New polling is reinforcing the Trumpworld view that traditional GOP primary "lanes" are a thing of the past, leaving just two viable campaign styles: "Always Trump" or "Sometimes Trump."
Why it matters: The remaking of the Republican base is proving to be a massive challenge for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other potential 2024 candidates, especially as they discover the dangers of sparring directly with former President Trump.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is questioning whether U.S. immigration officials are moving aggressively enough todetain and deport those who enter the U.S. illegally.
Why it matters: Jordan, who has launched a series of probes into the Biden administration, is demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials explain a decline in deportations and their use of detention space at a time when the House GOP is hunting for ways to slash government spending.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is running for Houston mayor.
Driving the news: The Democratic congresswoman, who has served in the U.S. House for nearly three decades, formally announced her candidacy for mayor to the congregation of Houston's City Cathedral Church.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he was delaying his coalition's judicial overhaul legislation after mass protests and a general strike that affected much of the country.
Why it matters: Israel, including its economy, has faced instability and unprecedented political and social unrest since the plan to weaken the country's Supreme Court was announced in January.
Six victims, including three children, were killed in a shooting at Covenant School in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood Monday morning, according to police.
Police said officers also killed the shooter after responding to the scene.
President Biden signed an executive order Monday banning U.S. government agencies and departments from using commercial spyware that could pose national security risks or be misused to imperil human rights globally.
Why it matters: The proliferation of commercial spyware in the past few years has been accompanied by "few controls and high risk of abuse," according to a White House fact sheet.
President Biden's White House on Monday vowed to veto House Republican's sweeping energy package.
Driving the news: The bill, H.R. 1, would replace "pro-consumer policies with a thinly veiled license to pollute," the White House said in a statement.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Monday that she is running for re-election to the Senate in 2024.
Driving the news The two-term senator and former presidential candidate laid out her progressive vision for a third term in a video posted to social media on Monday.
The split screen of the two presidential frontrunners for 2024 was jarring the past week: President Biden at the White House and in Canada, trying to project calm leadership — and former President Trump, bitterly railing against his enemies as he faces a possible indictment in New York.
Why it matters: The scenes previewed what a Biden-Trump rematch could look like, as Biden seeks to crawl out from low poll numbers by showing stability and selling his legislative wins, while Trump — facing multiple criminal probes — uncorks chaos and taps into the anger of his MAGA base.
Seven people are believed dead after an explosion at a Berks County candy factory in Pennsylvania on Friday after local officials said Sunday night they had recovered more bodies.
State of play: West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag (D) announced a state of emergency on Saturday in response to the explosion "to access more resources for emergency services and first responders on-scene."
Parts of a Twitter code used to run the social network were leaked online, the company said in a court filing first reported by the New York Times on Sunday.
Driving the news: Twitter said in a Friday filing with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software collaboration platform, that the leak included the "[p]roprietary source code for Twitter's platform and internal tools."
Officials in Italy defended Michelangelo's "David" sculpture after a Florida charter school principal resigned following complaints that students were exposed to pornography during a Renaissance art lesson featuring the nude masterpiece.
Details: Cecilie Hollberg, director of Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia, on Sunday invited the Tallahassee Classical School's principal, school board, parents and student body to visit her museum where "David" resides to see the "purity" of the famous 16th-century marble sculpture, per AP.
