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Michael Cohen, who served as President Donald Trump’s attorney from 2016 to 2018, issued a call to action Thursday, along with a dire warning that the 2026 midterms were “the only real chance” at avoiding a “permanent one-party rule” under the GOP.

“If we don’t flip enough seats in the 2026 midterms, we lose our only remaining defense: our tripartite system of government,” Cohen wrote Thursday on the online publishing platform Substack.

With the accusation, “Never mind if patients die in the interim,” the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal expressed frustration at how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being run by Commissioner Marty Makary.

In a harsh editorial late Wednesday, the editors noted that, under Makary’s watch, approval of drugs has slowed considerably and unreasonably in the past few months as Makary has asserted himself after being appointed by Donald Trump.

With his approval numbers already underwater, the success of Donald Trump’s second term could hinge on how well he deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin at their upcoming summit in Alaska on Friday.

Should the president not forcefully get Russia to pull back from occupied portions of Ukraine and instead concede territory, it could haunt his presidency.

Avelo Airlines has been assisting the Trump administration in providing flights for migrants set for deportation amid the president’s mass deportation policy, and now Democratic voters are pushing back, The Intercept reported Thursday.

“They’re a financially strapped company to begin with,” said Matthew Boulay, an organizer with the advocacy organization Coalition to Stop Avelo, speaking with The Intercept. “They take the ICE contract out of, essentially, desperation. It’s blood money. And now they are finding, I think, unexpected resistance and protest.”

There is one person who might have the power to stop Donald Trump, and one former prosecutor is saying "the time is now" to finally take action.

Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance published a piece on Substack called "Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it," in which she argues Congress has so far failed to protect its power of the purse.

Texas Republicans want to redraw their state's congressional districts to lock in their U.S. House majority by making a risky bet that Latino voters will stick with them.

GOP leaders in Washington and Austin are banking on five newly drawn congressional districts, which President Donald Trump would have won by double digits in last year's election, would remain Republican strongholds if approved by the state legislature, but voters themselves say they're not exactly party loyalists, reported the Washington Post.

Donald Trump’s attempt to shore up the Republican party majority within the House is not being greeted with open arms by members of his caucus as they grow uneasy over how voters will react to what Politico calls an overt “power play.”

Politico’s Lisa Kashinsky and Meredith Lee Hill are reporting that the president’s “aggressive redistricting push” is exposing a rift within the party with lawmakers in both Congress and at the state level becoming increasingly vocal about adopting the same strategy playing out in Texas.

A top advisor to President Donald Trump is now under investigation from the White House for having allegedly “gamed the system” in undercounting their work hours, Axios reported Thursday.

White House officials told Axios that Corey Lewandowski is being investigated for “failing to swipe in” to work, dodging a limitation imposed on him as a special government employee, which limits him to working 130 days a year.