from ruling on Section 3. Seems like that could become relevant down the road a bit.
For Biden, the polls continue to paint a harsh picture (www.politico.com)
Biden: House Republicans 'walking away from the threat of Russia' (www.politico.com)
“It’s just shocking. I’ve never seen anything like it,” the president said Monday....
Republicans are ‘caving’ — Biden blames Trump as border deal falters (www.politico.com)
The bipartisan border deal appears on the verge of combustion, and President Joe Biden on Tuesday placed the blame for that squarely on Donald Trump....
CIA director: Not passing Ukraine aid would be a mistake 'of historic proportions' (www.politico.com)
Helping Ukraine is “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns,” the CIA director wrote....
‘You’re the reason I am president’: Biden embraces Black voters in S.C. (www.politico.com)
Washington to Israel: Turn the lights back on in Gaza (www.politico.com)
The Biden administration is pressing Israel to restore telecommunications access to Gaza amid a massive blackout that has stretched a record six days and left millions of Palestinians without power or internet....
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‘You just can’t control yourself’: Judge threatens to kick Trump out of courtroom (www.politico.com)
A federal judge threatened to kick Donald Trump out of court Wednesday after the former president made repeated comments within earshot of the jury hearing a civil defamation trial against him....
Beijing shrugs at U.S. call for help protecting Red Sea shipping (www.politico.com)
The Chinese government appears to be brushing off Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for Beijing to assist an international coalition in protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias....
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Rush of new defense deals with US shows Europe’s growing concern over Russia (www.politico.com)
Six European countries have inked defense pacts with the U.S. this month....
Nearly 60 new House members say they will vote to expel Santos (www.politico.com)
Another 20 or so and his impeachment is pretty much guaranteed.
Mike Johnson is a board member of a Christian publishing house that called ‘monkeypox’ a penalty for being gay (www.politico.com)
Andy Kim launches Senate bid [against indicted Bob Menendez] as a ‘decent human’ who’s had enough of broken D.C. (www.politico.com)
3 Expert Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is Probably Wearing Height Boosters (www.politico.com)
Is this important journalism? No way. Is it funny as shit? I think so.
Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure (www.politico.com)
The Hamas onslaught wasn’t supposed to be possible: A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state. The consequences are still reverberating....
Matt Gaetz’s father seeks return to Florida Senate (www.politico.com)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Don Gaetz, a former Republican state Senate president and father of MAGA firebrand GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, is seeking a return to the Florida Legislature....
DeSantis voted against Sandy aid a decade ago. Now his state needs the help. (www.politico.com)
Florida’s Republicans have a complicated relationship with disaster aid.
Trump’s bond set at $200,000 in Georgia election-related case (www.politico.com)
The order also explicitly limits Trump’s ability to attack witnesses or his co-defendants, including on social media.
Harris rejects DeSantis’ offer to debate Florida’s new Black history standards (www.politico.com)
“We will not stop calling out and fighting back against extremist, so-called leaders who try to prevent our children from learning our true and full history,” the vice president said in Florida.
DeSantis rocked by Black Republican revolt over slavery comments (www.politico.com)
The bitter fight between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds over a line about slavery in the state’s revised African American history standards is infuriating several prominent Black conservatives.