Why Some Border Towns Are Worried About A Government Shutdown

“The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order allowing a Dallas woman to obtain an abortion in spite of the state’s strict bans, after she learned her fetus has a fatal condition,” the New York Times reports. “The state court’s ruling was in response to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who opposed the woman’s abortion.”

A new Wall Street Journal poll finds President Biden’s political standing “is at its weakest point of his presidency, with voters giving him his lowest job-performance marks and favoring Donald Trump for the first time in a head-to-head test of the likely 2024 presidential matchup.”

Abbe Lowell, attorney for Hunter Biden, speaks with CNN's Pamela Brown about the new criminal tax charges filed against Biden.

Eleanor Morton has a whole series of videos in which she plays Craig the tour guide who doesn't give a fig anymore. Let's face it, we've all had days like that, must most of us could never get away with it because we're professionals or something like that. Then again, I could sit there all day and happily be verbally abused as long as it's in that Scottish accent. PS: Hold the haggis and just give me the whisky. Open thread below. read more

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, who is warning about the potential dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency, told ABC News that Americans should take his recent dictator remark “literally and seriously.” Cheney called it “wishful thinking” to believe that Trump would “now abide by the rulings of the courts or be stopped by the guardrails of our democracy.”

“A federal judge on Friday blocked the federal government from separating families solely as part of border enforcement policy for the next eight years, stopping any potential return to the short-lived zero tolerance policy of 2018,” The Hill reports.