Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to appear alongside former President Trump as they find themselves on opposite ends of contentious debates on Capitol Hill. trib.al/vHVbLIP

Former President Trump’s first criminal trial is set to begin in New York next week.

Trump’s legal team has tried several times to postpone the trial, but those efforts have failed.

Here are the big questions that loom now: trib.al/8xkQ7TY

Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B. trib.al/dClsI5V

Former President Trump and his allies are actively trying to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign.

Trump and his associates are betting that the independent candidate could help the former president win in a close election. trib.al/yJYgykU

Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush have formed a joint fundraising committee, Tlaib's office confirmed.

The committee started because of the 'threat' American Israel Public Affairs Committee poses to progressive lawmakers, according to a source. trib.al/hQKWoeP

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried appealed his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, weeks after a New York judge handed down his penalty. The former billionaire crypto leader was found guilty of using investor funds to bankroll his lavish lifestyle. trib.al/ApEWUP2

Grover Norquist, anti-tax advocate and head of Americans for Tax Reform, said he would rather Congress pass a bipartisan deal expanding the child tax credit than not pass it all amid opposition from Senate Republicans. trib.al/n2oEOUf

The battle over the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers is highlighting the evolution of Speaker Mike Johnson, a onetime critic of the foreign spy program who’s now fighting to usher its renewal through his warring GOP conference. trib.al/OLYeRgD

The Biden administration finalized a rule that cuts costs for developing solar and wind energy on public lands. trib.al/dmL8Jng

American greenhouse gas emissions rose 1 percent between 2021 and 2022 but fell nearly 17 percent from 2005 levels, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual emissions inventory report. trib.al/SE3pLFX

Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, writes for TheHillOpinion that 'O.J. Simpson put America’s legal system on trial.' trib.al/zznIu4O

Maine State Rep. Michael Lemelin said the Lewiston mass shooting in October that left 18 people dead was a consequence from God after state lawmakers passed a law expanding abortion access in the state. trib.al/djJ30Jz

Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the head of U.S. European Command, says Russia’s army has grown by 15 percent since before the invasion of Ukraine trib.al/Y2Woysi

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) endorsed Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary, becoming the latest Democratic lawmaker to get involved in the party’s primary for the seat. trib.al/sixrWKY

U.S. Central Command head Gen. Erik Kurilla is in Israel to speak with officials as fear grows around a possible attack on Israel by Iran and the militant groups it backs, the Pentagon confirmed. trib.al/OHNGPjA

'Three reasons Biden won’t close the border' (TheHillOpinion) trib.al/zPztywE

TSA found over 1,500 firearms at U.S. airports during the first quarter of this year, marking a 16.5 firearm-per-day average, according to new data. trib.al/Wc2SObE

The CDC is calling for action to increase U.S. measles immunization amid a rise in cases that could threaten the nation’s status as one where the virus is eliminated. trib.al/lPvSUuE

Dan Coats, former director of national intelligence for Donald Trump, made the case for the U.S. to approve more aid to Ukraine, saying it serves the U.S.'s 'core national interests': 'security and economic prosperity.' trib.al/BVhyDiM

Abortion access now is a state-by-state patchwork of laws that is ever-changing as new restrictions take effect.

Here’s where the laws stand as of today: trib.al/TPEspmF