Scoop: McCarthy told Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach Trump  —  Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach former President Trump before last week's highly anticipated House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told Axios.

Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trial: POLL  —  The Senate is set to begin Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday.  —  2nd Impeachment Trial: What this could mean for Trump  —  Donald Trump will be the first president …

Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial  —  Charles J. Cooper, a stalwart of the conservative legal establishment, said that Republicans were wrong to assert that it is unconstitutional for a former president to be tried for impeachable offenses.

Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.  —  A new study bolsters the prediction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the so-called B.1.1.7 variant will dominate Covid-19 cases by March.  —  A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first found …

How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May  —  A remarkable BBC documentary reveals the startling reality of meeting the president  —  For the former prime minister Theresa May, one of the most pressing matters she confronted during her encounter with Donald Trump …

Trump ‘happier’ now that he's off social media: former aide  —  Former President Trump “feels happier” since leaving the White House — partly because he's off social media, his former campaign aide says.  —  “The president has said he feels happier now than he's been in some time,” …

George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100  —  George P. Shultz, one of only two people to serve the United States in four Cabinet-level posts and a major force in economic and foreign policy in two Republican administrations, died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.

PEN America Responds to Resignation of New York Times Reporter McNeil  —  The word McNeil uttered has uniquely cruel, painful, and dangerous associations; still, Times' reversal in this instance sends worrying signal  —  (New York, NY) — New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. resigned Friday …

The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows  —  The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.

Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump's Last Fan  —  Top editors at Hachette have told employees that they've learned the lessons of the Capitol siege of Jan. 6: no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives.  —  If you were a certain kind of distinctly Trumpy public figure …

Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook's Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story  —  Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”

Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and the criminal conspiracy case of U.S. v. Donald Trump  —  Roger Stone has been here before.  Exactly two decades earlier, when a Florida recount threatened to undo Republican George W. Bush's less-than-1,000-vote lead in the Sunshine State and hand …

‘An easy choice’: Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief … Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.

He became the nation's ninth vice president.  She was his enslaved wife.  —  Her name was Julia Chinn  —  She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson's “bride.”  —  Johnson, a Kentucky congressman who eventually became …

Trump's DC hotel is hiking prices for March 4 - the day QAnon followers think the former president will be sworn in … - QAnon followers believe that Trump will be sworn in on March 4, 2021.  — This belief is rooted in a conspiracy theory that all presidents post-1871 are illegitimate.

Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon  —  (CNN)QAnon has been in the news a lot in recent weeks.  Polling shows that many people at least partially blame it for the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, and it's a scary and dangerous conspiracy theory.  —  But we should be clear that it truly is a fringe movement.

Marcy Kaptur's warning  —  Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress.  —  She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has served there, in all of U.S. history.  —  She came to the Congress in 1983.  —  She is 74 and has been a Democrat her entire voting life.

My visit to Moscow and the future of EU-Russia relations  —  07/02/2021 - HR/VP Blog - I went to Moscow this week to test, through principled diplomacy, whether the Russian government was interested in addressing differences and reversing the negative trend in our relations.

Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump.  Can we count on the courts?  —  The Justice Department may decide to prosecute Trump, but it's a tough call.  Whatever the evidence, one Trump fan on a jury could prevent a conviction.  —  Ask any die-hard Democrat …

‘Intimidation measure’: Louisiana AG criticized for suing reporter over records request  —  At first, Andrea Gallo's quest for sexual harassment complaints against a top state justice official seemed like a typical public records battle.  The reporter heard a common refrain …

‘Purple America’ will set political direction in 2022  —  Six states were at the epicenter of the 2020 election and the bogus post Nov. 3 fiasco: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia — all were closely decided, and they provided the margin of victory …

The Snowplow Test  —  Normal people: ‘Yay, the neighbors are here to plow our driveway!’  Liberal columnist: ‘What do they want from me?  And ick, they like Trump!’  (Patty_C/GettyImages  —  Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan, who lives in Brooklyn Heights but who lives somewhere rurally …