Dems deliver GOP ultimatum over Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Top House Democrats are moving to force Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off multiple committees this week — with or without Kevin McCarthy's help.  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy …

9 Top N.Y. Health Officials Have Quit as Cuomo Scorns Expertise  —  “When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I'm saying I don't really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, referring to pandemic policies.  “Because I don't.”  —  The deputy commissioner for public health …

Dustin Diamond Dead at 44 After Battle with Stage 4 Lung Cancer  —  REMEMBERING DUSTIN DIAMOND  —  Dustin Diamond — best known for playing the lovable Samuel “Screech” Powers on the hit NBC sitcom, “Saved by the Bell” — has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  A rep for Dustin tells us he died Monday morning.

U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize  —  OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.

Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it ‘Trump cult’  —  (Reuters) - Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush's administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims …

McConnell: Trump Tricked Me Into Backing His Coup  —  On November 9, a senior Republican explained what was then the Republican Party's consensus posture toward President Trump's refusal to accept the election results.  The quote, given anonymously to the Washington Post, became instantly notorious …

They stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of an election they didn't vote in  —  (CNN)They were there to “Stop the Steal” and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting.

Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi  —  HONG KONG — Myanmar's military said Monday that it took control of the country and declared a state of emergency for a year, after detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of her ruling National League …

As Trump Raked In Cash Denying His Loss, Little Went to Actual Legal Fight  —  The picture that emerged in new campaign finance reports was of Donald J. Trump waging a public relations effort to falsely argue that he had won the election rather than mounting a serious legal push.

S.F. high school students get a lesson in subtle white privilege  —  Three weeks ago I processed the Capitol insurrection with my high school students.  Rallying our inquiry skills, we analyzed the images of that historic day, images of white men storming through the Capitol, fearless and with no forces to stop them.

Blinken criticizes Putin for crackdown on Navalny protesters … WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he was “deeply disturbed by the violent crackdown” on Russian protesters and the arrests of thousands of people throughout the country demanding the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The two ways a pandemic relief bill could pass, explained  —  Two paths have emerged for the next round of coronavirus relief — putting President Biden's stated desire to reach across the aisle to get legislation passed to an early test, and setting up Democrats to find out how united really is their slim 50-50 Senate majority.

White House reached out to Manchin after Harris' West Virginia interview  —  (CNN)The White House called Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after Vice President Kamala Harris conducted interviews with West Virginia media, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation.

American Universities Declare War on Military History  —  The world applauds the scientists who have created vaccines to deliver humanity from Covid-19.  One certainty about our future: There will be no funding shortfall for medical research into pandemics.  —  Now, notice a contradiction.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Staffer Cheered On Capitol Rioters Via Parler as They Overran Police  —  As police struggled futilely to fend off a wave of rioters outside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, Joel Valdez, an aide to Congressman Matt Gaetz, made his way to the rooftop of his boss's office building across …

Survey Says: Never Tweet  —  The tensions in newsrooms over reporters' social media presence are not just about politics.  —  David Carr, the legendary Timesman who made this column a destination, told me back in 2012 that he kept a “helicopter on the roof” of The New York Times Building in case he needed to escape.

Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows  —  The incident brought renewed scrutiny to a department whose officers had placed a hood on Daniel Prude, a Black man, before he died from suffocation.  —  The police department in Rochester, N.Y., released body-camera footage …

I Bought Tens of Thousands of Dollars of GameStop Stock.  And I Have No Regrets.  —  The first rule of r/WallStreetBets is YOLO.  —  There is no second rule.  —  This isn't the land of enlightenment, it's the borough slum of loss porn.  I'm here for the goods: Show me the screenshot …

Top Pa. election official to resign after agency bungled requirement for constitutional amendment  —  Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.

Spurred By The Capitol Riot, Thousands Of Republicans Drop Out Of GOP  —  Lyle Darrah was on a conference call at work in rural Weld County, north of Denver, when the riot at the U.S. Capitol started on Jan. 6.  When his boss mentioned what was happening, he turned on news coverage …

Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big — without them  —  Ten Senate Republicans are unveiling their own scaled-down economic rescue plan — with the transparent aim of getting President Biden to negotiate away his own ambitions.  The game they're playing runs as follows …

Paul M. Abbate Named FBI Deputy Director  —  Director Christopher Wray has named Paul M. Abbate as the deputy director of the FBI.  As deputy, he oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities.  Mr. Abbate most recently served as the associate deputy director.

Will Senate Democrats execute the power grab they once condemned?  —  Battles around the filibuster, which has been the defining feature of the Senate legislative process for more than two centuries, are all basically the same.  The majority gets frustrated at not getting its way every time …

REVEALED: Democrat operatives including Lincoln Project spread disinformation to suppress the conservative vote  —  Join the ranks of independent, free thinkers by supporting us today for as little as $1. … If convicted of the one conspiracy against rights charge, Mackey could be imprisoned …

It's Time: The COVID Tracking Project Will Soon Come to an End  —  After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States, we're ending our data compilation work in early March.  —  Every day for almost a year, hundreds of COVID Tracking Project contributors …