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The FBI is abandoning a strict hiring ban on job applicants who have engaged in sexual encounters with prostitutes, choosing instead to evaluate at least some past cases through a more holistic review, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6032080-stevens-calls-el-sayed-end-piker-tie/

The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday.

Bill Cassidy has decided to vote for Todd Blanche

A U.S. Secret Service agent and two other men have been arrested and charged with violent felonies in the Miami area, where authorities say they committed brutal beatings as part of a fraternity hazing ritual in April that left two people hospitalized with severe injuries.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new initiative to test and treat troops for low testosterone has prompted a federal judge to question the differences between that kind of testosterone replacement therapy and hormone treatment for transgender men in the military.

Sheldon Whitehouse is back with the BATL Act, and this time, the public is standing behind him.

Whitehouse, along with Senators Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, and Alex Padilla, reintroduced the Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act today. Same structure as the last two goes: 18-year terms, with the president required to appoint a justice in the first and third years of each presidential term

"The former first son didn't hold back, arguing that closeted Republican politicians have turned their own internal conflict into anti-LGBTQ+ politics"

Absolutely incredible

This is a fascinating read. It's worth doing do. Hakeem Jeffries got into it with Bernie.

"Sen. Bernie Sanders had just announced his intent to unseat a sitting House Democrat — this time, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus from North Carolina — when Rep. Hakeem Jeffries decided it was time to confront Sanders himself.

The House Democratic leader warned Sanders against meddling in House primaries, particularly one involving a Black Democrat, in such a critical midterm election year, according to three Democrats familiar with the conversation.

“He seemed to not care,” Rep. Greg Meeks of New York, a Jeffries ally who was also on the call, said of Sanders, recalling the previously unreported phone call"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/19/politics/bernie-sanders-hakeem-jeffries-midterms-michiganhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/07/19/politics/bernie-sanders-hakeem-jeffries-midterms-michigan

The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.

The legal move comes following a series of articles the reporters published this week, according to which the presidential plane donated by Qatar lacks advanced anti-missile capabilities that existed in the old aircraft. The Department of Justice is using the subpoena to compel the reporters to testify about the source materials in their possession, and possibly also to demand that they reveal the sources who leaked the classified information about the president's plane to them.

David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC, Superior Court, after being arrested last month when he reached into the Reflecting Pool, a source familiar with the charges told CNN.