Recording of Trump Phone Call to Georgia Lead Investigator Reveals New Details  —  Then-president says ‘Something bad happened’ and presses for investigation into Fulton County votes  —  ATLANTA—Then-President Donald Trump urged the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State's office …

Female aide said Cuomo aggressively groped her at the governor's mansion  —  Cuomo issues denial but describes details of woman's account as ‘gut-wrenching’  —  ALBANY — A female aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo alleges he aggressively groped her in a sexually charged manner after she had been summoned …

Rep. David Cicilline Says He'll Propose Rule to Stop Marjorie Taylor Greene's Delay Tactics  —  Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's repeated efforts to delay work in the House of Representatives has drawn bipartisan ire and may result in a new rule change.

BREAKING: Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri acquitted after trial on charges from George Floyd protest in May 2020  —  Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was acquitted Wednesday in a trial stemming from her arrest covering the George Floyd protests in May 2020.

Stimulus bill with $29B in direct restaurant aid appears headed for passage  —  The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which features grants to restaurants in need, overcame a key challenge over the weekend.  —  A landmark COVID-relief bill earmarking $28.6 billion in direct aid to restaurants …

Senate confirms Garland as attorney general  —  The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden's pick for attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland, by a vote of 70-30.  —  The victory for Garland, 68, came almost five years after his failed nomination to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2016.

Jayapal asks for investigations into three GOP members for their role in instigating the Capitol Insurrection  —  GOP lawmaker accused of giving ‘reconnaissance’ tour prior to Capitol riot  —  (CNN)Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington has sent letters to the House Committee on Ethics …

Biden is leading a quiet revolution  —  Opinion by  —  “Our economic package is a closely knit, carefully constructed plan to restore America's economic strength and put our nation back on the road to prosperity,” the president declared in a speech from the Oval Office.  “Each part of this package is vital.”

Collins-Schumer rift shocks Senate  —  While Washington undergoes a much-needed spring thaw, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins' relationship is frostier than ever.  —  More than four months after Collins handily dispatched Schumer's efforts to deny her a fifth term, the moderate Maine Republican …

Criticizing Public Figures, Including Influential Journalists, is Not Harassment or Abuse  —  As social media empowers uncredentialed people to be heard, society's most powerful actors seek to cast themselves as victims and delegitimize all critiques.  —  1 hr ago

Whistleblowers Allege Improper Hiring At Justice Department During Trump's Last Days  —  Two whistleblowers assert that a Justice Department official improperly injected politics into the hiring process during his waning days in the Trump administration, according to a new filing obtained by NPR.

America Without God  —  The United States had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout.  From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent.  Then something happened.

Newsom To Californians: Let's Face It, We're Never Getting Back To Normal  —  That's a great message to send to a restive electorate after a year of fumbling the response to COVID-19.  Gavin Newsom tried to get cute in his State of the State speech from an empty Dodger Stadium …

Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen to meet again with Manhattan DA in Trump probe  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, said he would go in for a seventh interview on Wednesday with the Manhattan district attorney's office pursuing a criminal investigation into the former U.S. president.

A $60 billion surprise in the Covid relief bill: Tax hikes  —  Democrats are getting an early start on their tax-increase agenda.  —  They've tucked a trio of little-noticed tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations into their coronavirus relief package that together are worth $60 billion.

Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help  —  Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of production.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Biden pledged last week …

Senate confirms Michael Regan to lead EPA  —  The 44-year-old North Carolina regulator, the first Black man to head the agency, has vowed to fight climate change and environmental injustice.  —  The Senate confirmed Michael Regan on Wednesday as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator …

The Daily Beast's Lawyers Eviscerate Dan Bongino Over His Refusal to Accept That He Lost a Defamation Case and Has to Pay Up  —  The Daily Beast's lawyers were merciless in a response to Dan Bongino's recent objection to a federal court's award of attorney's fees in his failed defamation case against the online publication.

For Creators, Everything Is for Sale  —  Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money.  Yet fans still hold the power.  —  A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.

The GOP and Conservative Media Now Resemble the Communists of My Youth  —  It was a long time coming.  —  When, in the early 1990s, I first arrived in Washington, D.C. as a student from the newly free Czechoslovakia, the Republican party was a beacon of hope.  It steadfastly advocated for liberty, both political and economic.

Veteran charged in Capitol riot once served in Marine One squadron, officials say  —  A Marine Corps veteran charged in the Capitol riot once served as a crew chief for the presidential helicopter squadron, a highly restrictive unit that requires a top-secret security clearance, officials said Wednesday.

BuzzFeed Is in Talks to Go Public Via 890 5th Avenue SPAC  —  BuzzFeed Inc. is in talks to go public through a merger with 890 5th Avenue Partners Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.  —  Once public, the company may use its currency …

Somebody's Taking a Huge Risk on Biden's Bill.  It's Not Biden.  —  Try to imagine we are living in the following hypothetical world: A popular Republican president quickly passes emergency legislation that has the support of two-thirds of the country, while Democrats in Congress refuse to vote for it.

Five Things The COVID-19 Bill Revealed About How Washington Will Work In The Biden Era  —  President Biden will soon sign into law a $1.9 trillion bill intended to boost the economy and help the U.S. deal with the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.  It's only the second bill Biden …

Xavier Becerra's Culture War  —  His record shows he'll use health care as a polarizing weapon.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The Senate Finance Committee split 14-14 last week on Xavier Becerra's nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Myanmar army using battle tactics against protests: Amnesty  —  (Reuters) - Myanmar's military is using battlefield weapons and lethal force in its crackdown on protesters against last month's coup, Amnesty International said on Thursday.  —  The rights group said it had verified …

The Republican Party Isn't Going Anywhere  —  After the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans defied history and added to their House majority, excited GOP figures began speaking of a “permanent majority,” or at least one that would last a generation.

Robin Bullock Claims ‘Prophets’ Have the Power to Call Trump Back Into the White House  —  Right-wing pastor Robin Bullock used his church service Tuesday to urge his fellow “prophets” to come together and call former President Donald Trump back to the White House, declaring that if they will do so …

US-based Sinn Féin support group places ads for vote on Irish unification  —  Adverts in New York Times, Washington Post and other US papers seek to rally Irish-American support  —  A US-based Sinn Féin support group has placed half-page advertisements in the New York Times …

GOP Decides Equal Representation Is an ‘Assault on Democracy’  —  The Republican Party has won the popular vote in just one of the six presidential elections held this century — but has nevertheless held the White House for 12 of the past 20 years.  Since 2000, the GOP's Senate caucus …

Beth Moore, a Prominent Evangelical, Splits With Southern Baptists  —  A teacher on biblical topics, she cited the “staggering” disorientation of seeing denominational leaders support Donald J. Trump, among other issues.  —  One of the most prominent Southern Baptists in the country is leaving the denomination.

How Biden Funds His Next Bill: Shrink the $7.5 Trillion Tax Gap  —  The I.R.S. is often unable to detect or fight blatant tax cheating by the rich and big businesses.  Restoring it is a solution that pays for itself.  —  Ms. Huang is the executive director of the Tax Law Center at the New York University School of Law.

This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like … Tuesday night, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act passed the House by 225-205 votes.  If it passes the Senate and becomes law, it will peel back over half a century of anti-union policies, including core provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

A tough-on-China GOP is split on whether to boycott the China Olympics  —  President Joe Biden is under growing pressure from hawkish Republicans to use the 2022 Winter Olympics to punish the Chinese government over its human rights abuses.  —  But even within the GOP, there's disagreement over how far to push.

Oklahoma House passes bill that would protect drivers who hit protestors  —  The Oklahoma House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at protecting drivers who hit protestors while “fleeing a riot.”  —  House Bill 1674, authored Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore and co-authored by Rep. Kevin McDugle …