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Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist:...
Marco Rubio is slowly choking Cuba to death.
Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of...
Representative Max Miller blamed a daycare after his daughter was rushed to the hospital last year with bruises.
Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country.
The focus of the GOP’s first ever midterm convention in September won’t be Trump’s dismal approval rating, how to end the war on Iran, or the...
President Donald Trump is reviving his campaign to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Senator Bill Cassidy has decided to vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, despite butting heads with the Trump administration in recent...
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro isn’t the only one fed up with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
President Trump correctly identified Americans’ mass dissatisfaction with the GOP—but doesn’t think that it extends to him.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump must halt aboveground construction on his White House ballroom.
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she would not support acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to permanently take on...
Even Fox News struggled to put a positive spin on a dismal July jobs report, as the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs that month.
The federal government provided false information in their attempt to prosecute independent journalist Georgia Fort, her lawyers say.
An endorsement from President Donald Trump wasn’t enough for Republican Representative Andy Ogles, who lost his primary election in Tennessee...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 7 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
The January 6 prosecutions came to a quiet, unheralded end this week after a federal judge dismissed the final seditious conspiracy case against...
The Trump administration announced on Thursday plans to overhaul Head Start, the early education, nutrition, and health program which serves hundreds...
The reaction so far among establishment Democrats to Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow win in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary has been surprisingly...
I wrote in July about how Donald Trump, despite rhapsodizing about the virtues of competitive bidding (“it sharpens their game, makes them bid...
“It’s not like years ago,” croons Michael Stipe on R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming,” the spare, piano-driven ballad that brings the band’s 1992...
A striking new Washington Post report reveals that Donald Trump privately raged at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, demanding to know why he’d caught...
Centrist Democratic lobbyists and strategists are preparing to go to “war” with the left following Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s...
Donald Trump’s administration is awarding a $150 million contract to give legal representation to immigrant children to a small Texas law firm with...
Ailing Senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from rehabilitation after being hospitalized nearly two months ago.
President Donald Trump’s new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thinks the government should know if you’ve had an abortion.
MAGA world is unloading on Ohio Representative Max Miller.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist:...
The Democratic National Committee is blaming a late property tax bill on a procedural issue, the latest in a sequence of blunders from the party’s...
Donald Trump can’t seem to get even the most basic facts straight.
The Trump administration is plotting a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that could threaten childcare for more than half a million children across the...
Edwin López-Cornejo, the 39-year-old Salvadoran immigrant who died in an unknown “medical emergency” at the Delaney Hall immigration detention...
Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs have come back to bite him.
President Donald Trump is crashing out about a report that he confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S. military’s depleted munitions...
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-5 along party lines Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of...
The $400 million luxury jumbo jet that the Qatari royal family gifted President Trump may not go to his presidential library after all.
Ohio Representative Max Miller has denied holding a little blue bunny hostage—but a series of messages shows the alleged abuser has a pattern of...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
There’s no media outlet more hated by the current Israeli government, nor heralded outside Israel, than Haaretz, the longest-running newspaper...
The first evidence of the sledgehammer the new Trump administration would take to America’s anti-corruption policies came just two weeks into his...
The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last year allocated $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build and run camps to lock up...
Democrats just nominated left-wing populist Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race. Yet his victory was razor close, suggesting he faces big...
Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is already drawing bigoted attacks from the right.
Temporary Protected Status has officially ended for Haitians, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of being deported—even though the...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a chilling message to U.S. attorneys across the country at a press conference Wednesday.
President Trump on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to stop the British Broadcasting Corporation from gaining broad access to intimate details...
This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 5 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...
One of Elon Musk’s wayward rockets seems to have crashed into the moon, but the Trump administration isn’t worried about it.
Authorities in California arrested a man who was walking around the Los Angeles area Trump National Golf Club on Sunday afternoon.
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