News: Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is weighing his exit from the Biden administration — likely after the November election — to run for California governor in 2026.

w/ Dustin Gardiner Adam Cancryn

politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

.Kaitlan Collins: 'What are you thinking about right now?'

.Donie O'Sullivan: 'How good a time this would be to be a pick-pocket right now.'

BEIJING (AP) — Ever since she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects in Beijing last July, Janet Yellen has united Americans and Chinese in wanting to know what she will eat next.

Fatima Hussein apnews.com/article/yellen…

Hey, that’s me! - Los Angeles Times’ Gutierrez Wins IRE Award for Investigation into Boxer Pensions latimes.com/about/pressrel…

Please join us for the event 'The Americas at Risk: US Security Partnership in a Fractured Neighborhood' with Paul J. Angelo, ⁦John Polga-Hecimovich,⁩ ⁦Jazmine Ulloa & Clare Seelke.⁩ Tuesday, April 9 at 5:00 pm. Book signing of 'From Peril to Partnership' after panel 👇🏾
cfr.org/book/peril-par…

News!! I am so, so excited to join the brilliant team The New York Times, and to write a newsletter I have long loved to read.

• This moment literally encapsulates how Biden has become cornered by the right on immigration.

• Biden even resorts to the term “illegals” which some pro-immigrant groups have long decried.

#SOTU2024

Classic SOTU scene: Hill staffers camped out in the Capitol crypt to watch #sotu2024

Just stopped by Publix. It’s cool to have bylines alongside some folks I met on the South Carolina campaign trail last month while on the Nikki Haley beat, Francesca Chambers and Jazmine Ulloa

Biden's remarks on border security during tonight's SOTU are expected to be an extension of his repeated calls for Republicans to pass tough border security measures, but he is not expected to announce executive action. Stay here for all things SOTU: cnn.com/politics/live-…

>Senator Peter Welch on the selection of Senator Katie Boyd Britt to deliver the Republican SOTU rebuttal:

“I’m very disappointed that the Republicans made such a smart decision.”

(they're good friends)

via Mary Clare Jalonick apnews.com/article/katie-…

The Haley obit, via Jazmine Ulloa Jonathan Weisman

'In the final chapters of the race, the candidate who tried to be all things to all Republicans stood for too little and held appeal for too few.'
nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/…

March 6, 2024
Nikki Haley