Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

BREAKING: 🚨 The Fulton judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Trump, others just agreed to dismiss it 🚨 This comes shortly after a state prosecutor said the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The roles of politician and influencer have been slowly merging. Will Ted Cruz of all people successfully merge them? Me for @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A look at Verdict with Ted Cruz, currently the most popular podcast of any sitting US politician, which puts Ted Cruz ahead of rivals in a potential 2028 WH bid (Ben Jacobs/Politico) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The roles of politician and influencer have been slowly merging. Will Ted Cruz of all people successfully merge them? Me for @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Can Ted Cruz Podcast His Way to the Presidency? www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It looks like the sole no vote on the House floor on the Epstein files vote will be Rep Clay Higgins (R-LA) who is a rather colorful character.

Trump has withdrawn his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Curious which Democratic member of Congress will be the first on Monday to introduce a bill to mandate drug testing for the HHS Secretary

Similarly the big reason we never got a vote on Puerto Rican statehood was objections from the squad and from Velázquez. Politics is unfortunately a super opaque industry, it's easy to get sucked into the kayfabe narratives that get pushed to the base to suck money out of them.

For members of the House in both parties, the past eight weeks felt like Purgatory. I report for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Worth noting here, that obviously, Bad Bunny is not an immigrant. He's an American from Puerto Rico.

I talked a dozen members of Congress about what eight weeks out of session was like for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Ruben Gallego hand delivered a copy of Virginia Giuffre's memoirs to Mike Johnson yesterday as Democrats double down on Epstein. I report for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI. But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

“I’d love to have your job someday,” Trump tells the Fox NFL crew broadcasting the Commanders vs Lions game.

The 112th Grey Cup matchup has been SET! The Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders will meet on the CFL’s biggest stage for the first time since 2010. 👀🔥

"i was under duress" www.ctvnews.ca/canada/royal...

BREAKING: Judge orders Trump admin to provide full SNAP payments to states for November. Judge John McConnell (Obama) says Trump admin defied his earlier order allowing partial payment only if recipients could get that money on time

JARED GOLDEN not running for re-election in Maine. The 4-term Democrat represents a House seat that Trump won all three times. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/05/o...

I wrote for @politico.com on how Robert Garcia has become Thirsty Henry Waxman www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot features eight candidates for consideration in the Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Results will be announced at 7:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 7: ow.ly/Agwx50XlQRH

this World Series already has had the most innings of any 7-game World Series in MLB history

Some lawyers in England and Wales are no longer required to wear classic curly white wigs in cases where they prove “uncomfortable or impractical.”

President Donald Trump threatens that the U.S. will undertake military action in Nigeria on his Truth Social website

The Anglican Church in North America faces allegations by clergy and parishioners against two of its top leaders: One is accused of sexual misconduct, while the other allegedly abused his power by allowing men with troubling histories into the church.

I’m honestly less offended by the Nazi tattoo than the bad political skill demonstrated here. Telling such an obvious lie and expecting to get away with it is amateur hour. archive.ph/2025.10.24-2...

Pretty rich criticism coming from a fake account impersonating @benjysarlin.bsky.social

George Santos has returned home from prison to pet parrots that he is trying to teach to say "I'm the baby" as in the catchphrase from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs nymag.com/intelligence...

A statue of Christopher Columbus that was toppled by protestors and thrown in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 2020 has been salvaged and repaired and is now going to be erected at the White House www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/14/f...

Breaking News: The man who firebombed the residence of Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in a deal with a sentence of 25 to 50 years.

The goal is getting more digital subs, not print. But I've lived in the kind of neighborhoods where people got WP delivery and... you def don't see much of it anymore

Maine Gov. Janet Mills joined her state’s crowded Dem Senate primary as the establishment favorite today, aiming to flip GOP Sen. Susan Collins’ seat in a pivotal midterm year.

COLUMN: Once the model for modern conservatism, Britain’s Tories are now flailing for relevance — and embracing Trump-style populism as a lifeline. The Tory implosion offers a warning for both parties in America, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.

My latest: For 7 years after Black Guerilla Family gang leader Ricky Evans pleaded guilty, nothing happened in his case. Or so it seemed. He spent that time helping the feds solve dozens of murders and other acts of violence: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Any time someone as high and mighty as a House speaker joins @cspanwj.bsky.social and takes calls, all I think of is “President Jimmy Carter” talking that kid down off a bad trip, telling him to listen to the Allmans. www.instagram.com/reel/DKxEcj8...

O'Neal is pushing "The Post into video podcasting, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to launch a show hosted by Megan McArdle next month and a flagship program in January. The marquee show, I’m told, will be helmed by O’Neal himself."

Even the trainwrecks are bigger in Texas www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Baltimore Councilman Mark Conway files to challenge U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

My most curmudgeon take is that pitch comm is dumb and I miss the days when catchers painted their nails to better give signs

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by federal law enforcement last year and allegedly accepted $50k in cash from agents who were posing as business executives seeking government contracts, MSNBC reports.

Congress has gone senseless over censure. I report for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How censure lost its bite www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Exclusive: President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer. Sources said the package would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan, including munitions and autonomous drones.

After football, Andy Nelson’s barbecue connected him to Baltimore

I have no clue what Purdue just did.

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare via @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The new nightmare for the American right isn't the U.S. turning into Russia or Venezuela. It's the U.S. turning into the UK. www.politico.com/newsletters/...