Democrats in Michigan cut off a vulnerable House Democrat from a major part of campaign operations after she called last week for President Joe Biden to step down from the ticket. Officials reversed that decision Thursday, after facing questions from POLITICO. Rep. Hillary Scholten, a first-term Democrat who flipped a traditionally Republican seat in 2022, was booted last week from from a coordinated effort between the the Biden campaign and the state party to elect candidates up and down the ticket, according to four people with knowledge of the situation, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly about private discussions. It happened soon after she called for Biden to step aside, those people said, which angered many Democrats behind the scenes. The Biden campaign was contacted by POLITICO Wednesday evening; Scholten was reinstated Thursday morning.

Devastating, back-to-back power outages have led some in Houston to consider whether they want to stay in the city they love. Driving around Houston, it can be hard to tell which of the storms that crashed through the city had mangled the highway billboards, torn out the fences or knocked down the trees still strewn along roadsides. Everyone knows how long it took to get their power back from the first big storm — and when they lost it again. A second round of spoiled food. Of sweltering temperatures. Of emergency plans. In many cases, of repairs to homes that were damaged in the major May storm had yet to be finished when Beryl arrived as a Category 1 hurricane. For some, it was too much.

South Korea's supreme court on Thursday upheld a ruling that a same-sex partner was eligible for spousal benefits from state health insurance, a move hailed as a win for LGBTQ rights in a country that has lagged others in the region.

Today Kim Kelly returns to write about two contrasting speeches by labor leaders this week: UAW President Shawn Fain at Netroots Nation and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien at the Republican National Convention... Some might say, well, what if Trump wins? Doesn’t it make sense to get on his good side, make friends with populist-ish Republicans, and try to use that to labor’s advantage? To that I would ask what is it like to float so blissfully through the world unburdened by the weight of reason or sense? To assume that Republicans will suddenly switch over to actually acting like the mythical pro-worker party they so desperately pretend to be is to assume that everything about the Republican Party – its leaders, its policies, its platform, its donor base, its overall goals – will completely change in a way that does not materially benefit them. Supporting workers and strengthening unions runs counter to the party’s entire political project of domination, subjugation, and white supremacy. They will not do that, especially if they’ve managed to seize power. Ah! you might say. But aren’t a lot of union members conservative? They’re going to vote for Trump, and they elected O’Brien to represent them. Don’t they deserve to see their own political views validated or at least acknowledged? The answer there is simple: no. It is not a union leader’s job to make a union member feel good about their voting choices. It is a union leader’s job to enforce their members’ rights as workers, to protect them, to support them, and to be an advocate and a warrior on their behalf and for the working class writ large. There are indeed many conservative union members; there are also many union members who are progressives, liberals, socialists, anarchists, and every other political identity under the sun. A proper union leader should represent all of them fairly, or at the absolute least, avoid actively showing support to a political project that seeks to crush, kill, and destroy vast swaths of their own membership. Here, O’Brien failed – and then failed again immediately after by publicly boosting a truly wretched op-ed by his new pal Hawley, a pale Ivy League grifter in ill-fitting workin’ man’s clothing, that blamed “DEI” and trans people for the death of American manufacturing (???).

Biden, who was delivering speeches in Las Vegas, "is experiencing mild symptoms," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

A former CIA analyst and noted East Asia expert has been indicted on criminal charges of acting as an agent of South Korea, whose intelligence officials allegedly rewarded her with luxury gifts and concealed payments made to a think tank. Terry has been an occasional op-ed contributor to The Washington Post’s website, and is the wife of Post columnist Max Boot.

Rep. Adam Schiff called Wednesday for President Biden to end his reelection bid, citing "serious concerns" about his ability to win.

Taiwan should pay the U.S. for its defence as it does not give the country anything, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Bloomberg Businessweek, sending shares of Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC lower on Wednesday.

The company responsible for the Eagle gold mine near Mayo, Yukon, says it might not have the money to remediate the impacts of its heap leach failure. It also might never reopen, Victoria Gold Corp. said in a statement Friday. "There can be no assurance that the company will receive [the government] authorizations necessary to restart production or that the company will have the financial resources necessary to repair damage to equipment and facilities or remediate impacts caused by the incident or restart production," it wrote. The news comes weeks after the failure of the mine's heap leach pad, a facility that used a cyanide solution to extract gold. Last week, the Yukon government confirmed it had found cyanide in a creek downstream from the mine.

"At that time, the band had broken up, and I was told they would never reunite. But that’s not what happened."

A man who was formerly homeless argues he was unlawfully cited by Curry County while camping outside. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in federal court, John Malaer claims that in July 2022 he was living on property owned by Curry County in the small, coastal community of Harbor, Oregon, across the river from Brookings. He says the county’s code enforcement officer posted a trespassing notice outside his tent that did not comply with state law. The lawsuit says that notice was later rescinded. On the same day, the county then leased that property to a private individual for $1 a year, turning it into private property. The lawsuit argues the county did not give adequate notice of this change before then threatening to arrest those camping on the property and issuing a criminal citation to Malaer later that night.

A new video shows Trump and Kennedy sharing their vaccine skepticism as the independent candidate’s ultimate role in the 2024 election remains unclear.

After canceling his Monday night “Daily Show” following the assassination attempt against Trump, Stewart will reunite with an old sparring partner on Tuesday.

An upcoming virtual roll call is deepening Democrats’ fight over Biden’s spot on the ticket The fight over whether President Joe Biden should remain Democrats’ presidential nominee has moved to a new phase, centering on whether the party should accelerate his official nomination through a virtual roll call as early as next week — or wait to do the honors in person at their August convention. Biden supporters want to move forward quickly with the virtual roll call, saying the plan has been set and approved for weeks — long before the presidential debate in June — and is necessary because of Republican moves in Ohio that once threatened to keep the president off the state’s ballot. But Ohio lawmakers moved to close that loophole in late May. With Biden’s spot on the ballot now secured, Biden’s critics say, a virtual roll call process now amounts to an attempt to ram through his nomination.

The message didn't stick.

A Neo Nazi leader nicknamed “Commander Butcher” tried to set off a bizarre plot to dress as Santa and hand out poison candy to minority children in New York City on New Year’s Eve…

How can you be so wrong all the time?

Who hasn't stopped to marvel over a cool rock along the lakeshore or on the trail? Here's how to learn its backstory.

Top Democrat faces growing calls to resign after being found guilty of accepting cash, gold bars and other bribes.

After three years and six competitions, which I mostly lost, I realized eating contests weren’t as fulfilling as I’d hoped they would be.