FBI began investigating @nytimes.com reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with security and transportation. DOJ officials were concerned it was retaliation and found no legal basis to proceed. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Democrats used to decry partisan gerrymandering and dark money. Now they are relying on both to match the Republicans. "We cannot bring a stick to a knife fight." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
So sad to learn that we've lost Dan Eggen. We were partners on the White House beat way back in the day and he was always a true pro, the kind of reporter you wanted to work with because he cared so much about getting the story right. He will be missed. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Devin Nunes is out as CEO of Trump Media, which took in just $3.7 million in revenue last year and lost $712 million even as its stock price has fallen by more than 80%. @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
"There's a hit job out on you": The legendary Marvin Kalb recounts the story of his investigation into Soviet involvement in the plot to kill Pope John Paul II -- and the threats that came with it. open.substack.com/pub/compass1...
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Florida Democrat charged with embezzling $5 million in FEMA money, announces resignation just minutes before the House Ethics Committee was to vote on whether to recommend that the House expel her. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
Vance’s trip to Pakistan for a second round of negotiations with Iran has been put on hold after Tehran fails to respond to American positions. Iran, for its part, says it had not yet decided whether to resume talks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
"A bottleneck of B-listers": How California Democrats may lose the governorship of America's biggest blue state. "The glaring lack of candidate talent, political skill and personal appeal...has been the defining quality of the race" says @markleibovich.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s embattled labor secretary, steps down as multiple scandals and investigations closed in on her. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
Vance, Kushner and Witkoff will travel to Pakistan for further negotiations on ending the war with Iran, as a two-week cease-fire is set to elapse this week without an agreement in sight. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
ICE agents arrested an 85-year-old widow in her nightgown at her late husband’s home and a county probate judge overseeing his estate says that one of his sons was responsible for the arrest. Nick Bogel-Burroughs @porterthereport.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Hopes rise that the US and Iran are keeping last week's cease-fire agreement and nearing a framework for further talks to reach a lasting peace agreement. But analysts warn that a comprehensive deal is still distant. @michaelcrowley.bsky.social Farnaz Fassihi www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
Newsom’s political action committee paid $1,561,875 to buy and distribute copies of his book to supporters who donated any amount of money, accounting for 67,000 copies or roughly two-thirds of his print run. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at the home of Virginia's former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. richmond.com
Even the architectural critic who encouraged Trump last year to build a triumphal arch in Washington thinks he's going too far. "It's way too big for that site." @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @zacharyhsmall.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
A woman who turned to Eric Swalwell for political help says he raped her in a West Hollywood hotel, the latest in a series of accusations that have ended his political career and put him in legal jeopardy. @jillcowan.bsky.social @4evrmalone.bsky.social
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In his second term, Trump seems even less restrained and more incoherent at times. He uses more profanity, speaks longer, regularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact, wanders off into odd tangents and shocks even allies with his outbursts. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
The strategic calculus for both the US and Iran is about holding out longer than the other, writes Robin Wright. They are drifting into "a war of attrition where each side believes it can impose more pain than it can absorb," Israeli analyst tells her. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Sexual misconduct allegations claim a second congressman on the same day as Tony Gonzales of Texas announces his resignation after being accused of a coercive sexual relationship with a staff member who later killed herself. @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
Eric Swalwell, who has already dropped out of the California gubernatorial race and faces criminal and House Ethics Committee probes into allegations of sexual misconduct, announces he will resign from Congress @jillcowan.bsky.social Emily Cochrane @migold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane comments capped by threatening to wipe out Iran and attacking the pope have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power and revived the debate about Trump's mental health. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
Eric Swalwell suspends his campaign for California governor in the wake of allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staff member and engaged in sexual misconduct with other women. @jillcowan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
Hungary's Viktor Orban, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, concedes defeat in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
Trump, who has unsuccessfully sought to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, now says he will enforce a naval blockade of the strait in an effort to raise pressure on Tehran after failed peace talks. @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Twenty one hours of talks between the US and Iran fail to produce an agreement to end the war, leaving the question of what happens after the current two-week cease-fire up in the air. “They have chosen not to accept our terms,” Vance says. @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is opening an investigation into Eric Swalwell a day after multiple women accused him of sexual assault and misconduct in published news reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
Inflation surged to 3.3% in March, almost a full point higher than the month before and higher than it was when Trump took office. @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
On Wednesday, just 4 ships, none of them oil tankers, passed through the strait, fewer than the day before the ceasefire, and on Thursday, just 7. “Let’s be clear,” the head of the Abu Dhabi oil company said. “The Strait of Hormuz is not open.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Looking forward to "Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986-2001," the second volume of the James Rosen biography of one of the most consequential figures of the modern judiciary and leader of the originalism legal movement.
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