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Axios

May 2026

Trump health readout leaves key blanks unfilled

President Trump's medical checkups have turned into mini dramas pitting the public's right to know against a public figure's medical privacy — with a heavy overlay of political intrigue

Ex-Biden aides give Jill's new book a frosty review

State of play: Jill Biden's book opens up a wound for many Democrats who believe the Bidens damaged their credibility with voters by insisting Joe Biden was fit enough to run for reelection in 2024 when he wasn't, and by pushing the party to publicly defend his fitness

New Texans, Latino doubts about Trump cloud Paxton's Senate bid

Since 2020, Texas has seen about 2.6 million new residents, also more than any other state, with more than two-thirds of that growth coming from people moving from elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad

Trump requests edits to Iran deal his envoys negotiated

Trump's request has launched another round of back-and-forth between the parties that could last several days

There will be a deal. The imminence of it, we'll see. We're willing to wait so the president gets what he asks for. It could be a week. It could be less. It could be more. At the turn of the week, we hope to have something,
They're literally in caves and they're not using email,

Delaney Hall becomes Markwayne Mullin's first test as DHS head

The 1,000-bed Delaney Hall Facility reopened in Newark, New Jersey, last year

Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge orders

We are confident that on appeal the court will uphold the Board’s will to recognize President Trump’s historic contributions to our nation’s cultural center,

Performers keep dropping out of the Trump-linked Freedom 250 concert series

Two-thirds of the announced lineup for the Freedom 250 concert series have dropped out, with most artists citing concerns about being tied to an event billed as nonpartisan but described by critics as a MAGA celebration

The House's top Hispanic Democrat is in an "existential" fight for his political life

Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) is in what fellow House Democrats and other sources familiar with his race describe as an "existential" battle for reelection

Usamah Andrabijustice Democrats spokesperson
When we recruited Darializa to run in NY-13, she made it clear even then that she wanted to take Zohran Mamdani's agenda to Congress — for New Yorkers, for everyone,

"The pitchforks are here": Billionaires work to contain AI's populist revolt

America's billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes

You could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens,

Inside the Democratic resistance on AI

Progressive Democrats taking hardline positions against AI are getting louder

Vance says U.S. and Iran are "very close" to a deal

JD Vanceu.S. ​Vice President
We're going back and forth on a couple of language points. We've made a lot of progress here,
The president relayed to the mediators that he wants a couple of days to think about it,

Dollar stores, off-price chains and Best Buy all sent the same message: Value matters

American shoppers are still spending — but they're becoming pickier about where their money goes

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup

Infrastructure partners, including Micron Technology, which just soared above a $1 trillion stock market valuation, also contributed

Krishna Raochief Financial Officer
This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,

How the Talarico-Paxton race could play out

With Ken Paxton's GOP primary win this week, Democrats now have the Republican Senate candidate, tactically speaking, they were hoping for