Today's five.

Two Republican senators held up the attorney general nomination for weeks, got some concessions, declared victory, and voted yes — the Senate working exactly as designed. The Judiciary Committee advanced Todd Blanche's nomination 12-10 along party lines after Sens. Cornyn and Tillis extracted assurances about a $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund that was distributing taxpayer money to Trump allies. The L.A. Times focused on the three remaining GOP holdouts ahead of the full Senate vote; The Hill led with the deal mechanics. Democrats want legislation to permanently kill the fund. Blanche's order, they say, just pauses it.

Requesting your own ethics investigation is a bold strategy — the kind that works great if you have nothing to hide and very badly if you do. Rep. Max Miller, facing domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife and two other women, asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate him, and the committee obliged within hours. He's also suing his ex-wife for defamation and refusing to drop his reelection bid. Axios noted Trump has privately expressed concern the seat could flip. Miller's response was to invoke Trump's 2016 campaign as a blueprint. The withdrawal deadline is Wednesday.

Running unopposed is one way to win a primary. Mike Rogers did exactly that in Michigan, securing the Republican nomination Tuesday without a single competitor to debate, debate against, or lose to. He did lose the same seat last cycle — by about 19,000 votes, which is close enough to justify trying again. The Post led with Rogers predicting Democratic fracture; the Examiner led with the structural stakes for Senate control. Both are probably right. Gary Peters not running created the opening; whether Rogers can walk through it is a different question entirely.

Surveillance at a presidential venue, days in advance, with loaded ammunition and notebooks full of "concerning statements" — that sentence has a very specific shape to it. Jeanine John Taele, 38, was spotted by plainclothes federal agents Sunday wandering Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, photographing the grounds and, per the sheriff's department, monitoring security operations. Deputies found a loaded magazine of hollow-point bullets in his pocket. Weapons were also found at his home and in his vehicle. The Oregonian led with the notebooks. The Las Vegas Review-Journal led with "heavily armed." Trump was scheduled at the course for a fundraiser two days later.

Grocery stores have been doing "dynamic pricing" since before anyone called it that — markdown the milk before it expires, everyone wins. The Las Vegas Review-Journal's opinion section is making the case that the thing consumers hate about concert tickets and airline seats is actually basic supply-and-demand working as intended, just with better software. The argument isn't wrong, exactly: prices moving in real time can clear inventory, reduce waste, and occasionally cut prices down instead of up. The part the column doesn't linger on is that most people's experience of dynamic pricing is Ticketmaster, not discounted yogurt.