Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) declared a state of emergency for all of Florida on Saturday as Tropical Storm Ian approached the state.
Driving the news: Ian, which formed Friday over the southern Caribbean, was forecast to intensify through Monday, possibly into a high-end Category 4 storm.
Sarah Isgur, a former senior official in the Department of Justice, says the special master in former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents case is challenging him to "put up or shut up" regarding some of the public statements he's made.
Why it matters: Isgur's comments on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, are the latest among members of the GOP, as well as some Trump allies, who have voiced opposition to some of the president's claims regarding the materials discovered during the Mar-a-Lago search.
The most recent opposition has come after Trump claimed last week that the president has the power to declassify documents "by thinking about it."
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D)is airing an ad saying she opposes men playing women's sports, after getting attacked by Republicans for vetoing two bills requiring transgender students to play on teams matching their birth gender.
Driving the news: “Of course, men should not play girls' sports. OK, we all agree there," Kelly said in the ad, before pivoting to attacking Republican Derek Schmidt for supporting spending cuts to public education.
Arizona Republicans are spiraling toward a series of major missed opportunities after nominating MAGA-aligned candidates in key races.
Driving the news: A super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell withdrew over $9 million in ads from the state, leaving Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters at a significant financial disadvantage against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
It's a pattern throughout the Biden administration: The president says something in an interview or makes an unscripted remark in an address, and his staff rushes to correct the record.
Driving the news: This happened twice in last weekend's "60 Minutes" interview — the president declared the pandemic was over, and he vowed to defend Taiwan if China invades the island.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on ABC's "This Week" disagreed with Trump's claim that presidents can declassify documents by thinking about it.
Why it matters: Barrasso, the chair of the Senate Republican Conference and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is one of several GOP senators to criticize the former president for his comments, while others have sidestepped questions.
Former President Trump reflects on his presidency and the question he gets asked more than any other: "If you had it to do again, would you have done it?" in an Atlantic excerpt from journalist Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book, "Confidence Man."
Driving point: "'The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.' He then went on to talk about how much easier his life would have been had he not run," Haberman wrote.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) vowed this weekend to do "whatever it takes" to prevent former President Trump from securing the GOP nomination in 2024.
Why it matters: Cheney, whose outward criticism of the former president has made her a pariah in the Republican Party, said during the Texas Tribune Festival that she will leave the GOP if Trump wins the nomination.
A federal jury on Friday convicted a QAnon believer who led a charging mob that was trying to breach the Senate chamber during the Capitol riot, NBC News reports.
Driving the news: Douglas Austin Jensen, of Iowa, was one of the first people to breach the Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, as then-President Trump's followers sought to block the certification of the 2020 election results.
Former President Trump’s claim this week that presidents can declassify documents “even by thinking about it” did not square with former vice president Mike Pence’s top aide.
Driving the news: Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, called Trump’s assertion "absurd” in an interview with CBS News on Friday.
The White House on Saturday ripped an Arizona court decision reinstating a near-total ban on abortion that dates to 1864.
Driving the news: "The potential consequences of this ruling are catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Intelligence officers will resume a national security risk assessment of material seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after a federal appeals panel ruling earlier this week, Politico reports.
Catch up quick: The Department of Justice had previously been blocked from examining Trump's storage of the sensitive government records, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted a partial stay in a ruling on Wednesday.
A Mississippi man has been charged with hate crime and arson violations for burning a cross in a bid to threaten a Black family, the Justice Department announced Friday.
The big picture: The Klu Klux Klan wielded cross burnings as a symbol of racial hatred and terror, with white supremacists deliberately targeting Black neighborhoods. Though less frequent today, the intimidation tactic remains a tool for racism and oppression.
A Pima County judge ruled on Friday that Arizona's pre-statehood ban on most abortions will go into effect following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Driving the news: Judge Kellie Johnson ruled that years of subsequent abortion restrictions that are less lenient than the territorial-era ban don't negate it.
