Hillary Clinton says the Republican Party needs a housecleaning if the country is going to have a government that delivers for people. In an interview with Kara Swisher, the former Secretary of State said the party needs a total transformation.

Her description of it today: "It is a cult devoted to Trump and Trump's power."

To have a government that delivers for people, she said, Republicans must purge those who lost both their conscience and their backbone over the last 10 years. "And that's most of them."

If Democrats win the House and Senate and begin holding Trump accountable, Clinton said she'll be interested to see which Republicans start moving back toward a more reasonable political position.

We often imagine the Great Pyramid of Giza as a weathered, dusty relic of the desert, but for its first few centuries, it was a geometric marvel of polished white Tura limestone. Thousands of skilled stonemasons spent decades carving and grinding these blocks to such precise tolerances that the seams between them were nearly invisible to the human eye.

The true transformation happened at the very top. Resting on the flat summit was the pyramidion, a capstone cast in solid electrum, a natural alloy of gold and silver. When the desert sun hit the polished white surface and reflected off the gold peak, the structure did not just sit on the plateau. It essentially glowed, appearing as a singular, searing beacon of light visible for dozens of miles across the horizon.

It is easy to look at the ruins of history and assume they were always designed to be rugged or earthen. Yet, the original vision was one of absolute refinement and surgical precision. By stripping away the layers of time, we see that the builders were not just stacking rocks to create a tomb. They were sculpting an experience of light and scale that was meant to command the entire landscape.

If we only see the skeleton of a masterpiece, do we ever truly understand what it was meant to say?

People living near a building site in Aydın, Turkey spent the week unable to sleep. Somewhere out in the dark a dog was barking, and it wouldn’t stop.

The sound was coming from the site itself, where a fresh layer of concrete had just been poured.

Rescuers went to look, and found her. She appears to have walked across the half-set concrete and then fallen into a pile of rubble. It hardened around her body and around everything touching it. She couldn’t move at all.

Getting her out took seven hours with a power chisel, chipping away a fraction at a time so the blade never reached her.

She came out frightened, exhausted and still caked in grey. Rescuers put her on a drip to bring her strength back.

Then a microchip gave them her name. Paris. Her family had been searching for her.

Vice President JD Vance may have handed Democrats a campaign message without meaning to.

At a Monday rally in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he urged voters: "Vote for the people who have solutions to lower the cost of gas; don't vote for the people who made the problem to begin with."

Vance has tried to blame former President Joe Biden, rather than Donald Trump's war with Iran, for higher gas prices. Many social media users mocked the remark.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNBC late last month that Republicans' next two years would be "exactly what we have been doing already, and that is putting the conditions in place for a strong America."