In a Pre-Election Video, Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorsed Political Violence  —  Evidence continues to emerge that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has over the past several years promoted deranged conspiracy theories and endorsed violence against perceived political enemies.

Many of my fellow politicians won't tell voters the truth.  The result was Jan. 6.  —  Telling the public only what it wants to hear is no way to keep democracy going  —  In the fall of 2013, in the middle of what was at the time the second-longest government shutdown in American history …

Pipe bombs found near Capitol on Jan. 6 are believed to have been placed the night before  —  The two pipe bombs that were discovered on Jan. 6 near the U.S. Capitol shortly before a mob stormed the building are believed to have been planted the night before, according to a law enforcement official familiar …

‘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 …

Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine 66 percent effective against moderate and severe illness  —  A coronavirus vaccine with less onerous storage and administration requirements could be a ‘game changer’  —  A single-shot coronavirus vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson …

Famed GameStop bull ‘Roaring Kitty’ is a Massachusetts financial advisor  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A YouTube streamer who helped drive a surge in the shares of GameStop Corp is a 34-year-old financial advisor from Massachusetts and until recently worked for insurance giant MassMutual, public records and social media posts show.

Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny  —  A number of members of Congress have links to organizations and movements that played a role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.  —  WASHINGTON — The video's title was posed as a question, but it left little doubt about where the men who filmed it stood.

Actions by Proud Boy at Capitol show ‘planning, determination and coordination,’ U.S. alleges  —  A police riot shield used to break a window, then a door kicked open from the inside — new court documents detail the first moments of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead …

Crime In America: Study Reveals The 10 Most Unsafe Neighborhoods  —  While data shows that crime is actually down in the U.S. in recent years, many Americans believe that the country is becoming more violent than ever—and high-profile incidents like mobs rioting at the U.S. Capitol …

Police: South Park man submitted mail-in ballot under his deceased wife's name  —  Francis Presto, 79, is facing several charges  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  —  Receive daily coronavirus & public health news straight to your inbox.  —  Submit  —  Privacy Notice  —  SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP, Pa. —

Red Alert: The Return of Cass Sunstein  —  Cass Sunstein, pictured during his tenure as director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, March 16, 2011  —  When I wrote a piece last spring called “The Biden Do Not Reappoint List,” it did not even occur to me to include Cass Sunstein …

Conservatives warn culture, political wars will worsen  —  The verdict is clear: The vast majority of Republicans will stand firm with former President Trump.  The next phase is clear, too: Republicans are rallying around a common grievance that big government, big media and big business …

An Interview With Sen. Rob Portman  —  The Republican from Ohio discusses his retirement, the current political environment, and impeachment.  —  6 hr ago  —  On Thursday, I interviewed Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who recently announced his retirement.  We discussed the lack of civility in politics …

Trump Impeachment Lawyer Removed A Black Juror He Said ‘Shucked And Jived’  —  The South Carolina Supreme Court called attorney Greg Harris' use of a racial stereotype “troublesome.”  —  One of the attorneys on former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial team previously used racial stereotypes …

“Stop The Steal” organizer bragged about a phone call with “people from the White House” weeks before the insurrection  —  In the same video, Ali Alexander also appeared to advocate for violence against lawmakers  —  In a newly uncovered video from a December 19 “Stop the Steal” rally in Arizona …

‘Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear’: One Woman's Journey Out of QAnon  —  During the political fallout after four years of Donald J. Trump, one question is what will happen with the followers of conspiracy theories that bend Americans' perceptions of reality.  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2017 …

Hundreds rush to get COVID-19 vaccine in Seattle overnight after freezer failure  —  A total of 1,650 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at risk of expiring Thursday night were quickly administered to more than a thousand people at UW and Swedish clinics.  —  SEATTLE — Hundreds of people rushed …

D.C. area awaits biggest snowstorm in two years; snowfall starts Sunday, possibly lasting to Tuesday  —  Four to eight inches of snow is most likely, although substantially more or a bit less cannot be ruled out  —  This article has been updated with Capital Weather Gang's snowfall forecast map (above).

Washington: A Love Story  —  How Republican lies are killing the city I once loved.  —  1. The Capitol  —  I'd like to tell you a story.  —  I took my first grown-up, unsupervised trip to Washington in the spring of 1996.  I was a college senior in Baltimore and during the pause before finals …

Alexei Navalny wants Biden to sanction Putin's cronies  —  Thousands of Russians are expected to protest Sunday in dozens of cities for the second consecutive week, demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny from jail and an end to the corruption of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.

The GOP's whining about Biden is absurd.  Good thing Democrats are ignoring it.  —  Let's state this clearly.  Broadly speaking, Republicans are simply not part of the conversation in any meaningful sense about how to address the two biggest crises facing the country right now …

Ex-FBI lawyer spared prison for altering Trump-Russia probe email  —  The only person charged in the Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the probe of former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and its ties to Russia was spared prison time for altering an email used to support a surveillance application.

The Antipope of Mar-a-Lago  —  The ousted leader refused to relent to reality.  —  Set against a backdrop of avarice and inequality and persistent sickness, distrust and misrule, the leader exploited and exacerbated societal unrest to seize and flaunt vast power—doing anything and everything he could to try to keep it in his grip.

The Vaccines' Race Against Time  —  As the virus adapts, these months may be the hardest of them all.  —  One strange aspect of plagues is that they often finish strong.  I learned this the hard way last time around.  Many people have a general sense of AIDS being terrible in the 1980s …