TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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A recent report from a Beijing think tank thanked the president for weakening the U.S., calling Trump an “accelerator of American political decay.”
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Most modern House speakers have gone their whole tenure without a successful discharge petition. Johnson, however, has seen eight.
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Most modern House speakers have gone their whole tenure without a successful discharge petition. Johnson, however, has seen eight.
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People keep trying to tell the Trump Cabinet secretary that battery power exists. He keeps saying foolish things about renewable energy anyway.
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People keep trying to tell the Trump Cabinet secretary that battery power exists. He keeps saying foolish things about renewable energy anyway.
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That the president’s version of events is already evolving suggests he knows he has a burgeoning political problem.
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That the president’s version of events is already evolving suggests he knows he has a burgeoning political problem.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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- "The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has launched a probe into the $38 billion warehouse-to-detention program championed by former Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a person familiar with the matter."
(Wall Street Journal)
- "The reversal came after the Indian billionaire, Gautam Adani, hired a new legal team led by Robert J. Giuffra Jr., one of President Trump’s personal lawyers and the co-chairman of the prominent firm Sullivan & Cromwell."
U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud
(New York Times)
- "It was less than two weeks after Todd Blanche took on his role of deputy attorney general in March 2025 when the Justice Department’s top ethics lawyer delivered some straightforward yet inconvenient news: His recusal from legal cases that involved President Donald Trump in his personal capacity was necessary."
(CNN)
- White House planned to start triumphal arch work under unrelated contract — The unusual move would allow the administration to bypass a public bidding process, relying on a deal for engineering services already underway at the White House.
(Washington Post)
- "Since the U.S. and Israel initiated the Iran war on Feb. 28, China has sold weapons to Persian Gulf allies of the U.S. as they struggled to defend their military bases and oil infrastructure from Iranian missile and drone attacks, the report says.
Beijing has also assisted countries around the world struggling to meet their energy needs after the U.S.-Israeli attacks prompted Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, a corridor for the transport of one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas.
The war has also drained the U.S. of massive stocks of munitions that would be critical in a potential standoff with China over the fate of Taiwan, the report notes. The Iran conflict, which has resulted in the damage or destruction of U.S. military hardware and facilities throughout the Middle East, has allowed Beijing to observe how the U.S. fights wars and learn how to plan its own future operations."
China gains major edge on U.S. amid Iran war, intelligence report finds
(Washington Post)
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