Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion  —  Female aide claims governor touched her inappropriately; complaint reported to AG  —  ALBANY — A sixth woman has come forward and leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo …

The Miseducation of America's Elites  —  Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.

Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.

GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag.  —  But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days.

BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition  —  BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.  —  BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.

Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal  —  Joe Biden won, but progressives lost.  —  For weeks after the 2020 election, this was the conventional wisdom about its outcome.  As Politico wrote on November 5, “During Barack Obama's presidency, Biden's propensity for cutting deals …

The House just passed a sweeping and bipartisan bill to boost unions  —  Its chances aren't looking good in the Senate, with the big hurdle of the filibuster.  —  The US House of Representatives has officially passed a sweeping, bipartisan labor bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

Another Oath Keeper with links to Roger Stone charged in Capitol riot  —  A second member of the Oath Keepers militia who provided security to longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone has been charged with storming and breaching the Capitol.  —  Joshua James, who has been seen …

Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate  —  Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision  —  Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …

Trump, Hungry for Power, Tries to Wrestle Away G.O.P. Fund-Raising  —  Angry at his critics in the party and seeking to keep his options for raising money open, the former president is trying to take charge of the online fund-raising juggernaut he helped create.

Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: ‘This is my job’  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges stemming from the incident.

Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’  —  Author and speaker Beth Moore speaks during a panel on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 10, 2019.

The new doctrine of Joe Biden  —  The interim national security strategy announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan sketches one exciting new doctrine for President Biden rooted in geopolitics, but also linked to transnational threats like pandemics, terrorism, and climate.

FBI releases new video of suspect planting bombs before Capitol riot … The FBI released new videos Tuesday that investigators said show the person suspected of planting two pipe bombs the night before the January Capitol riot.  —  “These pipe bombs were viable devices that could have been detonated, resulting in injury or death.

The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims  —  In its final days, President Donald Trump's State Department made a series of highly controversial claims about the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and its possible connection to the covid-19 outbreak.

President Carter Statement on Efforts to Restrict Voting Access  —  In 1962, I ran to represent the 14th Senate District in the Georgia legislature.  I won my Senate seat, but only after the courts ruled that a ballot box had been illegally “stuffed” with votes for my opponent.

Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley appears set to win OC District 2 supervisor seat  —  Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley looks poised to become the first Democrat in more than a century, and the first Democratic woman, to hold the Second District Orange County Board of Supervisors seat …

Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph  —  Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.' … Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak …

Governor Hutchinson Issues Statement on Signing of SB6  —  “SB6 is a pro-life bill that prohibits abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency.  It does not include exceptions for rape and incest.  —  “I will sign SB6 because of overwhelming legislative support …

OFF TO THE RACES: A historic bill, but at what cost?  —  The $1.9 trillion package does a lot more than simply address the pandemic and the economy.  Which is why Republicans were so reluctant to play ball.  —  On Saturday, on a party-line vote of 50 to 49, Senate Democrats passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Trump requests mail-in ballot ahead of local Florida election despite baseless fraud claims  —  Washington (CNN)Former President Donald Trump requested a mail-in ballot ahead of a local municipal election in Florida, according to Palm Beach County records, despite his frequent attacks on voting by mail.

Exclusive: Quad nations meeting to announce financing to boost India vaccine output - U.S. official  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first ever leaders' meeting of the Quad group of countries on Friday plans to announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity …

If Fox News wants to be a political tool, it should be treated as such and not given access meant for journalists |  COMMENTARY  —  The dangerously anti-democratic behavior of former President Donald Trump and the slavish endorsement of it by Fox News the past five years has forced …

Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine  —  In Your Face, Variants!  —  In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent …

Republican Senator Sees ‘Day of Reckoning’ on Debt After Biden Stimulus  —  Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said Tuesday he's worried that interest rates and inflation will rise as a result of greater government borrowing once President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package becomes law.

Trump's Next Challenge Is to Turn 74 Million Believers Into Buyers  —  They backed Donald Trump in November, and now they aren't buying what he's selling.  —  A quarry owner in the heart of Texas Trump country says she has little interest in staying at one of his hotels.

The nation's capital has asked the Biden administration for help with lagging vaccine rollout, but it hasn't come yet  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's fellow residents in the nation's capital are getting vaccinated for COVID-19 at a slower rate than almost anywhere else in the country.

Biden Has Few Good Options for the Unaccompanied Children at the Border  —  Two hours west of San Antonio, in an isolated patch of South Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, is a federal facility made up of trailers, tents, and dormitory buildings, called Carrizo Springs.  For the past year and a half, the complex was vacant.