GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser  —  Axios has a small squib about “The Mischief Makers,” a handful of idiosyncratic congressional backbenchers who make trouble for their respective party leadership.  The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …

Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors  —  The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop.  —  Facing an onslaught of demands on its cash amid a stock market frenzy …

Suck It, Wall Street  —  In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker  —  In the fall of 2008, America's wealthiest companies were in a pickle.  Short-selling hedge funds, smelling blood as the global economy cratered, loaded up with bets against finance stocks …

Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results  —  The Republican chair of Arizona's state House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill Wednesday that would give the Legislature authority to override the secretary of state's certification of its electoral votes.

U.S. handling of American evacuees from Wuhan increased coronavirus risks, watchdog finds  —  The special counsel also criticized the HHS general counsel's office for its ‘attempts to shame the whistleblower.’  —  As the first American evacuees from Wuhan, China, touched down at a California military base …

Body Camera Footage Shows Capitol Rioters Trampling Over Woman  —  Video obtained by The Times provides a police officer's view of the deadly battle to defend a key entryway from the surging mob.  —  As 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland lay dying on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6 after being crushed by a mob …

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years - ex-KGB spy  —  The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian  —  Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years …

‘Betrayed’: Republicans urge Biden to change course on stimulus  —  When a bipartisan Senate coalition helped clinch a coronavirus relief bill last year after months of gridlock, it was supposed to be a model for governing in the Biden era.  But now Democrats' surprise takeover of the Senate threatens to leave the group behind.

The San Francisco School District's renaming debacle has been a historic travesty  —  SF's decision to rename 44 schools: Botched process.  Botched outcome.  Botched priorities.  —  These are complex times.  Even the question “How are you doing?” is complex.

‘Charming’ D.B. Cooper suspect Sheridan Peterson dies at 94, spent years dedicated to political causes  —  Sheridan Peterson, long considered a suspect in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, died Jan. 8 in California.  He was 94.  —  The California native served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II …

Man who wore horns at riot willing to speak at Trump's trial  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The lawyer for an Arizona man who took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns is offering to have his client testify at former President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial.

Mattis: Trump ‘fomented’ Jan. 6 Capitol assault  —  Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was “fomented” by former President Donald Trump, and exemplified the “internal threats” faced by the U.S. that should be viewed “with every bit as much gravity …

Johnson & Johnson's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants  —  The vaccine's efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the United States to just 57 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant is driving most cases.  —  Johnson & Johnson announced …

'I'm just furious': Relations in Congress crack after attack  —  Some House lawmakers are privately refusing to work with each other.  Others are afraid to be in the same room.  Two members almost got into a fist fight on the floor.  And the speaker of the House is warning that “the enemy is within.”

Noem refuses to say whether Biden victory was free and fair  —  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem refused to acknowledge Thursday that Democrat Joe Biden defeated her close Republican ally Donald Trump in a free and fair election, instead using the opportunity to criticize Biden's actions since taking office.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan won't run for U.S. Senate next year  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday announced that he won't run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Republican Rob Portman's upcoming retirement, a decision that opens the field …

DC Fails To Disbar Anti-Trump FBI Lawyer Despite Guilty Plea  —  As the U.S. government seeks prison time for a former FBI lawyer who admitted falsifying evidence to spy on a former Trump aide, the District of Columbia Bar association hasn't begun an investigation to strip him of his law license, records show.

Ella Emhoff Signs to IMG Models  —  The second daughter follows the inauguration poet Amanda Gorman to IMG.  —  Amanda Gorman is not the only breakout star to have emerged from the inauguration as the fashion world's latest influencer-in-waiting.  —  One week after the Miu Miu coat she wore …

So much for Joe Biden, moderate  —  President Biden wasted no time releasing a flurry of executive orders and legislative proposals.  Some of them may be helpful in addressing the economic challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.  But others would almost certainly “cancel” …

The Constitution does not authorize a general impeachment power  —  The Supreme Court is the highest tribunal in the United States for all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution.  But not all legal issues reach the court, and even if they do, it takes years for them to do so.

The Biden Administration's Landmark Day in the Fight for the Climate  —  January 27th was the most remarkable day in the history of America's official response to the climate crisis, at least since that June afternoon in 1988, when nasa's James Hansen told a congressional committee that the planet had begun to heat.

'For Christ's sake, watch yourself': Biden warns family over business dealings  —  In the midst of his campaign for president, Joe Biden took his younger brother, Frank, aside to issue a warning.  —  “For Christ's sake, watch yourself,” Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings …

The Conservative Case Against the Boomers  —  For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one.  —  Everyone's fed up with the baby boomers.  Younger progressives charge them with a form of generational hoarding—of titles and power but mostly of money.

Ignoring calls to pull back, Gaetz slams Cheney in her home state  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz fired off a barrage of insults against his colleague Liz Cheney during a rally in her home state of Wyoming on Thursday — a raw embodiment of the cleavage across the Republican Party following President Donald Trump's exit from office.

Pentagon May Send Troops to Assist With Vaccines, Enlarging Federal Role  —  The move would be the first significant sign that the Biden administration is taking more control of a vaccine distribution effort that states are struggling to manage.  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon …

Pentagon halts Trump appointments to advisory boards  —  The Pentagon has suspended the processing of a number of former President Donald Trump's last-minute appointees to defense advisory boards as the new administration looks to weed out loyalists to the former president.

Meet the 7 congresswomen who are steering Biden's immigration agenda in the House  —  In one of her first days in Congress nearly two decades ago, Rep. Linda Sánchez remembers being told by a friend on Capitol Hill that there are two types of lawmakers: a workhorse or a showhorse.

Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?  —  Reflections on a post-Trump week of refreshingly Presidential behavior and predictably partisan feuding.  —  Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours.  He has not insulted anyone, as far as I'm aware.

Biden Covid Team Derides Trump Plan While Borrowing Playbook  — Biden inherited system already meeting target pace of shots  — Biden to use DPA, like Trump, and order doses from old deals  —  President Joe Biden and his top advisers have derided the Trump administration's playbook …