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 …

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 …

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.

‘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 …

Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia  —  During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping flip the former Republican stronghold blue.

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.

McCarthy tries to rewrite history by claiming that he didn't back Trump's efforts to overturn the election  —  McCarthy claims he never backed Trump's effort to overturn election  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to rewrite history on Thursday by claiming that he was not involved …

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 …

Blinken warns China of need to respect global order or face a ‘more violent world’ at first meeting  —  (CNN)US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senior Chinese officials on Thursday that he and national security adviser Jake Sullivan intend to discuss their “deep concerns” …

Armie Hammer Being Investigated by LAPD After Woman Comes Forward With Violent Rape Allegation … The anonymous woman who first posted allegations against Armie Hammer on social media has publicly come forward.  —  “I thought that he was going to kill me,” the woman, named Effie …

Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public  —  A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday ruled on a series of redactions proposed by Ghislaine Maxwell and prosecutors regarding a compilation of transcripts submitted under seal by the government last month.

Dan Bongino says Biden is ‘boring’ and ‘a disaster for talk radio’ but that he'll do his best against him anyway  —  The letter F. An envelope.  It indicates the ability to send an email.  An image of a chain link.  It symobilizes a website link url.  A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting.

Beijing's crackdown in Xinjiang has separated thousands of children from their parents, new report claims.  CNN found two of them  —  Tune into Anderson Cooper 360 next week to watch the exclusive footage from CNN's trip inside Xinjiang.  —  Xinjiang, China (CNN)It was supposed …

Republicans are laying a ‘Trojan horse’ trap on infrastructure  —  Heads I win, tails you lose.  That is Republicans' ominous warning to Democrats working to design and (to their credit!) actually pay for an infrastructure bill.  —  “I think the Trojan horse will be called infrastructure …

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.

Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Emotional Interview With Ady Barkan  —  The late-night host and the dying healthcare champion shared some laughs—then things took an emotional turn.  —  Jimmy Kimmel's job is to make people laugh at the end of a long day, but he has become just as well-known for moments of sincerity that break the heart.

Cuomo's First Accuser Raises New Claims of Harassment and Retaliation  —  In her first extensive interview, Lindsey Boylan sheds new light on a toxic workplace, as insiders detail the campaign to discredit her.  —  On the morning of December 13, 2020, Lindsey Boylan sat in the passenger seat …

QAnon Thinks Donald Trump's Vaccine Remarks Are Fake, Just a Very Good Imitation  —  QAnon followers are once again pulling in all directions as they struggle to explain why Donald Trump would urge people to get COVID-19 vaccinations, which are highly-detested among Q-conspiracists.

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 …

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!”

12 Republicans vote against honoring Capitol police for protecting Congress  —  House voted 413-12 to award congressional gold medals to all members of Capitol force for their efforts on 6 January  —  A dozen Republicans voted against a resolution honoring US Capitol police for their efforts …

An American Defense of Britain's Constitutional Monarchy  —  The royal family is not simply an important part of British culture.  It represents a valuable political inheritance, one to which Americans owe a great deal.  —  istorians may puzzle for many years over why a rambling …

Ted Cruz releases holds on Biden nominees as administration looks to get 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.

FBI Cuomo Probe Seeks Details on Deal to Shield Nursing Homes from COVID Lawsuits  —  FBI investigators probing the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic last spring are seeking information about a state budget provision that gave operators legal immunity, THE CITY has learned.

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” …

Former Florida state senator charged in spoiler candidate scheme  —  (CNN)A former Florida state senator who resigned in disgrace four years ago was charged Thursday with campaign finance violations related to a hotly contested state Senate race in the 2020 election, authorities said.

Texas Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure Because People Keep Punching It  —  STORIES FOR YOU  —  LOL.  I love Texas, everything about it.  Especially this.  Turns out Louis Tussaud's Waxworks on Alamo Plaza, located in San Antonio, decided to put away a wax figure of former President Donald Trump …

Poll: Most Texans support extra week of early voting, cool to GOP proposals to restrict voting  —  As state Republicans push to restrict voting, a new poll shows a majority of Texans want more time to vote early and do not approve of threatening voters or those who assist them with felony charges for violations.

Here's the best use of Never Trumpers' energies  —  Some Never Trumpers — “God bless 'em,” as President Biden would say — think the Republican Party can still be reformed.  I dunno, but a party that acquits a president who incited an insurrectionist mob; that still wants that person to head …

IRS warns of potential delays for major child poverty initiative in $1.9 trillion stimulus  —  A program authorized under the $1.9 trillion stimulus to combat child poverty is at risk of early delays, as the Internal Revenue Service grapples with its massive tax backlog and recent decision to extend the tax-filing deadline until May 17.

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.

Damon Young: To Stop White Supremacy, Eliminate Whites  —  Damon Young, a black writer for The Root, a black-oriented commentary site owned by the same people who own Jezebel, Gizmodo, and The Onion (their parent company is Univision), had this to say at The Root about the Atlanta massage parlor mass murders:

Court reinstates guilty verdicts against Flynn partner over Turkey lobbying  —  A federal appeals court has reinstated a jury's guilty verdicts on the business partner of former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over the pair's lobbying for Turkish interests in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The US vaccine effect: rapid rollout starts to bear fruit  —  Analysis of official figures shows sharper decline in hospitalisations and deaths of older people  —  The rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across the US is starting to work, according to a Financial Times analysis of official data …