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“A Russian court said judicial proceedings in the case of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia for over a year, would be held in secret, with the first hearing in a regional court beginning on June 26, the country’s state media reported,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The 32-year-old journalist, a U.

A new Washington Post poll finds 61% of swing state voters turn out sporadically or are not firmly committed in the presidential race. That includes 33% who are sporadic voters and 44% who are uncommitted to Biden or Trump, with 17% fitting both of these categories. While the size of potentially persuadable voters might seem high, it’s echoed by other data.

“Alarmed by repeated warnings from top FBI and military officials, a former acting CIA director and a legendary foreign policy thinker write bluntly in Foreign Affairs: ‘The United States faces a serious threat of a terrorist attack in the months ahead,’” Axios reports. “Michael Morell and Graham Allison write that there are striking echoes of the run-up to 9/11 — including warnings about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda by then-CIA director George Tenet.”

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy phoned Speaker Mike Johnson to ask about why he tapped Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) to serve on the House Intelligence Committee, the Washington Post reports. Johnson said he was urged by Trump to do so.

“The recent courtroom revelations about the turmoil in Joe Biden’s family have left some of his aides torn about whether he should have run for president at all,” Axios reports. “The vicious nature of contemporary politics has ripped through the Biden clan since he re-entered politics in 2019, as his historic presidency has doubled as a family tragedy.” “When Biden declared for president in 2019, his family was plagued by addiction, grief and soap opera levels of drama, the legal cases involving his son Hunter and daughter Ashley have shown.” “It’s affected the president: Aides know to tiptoe around him when there’s bad family news, and he’s often angry or distracted about the legal and political attacks on them.”

“President Vladimir Putin of Russia will make a state visit in North Korea beginning Tuesday for a meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, the Kremlin and North Korean state media said Monday. It will be their second meeting in nine months, as the two countries deepen military ties to support Mr.