Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll  —  The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.  —  Top aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were alarmed …

Federal investigators are examining communications between US lawmakers and Capitol rioters  —  (CNN)Federal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer …

Trump appointee arrested in connection with Capitol riot  —  The FBI on Thursday arrested Federico Klein, a former State Department aide, on charges related to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, marking the first known instance of an appointee of President Donald Trump facing criminal prosecution …

GOP Wants To Outsource Stalling COVID Relief To Senate Clerks.  The Clerks Have A Plan.  —  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) proclaimed on Twitter Wednesday that he's “going to make the Senate clerk read the Democrats' $1.9 trillion bill.  All several hundred pages of it.”

Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay  —  E-commerce giant says it ‘is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items’  —  Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week …

The man who put his feet up on a desk in Pelosi's office during the Capitol riot throws a tantrum in court.  —  Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man charged with breaking into Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and stealing her mail during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, threw a tantrum during …

What Does National Security Even Mean Anymore, After January 6th and the Pandemic?  —  Talking threats, foreign and domestic, with Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  —  Donald Trump's image was flickering on the oversized TV screen in the private cabin of the Air Force jet …

Biden World gives a shoulder shrug to the raging culture wars  —  There's a war on The Muppets.  And “The Cat and the Hat!”  —  But Biden is busy.  He has no time for all that.  —  Over the past few weeks, Republicans have simmered over the “cancellation” of seemingly innocent family favorites …

Scoop: Leaked HHS docs spotlight Biden's child migrant dilemma  —  Fresh internal documents from the Department of Health and Human Services show how quickly the number of child migrants crossing the border is overwhelming the administration's stretched resources.

GOP pushes Murkowski to stay in line against Biden's Covid bill  —  Senate Republicans are leaning on Lisa Murkowski to reject President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan, hoping they can get unanimous GOP opposition and prevent Democrats from claiming the bill is bipartisan.

Fox News' scrappy White House correspondent grills Biden, who plays along  —  Whenever President Biden leaves a stage or lectern after an appearance in front of the media, the last voice viewers hear usually belongs to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy.

At the Capitol, a March 4 threat from militant Trump supporters proves a mirage  —  On the day when former President Donald Trump's most delusional supporters swore he would return to power — and the House suspended its business because of supposed threats to the U.S. Capitol …

‘Nobody Is in Charge’: Capitol's Secretive Police Board Faces Overhaul After Riot  —  Top lawmakers say the Capitol Police Board, which is beholden to House and Senate leaders, needs significant changes after the security failures of Jan. 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The congressional inquiry …

The Rise of the Biden Republicans  —  The pollster who identified “Reagan Democrats” in the 1980s sees the emergence of a mirror image voting bloc.  And it spells trouble for a GOP dominated by Trump.  —  There are unwritten rules that dictate how American politics works.

Fox News will be ‘loyal opposition’ against Biden, Fox CEO says  —  Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Thursday it is the job of Fox News to serve as the opposition to the Biden administration, stating clearly the political biases of a network that until 2017 billed itself as “fair and balanced.”

Trump Appointee At VOA Parent Paid Law Firm Millions To Investigate His Own Staff  —  Last summer, an appointee of former President Donald Trump was irate because he could not simply fire top executives who had warned him that some of his plans might be illegal.

Trump tells Fox News to fire ‘pompous fool’ Karl Rove  —  Former President Donald Trump issued a 700-word statement on Thursday complaining about Fox News analyst Karl Rove.  —  “Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself,” Trump began.  —  “Karl Rove's voice on Fox is always negative for those who know how to win.

Bill Clinton ‘Bagman’ Doug Band Provides Evidence To Feds Investigating Ties To Epstein ‘Madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell  —  Bill Clinton's former body-man-turned-aide Doug Band has turned whistleblower in the federal sex trafficking investigation involving Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein …

Why Glenn Greenwald Says Tucker Carlson Is a True Socialist  —  Glenn Greenwald's long intellectual journey from center left to far left to, well, somewhere is a subject of fascination in elite circles.  Greenwald comes out of a tradition of progressive journalism that focused primarily …

Cuomo's office ignored rules governing sexual harassment investigations  —  There was no referral of woman's sexual harassment allegations as required under 2018 executive order  —  ALBANY — A former female aide's allegations that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had sexually harassed her last year …

Those fever scanners that everyone is using to fight covid can be wildly inaccurate, researchers find  —  A flood of thermal scanners hit the market last year with promises to detect the signs of possible infection.  But many of the devices use software that can make a feverish person appear perfectly well.

In ‘exceedingly rare’ case, Iowa journalist faces charges from reporting on summer protests  —  The trial of a Des Moines Register reporter who was  —  arrested covering racial justice protests last summer is slated to begin next week in what experts said is a rare criminal prosecution of a journalist on assignment in the USA.

He told the world about his brutal torture in Syria.  Then, mysteriously, he went back.  —  Videos by Marzena Skubatz  —  LONDON — With his gaunt frame, haunted face and copious tears, Mazen al-Hamada became a poster boy for the suffering of Syrian torture victims.

QAnon Proves Its Resilience  —  Worries about an enduring, violent conspiracy theory rise anew.  —  Tumbleweeds blew through the House chambers today, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved a major vote to Wednesday night, so that lawmakers could skip town a day early.

Republicans Who Voted To Overturn Election Say Congress Should Stay Out Of Elections  —  GOP lawmakers didn't care about leaving elections to the states when they tried to hand victory to Trump on Jan. 6.  —  A stunning 147 Republicans in Congress voted to overturn the results …

Is war with China just a matter of time?  —  A popular question for journalists to ask America's top military commanders and national security officials is, “What keeps you up at night?”  —  Increasingly, the answer is the specter of war with China.  —  “I have a fear that we will come …

Exclusive: U.S. blocked Myanmar junta attempt to empty $1 billion New York Fed account - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military rulers attempted to move about $1 billion held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York days after seizing power on Feb. 1, prompting U.S. officials …

Connecticut dramatically rolls back COVID restrictions, allowing full indoor dining, increased entertainment and sports capacity; travel ban lifted  —  Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday announced that he will roll back pandemic-related restrictions in Connecticut starting March 19 …

Donald Trump's Georgia Rewrite  —  The former President is unhappy with us for recognizing reality.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Former Presidents and Vice Presidents have told us how psychologically difficult the early months of lost political power can be.

Florida's governor in hot water over alleged vaccine-for-campaign cash scandal  —  In a shocking, but hardly surprising report, the Republican Governor of Florida got caught selling vaccines to some of the state's wealthiest country club residents while those who don't donate …

COVID advice needs to be hopeful and realistic — and needs to tell people vaccines allow less restriction … - Texas and Mississippi are lifting COVID restrictions too soon.  — To get people to wait, you need to level with them about how long they'll be waiting.

White Supremacists Plead Guilty to Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering  —  Two members of the Aryan Circle (AC) pleaded guilty this week to their roles in a violent assault of a man in October 2016.  —  Michael Martin, aka Aryan Prodigy, aka AP, 38, of Austin, Texas, and Bobby Dayle Boney …