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House Speaker Mike Johnson is fed up with the chaos boiling in his own caucus.The Louisiana lawmaker invited a handful of Republicans into his “ceremonial room” last week to salvage a bipartisan veterans bill, a party priority that had been threatened by a…

Top Democratic National Committee officials are meeting this week to determine which states will vote first in the 2028 nomination contest. And this decision, which could come as soon as Friday, has become quite a source of friction. Some Black Democratic…

Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist: Our focus will be strictly on Democrats, liberal and progressive groups, and the fight to take back power and…

President Trump’s justification for his latest round of tariffs has angered foreign leaders. The White House on Friday instituted tariffs between 10 and 12.5 percent on 60 countries around the world by citing Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which…

Donny is frustrated. The Wall Street Journal reports that at a recent White House meeting, President Trump “launched into a tirade against Iranian leaders, calling them scumbags and lunatics, and unleashing a series of expletives.” He is worried that the…

The U.S. president is on the fritz over his inability to end the Iran war.Donald Trump was overheard roaring and cursing inside the Oval Office, “unleashing a series of expletives” while referring to Iran’s leadership as “scumbags” and…

The Department of Defense has changed the official number of U.S. military service members killed in the war with Iran from 18 to 14—and couldn’t explain why. Three military officials told The New York Times Thursday that one reason the death toll had been…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 24 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Donald Trump…

A federal appeals court in Texas ruled earlier this week that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration can’t require companies to document work-related mental illnesses, a significant new limitation on the flagship federal workplace-safety…

There is nothing subtle about the way power moves at this stage of the Trump regime. True, such displays may be clumsy or pathetic. They may simply fail. But however weak the administration may appear, there is still benefit to be had from proximity to the…

One summer, Rachel Aviv went away to sleepaway camp in Maine while her mother rented a house some hours away for a self-imposed writing retreat. In a scene that could be a playbook for Annie Baker’s film Janet Planet, the writer recounts calling her mother a…

Donald Trump exploded at Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday, taking the extraordinary step of demanding during a rally that Thune hurry up and railroad GOP holdouts to pass the horrific voter suppression bill known as the SAVE Act. Trump is…

The Trump administration is taking over the Penn Station renaming process, with the Transportation Department revealing that a new name for New York City’s iconic transportation hub is a top priority.The New York Daily News reported Thursday that…

Americans now have to deal with a salmonella outbreak affecting eggs, on top of everything else. Midwest Poultry Services is recalling close to 1.6 million white shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs produced in Texas, the Food and Drug…

The man who assassinated former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, has been sentenced to life in prison.In addition to killing the Hortmans (and their dog Gilbert), Vance Boelter also shot state Democratic Senator John Hoffman and…

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans…

President Trump thinks that Americans against data centers are being duped by foreign propaganda and that in reality, there are a lot of people who want to live near them.“Other nations are trying to get us to slow down” regarding data center construction,…

Donald Trump’s administration withdrew its subpoenas Thursday for three New York Times journalists who reported on Air Force One’s security issues. Lawyers for the publication appeared in court to challenge subpoenas that would’ve compelled reporters to…

It’s only been four months, but it looks like Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is already on the White House’s bad side.The rift is a result of some early missteps and concerns about Mullin’s personnel choices, according to a senior Trump…

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President Trump announced massive new conditions to his nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia on Thursday morning, just hours after it was signed.In a Truth Social post, Trump demanded that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel via the Abraham Accords before…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune tore into Karoline Leavitt Thursday, rebuking the press secretary hours after she announced that the White House was losing patience with his inability to pass Donald Trump’s wildly unpopular SAVE America Act.“Well maybe…

At a rally in Georgia Wednesday, President Trump singled out a group of his supporters who consistently attend his speeches and sit in the front row, known as the “Front Row Joes.” “I don’t know what the hell they do, I think they make a lot of money,…

It looks like President Donald Trump’s sweeping construction projects have damaged yet another national monument.A fountain in the German-American Friendship Garden on the National Mall is in bad shape after a contractor vehicle drove over it, Newsweek…

Newly minted Senator Darline Graham, stepping in for her recently deceased brother Lindsey, only has one political donation on record—and it was to a South Carolina state senator who helped kill an abortion ban. The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that…

Four Republicans joined every Democrat in the House of Representatives Thursday to pass a war powers resolution to rein in President Trump on the Iran war. The resolution passed 214-208, with Republican Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian…

A Republican state delegate and teacher from West Virginia has been charged with seducing a 15-year-old girl who is a student at his school.Investigators have accused David Elliott Pritt of using Snapchat and the multiplayer game Roblox to start talking to the…

House Republicans are trying to file criminal charges against former special counsel Jack Smith.Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a criminal referral for Smith to the Department of Justice Wednesday, urging the department…

Have you heard the news? The socialists are winning. Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York. Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, having won their respective Democratic primaries in deep-blue congressional districts, are set to become members of the…

The U.S. president issued another threat against Iran Thursday, pledging to hold the country “responsible” for attacks carried out by Houthis the night before against Saudi Arabian ships.“A year ago the United States of America attacked, very powerfully,…