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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh shared reflections on presidential power, the court’s popularity and Taylor Swift at a judicial conference in Texas on Friday. nyti.ms/3QGlT7J

President Biden’s 2025 budget proposal includes about $3 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, largely from raising taxes on the rich and corporations. It stands almost no chance of becoming law this year, given that Republicans control the House. nyti.ms/3Iz10qM

Senator Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump for president on Wednesday, illustrating Trump’s power to bend the Republican Party to his will as he marches to the GOP nomination. nyti.ms/4c62czq

See who voted for Trump and who swung toward Nikki Haley, based on the demographic data of precincts in four states. nyti.ms/3IsvUAO

Nikki Haley ended her presidential campaign on Wednesday and pointedly declined to endorse Donald Trump. Her announcement, which effectively ended the Republican primary season, came after she lost 14 of the 15 primaries held on Super Tuesday. nyti.ms/4c61XV2

As Donald Trump pursues a return to power, the question of what voters remember from his presidency has rarely been more important. In an era of hyper-partisanship, there’s little agreed-upon collective memory, even about events that played out in public. nyti.ms/3T3hBaW

Breaking News: Senator Kyrsten Sinema said she would not seek re-election in Arizona, ending over a year of speculation about her political future. The first-term senator left the Democratic Party in 2022 to become an independent. nyti.ms/3wDrkgx

Breaking News: Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were charged with obstruction of justice, adding to the wide-ranging bribery and corruption charges they already face. nyti.ms/49I96cy

President Biden said Tuesday that talks on a possible six-week cease-fire in Gaza are "in the hands of Hamas right now," comments that were made just before a Hamas leader in Lebanon appeared to reject a proposed deal the U.S. is backing. nyti.ms/48BT96l

Mitch McConnell, the longtime top Senate Republican, announced on Wednesday that he would give up his spot as the party’s leader at the end of this year but remain in the Senate. nyti.ms/48zSuSA

The Supreme Court will consider whether the Trump administration acted lawfully in enacting a ban that makes it illegal to buy or possess bump stocks, which speed up a semiautomatic weapon’s rate of fire, in a case aimed at curbing the reach of agencies. nyti.ms/48BjRM6

Speaker Mike Johnson, who has come under bipartisan pressure to strike a deal that his far-right members are resisting, is weighing a temporary funding patch that would allow more time for negotiations and head off a partial government shutdown. nyti.ms/3SZXTN8

Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The justices scheduled arguments for the week of April 22. nyti.ms/3P0A32A

As President Biden expands efforts to reassure voters that he is fit for another four years, he took a turn on the talk show circuit, using an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” to poke Donald Trump on his own struggles with memory. nyti.ms/3wu7Evw

President Biden said that he believes negotiators are nearing a cease-fire deal that would halt Israel’s military operations in Gaza in exchange for the release of some hostages held by Hamas. "My hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a cease-fire." nyti.ms/49PTIds

President Biden is expected to win Michigan’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday, but a protest campaign to persuade people to vote “uncommitted” will measure the resistance he faces within his party over his policies on Israel. Here is what to know. nyti.ms/49QMNRk

Now entering the third year of a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the intelligence partnership between Washington and Kyiv is a linchpin of Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. nyti.ms/3uLyjn8

“We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on his social media website. nyti.ms/49LKKy1

Republicans blame the F.B.I. for saying the fake Biden bribery claim came from a credible source. But they were warned repeatedly that F.B.I. “regularly receives info from sources with significant potential biases” and not to tout it as fact. nyti.ms/3T7wQRq

The Biden administration, responding to the death of Aleksei A. Navalny, unveiled its largest sanctions package to date as the war in Ukraine enters its third year. nyti.ms/3uC3iC6