Russia Erupts in Fury Over Biden's Calling Putin a Killer  —  The Kremlin described the U.S. president's response to an interview question as “very bad,” and recalled its ambassador to “analyze what needs to be done” about the countries' relations.  —  MOSCOW — Russia recalled its ambassador …

'It's race, class and gender together': Why the Atlanta murders aren't just about one thing  —  Here is how local law enforcement on Tuesday bafflingly explained its thinking about the Atlanta-area shooting suspect who had confessed to killing eight people, including six Asian women …

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 …

The Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had “A Bad Day” Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic  —  The Georgia sheriff's official who said the man accused of killing six Asian women and two others in shootings at spas in the Atlanta area had “a bad day” previously shared a photo of racist T-shirts on social media.

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.

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.

Latest bipartisan gang tries to save Senate from itself  —  As progressives push the Senate into a brawl over nixing the legislative filibuster, a group of senators is setting out to do the impossible: prove that the moribund chamber can still function.  —  A group of 20 senators …

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

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.

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 …

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” …

BREAKING: Former President of Drag Queen Story Hour Foundation and Children's Court Judge Arrested on Seven Counts of Child Porn  —  A Milwaukee County Children's Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city's drag queen story hour program …

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 …

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.

Biden Urges Mexico to Do More to Stop Migration  —  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.

Conservative Fanboys  —  Fans of big fictional universes —  Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Simpsons —  often speak to each other in references.  “I've got a bad feeling about this.”  “Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.”  “BortaSnIvqu' 'oH bortaS'e'.”

'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 …

Top retired Israeli security officials back Colin Kahl, a Biden nominee on ice for his Israel positions  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three leading Israeli generals who worked with President Joe Biden's nominee for the undersecretary of defense, Colin Kahl, are backing him amid a Republican campaign …

Postal Service finds no evidence of mail ballot fraud in Pa. case cited by top Republicans  —  Letter carrier Richard Hopkins told federal agents he “assumed” supervisors discussed backdating ballots and then recanted his claim, inspector general's report says

Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car  — A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.

True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration  —  In June 2015, Donald Trump rode down the infamous escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential bid.  Like a lot of people, I didn't know what to think.  From the start, I appreciated his populist instincts …

White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature  —  A white nationalist propagandist who met with billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been deeply embedded in the movement for well over a decade, and has provided an ideological bridge between suit-and-tie white nationalism …

“You Furnish the Poverty Statistics, I'll Furnish the War”  —  Joe Biden has declared a historic one-year war on poverty.  Now comes the hard part: filling for time.  —  23 hr ago  —  “Barack was so modest,” Joe Biden told a recent gathering of House Democrats.  “He didn't want to take, as he said, a ‘victory lap.’”

12 Republicans opposed Congressional Gold Medals for police who protected them on Jan. 6  —  A dozen House Republicans voted against a resolution to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police, the D.C. police and the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of those who protected …

Controversial House Republican talks to Trump ahead of likely Senate bid  —  (CNN)Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who led the House effort to object to the election results on January 6, told CNN he plans to make an announcement on Monday about whether he will run for the Senate.

The coming corporate tax hike  —  Democrats are zeroing in on raising the corporate tax rate from its current 21% to 28% as one of the easiest ways to find new revenue for an infrastructure package.  —  The big picture: While many senators are signaling that President Biden's next big-ticket bill must come …

Amazon Labor Fight: Wages May Not Ward Off Union  —  Recent organizing campaigns in the South suggest the company's wage scale may have left it vulnerable to a union.  —  In making the case against a union at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., Amazon has touted its compensation package.

The GOP bets against American recovery  —  The starkly different policy priorities of the two parties are dramatically on display this week.  —  The focus of President Biden and the Democratic Party is on pandemic recovery and economic revitalization, while the GOP falls …