About the Texas Lawsuit  —  Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is under a federal investigation and would love a presidential pardon.  His lawsuit is just more performative leg humping by someone desperate to curry favor with President Trump.  —  The various attorneys general …

Biden taps Susan Rice for top White House domestic policy job  —  President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Barack Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice to run the White House Domestic Policy Council, according to people familiar with the decision.  —  Rice, who also served …

Dianne Feinstein's Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats  —  In a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, at eighty-seven, is the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness.

Trump and Friends Got Coronavirus Care Many Others Couldn't  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani became the latest in President Trump's inner circle to boast about the treatment he received for Covid-19, as hospitals across the country ration care.  —  WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, Chris Christie …

In Martinez stop, U.S. Sen. David Perdue said he'll support defense bill, oppose veto  —  U.S. Sen. David Perdue said he'll support the National Defense Authorization Act when it comes for a vote, despite President Trump's threats to veto the bill, which includes $80 million for Fort Gordon.

Inside Biden's meeting with civil rights leaders  —  Here's the audio  —  Democrats in the House, Senate, and around the country have been urging President-elect Joe Biden to use the maximum amount of executive authority available to him in order to grow the economy, expand civil rights …

CDC's Redfield told staff to delete email, official tells House watchdog  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield instructed staff to delete an email from a Trump political appointee seeking control over the agency's scientific reports on the pandemic …

Newly sworn-in NH House Speaker Dick Hinch dies of COVID-19  —  Autopsy determines cause of death to be COVID-19  —  Receive daily coronavirus & public health news straight to your inbox.  —  Submit  —  Privacy Notice  —  CONCORD, N.H. —  New Hampshire's House Speaker Dick Hinch died Wednesday …

Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen  —  Donald Trump lost the presidency, but his opponents so far have not achieved the victory they want most: A fatal puncturing of the Trump movement, a repudiation so complete that it severs his astonishing grip on supporters and leaves …

Justice Department's interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes  —  The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.

Sen. David Perdue Sold His Home to a Finance Industry Official Whose Organization Was Lobbying the Senate  —  The same year FINRA was lobbying the Senate on a bill, one of its board governors paid Perdue $1.8 million for his D.C. townhouse.  Perdue sits on the Senate Banking Committee, which oversaw the bill.

Republicans throw cold water on bipartisan Covid proposal  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's staff told other congressional leaders on Wednesday that the bipartisan coronavirus negotiators will be unlikely to satisfy Senate Republicans, according to a senior Democrat familiar with the conversations.

What Really Saved the Republic From Trump?  —  It wasn't our constitutional system of checks and balances.  —  Mr. Wu is a law professor at Columbia University.  —  Americans are taught that the main function of the U.S. Constitution is the control of executive power: curtailing presidents who might seek to become tyrants.

Georgia Republicans Are Using Fake Claims of Fraud to Make It Harder to Vote  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  On November 30, Georgia's Republican secretary of state …

60% View Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential Victory As Legitimate, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 77% Of Republicans Believe There Was Widespread Voter Fraud  —  Roughly one month after the presidential election, 60 percent of registered voters say they think President-elect Joe Biden's victory …

Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Dr. Deborah Birx was brought into President Donald Trump's orbit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, she had a sterling reputation as a former U.S. Army physician, a globally recognized AIDS researcher and a rare Obama administration holdover.

Fiery crash of SpaceX's Starship rocket ignites dreams of future spaceflight  —  Elon Musk is reshaping a remote South Texas shoreline to build and test the largest space launch system the world has ever seen.  Spaceflight—and the once quiet beach—will never be the same.

‘How Many Fact Checkers Do They Have?’  —  Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook.  —  Opinion Writer at Large  —  In the days after the election, several senior Biden campaign workers talked with me about their public confrontation with Facebook, the world's biggest social media platform.

Cohn Shrugs Off Goldman's Demand for Pay With Check to Charity  — Bank pressed former president to return more than $10 million  — It was part of broader show of accountability for 1MDB scandal  —  Gary Cohn left Goldman Sachs Group Inc. squirming with his unwillingness to send back millions in pay.

The “Intellectual” Right's Assault on Democracy  —  Politicians have constituents to please, but what about the “thinkers” of the Trumpist right?  —  The politics of intimidation has worked well for Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015.

Morocco to normalize ties with Israel in deal with Trump over Western Sahara  —  Morocco has agreed to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, President Trump announced on Thursday.  The Moroccan decision comes as part of a deal that includes U.S. recognition of the disputed territory of Western Sahara as part of Morocco.

‘I am certainly not dead!’  Living voters contradict Michigan GOP fraud claims  —  LANSING — When conservative activist Meshawn Maddock obtained a list of allegedly dead Michigan voters, she didn't report it to law enforcement.  —  She posted the list on Facebook this week …

Flynn's case finally ends — but not before Judge Sullivan flogs a corpse  —  Gen. Michael Flynn's three-year odyssey in the criminal justice system finally came to an end this week with the long-delayed dismissal of his case in federal court.  Ultimately, it took a presidential pardon …

China launches ‘gray-zone’ warfare to subdue Taiwan  —  Having crushed the resistance to its rule in Hong Kong, China is moving against Taiwan with irregular tactics meant to exhaust the island's military - which is in bad shape to confront the threat.  It's unclear how the incoming Biden administration will respond.

How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears  —  Seriously, this happened.  You should absolutely read about it.  —  Every ideology produces its own brand of fanatics, but there's something special about libertarianism.  —  I don't mean that as an insult, either.  I love libertarians!

Watchdog finds lapses in documentation for Susan Pompeo's travel  —  State Department officials did not thoroughly document whether several trips taken by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's wife, Susan, were approved in advance, one of at least two investigations into the couple's activities has concluded.

Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic  —  Retailers, police departments and loss prevention researchers are reporting an uptick in theft of necessities like food and hygiene products  —  Early in the pandemic, Joo Park noticed …