Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, two key players in the Trump election interference case, handily won their primary elections, as projected by the AP.
Why it matters: The wins keep the slow-going trial on track. A loss by either Willis, the prosecutor in the case, or McAfee, the judge presiding over the trial, could have postponed or derailed one of the former president's most serious legal challenges.
Senate Republicans are trying to slip a political punch from Democrats on the border, intensifying and doubling down on attacks against vulnerable incumbents.
Why it matters: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) this week tried to put the GOP on the back foot on the issue by resurrecting a bipartisan border package, which Republicans are expected to sink.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed an ethics complaint Tuesday accusing the judge presiding over former President Trump's New York hush money trial of a conflict of interest, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The letter is unlikely to have an immediate effect on the trial, but it's the latest chapter in Trump allies attempting to defend the former president by lodging complaints against the judge and prosecutors involved in the case.
Former President Trump's attorneys found classified documents in his bedroom four months after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, per court documents unsealed Tuesday.
The big picture: The revelation comes as part of a newly unsealed opinion that U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell cited last year when she found that prosecutors brought forward sufficient evidence to show Trump mishandled classified documents.
Former President Trump on Tuesday walked back his remarks from an interview with a local Pittsburgh TV station, when he said that he is "looking at" restrictions on contraception and suggested that he will be releasing a policy "very shortly."
Why it matters: Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support access to contraception.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken was called a "war criminal" during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday.
State of play: A small group of protesters stood up when Blinken entered the room. The protesters had what appeared to be red paint on their hands. "The blood of 40,000 Palestinians is on his hands," they shouted.
1.The newly re-elected president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, said during his victory speech Sunday that he'll push a constitutional amendment so that no future government can end presidential term limits.
Neighboring nations such as El Salvador and Venezuela have been mired in debates in the past few years about term limits.
Abinader got more than 57% of the votes Sunday, avoiding a possible runoff, and his Modern Revolutionary Party is set to keep its congressional majority.
2. At least a dozen people, including bystanders, have been killed during attacks on political candidates in southern Mexico in the past few days.
Sheryl Sandberg spent four days in Israel filming interviews for a documentary about sexual violence during the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, because she felt the issue was getting too little attention.
Why it matters: The former Facebook COO is using her celebrity and access to decision-makers to call attention to an issue she says "feminists and progressive groups and human rights activists have fought for, for 30 years."
A video reposted to former President Trump's Truth Social account on Monday discussing what would happen if he won the 2024 election referred to "a unified Reich."
Why it matters: Although Trump's campaign emphasized that this wasn't a campaign video and a staffer inadvertently reposted it without seeing the words, President Biden's campaign seized on it in a post to X, saying: "Trump posts a new ad foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a 'UNIFIED REICH,' echoing Nazi Germany."
President Biden's political operation brought in more than $51 million in April, the campaign said Monday — well short of the $76 million that former President Trump's campaign said it raised with the Republican Party.
Why it matters: The latest figures show that Biden still has a cash advantage. But Trump and the Republican National Committee may be closing the gap on Biden's fundraising lead.
Pope Francis told CBS in an interview airing Monday night that the solution to record numbers of undocumented immigrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was "to open the doors to migration."
Why it matters: President Biden has in response to the migrant crisis this year taken a tougher stance on the border, which Axios' Stef Kight notes has become one of Democrats' most vulnerable issues in the 2024 election cycle.
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, on Monday disclosed that it lost $327.6 million on just $770,500 in revenue during the first quarter of 2024.
Why it matters: Even by upstart social media standards, these are awful numbers.
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to seek an arrest warrant against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu garnered near universal condemnation from Senate Democrats.
Why it matters: Netanyahu has been increasingly isolated by Democrats due to his handling of the war in Gaza, but the move from the ICC has many in the party jumping to his defense.
