77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election  —  Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.

21 Men Accuse Lincoln Project Co-Founder of Online Harassment  —  John Weaver, a longtime G.O.P. operative who advised John McCain and John Kasich, made sexual overtures to young men, sometimes offering to help them get work in politics.  —  John Weaver, a longtime Republican strategist …

Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders arrested, party spokesman says  —  (Reuters) - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday.

GOP Rep. Kinzinger to start PAC to challenge party's embrace of Trump  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump earlier this month, has launched a new political action committee that is designed to become a financial engine to challenge …

Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups’, Now Plans Overhaul  —  The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future  —  Facebook Inc. in 2019 redesigned its flagship product …

Why Biden has a rare opportunity for early success  —  This Biden clip is being used against him.  Here are the facts  —  (CNN)Over five decades in Washington, President Joe Biden has watched seven newly-elected presidents get started.  Improbably, he has the chance for a stronger opening act than any of them.

Scottish Parliament to hold vote on Unexplained Wealth Order into Donald Trump's finances  —  MSPs will be asked to vote this week on whether the Scottish Government should pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) to investigate the source of financing for Donald Trump's Scottish resorts.

The NFL's Covid-19 Finding That Saved the Season  —  The coronavirus gospel of ‘within six feet for more than 15 minutes’ wasn't enough—and the NFL had the data to prove it  —  It was early October, and the NFL had a problem.  It wasn't just that players and staff for the Tennessee Titans …

Russia arrests 3,300 during wide protests backing Navalny  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin.

As Virus Variants Spread, ‘No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe’  —  Rich countries are cornering the market on coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer regions as potential breeding grounds for variants, like one found in South Africa, that could make vaccines less effective.

POLITICO Playbook: The OTHER Joe with veto power  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  QUICK, someone tell us: What on earth was KAMALA HARRIS thinking?  —  The vice president's move to troll Sen. JOE MANCHIN in his own state last week is backfiring — at a critical moment for President JOE BIDEN'S agenda.

Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys.  —  The two lawyers representing …

Exxon, Chevron CEOs Discussed Merger  —  Exxon's Darren Woods, Chevron's Mike Wirth spoke last year about combining their companies in what could be among the largest corporate mergers ever  —  The chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. spoke last year about combining the oil giants …

Wisconsin Vaccine Saboteur Steven Brandenburg Is a Flat-Earther, FBI Document Reveals  —  Steven Brandenburg also allegedly carried a handgun to work, and believed the sky was actually a “shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God.”

So you're being held accountable?  That's not ‘cancel culture.’  —  According to the Washington Examiner's Eddie Scarry, nothing less than a “social justice mob” descended on Politico after it gave a guest-editing slot to right-wing flamethrower Ben Shapiro.

Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall  —  WASHINGTON — Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall — despite frantic warnings from state officials …

Democrats are faced with a choice.  Protect the filibuster or protect democracy.  —  The Democrats can use their House and Senate majorities to reform our politics, guarantee voting rights and enhance our democracy.  Or they can surrender to an anti-majoritarian, money-dominated system …

All the Lies They Told Us About the Filibuster  —  On July 28, 2017, John McCain held the fate of the Affordable Care Act in his hands as he headed to the Senate well to cast what everybody expected would be the decisive 50th vote to repeal the most ambitious piece of social legislation that had been enacted since the Great Society.

Trump Raised $255.4 Million in 8 Weeks as He Sought to Overturn Election Result  —  The former president's fund-raising slowed significantly after the Electoral College delivered its votes to make Joseph R. Biden Jr. the 46th president.  —  President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party …

Biden tempers expectations for high-dollar donors who hoped to get plum diplomatic posts  —  President Biden is tempering the ambassadorial expectations of his big-dollar donors, signaling he won't hand out plum posts for months and hinting he'll nominate fewer of them than his predecessors.

What the next generation of editors need to tell their political reporters  —  The newly announced resignation of Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron, the abrupt stepping-down of Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine in December, and the highly anticipated departure …

Prominent lawyer with Epstein days before death speaks out: 'I don't believe it was suicide'  —  Lawyer who saw Epstein days before death speaks out: Why I don't believe it was suicide  —  Prominent civil rights and criminal defense attorney David Schoen said that he met with sex offender …