SCOOP: Gallego faces federal probe over campaign spending

NEW: Senate Ethics drops inquiry into Gallego over allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations

NEW: SCOTUS says Trump can't fire Fed governor Lisa Cook — a blockbuster ruling that limits the president's influence on the central bank.

NEW: Supreme Court upholds grace period for late-arriving mail-in ballots

Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to toss $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has cast himself as a champion of workers, but behind the scenes his relationships with some labor unions are increasingly rocky.

President Trump said the federal government will begin renovating East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1.

The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the 2 sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar's capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz.

JUST IN: OpenAI releases powerful new GPT-5.6 model under restrictions

🐘 Years of Republicans submitting to Trump, often against their own judgment, have curdled into a rolling crisis as Washington nears the likely end of the GOP's two-year monopoly.

A federal judge today ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to release additional unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or explain by July 2 why it can't.

NEW: Dem centrists are already plotting how to curb the left bloc’s influence next Congress. “You’re going to see a group of moderates do exactly the same thing: 'We won't vote for X unless we get Y,’” one told @axios.com “There’s going to be a war.” www.axios.com/2026/06/25/m...

"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

BREAKING: Trump nominates Chris Klomp for deputy health secretary

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to initially limit GPT-5.6 to a small group of government-approved partners before any broader release, citing security concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter.

NEW: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing key parts of an executive order aiming to create a citizenship list of eligible voters and restricting mail-in voting.

AI's brain is getting bloated with AI content

American politics, reordered and reimagined by a decade of President Trump's rise, fall and resurrection, is imploding in substantial ways. The populist forces Trump awakened are devouring the establishment.

House Democrats brace for a Mamdani-fueled "Freedom Caucus of the left" in 2027

President Trump is making life hell for Senate Republicans, and they're returning the favor.

NEW: President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy. One source in the room described Cassidy's anger level as "out of body." Trump, at one point, told Cassidy to sit down.

BREAKING: Trump cancels housing affordability bill signing until SAVE Act is passed

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: China and Japan, using much cheaper models, have gotten closer to the capabilities of American frontier AI, faster than intelligence agencies anticipated. "The timeline is not years, it is months," the Five Eyes intel alliance warned.

Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott have teed up what could be a tense, confrontational lunch tomorrow with President Trump and Senate Republicans.

BREAKING: Rep. Dan Goldman unseated by Mamdani-backed Brad Lander

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is minimizing the significance of New York's congressional primaries, telling reporters the ideological direction of his party won't rest on a few House seats.

With rare bipartisan support, the House passed a housing bill this evening that aims to address the shortage of affordable homes in the U.S.

Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson in ditching the GOP

The U.S. is losing standing abroad as President Trump's foreign policy fuels doubts about whether America can still be counted on, according to new polling.

NEW: Tech stocks shriveled up this morning as fears about an AI bubble sapped market momentum

10 years ago today, the Brexit referendum unleashed a populist tide that rewrote the rules of Western politics. Now, a diminished and fractured United Kingdom is preparing for its seventh prime minister — still haunted by the future it was promised.

A pair of largely overlooked U.S. House races in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. are racing up the leaderboard of the most expensive congressional primaries in U.S. history.

New York's congressional primaries tomorrow will be a key test of strength for the left-wing movement challenging the Democratic Party's establishment.

Israel believes new U.S.-Iran understandings could legitimize Iran's influence in Lebanon and restrict the Israeli military's freedom there, 2 Israeli sources tell Axios.

Democratic congressional candidate and musician Bobby Pulido performed onstage alongside a registered sex offender at a Texas middle school benefit concert in 2018, Axios has learned.

"I'm out": Tucker Carlson says he's done with the GOP

JUST IN: Minnesota's top federal judge quashed several Trump administration subpoenas for immigration-related records from Gov. Tim Walz (D) and a dozen other state and local officials.

5 days ago, the U.S. and Iran signed a peace deal. Since then, Iran said it was closing the strait again, Israel intermittently bombed Lebanon and Trump threatened to seize and toll the strait, kill Iran's negotiators, and send Syria to fight Hezbollah.

President Trump today ordered immediate repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after alleging vandalism had damaged the recently renovated landmark.

Gavin Newsom is gambling that embracing Joe Biden will be more popular among Democrats than running away from him in the party's 2028 presidential primary.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators today held marathon talks in Switzerland into the night as they worked to launch a 60-day effort toward a new nuclear agreement.

States are embracing AI to help manage safety-net programs

BREAKING: Iran closing Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks on Lebanon

Republicans have stranded nine House Democratic incumbents in districts President Trump carried by double digits in 2024, thanks to the redrawn House map.

More than a decade in the making, the Obama Presidential Center opened today on Chicago's South Side with 4 former presidents, A-list entertainers and thousands of visitors in attendance.

VP Vance issued a blunt warning today to members of the Israeli government who have been attacking the deal with Iran: "Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time."

NEW: Janeese Lewis George's top rival concedes in D.C. mayoral race

For two months, Trump has been seeking a deal to end the war, reopen Hormuz, and stabilize energy markets. This deal should achieve that. But critics argue that making concessions just to return to status quo shows the war itself was a costly mistake.

President Trump made the case for his deal with Iran during an hour-long press conference today, while seeming to lower his own bar for success and warning he could bomb Iran again if nuclear talks fail.

The top Democrats on congressional committees overseeing foreign, defense and intelligence policy are demanding Secretary of State Marco Rubio provide a briefing on the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding.