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‘The irony’: Ketanji Brown Jackson roasted after stressing impartiality on Michelle Obama’s podcast

Ketanji Brown Jackson told Michelle Obama's "IMO" podcast she is "very, very mindful" of impartiality, sparking swift mockery over the perceived irony.

Trump promotes Freedom Haulers Initiative to fast-track military veterans into trucking jobs

President Trump's Freedom Haulers Initiative streamlines CDL licensing for military veterans while removing over 24,000 non-English-speaking commercial drivers.

House panel demands classified briefings on noncitizen voting, alleged Chinese election interference

Rep. Bryan Steil demands classified DHS briefings on noncitizen voting and cyber vulnerabilities in voting systems ahead of November midterms.

Dem senator swipes credit for bill he opposed amid heated reelection bid: ‘Disturbing pattern’

Jon Ossoff touted Georgia military construction wins at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart despite voting against the bill that funded those improvements.

Trump pushes F-35 sale to Turkey, but his own State Department says Erdoğan hasn’t met legal requirements

A State Department letter to Congress confirms Turkey has not met legal conditions for the F-35, despite Trump's promise to lift sanctions on Ankara.

Maine Dem in hot seat for championing popular vote despite clinching Senate bid without it

Troy Jackson secured 75% of delegate votes at Maine's convention, but critics say the process contradicts his own calls for popular vote democracy.

No Jews on Mamdani’s ‘truly representative’ NYC judiciary panel, sparking backlash

Four Jewish bar associations demand Zohran Mamdani correct the exclusion of Jewish members from his 19-person judiciary advisory panel in New York City.

Battle to replace late House Dem goes to overtime after daughter failed to clinch seat

Marcye Scott and Everton Blair advance to an Aug. 25 runoff election in Georgia's 13th congressional district to fill the late David Scott's seat.

Kentucky governor calls on McConnell to prove he is fit to serve or resign: ‘Address the people’

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear demanded that Sen. Mitch McConnell prove his fitness to serve or resign after the 84-year-old's lengthy hospital stay.

New Maine law limits police cooperation with federal immigration officials

Three new laws restrict cooperation between Maine law enforcement and ICE, including limiting cooperation with federal immigration officials.

GOP governor survives challenge from Bitcoin evangelist in gubernatorial runoff

South Dakota's first gubernatorial primary runoff pitted incumbent Larry Rhoden against outsider Toby Doeden after neither cleared the 35% threshold to win outright.

Senate advances Russia sanctions bill championed by late Sen. Lindsey Graham

Senators capped off a day of tributes to their late colleague Lindsey Graham by advancing a sanctions bill he spent his final week of life negotiating.

Senate confirms Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton to serve as director of National Intelligence, a position that oversees 18 disparate intelligence agencies across the government.

HHS adopts limit to ‘dangerous’ virus research a year after Trump order reining in federal support

The Health and Human Services Department announced a new policy Tuesday banning federal funding for "dangerous" gain-of-function research -- a kind of risky experiment that enhances viruses to try to predict how dangerous they might become.

Loss of work authorization sows confusion for thousands of Haitian immigrants, their U.S. employers

For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent over a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers.

GOP holds nearly 2-to-1 cash edge over Democrats with 100 days to midterms

Democrats are struggling to catch up to Republicans in the fundraising and ad spending wars with less than 100 days until the midterm elections happen in November.

Francesca Hong, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, disavows 2021 post calling to abolish U.S. Senate

Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Democrat running for governor, is distancing herself from a 2021 social media post calling for the U.S. Senate's abolition, with her campaign saying she does not recall writing it.

College NIL bill includes $25 million ‘retention pool’ but is that enough to sway Big Ten, SEC?

A reworked Senate bill designed to regulate college sports proposes to more than double the amount of money schools could share with players as part of a flurry of revisions designed to win the support of the Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences.

Daughter of late House Dem forced into runoff after falling short in special election

RUNOFF: Marcye Scott and Gwinnett County school board chair Everton Blair Jr. advance to an Aug. 25 Georgia special election runoff in the 13th District for a House seat.

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