Six Democrats crossed over and joined the House GOP to end the government shutdown, forfeiting their only leverage to negotiate recovery of healthcare subsididies. Five of them are running for re-election — primary them.

In a ruling rejecting most of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver's challenges to her prosecution, Judge Jamel Semper gave the government a great deal of deference, even after catching them making false claims about McIver.

In July, Trump confessed he knew that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" girls from Mar-a-Lago -- but he suggested he dealt with Epstein directly on that. A new email release makes clear he spoke to Ghislaine Maxwell about it.

With a sustained focus on whether Bill Pulte fired the ethics staff at FHFA because they were investigating his corruption, Pulte may be getting fast-tracked in Trump world, from a useful corrupt flunky to a dangerous liability.

Trump's promises he'll pay tariff rebates isn't real. Rather, it's part of a two-sided effort to pressure SCOTUS not to make him pay back taxes he unlawfully collected.