President Joe Biden signed into law measures to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, as well as force the divestiture of social media platform TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.(cnbc.com)
House passes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with a TikTok ban - The bills amount to a $95 billion aid package in total.(nbcnews.com)
The House speaker, Mike Johnson, is pushing ahead with his plan to hold votes on four separate foreign aid bills this week, despite threats from two fellow Republicans to oust him if he advances a Ukraine funding proposal ... Johnson indicated final votes on the bills were expected on Saturday(theguardian.com)
Two conservative political operatives [Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman] who orchestrated a robocall campaign to dissuade Black people from voting in the 2020 election have agreed to pay up to $1.25 million under a settlement with New York state, Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.(apnews.com)
No Labels ditches plans for 2024 third-party ticket(axios.com)
Elon Musk says he isn’t donating to the Trump or Biden campaigns(nbcnews.com)
McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job(apnews.com)
Trump soundly defeats Nikki Haley in South Carolina Republican primary: "Trump locked in approximately 60% of the vote, with Haley hovering at about 40% ... Addressing supporters in Charleston, Haley insisted she would not drop out of the race despite her four straight losses ..."(theguardian.com)
Alexander Smirnov, the indicted former FBI informant at the center of the Hunter Biden probe, was re-arrested Thursday, the special counsel's office said. Smirnov was released from custody Tuesday by a Nevada magistrate judge less than a week after he was indicted ...(abcnews.go.com)
DOJ: FBI informant said Russian intelligence involved in Hunter Biden story - The FBI confidential source charged last week for allegedly providing false information about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden implicated Russian intervention, per court documents filed Tuesday.(axios.com)
White House senior adviser John Podesta will succeed special climate envoy John Kerry in his role as top U.S. climate diplomat, the White House said Wednesday.(axios.com)
Trump wins the New Hampshire Republican primary, as Nikki Haley vows to fight on(nbcnews.com)
Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Donald Trump - Haley said Sunday that the 2024 election is now a “two person race,”(cnbc.com)
Congressional leaders reach $1.59 trillion deal on top-line spending, pave the way for deal to fund the government: "The deal establishes an overall spending budget of $1.59 trillion for the 2024 fiscal year, allocating $886 billion to military spending and $704 billion for non-defense spending"(cnbc.com)
Maine's secretary of state blocks Trump from 2024 ballot - "... becoming the second state to find he's ineligible under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause over his actions surrounding Jan. 6."(axios.com)
Following Colorado's lead, California's lieutenant governor has sent a letter urging for the removal of Donald Trump from California's 2024 primary ballot.(cbsnews.com)
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he will resign from Congress at the end of the year. McCarthy, the California Republican who was ousted as speaker by a faction of his own party two months earlier, said he is leaving “to serve America in new ways.”(cnbc.com)
The New York Republican, fabulist and accused fraudster George Santos has been expelled from Congress in bipartisan vote - Congressman, who has pleaded not guilty to 23 federal fraud charges, becomes only sixth member ever expelled from US House(theguardian.com)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) announced Sunday that he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign.(axios.com)
Couple Adopts Neighbor’s 3 Kids, Comes Home, Finds House Different(patriottruths.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson Explains Low Profile of ‘Adopted’ Black Son(thedailybeast.com)
Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case - Ellis became the fourth co-defendant in the case to accept a plea deal instead of going to trial.(nbcnews.com)
Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources(abcnews.go.com)
Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia criminal election case(cnbc.com)
See your world crumble before you by the Hand of Dvinity. You were never anything close to what you thought you were. Fools.(zerohedge.com)