Politics

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn have been holding up Trump’s pick for attorney general, seeking assurances that the controversial weaponization fund is dead.

The former lawmaker said he settled with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to “put this matter behind him,” but didn’t admit to wrongdoing.

The case is at the center of negotiations between two Republican senators and the Justice Department over Todd Blanche’s nomination.

Gov. Phil Scott disagreed with Trump’s push to reshape election systems in the U.S., arguing that “this is ours, not the federal government’s.”

Plus, Trump throws another wrench in Todd Blanche’s confirmation process to be attorney general.

The president also announced an agreement for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.

Rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides.

Barnes, the former lieutenant governor and 2022 Senate nominee, departs amid democratic socialist Francesca Hong’s rise in the polls ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.

Election officials are questioning how the Trump administration arrived at its conclusion that hundreds of thousands of noncitizens appeared on voter rolls across four states.