Intel revelations raise difficult questions for several Republicans  —  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) this week released a declassified intelligence community assessment on foreign threats to our 2020 elections, and the top-line takeaway was important …

Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets  —  The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago.  —  Alexi McCammond, who made her name …

‘Not racially motivated’?:  The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements  —  It's inevitable that reporters will have to rely heavily on law-enforcement sources in the first hours after a horrific crime.  Amid chaos and wild speculation …

FBI Washington Field Office Releases Videos of Assaults on Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help to Identify Suspects  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots …

Ted Cruz releases holds on Biden nominees as administration looks to gets tough on Russia pipeline  —  Sen. Ted Cruz lifted his holds on two of President Joe Biden's top nominees on Thursday after the State Department indicated it would punish entities involved in the construction of a controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.

A Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”—But They Don't Want You to Read This  —  These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society.  —  At 12:11 p.m. on January 5, an eight-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet took off from Memphis International Airport.

Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida  —  The district attorney is sifting through millions of pages of his tax records.  The state attorney general has subpoenaed his lawyers, his bankers, his chief financial officer — even one of his sons.

GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence  —  “There's an old saying in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree.  You know, we take justice very seriously.  And we ought to do that.  Round up the bad guys.”

Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief  —  If confirmed, the former senator from Florida would helm NASA's return to the Moon  —  President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision.

First 100: Filibuster Reform's Greatest Champion Sees a Moment for Resolution  —  We talk to Jeff Merkley about the filibuster.  Plus, what's happening with oil and gas permitting on public lands.  —  First100-031821  —  Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) holds a press event on Wednesday to introduce Senate Bill 1, the For the People Act.

Not My Party: Boring But Radical  —  The fact that Republicans have been calling Biden radical and senile tells us more about them than him.  —  Slightly modified video transcript.  Watch the original and subscribe to “Not My Party” on Snapchat.  —  So it's the middle of March now …

House Democrats weigh ejecting GOP winner of contested Iowa race, dismissing comparisons to Trump's efforts to overturn election  —  (CNN)House Democrats are undeterred by the mounting GOP criticism over their review of a contested congressional race that could potentially overturn …

Zeldin gets testy when asked if Biden won election  —  “If you would like to give my answer for me, you can go ahead and do that.  But I thought I was going to be here to answer my own questions,” Zeldin said.  —  Rep. Lee Zeldin got testy with POLITICO Playbook authors Ryan Lizza …

Bill would remove all members of the historical commission  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Not even two weeks after the historical commission voted to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol, state senators are trying to vote to remove all members from the commission.

Here's why Substack's scam worked so well  —  They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative  —  I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful communications tool.

The GOP's Political Nightmare: Running Against a Recovery  —  President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus bill may have helped avoid a second Great Depression, but it was a political fiasco.  As then-congressman Barney Frank liked to say: “Things Would've Sucked Even Worse Without Us” …

Psaki uses ‘crisis’ to describe situation at the border, then walks it back  —  She quickly changed her description back to “challenges at the border.”  —  Biden's border plan is a crisis, needs to be stopped: Florida sheriff  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki used the phrase …

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.  —  In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.

Elizabeth Warren calls Senate filibuster racist  —  Signaling a coming case by progressives, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Axios the Senate's legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation, wasn't a creation of the founding fathers.  —  What she's saying …

The Strange Saga of Lauren Boebert's Pro Wrestler Paternity Case  —  The gun-toting Colorado congresswoman rarely mentions her father, but in a trail of YouTube comments, she and her mother have singled out one man: 1980s journeyman tag-team specialist ‘Sweet’ Stan Lane

Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Beats Up Man Attacking Her In San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An elderly woman being attacked on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday - the latest victim in a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area - spoke to KPIX 5 about turning the tables on her assailant …

U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada  —  The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants, clinging to a Trump policy of relying on southern neighbors to enforce America's immigration agenda.

'It's a very special picture.' Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine  —  Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.  —  The decision this week by more than 20 European countries to temporarily stop using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine …

Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new spin on the Jewish space lasers remark  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her House committee assignments for antisemitic and other incendiary comments, said in an interview with an Orthodox weekly magazine published on Wednesday that …

Covid's Partisan Errors  —  Republicans tend to underestimate Covid risks — and Democrats tend to exaggerate them.  —  Americans on the right half of the political spectrum have tended to underplay the risk of Covid-19.  They have been less willing to wear masks or avoid indoor gatherings …

Seriously, stop sharing your vaccine cards on social media  —  (CNN Business)When one of my editors recently shared a celebratory picture of his vaccine card on Instagram, I sent him a direct message: “Didn't you read our story about not posting your record?  Scammers are watching!”