“I just wanted to end today’s show by thanking all of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network. “You may have seen some reports about me and the show, and after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing in alternative timeslots CNN offered me, I’ve decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN …

Axios reports: Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is “taking a serious look” at running for the Michigan senate seat left open by the surprise retirement of Sen. Gary Peters, Axios has learned. Buttigieg would bring his national fundraising network to what is expected to be one of the most expensive Senate races in the country. “Pete is exploring all of …

404 Media reports: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to Trump, according to metadata on the memos posted by the government online. We know this …

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump fired the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel and one of its Democratic board members late Monday, setting up a likely legal battle over presidential power. Both Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel, and Gwynne Wilcox, the board member, were Democrats who took a broad view of workers rights under collective-bargaining law. Wilcox’s term …

The Detroit News reports: Gary Peters, Michigan’s senior senator and a former congressman, said he won’t seek reelection next year and will retire from the U.S. Senate when his second term ends in January 2027. In an exclusive interview, the Bloomfield Township Democrat told The Detroit News that he is ready to leave public office in two years and move …

“The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!” – The world’s most infamous liar, in a Truth Social post that has gone wildly viral …

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Biden administration tried to have Russian President Vladimir Putin assassinated without offering any evidence to support his incendiary allegation. “The Biden administration did, they tried to kill Putin,” the onetime Fox News broadcaster said on the Monday episode of his The Tucker Carlson Show podcast. After his guest, journalist Matt …

Politico Europe reports: Outrage over Elon Musk’s support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and call for Germany to “move past” its Nazi history could start impacting his financial interests after Polish Tourism Minister Sławomir Nitras called for a Tesla boycott. “There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas. A serious and strong response …

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports: Federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies and their local partners swept into New York City early Tuesday to conduct ICE raids in line with policy changes enacted by Trump. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was in New York City Tuesday for the round-up. “We are doing this right – doing exactly what …

The Associated Press reports: The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending. The decision by the Republican administration could affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Even grants that have been awarded but …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. The directive is part of a broader freeze on foreign aid initiated last week. It includes the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is keeping the door open to conditioning California disaster aid on the state enacting voter identification laws, days after President Trump said he wanted to link the two priorities. The comments from Johnson came during a press conference at Trump National Doral in Miami on Monday. Asked if linking voter ID to California …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States could pay a “small fee” to foreign countries to imprison Americans who are repeat criminal offenders, floating a kind of modern-day penal colony. “If they’ve been arrested many, many times, they’re repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country,” he said. “We’re going to …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is fueling the civil war between his executive office and the legislative branch, and he may be benefiting from friendly air cover as he makes less-than-friendly points about Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez. The Governor spoke to Mark Levin and Sean Hannity about his gripes with the GOP supermajority that …

Law & Crime reports: A federal appeals court in Iowa handed Devin Nunes another loss in his defamation suit against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines over a 2018 Esquire article that said the Nunes family’s dairy farm knowingly employed undocumented immigrants after a lower court judge determined that the story was “substantially, objectively true.” A three-judge panel on the …

“The girlboss feminism routine isn’t just cringy. It also directly undermines our argument. The Citadel was a male-only space forced by law to admit females in the name of diversity and inclusion. That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces. Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It’s a ridiculous and tone deaf …

The Deseret News reports: Utah Sen. Mike Lee renewed his call to abolish the Transportation Security Administration, suggesting that instead airlines should conduct their own security screenings, eliminating the need for the federal government to get involved. Lee, a Republican, also complained about TSA pat-downs, asking in a post on X, “Tired of being groped every time you travel?” “Abolish …

CNBC reports: Google said Monday it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps after the Trump administration updates its “official government sources.” The company also said it will start using the name “Mount McKinley” for the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali. Last week, President Donald Trump signed executive actions that …

Fox News reports: Attorneys general in 19 states are warning Costco “to end all unlawful discrimination imposed by the company through diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies to reflect President Donald Trump’s recent executive order booting DEI out of federal agencies and warning private sectors to do the same. “Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal. Race-based employment hiring violates state …

From the New York Post editorial board: On Thursday, Senate hearings begin on RFK Jr.’s nomination as secretary for Health and Human Services. But nothing has changed about Kennedy from last spring. He’s still a radical left lunatic who is anti-energy, a “big time” taxer and completely incoherent about our nation’s health. No Republican can vote for this guy. No …