Shailagh Murray News Today

Last night I started seeing a bunch of folks on Twitter absolutely trashing 60 Minutes. We had mentioned last week that 60 Minutes would be doing something about the NSA, including the revelation that some NSA officials favored granting Snowden asylum, and that Keith Alexander ridiculously stated that people should be held accountable for their…

It can't be argued that the Patrick Kennedy adventure on wheels is being ignored by the media. But part of the coverage has been suffused in a bit of overweening Kennedy-dynasty sympathy. Washington Post reporter/columnist Dana Milbank, who danced a jig of mockery in orange hunter clothes over Dick Cheney's shooting accident, wrote in Saturday's Washington Post about the "miserable character" who suffered after the crash:

And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) slams the Biden administration on the border.

Low rumble of criticism for trip with ‘few policy objectives’, but president’s genuine happiness is noted

The battle for Bakhmut.

On the ground, bagpipers puffed out an original song, called “A Biden Return,” to celebrate the 80-year-old’s latest visit to his motherland. Irish rain drizzled down the president’s baseball cap.

With his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and his son, Hunter Biden, in tow, the president spent the first day of his trip to Ireland steeped in family lore.

And VP Kamala Harris heads to Nashville.

And the Senate remains a toss up with 30 days left until Election Day.

Gabrielle Giffords huddled with Vice President Joe Biden in his private office just off the Senate floor on an April Wednesday in 2013, watching the defeat of a bill to expand background checks to most gun sales.