This Is Fun: White House Readies To Roll The Dice On A Government Shutdown Over Trump's Wall

New Jersey Globe: “If acquitted, Menendez’s presence on the ballot potentially puts the New Jersey Senate seat in play for the first time in 22 years.”

“President Biden will issue an executive order today that will allow him to dramatically limit asylum claims at the Southwest border, granting himself the power that congressional Republicans twice have denied him,” Axios reports. “Five months before the election — and in a crucial month for the campaign — Biden is determined to neutralize what could be his biggest political vulnerability against former President Trump: immigration.”

“Eight months into Israel’s war in Gaza, a string of standoffs, schisms and ultimatums have brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet to the brink of collapse and raised the prospect that his own coalition could follow, possibly leading to new elections,” the Washington Post reports. Axios: Congress braces for “large” boycott, disruptions of Netanyahu speech.

“Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, will square off on Tuesday evening in their first debate of Britain’s general election. But it is a third man, Nigel Farage, who has seized the spotlight in a race defined, until now, by a fading incumbent and a rising opponent,” the New York Times reports. “Mr.

“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party appeared to be set for a severe setback amid a strong fight from a revived opposition, early Indian election results showed,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party alliance should still get the largest share of seats in the 543-seat lower house of parliament and form the government, but Modi’s party appeared to be struggling to hold on to an outright majority after a campaign in which the prime minister pledged to win more seats than ever.” New York Times: Modi’s party may need partners to form government.

Punchbowl News: “It’s been more than a year since ProPublica first reported on Supreme Court justices’ alleged ethical lapses, setting off sweeping investigations helmed by the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary and Finance committees.” “To date, Senate Democrats have failed to land a single meaningful punch on the high court. This is true even as new incidents emerge that call into question the impartiality of some of the court’s conservative-leaning justices.”