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Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) bipartisan rail safety legislation — introduced in the aftermath of the devastating train derailment and “controlled” chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio — picked up a significant endorsement on Monday from the former president. Read More.

As 2024’s Iowa GOP caucus slowly approaches, two likely frontrunners are preparing to talk past each other from across the Hawkeye State. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump will hold competing events on May 13 in Iowa. Read More.

President Joe Biden’s White House is begging CEOs to pressure Republicans to cave on the debt ceiling as Biden prepares to meet with congressional leaders this week to discuss the debt limit. Read More.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles on Friday became the latest congressional Republican to endorse former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Read More.

Amid reports special counsel Jack Smith is homing in on criminal charges for former President Donald Trump, the target is striking back, calling Smith a persecutor and blasting his former Attorney General Bill Barr as weak. Read More.

President Biden said Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris "hasn't gotten the credit she deserves" as he defended his re-election campaign's strategy of prominently featuring the vice president amid questions about his advanced age. Read More.

A continued breach of the U.S. debt ceiling could result in “significant disruptions” to financial markets and “severe damage” to the economy, including more than 8 million job losses, the White House has warned. Read More.

President Biden was fact-checked by community notes after claiming that the United States always pays its debts. In a Tuesday Twitter post, Biden touted his administration’s accomplishments before being corrected by the content label. Read More.

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said his repeated jabs at Donald Trump that the former president cannot win back the White House in 2024 are "nothing personal." However, Trump, who launched his third straight White House run in November, seems to be taking the criticisms personally. Read More.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) threatened to push legislation to force a federal district court in Texas that has repeatedly ruled against the Biden administration to discourage alleged forum shopping by Republican plaintiffs. Read More.

President Biden delivered a speech Friday during a reception for the Democratic National Committee in which he said "MAGA Republicans" are attempting to undo the progress made in the U.S. Read More.

Former President Donald Trump stepped around another question Thursday about whether he would sign a national 15-week abortion ban, should he be back in office for a second term in 2025. Read More.

As if this election cycle isn’t becoming as weird as we knew it would, there is a story that Team Trump was concerned that Tucker Carlson would support Governor Ron DeSantis over Trump in the GOP primary contest. All is well between the two men now but his aides were worried that Carlson was showing early favoritism toward DeSantis, especially as he brought the governor on his highly-rated Fox show. Read More.

Yesterday the NY Times Magazine published a lengthy interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci titled “Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’.” As the title suggests this is a retrospective and a chance to look at the US reaction to COVID with something like 20-20 hindsight. Read More.

Despite the last-minute jockeying among worried Democrats, Joe Biden has taken the plunge and announced his candidacy for reelection. It’s tempting to think that nobody as mentally and physically compromised or as manifestly incompetent at his job could get reelected to the presidency. In a normal world, it would be insane to think he could. Read More.