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 …

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 …

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.

Supreme Court Dismisses Immigrant Public-Charge Cases  —  Court acts on Justice Department request signaling end to Trump administration rule penalizing immigrants  —  WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court dismissed several pending appeals over a Trump administration rule penalizing immigrants …

FBI releases new images of DC pipe bomb suspect  —  A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect stands at $100,000.  —  FBI releases new video of Capitol Hill pipe bomb suspect  —  Just one night before the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, pipe bombs were placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters.

Making Senators Orate Won't Blunt the Filibuster  —  Can obstructionism be deterred by forcing politicians to give long speeches?  The question answers itself.  —  Oy, Frank Capra.  We're back to chattering about the “talking” filibuster — the idea that filibusters should be performed …

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.

Biden's dogs to return to White House after younger pet causes a ‘minor injury’ to an ‘unfamiliar person’  —  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden's two dogs will return to the White House from Delaware, the White House press secretary said Tuesday after confirming that the younger dog …

What the GOP voting restrictions actually do vs. what proponents claim  —  “The ultimate voter suppression is a very large swath of the electorate not having faith in our election systems,” Iowa state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) said recently, as his state joined many others in taking up new voting restrictions.

Some GOPers Want To Run An Old Playbook On Vanita Gupta.  It May Not Work This Time.  —  The civil rights leader has a ton of support from law enforcement organizations.  Some Republicans want to paint her as anti-cop anyway.  —  Two decades ago, a former rodeo cowboy went undercover in Tulia, Texas.

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 …

Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature.  And D.C. is the main stage.  —  “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said.  “It blows your mind.”  —  They've been buried — alive — for 17 years.

Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’  —  “Cancel culture” is the popular phrase of the times, with everything from Dr. Seuss books to cartoon characters being forced out of circulation.  But cancel culture is simply the next logical point in the brain rot …

‘Bad news’: Wave of GOP retirements signals battles ahead  —  This is not the way Republicans wanted to begin the year.  —  Missouri's Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce he will not seek reelection, a retirement wave that portends an ugly campaign season next year …

Dana Perino reveals why George W. Bush once kicked her out of Oval Office  —  Dana Perino's first visit to the Oval Office was memorable — since it's not often you witness the leader of the free world get upset.  —  The 48-year-old said her new job as White House press secretary under …

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.

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 …

Roger Mudd, probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93  —  Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon's profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator's White House prospects and who briefly shared …

Pentagon chief to urge Manchin to support nominee amid Twitter troubles  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plans to urge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday to support President Joe Biden's nominee for the top Pentagon policy job amid criticism of his past Twitter posts, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Republican donations surge despite corporate boycott after Capitol riots  —  (Reuters) - Right after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, dozens of U.S. companies announced they would halt political donations to the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn Donald Trump's presidential election loss.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact with rioters before and during Capitol breach, U.S. alleges  —  U.S. prosecutors alleged Monday that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact before, during and immediately after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach …

Bush and Clinton portraits are back on display in White House's Grand Foyer  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has rehung the official presidential portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton after they were removed last July during the Trump administration, an official tells CNN.

Maker of Dove Soap Will Drop the Word ‘Normal’ From Beauty Products  —  Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded.  A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.

Politico's Eugene Daniels: ‘We Are Changing Who Is Allowed To Talk About Politics And Who Is Allowed At The Table’  —  Eugene Daniels says he's a “big, huge history nerd and a big news nerd,” and last fall he told his bosses at Politico what he wanted to do after the 2020 election.

CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools.  It should loosen the rules now  —  Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now is harming children.  —  “The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror …

Candace Owens announces new talk show  —  Republican firebrand Candace Owens is getting ready to gab — launching a new talk show that she vows will be a “space for conservatives to feel heard.”  —  “Candace,” debuting March 19 on conservative media brand The Daily Wire, will be taped in front of a studio audience in Nashville.