“We Lost the Line”: Trump Is on the Brink of Yet Another Senate Acquittal  —  Republican senators ran for their lives, but they will not run from the former President.  —  A few hours into the presentation of the House managers' case against Donald Trump, for inciting the mob that stormed …

Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19  —  When hospitalized with the coronavirus in October, his blood oxygen levels had plunged and officials feared he was on the verge of being placed on a ventilator.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October …

Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out  —  Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” …

The Predator in the Lincoln Project John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed.  His colleagues were warned.  —  Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby.

Mounting evidence suggests Trump knew of danger to Pence when he attacked him as lacking ‘courage’ amid Capitol siege  —  Mounting evidence emerging as former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate this week indicates Trump may have been personally informed …

Officers' Injuries, Including Concussions, Show Scope of Violence at Capitol Riot  —  The impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump has heightened attention on the rioters' attacks on officers, some of which resulted in serious damage.  —  One officer lost the tip of his right index finger.

Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read  —  Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald J. McNeil, but it was never published.  Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.

Nikki Haley's Choice  —  The 2024 hopeful can't decide who she wants to be—the leader of the post-Trump GOP or a “friend” to the president who tried to sabotage democracy.

Biden to begin admitting migrants forced by Trump to wait in Mexico  —  The Biden administration will soon begin allowing migrants into the U.S. who, because of a Trump-era policy, have been forced to remain in Mexico while their asylum cases are processed.  —  As part of the new administration's …

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym  — Marjorie Taylor Greene had affairs with tantric sex guru Craig Ivey …

Former top aides say Attorney General Ken Paxton received assistance with home remodel, job for alleged girlfriend in return for helping political donor  —  A court filing documents what Paxton's whistleblowers believe led to an alleged “bizarre, obsessive use of power.”  —  Copy link

Nation's oldest juvenile lifer, Joe Ligon, leaves Pa. prison after 68 years  —  Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County on Thursday morning, his white hair peeking out below a prison-issue hat, Joe Ligon was accompanied by a dozen large file boxes.

Melania Trump disengaged from her husband's second impeachment trial and bitter over Jill Biden's publicity  —  (CNN)While former President Donald Trump watches his second impeachment trial unfold, Melania Trump spends most of her time post-White House relaxing at the spa and staying out of the fray.

Grand Jury Votes Not to Indict Buffalo Police Officers Accused of Shoving Protester  —  The officers had been charged with assault after a widely shared video showed them pushing Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester who landed hard on the sidewalk.  —  A grand jury has declined to indict …

The most influential Democrat you never hear from  —  Kyrsten Sinema doesn't often make big policy pronouncements.  But when she does, Democrats had better listen.  —  Take the $15 hourly minimum wage that Democratic leaders want to add to a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

With Biden, teachers unions are getting what they paid for  —  President Biden has made abundantly clear that he cares more about the teachers unions than he does about the parents and students they're hurting.  For an explanation, all you have to do is follow the money.

Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo: How to Turn Your Red State Blue  —  It may take 10 years.  Do it anyway.  —  Ms. Abrams was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018.  Ms. Groh-Wargo was her campaign manager.  They opened Fair Fight Action in late 2018.  — Feb. 11, 2021

Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court  —  The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg.  Soon, it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.  —  On a morning in May, 2019, forty-three lawyers, academics, and media experts gathered in the windowless basement …

Former FBI official, a Navy veteran, is ‘key figure’ in Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors allege  —  A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and FBI official from Virginia has emerged as a key figure in the federal investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, as U.S. prosecutors alleged Thursday …

North Carolina man charged with threatening to kill President Biden  —  (CNN)A North Carolina man has been charged with making threats to kill President Joe Biden, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in court Thursday.  —  David Kyle Reeves, 27, of Gastonia, North Carolina …