The trillion-dollar question: Did Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh really seek Trump’s blessing to hike rates? Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a red-leaning South Florida district, rolled out a straight-to-camera ad breaking with Trump on his immigration enforcement tactics (on.wsj.com)
House lawmakers are heading home until after the elections, getting an early dismissal despite concerns about gas prices and AI—and criticism that Congress just isn’t doing its job (on.wsj.com)
President Trump said he was standing by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh and that he spoke to him just before the central bank unanimously voted to raise interest rates (on.wsj.com)
Patriots owner Robert Kraft made it clear to Ed Sheeran that he would cancel his tour dates at Gillette Stadium unless Macklemore was dropped from the bill (on.wsj.com)
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said Wednesday that she is cancer free after undergoing treatment for breast cancer earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
Trump is threatening to block the Kennedy Center’s renovation, Republicans aren’t sold on Trump’s 5,000 payments, and how much the Pentagon spent in the first few months of the war with Iran. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The Kennedy Center’s board voted on Tuesday to close the venue for a two-year renovation, but President Trump immediately threatened to block that work unless his name is restored to the building (on.wsj.com)
The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September (on.wsj.com)
President Trump said Tuesday that the three Supreme Court justices he appointed were unrecognizable to him, a statement that Attorney General Todd Blanche later defended (on.wsj.com)
In a setback for the crypto industry, a bill that would have helped usher digital assets into the mainstream financial system failed to advance in Congress (on.wsj.com)
President Trump promised 5,000 to every American adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate in the midterms; but the Republicans who would actually need to vote for that aren’t sold (on.wsj.com)
Bo French, a candidate for Texas’ railroad commissioner, tests boundaries of political speech as both parties struggle to define what’s off limits. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new requirements for mail ballots, averting what officials warned would have been a crisis in the midterm elections (on.wsj.com)
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would repeal some carbon dioxide emission rules for power plants, part of an effort to curtail the agency’s role in regulating climate change (on.wsj.com)
The Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, Rep. Tom Tiffany, survived an emergency water landing and swam to safety after his plane lost power approaching a Wisconsin airport, he said Sunday (on.wsj.com)
The price of gasoline—and, by proxy, the Iran War— could end up being the defining issue of the midterm elections. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
President Trump defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top AI companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development (on.wsj.com)
Trump’s Irish weekend was supposed to center on low-stakes diplomacy. Instead, it drew him into controversy when he voiced support for Irish reunification, an issue U.S. presidents typically avoid (on.wsj.com)
The U.S. Postal Service wants to press ahead—in time for the midterm elections—with new controls on mail ballots used by nearly a third of American voters (on.wsj.com)
Trump insulted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at the GOP convention this past week despite endorsing him, as concerns mount about his Senate race (on.wsj.com)
Democratic Socialists are having a breakout year, but the public is still trying to learn what the movement believes, how it is organized and the level of its followers’ involvement (on.wsj.com)
A CIA official who authorities said walked out of his office with 40 million in gold bars has reached a tentative plea agreement, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday (on.wsj.com)
The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other, @greg_ip writes. (on.wsj.com)
GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who faces a tough re-election campaign, made some of her sharpest criticisms to date about Trump’s handling of the U.S.’s trade dispute with Canada (on.wsj.com)
Vice President JD Vance’s Thursday night convention speech had the crowd looking to the future. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
JD Vance delivered a future-looking speech on the second night of the GOP midterm convention that showcased his vision of America and will intensify speculation about his presidential aspirations (on.wsj.com)
After years of inaction, Congress is suddenly waking up to the AI doomsday threat. But there’s little indication it will produce the first federal AI laws overseeing models. (on.wsj.com)
California is cracking down on social-media features aimed at teens, while new laws impose safety rules on AI chatbots and other online platforms (on.wsj.com)
Cryptocurrency billionaire Fred Ehrsam has emerged as a surprise contender in President Trump’s push to revitalize Venezuela’s run-down oil industry (on.wsj.com)
Trump’s promise of 5,000 checks faces hurdles, and Iran is building missiles again despite U.S. and Israeli strikes. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
President Trump offered a pricey promise in his convention speech Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about his latest idea of direct payments to Americans. (on.wsj.com)
The controversy over Sen. John Fetterman’s surprise video appearance at the GOP midterm convention continues to fuel uncertainty about his political allegiances (on.wsj.com)
Last month, the U.S. added an impressive 162,000 jobs and unemployment is low, but broad economic measures might be missing how much Americans’ costs have risen—and how many of them haven’t kept up (on.wsj.com)
There were scores of empty seats at the RNC convention for Trump’s keynote address, a symbol of the test Republicans face heading into the midterms. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The latest Canadian tariffs on 20 billion of U.S. exports went into effect Tuesday. A handful of U.S. states are likely to feel a big effect. (on.wsj.com)
Trump capped off Day One of the Republican Party’s midterm convention promising to pay adults 5,000 if the GOP keeps control of Congress, a last-ditch bid to prevent an electoral shellacking in November (on.wsj.com)
President Trump on Wednesday night unleashed perhaps his biggest election-year promise to date. Read more in a special WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
President Trump gave cash gifts of 45,000 apiece to three White House aides last Christmas, according to financial disclosure forms released by the administration (on.wsj.com)
Systems that could have slowed an Amazon Air flight that crashed in Miami over the weekend weren’t deployed before the plane careened off a runway, into nearby vehicles, investigators said (on.wsj.com)
Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas and Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu prevailed in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Senate primary, setting up a competitive fall campaign in the battleground state (on.wsj.com)
Tax-break reversals on data centers underscore how states that once welcomed the facilities powering the AI boom suddenly treat them like a political liability (on.wsj.com)
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, reported earning more than 100 million from the entity that owns his stake in World Liberty Financial, according to a new financial disclosure (on.wsj.com)
An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control (on.wsj.com)
What’s going on with captchas, those demands from websites to prove you are human? Here is a look at how they are evolving in the wake of AI. (on.wsj.com)
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal seeking the Supreme Court’s blessing to deploy a federal immigration database that it says could be used to root out people improperly registered to vote (on.wsj.com)
The Trump administration violated federal law when it shared confidential taxpayer information with immigration authorities, an appeals court ruled Tuesday (on.wsj.com)
Many of the world’s biggest shipping countries warn that conflicts, trade restrictions and shadow fleets are eroding the freedom of the seas, threatening global trade (on.wsj.com)
Google Cloud and Accenture are striking a new deal to train up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers who will help customers get more value from AI (on.wsj.com)
Trump made a series of social-media posts over the holiday weekend calling for changing New Mexico’s name to “New America,” his most ambitious—and unlikely—attempt yet to remake the North American map (on.wsj.com)
Trump is backing AI data centers as bipartisan opposition grows, raising new political risks for Republicans ahead of the midterms, WSJ’s @timkhiggins writes (on.wsj.com)
A cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport and crashed into nearby vehicles before bursting into flames and sending dark clouds of black smoke into the air (on.wsj.com)
As President Trump’s approval rating hovers near all-time lows, MAGA-centered merchandise retailers and their suppliers are seeing sales dwindle (on.wsj.com)
Democratic Socialists of America chapters are using nonstop social activities to bring in new members and form closer bonds with existing ones (on.wsj.com)
Jersey City is a rarity among its Northeast peers: It’s a postindustrial town on a serious growth streak. But its new property-tax increase signals trouble. (on.wsj.com)
President Trump’s super PAC has entered the competitive Senate race in Texas with its largest spend of the current political cycle—a 10 million ad buy to back Republican Ken Paxton (on.wsj.com)
The insurance industry is eyeing a once-in-a-generation chance to generate tens of billions of dollars in additional income: the 1 trillion race to build data centers (on.wsj.com)
Sextortion has entered the family group chat, writes @juliejargon. In this shocking incident, family members were surprised with pornography featuring a relative. (on.wsj.com)
One of the women Jeffrey Epstein called his “assistants” publicly discussed her ordeal for the first time, revealing she was the lead Jane Doe plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America (on.wsj.com)
The Supreme Court cleared the way for political parties to buy television ads at special reduced rates in the lead-up to the midterm elections (on.wsj.com)