As I speculated earlier this morning, sources close to President-elect Donald Trump told Semafor that his “strategic” endorsement of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) “partially stems from an interest in no delays to the election certification.” Said one source close to Trump: “He can bury Johnson whenever

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected proposals Monday floated by President-elect Donald Trump’s allies to end the war in Ukraine, dealing a major setback for the incoming president’s hopes to freeze the conflict, The Hill reports.

Todd Purdum: “In part that’s because his post-presidency was the lengthiest on record—more than four decades—and his life span of 100 richly crowded years was the longest of any president, period.” “But it’s also because the strain of basic decency and integrity that helped get Carter elected in

Financial Times: “It was heralded as the year of democracy. With more than one and a half billion ballots cast in elections across 73 countries, 2024 offered a rare opportunity to take the social and political temperature of almost half of the world’s population.” “The results are now in, and they

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) mistakenly offered his condolences to former President Jimmy Carter’s dead wife shortly after the Democratic former president died on Sunday, WFAA reports. Rosalynn Carter had died more than a year earlier – on November 19, 2023, at age 96.