Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in private that Senate Republicans could cost House Republicans their majority next year if they try to push through the deep Medicaid cuts in the current Senate version. That comes as Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) cautions GOP senators that those same cutbacks could become a political albatross for Republicans just as the Affordable …

“CNN is scum, MSDNC is scum, the New York Times is scum. They’re bad people, they’re sick. What they’ve done is they’ve tried to make this unbelievable victory into something less. The generals and all of the people who did a good job, they get demeaned by these idiots at CNN, who can’t get ratings. The place is dying, nobody …

The BBC reports: Donald Trump will make a full state visit to the UK later this year after King Charles and the US president’s schedules meant they would be unable to meet informally over the summer, it is understood. Buckingham Palace confirmed an invitation signed by the King, called the “Manu Regia”, was taken to the White House by representatives …

“I should start by declaring an interest in this Pride debate. The Daily Mail once referred to me as an ‘ex-gay vicar.’ I am an ex-vicar, but the other stuff is coming along quite nicely. In fact, I am a practicing homosexual – one day I will be quite good at it. “People ask me, ‘Why on earth do you …

Mediaite reports: With NATO chief Mark Rutte sitting beside Trump on Wednesday, as the pair addressed the media after a closed-door meeting, the president reflected on the ceasefire arrangement and his F-bomb. “They’re not going to be fighting each other. They’ve had it. They’ve got a big fight. Like two kids in a schoolyard, you know, they fight like hell. …

Politico reports: Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) is expected to appear in federal court for the first time Wednesday morning on a trio of charges following a May scuffle outside a federal immigration facility. At her arraignment in Newark, McIver will plead not guilty, spokesperson Hanna Rumsey said. McIver is accused in a three-count indictment of slamming a federal agent with …

“As we speak, President Trump is at dinner in the Netherlands, imploring once again for peace in Ukraine, driving NATO nations to raise their defense spending budgets to meet the minimum threshold, to provide for their own defense. And this after an incredible 24 hours wherein despite doubts, despite two nations hellbent at war he once again brought peace to …

“All afternoon, CNN was salivating over the prospect that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had not been obliterated, as Trump had indicated. Early intel indicating that the strikes set back the Iranian nuclear program for months, but perhaps not entirely. “The first intel assessment comes from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intel wing, and this early look was apparently leaked, as …

The Hill reports: Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents facing re-election in 2026, warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) bluntly in a private meeting Tuesday that deep cuts to Medicaid could cost Republicans control of the House and Senate. Tillis, who has kept relatively quiet about the hundreds of billions of dollars in …

The Associated Press reports: Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner is trailing badly in the Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat as the race moves to a ranked choice vote count to decide the winner. Initial returns Tuesday showed Weiner running in a distant fourth place in the five-person race for a council district in Manhattan. Weiner …

“My stomach is in knots. The idea that a self-avowed socialist and Hamas Terrorist sympathizer like Zohran Mamdani could become the next mayor of New York City truly makes me sick. NY Post: ‘Mamdani backer who works for NYC Campaign Finance Board is a longtime socialist operative with links to terror groups.’ “New York City is home to the Statue of …

Axios reports: The Trump White House has decided that nine former senior Biden aides won’t be protected by executive privilege during their interviews for a congressional probe into Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office. Why it matters: The White House’s move means the former Biden aides will have to answer questions about their private conversations with Biden, unless they or …

The Daily Beast reports: A classified report leaked to CNN and The New York Times on Tuesday revealed that Trump’s much-touted attacks on three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites over the weekend did not kill the country’s nuclear program. At worst, they likely set the program back by a few months, which counters the president’s repeated claims of “complete and total …

The New York Times reports: Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City on Tuesday night, building a lead so commanding that Mr. Cuomo conceded. Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist from Queens, tapped into a …

Deadline reports: The defense has rested in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial after delivering a very short presentation with no witnesses, Before his lawyers began their blink-and-you-miss-it case today, Combs himself told the judge in the Manhattan courtroom that he would not be taking the stand. “That is my decision, your honor,” the 55-year old Baby Boy Records founder replied …

The New York Post reports: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands turned heads in a striking lime-green jumpsuit as she and hubby King Willem-Alexander gave President Trump and fellow world leaders a royal welcome at the NATO summit. The Dutch royal couple beamed as they greeted world leaders from 32 countries – including Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime …

“This is not the candidate that I voted for. It’s all of the same rhetoric dating back to 9/11. All of the same tactic trying to smear people who are against this war as ‘jihadists.’ There was no imminent threat to the United States when Trump made this decision to do what Bibi wanted. This was not Trump’s decision it …

Newsweek reports: Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said during a closed-door meeting with Republicans on Tuesday that people worried about cuts to Medicaid in the Senate’s reconciliation bill will “get over it,” Punchbowl News reported. The Republican Party has drawn sharp criticism over the reconciliation package, which is currently making its way through the Senate after passing the GOP-controlled House of …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday asserted that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, pushing back forcefully against the lawmakers in both parties who are invoking the law in an effort to block President Trump from further military action in Iran. Johnson has already rejected calls to stage a vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution in …

Wired reports: Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first technologists hired as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is no longer working for the federal government, according to multiple sources. “Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,” a White House official tells WIRED. Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE member who WIRED first identified at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs …