‘No end in sight’: Inside the Biden administration's failure to contain the border surge  —  Shortly before Christmas last year, Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, two top advisers to President-elect Joe Biden, sat for an interview with EFE, a Spanish wire service, to issue a stark warning …

Julia Letlow wins special election to replace her late husband in Congress  —  Republican Julia Letlow won a special election Saturday to fill the seat won last year by her now-late husband, who died in December from Covid.  —  She took 62 percent of the vote in the 12-way race …

Ron Johnson falsely claims there was ‘no violence’ on Senate side of US Capitol on January 6  —  (CNN)Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson falsely claimed there was no violence on the Senate side of the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, the latest in his continued attempts to downplay the severity of the attack.

Biden Doctrine should remake foreign policy, not reinstate it  —  For President Joe Biden's foreign policy agenda to succeed, he must acknowledge that the structure of the international system has changed since the Obama years.  The world today is coalescing into something that looks …

This Women's History Month, vive la difference  —  This harrowing, wild, tragic, and eye-opening year has been a different experience for women than for men, as many media outlets have reminded us.  —  Now, we learn the vaccination experience is also divergent.

Getting the facts right on Operation Warp Speed  —  Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020.  OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to “produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe …

Old Pol, New Tricks  —  Biden's got the buzz.  Who's smirking now?  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden never had a seat at the cool kids' table at the Obama White House.  —  Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate …

Trump inner circle tightens grip on the GOP's most valued prize — the former president's endorsement — sparking a new brawl among top MAGA lieutenants … - A small team of Trump advisors led by Donald Trump Jr. is locking down the Trump endorsement process.

NCAA's message to women's basketball players: You're worth less  —  I'm tired.  Not from today or from yesterday but from 40 years of it.  Forty years tired of writing the same damn story about the same NCAA shortchangers in suits who would begrudge women's athletes so much as an equal amount …

Erdogan Pulls Turkey From European Treaty on Domestic Violence  —  The move is likely to please President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conservative followers.  He also removed the head of the central bank.  —  ISTANBUL — In two surprise midnight decrees, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …

Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon … The mysterious individual behind a new and rapidly growing online disinformation network targeting followers of QAnon, the far-right cult, can be revealed as a Berlin-based artist with a history of social media manipulation, a prominent anti-racism group claims.

the deep fake threat hardly anyone discusses  —  listen up.  get mad.  —  8 hr ago  —  [Soundtrack: “Being a Woman” by Lake Street Dive]  —  I got angry on the radio the other day.  —  I was on a panel with the guy who created the deep fake videos of Tom Cruise that recently went viral on TikTok.

SEC signals tougher line with oil companies on climate  —  Regulator forces ConocoPhillips and Occidental to hold shareholder votes on emissions targets  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission has directed two of America's biggest oil companies to hold shareholder votes on far-reaching …

Biden's closest advisors have ties to big business and Wall Street with some making millions  — These disclosures were provided by the White House to CNBC early Saturday morning after requesting the documents a day earlier.  — The disclosures show that many of the president's closest aides …

In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests  —  Inquiries into law enforcement's handling of the George Floyd protests last summer found insufficient training and militarized responses — a widespread failure in policing nationwide.  —  For many long weeks last summer …

Federal judge accuses NY Times, WaPo of being ‘Democratic Party broadsheets’  —  A federal appeals court judge in his dissenting opinion in a defamation case on Friday accused The New York Times and The Washington Post of being “Democratic Party broadsheets.”

'It's not a local issue anymore': D.C. statehood moves from political fringe to the center of the national Democratic agenda  —  Joe Biden visited Southeast Washington in January 2015 to undertake a quintessential vice-presidential duty — inspecting a massive public works on the banks …

A reptilian nightmare: Florida bans nonnative species despite industry outcry  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida's promoters like to sing its superlatives — best beaches, prettiest sunsets, perfect climate (except for the occasional hurricane).  But there's a No. 1 distinction the boosters never mention.

The Precarious Greatness of the Biden Strategy  —  The relief legislation could be the first step toward solving long-standing political problems for Democrats.  —  President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan in the Rose Garden of the White House, March 12, 2021, in Washington.

Scoop: ICE securing hotel rooms to hold growing number of migrant families  —  The Biden administration has awarded an $86 million contract for hotel rooms near the border to hold around 1,200 migrant family members who cross the U.S.-Mexico border, DHS officials confirmed to Axios.