Trump has sat for only 12 daily intelligence briefings since taking office
The scarcity of the President’s Daily Briefings comes as he pursues high-stakes diplomacy with America’s friends and foes.
06:00 PM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Im Being Kicked Out: A Trans Military Commander Confronts Trumps Ban
A Supreme Court ruling allows the military to ban transgender people from serving. Now, those service members are living with uncertainty.
05:15 PM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Poll shows big problem for Trumps trade deal: Its Trump
With dozens of deals to be brokered, the U.S.-U.K. trade deal should be one of the easiest — and a POLITICO-Public First poll found that American and British adults have serious doubts about Trump’s commitment to it.
05:50 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories 55 Things You Need to Know About the New Pope, Leo XIV
The first American to preside over the church spent much of his career as a missionary abroad.
02:16 PM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Internal polling shows Fetterman's support is tanking with Democrats in his backyard
The survey indicates a potential "freak-out moment" for the Pennsylvania senator who has made Pittsburgh — his home region — core to his brand.
05:55 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Woman Leading the Surging MAGA Antitrust Movement
Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ’s antitrust division, will show how serious the right is about bringing big tech companies to heel.
05:00 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories 'How come I cant breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
10:32 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Whats Driving Trumps Attack on Museums
An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.
12:00 PM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Administration That Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Is Trying to Jail a Guy Over a Protest Banner
Jan. 6 looms large in a case against a nonviolent demonstrator.
05:00 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isnt Pretty.
For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him?
05:55 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Controversial US Attorney Is Coming for Medical Marijuana
The Trump-allied prosecutor has threatened Wikipedia, medical journals and Congressional Democrats. Now he’s putting a medical-marijuana dispensary on notice, too.
10:00 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories How Donald Trump Revealed Jeff Bezos True Self
Not long ago, Washington dreamed that Jeff Bezos would become the king of the Beltway. Then the rules changed.
05:55 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress
Our third annual list of representatives and senators who just can’t get enough attention from us.
04:45 AM on 05/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge pauses much of Trump administration's massive downsizing of federal agencies
A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce
11:26 PM on 05/10/2025 ABC Politics Treasury secretary calls on Congress to raise or suspend the debt ceiling by mid-July
The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action
06:54 PM on 05/09/2025 ABC Politics Ousted top election official in key swing state urges civility toward 'caretakers of our democracy'
The former North Carolina elections director who was ousted this week after a politically motivated move by Republicans said Friday she hopes the new leadership will approach elections in a nonpartisan way and called for an end to verbal attacks agains...
06:46 PM on 05/09/2025 ABC Politics US poets laureate criticize Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Three recent U.S. poet laureates are condemning President Donald Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
02:46 PM on 05/09/2025 ABC Politics Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill
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