There are two original sins here. Seemingly everyone in journalistic America read and wrote about the new book Original Sin, by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, over the weekend — except me. After waiting impatiently for a copy to arrive in the mail — it is apparently being delivered by snails riding sloths — I instead got a copy from my local brick-and-mortar bookseller earlier this morning. You probably do not need to have the book introduced to you at this...

On a call Monday, President Trump told European leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t ready to end the Ukraine war because he thinks he is winning, according to three people familiar with the conversation. The acknowledgment was what European leaders had long believed about Putin—but it was the first time they were hearing it from Trump. It also ran counter to what Trump has often said publicly, that he believes Putin genuinely wants peace.  

Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration moved to deport eight men to South Sudan in what a federal judge in Boston says was “unquestionably” a violation of a court order. What happened? On Tuesday, the US government put eight men — only one a South Sudanese citizen — on a deportation flight to South Sudan, an unstable country in East Africa that is on the verge of civil war, with minimal notice and no chance to speak with a lawyer. Their exact location is now unclear...

A group of 12 states asked a federal court on Wednesday to put President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports on hold, arguing he overstepped his authority by declaring a national emergency to impose levies on the majority of U.S. trading partners. A three-judge panel of the New York-based Court of International Trade heard arguments in the lawsuit filed by the Democratic attorneys general of New York, Illinois, Oregon, and nine other states in April. The suit argues Trump’s tariff...

While the world's biggest space powers - the U.S., Russia and China - have put military and intelligence assets in orbit since the 1960s, they have done so mostly in secrecy. Under former President Joe Biden, U.S. Space Force officials had grown vocal about a need for greater offensive space capabilities due to space-based threats from Russia and China. When Trump announced his Golden Dome plan in January, it was a clear shift in strategy, one that emphasizes a bold move into space with...

This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Like a lot of people, I was worried about Biden’s age when he ran for president in 2020. So after he won, I found myself continuously asking top White House staffers: How’s the president? How is he in meetings? What’s his energy like? I always got the same answer: He’s great. Completely in command. His energy is amazing. These are people I had known for a long time. I didn’t think they were lying to me....

House Republicans narrowly approved President Trump’s “big, beautiful” agenda bill Thursday morning, sending it to the Senate after a 48-hour scramble to get fiscal conservatives and blue-state moderates on board. With the 215-214 vote, lawmakers met the goal of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to approve the legislation by the Memorial Day holiday, but more drama is likely in the Senate, where Republicans have both demanded additional spending cuts and insisted on preserving current rules...

The Republican-led House passed President Trump’s sprawling tax-and-spending bill early Thursday, after party leaders made a series of last-minute changes that united their warring wings. The vote was 215 to 214, with one lawmaker voting present. The measure now goes to the Senate, where a similar tug of war could play out.

Americans could see major changes to Medicaid, food stamps, border security and taxes under a sweeping Republican bill that passed the U.S. House early on May 22. The proposal, which President Donald Trump has dubbed the "big, beautiful bill," would enact Trump's major campaign promises like eliminating taxes on workers' tips and overtime and is likely to be one of the most significant pieces of legislation that will be passed during his second...

An unexpected discovery.