Donald Trump Should Be Prosecuted for His Shakedown of Georgia's Brad Raffensperger  —  President Donald Trump likely broke both federal and state law in a Saturday phone call during which he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state's election results.

Cotton Statement on Joint Session of Congress  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 734-0430  —  Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the joint session of Congress later this week:

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma suspected missing  —  Speculation has swirled around Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's whereabouts after reports surfaced that the high-profile businessman has not made a public appearance in more than two months.  —  The Alibaba founder also failed to appear …

Worse Than Treason  —  “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”  Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.

Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism  —  The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers.  Executives have struggled to handle the change.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers …

Plane Sightings Fuel Rumors Trump Planning Escape to Scotland on Day Before Biden Inauguration  —  GOLF WAR  —  Something strange is happening on the west coast of Scotland.  According to a report from the Sunday Post, a lot of unusual U.S. military activity has been recorded at one airport …

Trump Ga. Transcript Shows Case for Vote Fraud, President Acted Properly  —  The Washington Post on Sunday released audio of a Saturday phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the two can be heard discussing election results.

All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory  —  Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.

Metro's New Chief Political Correspondent  —  Katie Glueck, a talented and hard-driving political reporter with a knack for landing scoops, is joining Metro.  Read more in this note from Clifford Levy and Dean Chang.  —  A populace still reeling from the pandemic.  A damaged economy, with worsening inequality.

Georgia Senate runoffs — The fate of our nation is in Georgia's hands  —  If Georgians believe in our democracy and our nation's institutions, they will reject Warnock and Ossoff  —  Sen. Perdue says he and Sen. Loeffler are ‘last line of defense’ against socialist agenda

Rhode Island governor emerges as leading candidate for Commerce Department  —  Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has emerged as a leading candidate to be President-elect Joe Biden's commerce secretary, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Why it matters: Raimondo …

The Bravery of William Winter  —  Stuart Stevens remembers the Mississippi governor who changed his life.  —  I was only 14 but it was a scene I will never forget.  In many ways, it changed my life.  —  It was 1967 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and William Winter was running for the Democratic nomination for governor.