President Biden and former President Obama will barnstorm the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas on Nov. 5 with the party's nominees for Pennsylvania governor and Senate, according to a Democrat with direct knowledge of the plans.
Why it matters: In the final days before the midterms, Democrats are deploying their party's biggest assets in Pennsylvania. The state, which was critical to Biden's 2020 election victory, could determine control of the Senate next year.
The University of Florida on Monday said it will ban indoor protesters from campus buildings during next week's Board of Trustees' meeting to consider appointing Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) as president.
The big picture: The announcement comes after hundreds of protesters interrupted Sasse's visit to the Florida university earlier this month, outgoing president Kent Fuchs said in a statement.
The Department of Justice on Monday unsealed charges in three different criminal cases against Chinese intelligence officers.
Driving the news: "As these cases demonstrate, the government of China sought to interfere with the rights and freedoms of individuals in the United States and to undermine our judicial system that protects those rights," Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday temporarily blocked a subpoena from an Atlanta grand jury seeking testimony from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in an investigation of possible criminal efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
State of play: The order, which is an "administrative stay," comes amid Graham's ongoing efforts to avoid giving testimony in a case that has entangled allies of former President Trump.
Driving the news: "Brittney does not expect any miracles to happen but hopes that the appeal court will hear the arguments of the defense and reduce the term," Griner's lawyers, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said.
One of two former Minneapolis police officers set to stand trial on criminal charges filed in connection with George Floyd's murder changed his plea to guilty Monday morning.
What's happening: J. Alexander Kueng agreed to plead guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
Ethan Crumbley, the 16-year-old accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school last year, pleaded guilty to all charges against him on Monday.
Driving the news: Crumbley, who was charged as an adult, pleaded guilty to 24 charges, which include four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism causing death for the Nov. 30 shooting.
Dave Wasserman, U.S. House editor of The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, this morning moved the re-election race of House Democrats' campaign kingmaker — DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney of New York — to a toss-up.
Test scores known as the Nation's Report Card, released on Monday, show the largest math declines ever recorded for fourth- and eighth-graders.
Driving the news: Math scores declined for those grades in nearly every state and district between 2019 and 2022, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results.
The classified documents case against former President Trump is the biggest test yet for a prosecutor who has built his career going after convicted spies, Blackwater guards, Chinese companies and some of Trump’s close associates.
Why it matters: Jay Bratt, who leads the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division, keeps a low profile. But he’s at the center of an unprecedentedinvestigation into a former — and potentially future — president.
The militaries of North and South Korea exchanged warning shots along their disputed maritime border on Monday, according to officials from both countries.
Why it matters: The exchange along the western sea boundary comes in the wake of the North Korean military's recent spate of missile tests.
President Biden will receive an updated COVID-19 booster shot this week, White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said Sunday evening.
The big picture: "Around 20 million people have gotten an updated COVID vaccine so far," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Thursday. "This is really an important progress, but it's not enough."
An irate Tucker Carlson phoned Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, with an ultimatum on Friday:
Either reveal which staff member took a swipe at Carlson's son, a Capitol Hill aide, in an article about internal House GOP politicking — or the Fox host would assume Emmer himself was to blame for the quote.
Why it matters: Just two weeks before the midterms, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee — who is headed into a high-stakes leadership race if House Republicans win the majority — finds himself on the wrong side of the nation's most powerful right-wing TV host.
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